I N T E R V I E W avec M.Juillot

plasticien, professeur à l'école d'architecture de Paris La Villette.

le 20 janvier 2011 à l'ENSAPLV.

En amont du projet urbain, avant que la mécanique des prescripteurs ne fige la ville dans une réponse d’aménagement, Xavier Juillot, avec la complicité d’invités, se propose d’analyser et travailler les potentiels d’action d’un site. Cette démarche consiste à mettre en place des dispositifs d’expérimentation autonomes, à proposer des lectures de la réalité spatiale, aux échelles de l’environnement. L’expérimentation est la base des propositions génératives de réalisations récentes telles que “le Bureau des vérifications” sur le site du Port Nord de Chalon sur Saône. Xavier Juillot parie sur les processus et pour ce faire, met en place son propre système de production. Pour la rencontre, Xavier Juillot et ses invités livrent les principes de ces expérimentations in situ.

"Modern Slavery: The Spectacle of the Self" By Ali Lari

Modern Slavery: The Spectacle of the Self

“The slaves remained at the race-course, some of them for more than a week and all of them for four days before the sale. They were brought in thus early that buyers who desired to inspect them might enjoy that privilege, although none of them were sold at private sale. For these preliminary days their shed was constantly visited by speculators. The negroes were examined with as little consideration as if they had been brutes indeed; the buyers pulling their mouths open to see their teeth, pinching their limbs to find how muscular they were, walking them up and down to detect any signs of lameness, making them stoop and bend in different ways that they might be certain there was no concealed rupture or wound; and in addition to all this treatment, asking them scores of questions relative to their qualifications and accomplishments.

All these humiliations were submitted to without a murmur and in some instances with good-natured cheerfulness - where the slave liked the appearance of the proposed buyer, and fancied that he might prove a kind 'mas'r.'”1

Updates

The past posts were the works from the entire studio. Each group's production. In the end, we decided, as a group, to actually build Décontrole Urbain. Right now, the class is in the process of coming up with a feasible design and making the event/project public. So tell everyone you know!

Décontrole Urbain

Ali Lari, Nicolas Barnavon, Emanuelle Barigelli

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Le Refuge des Insurgés

Virgine Gimeno, Flora Reymond, Vincent Yee

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Refuge de l'Esprit

Fabien Salhen, Francesca Galoni, Etienne Godfrin, Paul Krynski

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Kiosque Collectif: Un Nouveau Marché Social

Gabriela Zamora Garcia, Crimson Changsup Lee, Benoit Leroux

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