Paris, June 2022. The first bell is visible in the hall. It arouses the curiosity of visitors, whose eyes have become familiar with terrariums, which have been trendy in recent years. As you walk through the floors and open the […]
Athens, May 2022. The international hotel was very classic: a cubic mass of about a dozen floors, located in a semi-central area with “sea view” for half of the rooms, i.e., the ability to look out over the port area. […]
Paris, January 2022. It is a competitive examination from nowhere. For more than a century and a half, far from localised recruitment and therefore necessarily suspect of localism, juries of seven members have been meeting for months, watching numerous candidates […]
Between Paris and Marseille, Novembre 2021. In the announcements on board the train, we now hear the names of the persons who are there to ensure the smooth running of our journey: controllers, train drivers, baristas. Finally, a cleaner is […]
Marseilles, July 2021 The numbers were really bad, especially in this Mediterranean metropolis: the number of deaths, the number of contaminations, the number of hospitalizations, well above the defined alert thresholds. So the museum inevitably remained closed, exhibitions delayed or […]
Arles, August 2021. Night trains are set to reopen in Europe as a key measure to combat climate change. Less than a century ago, before the triumph of commercial aviation, they were the epitome of luxury and the art of […]
Internet, April 2021 The CovidTracker website had started as a visualisation exercise using open public data. One year on, it has become a meeting point for a wide range of audiences: journalists, doctors, politicians, patients, and ordinary citizens. At the […]
Legifrance, November 2020. The law of 7 October 2016 for a digital Republic had affirmed it: open data was becoming the ordinary modality for public acts, and in particular for court decisions. After an appropriate decree, the latter should thus […]
Paris, October 2017. Unlike the graves of our ancestors, which are decorated with flowers especially on All Saints’ Day, those of celebrities are built throughout the year as an observatory of modern religion and individual worship. Empty bottles and cigarette […]