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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

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

Windshield, episode 2

Through the ages, car has been object of numerous innovations. Of course, the engine power, noise and consumption as well as the optimal forms of the coachwork have been the focus of reflexions for a long time. Then more recently, […]

Posted: February 17th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Écologies, Matières

Rare Books

Since he announced he was on the move to Yale, his colleagues have been telling him how lucky he was, he would see what he was going to see: a place to know for real at last, with its campus […]

Posted: January 31st, 2011 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Écologies, Instruments

The Park, episod 3. The Tree and the soldier

The floor is covered with pieces of bark, giving this part of the park a unique appearance. Here there is no grass: just a carpet made of plant fragments and some large pines. Nearby, there is an outdoor concert which […]

Posted: January 6th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Écologies, Marquages, Passages

Crafts

As soon as we are talking about work, we usually associate writing practices to hierarchy, and more generally to prescriptions and their circulation. As if there were two distinct worlds: that of official, regulatory, formal texts and that of gestures, […]

Posted: December 20th, 2010 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Écologies, Matières

Healthy Mobility

We have often written about it here, street signs are fascinating objects for whom is interested in the scriptural shaping of the world. Essential supports of the demand for mobility that characterizes our urban settings, they take a part in […]

Posted: December 9th, 2010 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Circulations, Écologies

Urban Furniture

One can imagine that in the past kids used to hand them out downtown, shouting out the latest news. Nowadays, in New York, and since at least twenty years, newspapers have nor voice neither face, but a pretty box. Some […]

Posted: October 25th, 2010 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Écologies, Formes, Instruments

The performance of absence

Road-marking, traffic lines, and criss-cross delineate specific zones devoted to the circulation and the use of space. They organize public settings so obviously that we almost do not pay any attention to them. It is only in particular apprenticeship situations […]

Posted: October 10th, 2010 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Écologies, Marquages, Matières

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