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Visiting an unknown city in a limited time often leads to prepare or even simulate the journey ahead, relying on multiple devices: tourist guides with photos and addresses remarkable site bringing together fellow travelers opinions or a software to view […]

Posted: April 22nd, 2013 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Écologies, Instruments, Marquages, Matières, Modes d'emploi

Care

Public lettering, to use Petrucci‘s term, has been an essential element of the graphic ecology of cities for a very long time. Actually, they are crucial parts of the city itself, of what dwelling together in an organized, politicized, place […]

Posted: April 8th, 2013 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Activités, Écologies

Certified

In Elevators, you’re bored, you’re scared, you look buttons leading to different floors whether you arein a station or this hotel. Could we find a better place to catch the eye of captive and stressed passengers for a few moments […]

Posted: February 18th, 2013 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Écologies, Instruments, Preuves

Visibility

We already stated that urban settings are graphical ecologies. Numerous species struggle to occupy specific places. Some get killed ; some come back to life again and again ; some others, quite rare, are officially supported and claim their role […]

Posted: November 19th, 2012 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Écologies, Énonciations

Between the lines

Streets are not only sites to display public lettering. They are also a milieu particularly favorable to their incredible development. Inscriptions of any kind are displayed, they swarm in certain places, some cover each other, others sometimes lose their greatness, […]

Posted: December 19th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Écologies, Marquages

Did you see that?

We were having a pretty passionate discussion, though I can’t remember the matter. We were walking at a good pace: we were supposed to meet with another guy in a restaurant a few blocks away and we were a bit […]

Posted: November 28th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Écologies, Énonciations, Marquages

Staircase wit

Hong-Kong, july 2010. For the traveler, taking the escalator is not always a means of transportation, it can also be some sightseeing experience: there is a real monument in Hong Kong, the Central to Mid-Level escalator , the world’s longest […]

Posted: August 2nd, 2011 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Écologies, Énonciations, Modes d'emploi

An Hotel Downtown?

I had received the invitation for a long time, I had not paid any particular attention to the address of the hotel. In the past, I used to buy a map of the city. I used to come back quickly […]

Posted: March 10th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Écologies, Surprise

Never Alone

It’s always the same with machines: they’re badly thought of. Especially among historians and sociologists. As if humanities meant defense of humanoids. And above all, as if a clear line could be drawn to separate humans and machines. On one […]

Posted: March 7th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Écologies, Matières

The active way

Urban settings are made of so familiar components that we do not pay any attention to them: crosswalks, traffic lines, bike lanes, parking lots, bus lanes… only become salient when we miss them and we consider that their presence should […]

Posted: March 3rd, 2011 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Écologies, Mots d'ordre

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