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Friction

Paris, May 2015. The “coffee machine” is now a globalized device: work spaces and public spaces abound with these machines that produce “coffee”, “tea” and “cocoa” from unidentified substances and hot tap water. This is a real black box: no […]

Posted: June 8th, 2015 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Capteurs et traçeurs, Écologies, Marquages, Matières

To reflect

Paris, may 2015. Buying an helmet is a matter of security, since riding a motorcycle entails to wear this kind of head protector. Yet, as you enter a motorbike shop, other criteria rapidly challenge the secure one. Comfort and aesthetics […]

Posted: May 25th, 2015 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Capteurs et traçeurs, Marquages, Surprise

Laboratory

Madère, September 2014. The island was beautiful, the subtropical backgarden of a once European colonizer, where fruits were taking advantage of the volcanic land and plants the always plentiful water from the mountains. In the middle of the capital town, […]

Posted: May 18th, 2015 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Instruments, Marquages

Abandonment

The project had raised the most striking debates. Some people, the wealthiest, were completely opposed to it. They had found many circuitous routes to explain how bad this idea was, never telling directly why they actually didn’t want public housing […]

Posted: May 11th, 2015 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Marquages, Preuves

Discovery

Bordeaux, February 2015. The French restaurant experience does not begin with white tablecloths and waiters dressed in black but starts out of the room, in front of a legal signage which has to be displayed with available food and drinks, […]

Posted: February 9th, 2015 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Écologies, Marquages, Matières, Modes d'emploi, Surprise

Vandalism

Madeira, october 2014 A door & some keys. It is not a sophisticated digital device, on which some highly-resistant code should be typed to open it, but the recycling of keyboards that used to compose a map, that of the […]

Posted: October 27th, 2014 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Écologies, Marquages, Matières

Dividing Line

Minneapolis-Saint Paul Airport, june 2014. Flying is a strange experience from a temporal and spatial point of view: it is the fastest way to get from one point to another and yet it is one with the most waiting times. […]

Posted: June 16th, 2014 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Circulations, Marquages, Modes d'emploi

Confidential

Paris, march 2014. Controlling the circulation of information has been crucial in human relationships for a long time. Mutual trust is a means to keep a secret, being at the core of a family history, an industrial process, or a political strategy. And distinct […]

Posted: May 5th, 2014 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Marquages, Mots d'ordre

Stacking

Paris, march 2014. When one is moving out of an apartment into another accommodation, a huge amount of documents has to be accumulated and assembled in different files. Purchase contracts, loans offers, notarized acts, insurance contracts, the minutes of the […]

Posted: March 24th, 2014 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Activités, Marquages, Passages

Watchfulness

New Haven, october 2013. This is one of the first lessons for children: go over there only through crosswalks , hold hands, wait until the light is green , all these little things that we gradually quit with adulthood. “Parisian […]

Posted: January 21st, 2014 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Écologies, Formes, Marquages

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