Barcelona, août 2016 La conférence avait lieu dans le centre des congrès, bâtiment visant la pure fonctionnalité. Salles numérotées, vidéoprojecteurs et écrans à l’intérieur, couloirs avec leurs tables garnies pour les pauses, tout semblait parfait pour accueillir les 1500 collègues […]
Brussels, July 2016 The area was deserted on this summer Sunday, the usual officials and lobbyists being absent at the entrance of the office buildings. At the heart of Europe with its four lanes, “Law street” was covered by only […]
Bordeaux, March 2016. The train was quite ordinary, its gray dress on the ten cars reflecting sunlight. Yet, this train is not like the others: on the locomotive, a faded sticker draws the eye of the traveler. It was 25 […]
Valencia, March 2016 Almost ten years, the pool was full of boats and onlookers, and the images of the regattas were transmitted worldwide. Today, under the sun, the marina accommodates only a few walkers and occasional sailers. Yet buildings are […]
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 […]
Western Massachussets, October 2013. The mailbox looked like any other one, with its cylindrical body and its flag to signal mail. As we were approaching, a sticker became visible: its colors had certainly faded, but its text was still readable: […]
Leiden, February 2015. With the rise of the internet, writing practices were dramatically transformed. Not only, text processing softwares allow one to interact very differently with words, by using a keyboard, but also with sentences and paragraphs that can be […]
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, […]