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Badges side down

Nantes, september 2013. All participants did not attend this fascinating biennial conference simultaneously. Some of them have been there since the first day, others arrived later due to diverse reasons. Some attended the whole conference, participating in plenary and semi-plenary […]

Posted: September 23rd, 2013 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Écologies, Marquages

Strengths and weaknesses

Clamart, August 2013. Signature is both an amazing written object and an amazing scriptural gesture. We can experience it almost everyday, as we pay with a cheque, as we receive a parcel, as we check at the kids’ workbooks at […]

Posted: September 16th, 2013 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Écologies, Marquages, Preuves

Guest blackboard

Rotterdam, August 2013 ” Leave a comment ” may you read under this text and that image. Electronic contemporary spaces often established interaction as a central principle , the host receiving comments from readers responding, or, when things went wrong, […]

Posted: September 2nd, 2013 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Capteurs et traçeurs, Écologies, Matières, Passages

Suggestions

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

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