Exhibition "The city turns in circles? Architecture, city, and landscape: modes of (re)employment
What if the city was animated by a cycle, allowing it to self-regulate, to regenerate, like the cycle of life? The notion of a circular city expresses the idea that it can build on itself, from existing resources. However, the city also seems to be going in circles, renewing for many years the same anthropocentric and productivist practices. This new exhibition presents reuse as one of the alternatives to architecture, city and landscape. It is the result of the meeting with a hundred developers, inhabitants, institutions, associations, craftsmen, companies, architects, landscapers, designers and planners. It testifies to the collective and enthusiastic energy of all those people who initiate innovative projects on a daily basis. Imagined as a series of instructions for use for everyone, this exhibition presents re-employment under different prisms: materials, spaces, nature, buildings, wastelands, uses, sectors… These guidelines are not “exhaustive” but “enhancers”. They seek to reveal the sensitive, to develop our curiosity, to overcome preconceived ideas, to touch the habits of those who make and live in our cities. More than 50 projects will be presented in the form of testimonials, models, photos, videos and other artifacts. Nothing is left to chance – in a logic of circularity – from the content to the scenography deployed. This exhibition is initiated at the Bazaar st So – a third place where it is presented for the first time – where many residents work every day. We express the diversity of professions, people and human skills that this same place brings together. The texts, content, layout and scenography were designed with residents. Visits of the exhibition are organized on the occasion, for the general public and for the young public (7-13 years with booklets of mediation) Around the exhibition and on the occasion of the JEP 2023, you find a path of cabins in reuse, guided tours and children’s workshops. To finish on Friday, September 15, Christine Leconte, president of the National Council of the Order of Architects will hold a conference in the Bazaar-St-So.