The city is an archipelago of projects! A territory shared by geographers, historians, architects, town planners, philosophers, clients, journalists, photographers, video artists and ordinary people… All of whom are concerned by the history of metropolitan growth and by its future.
"These regards do not aim at developing a new theory of the emerging city, diffuse or fractal, but simply at observing phenomena that reflect the thought processes, interwoven social patterns, urban transgressions and collages, which found the originality and the identity of this territory..." JPPD
The exhibition and the book that accompanied it presented the different processes by which the metropolis grows, its physical and sociological realities, themes, networks, habitat, centralities, sights and landscapes...
Over 100 creators contributed input, concerning both the past and the future, which means as many different itineraries and ways of seeing this ‘archipelago’. Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, well known for his use of recycled materials, designed the scenography for the exhibition.
"Visitors move about in a territory filled with objects whose forms, dimensions and appearances vary. Tunnel, spiral, shell-fold, top-light or diffuse sources, warm or cool textures...
The choice of materials and the way they are used depends on my search for simple, economic solutions, and on the brief given to me by the Pavillon de l'Arsenal for designing this itinerant exhibition..." SB
"Territoires partagés, l'archipel métropolitain" aimed to serve to a wide public, food for thought concerning the city of the future.
The exhibition and the book that accompanied it presented the different processes by which the metropolis grows, its physical and sociological realities, themes, networks, habitat, centralities, sights and landscapes...
Over 100 creators contributed input, concerning both the past and the future, which means as many different itineraries and ways of seeing this ‘archipelago’. Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, well known for his use of recycled materials, designed the scenography for the exhibition.
"Visitors move about in a territory filled with objects whose forms, dimensions and appearances vary. Tunnel, spiral, shell-fold, top-light or diffuse sources, warm or cool textures...
The choice of materials and the way they are used depends on my search for simple, economic solutions, and on the brief given to me by the Pavillon de l'Arsenal for designing this itinerant exhibition..." SB
"Territoires partagés, l'archipel métropolitain" aimed to serve to a wide public, food for thought concerning the city of the future.
