In this new edition, discover the stories of artists, designers, curators, botanists, and landscape gardeners who are involved in prefiguring a shift in our relationship with the world.
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January 29, 2023
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In this new edition, discover the stories of artists, designers, curators, botanists, and landscape gardeners who are involved in prefiguring a shift in our relationship with the world.
SUBSCRIBE AND RECEIVE THE SEVENTH ISSUE OF STREAM VOICES
March 17, 2023
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In France, the construction sector accounts for one third of the country’s CO2 emissions. Materials, which are partly responsible for this ratio, are extracted, transported, processed, poured or placed, dumped or incinerated… All these steps are opportunities to work on limiting impacts, involving architects, among other things, in deploying a new aesthetic.
March 10, 2023
As part of #PSLweek, an interdisciplinary training week, we welcomed students from PSL University for a training session around "living cities: designing, building and inhabiting the urban worlds of the future."
After a visit of the Stream Building, the agency's manifesto building located in front of the TGI, the students invested our premises to prepare and present the results of their explorations.
March 10, 2023
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"The Anthropocene is above all a change in the condition of the Earth, but the fact that we have changed the condition of the Earth implies a change in the human condition. The profound message of the Anthropocene, in addition to its geological resonance, is deeply political: it is the idea that we can no longer conceive of the Earth and the world as two independent entities." Interview with François Gemenne, geopolitical researcher, specialist in geopolitical issues of the environment and co-author of the Atlas of the Anthropocene, published in the Catalogue of the exhibition Champs-Élysées, Histoires et Perspectives at Pavillon de L'Arsenal in 2020.
March 08, 2023
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Inviting to exceed the logics of separation or domination of the modern project, the Anthropocene impacts the contemporary art, reviving notably ecofeminist practices, which for Tara Londi, take source in the feminist avant-gardes of the years 1960-1970. The criticism of the capitalist exploitation of nature thus joins that of patriarchal oppression. By revealing the unspoken history of women, indigenous people or animals, beyond visual and linguistic rationalism, the artists mentioned by Tara Londi revive animist and holistic visions of the world.
Among them: Donna Huanca, Charwei Tsai, Romana Londi, Jesse Jones, Marguerite Humeau, Ana Mendieta, Suzanne Husky, Zadie Xa, Mathilde Rosier
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March 01, 2023
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Cities account for 70% of energy consumption and between 40-50% of greenhouse gas emissions globally. From Dubaï to Copenhaguen, through Paris with our project "Reenchanting the Champs-Élysées", Urban designer Alex Washburn, former Head of Urban Planning for the City of New York, breaks down how cities are reimagining their relationship with the natural world to lead the way to a more resilient low-carbon age.
February 24, 2023
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Every day, we generate data that can be made public for research and the common good or sold to companies for commercial purposes. But what framework, what transparency, what alternatives can be envisaged, in the service of the common good? An article by Saulė Gabrielė Petraitytė, Nadia Leonova and Lukas Utzig, Urban AI's Emerging Leaders.
February 17, 2022
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Victor De Bono is an architecture PhD student and civil engineer. He is working with 3d printing technology developed by the private company XtreeE for large-scale construction which saves material by placing it sparingly, “in the right place.”
Febuary 15, 2023
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Discover the latest photos of the 360 construction site !
February 10
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Dorcas Mabanza-Kuma is a graduate from the architectural school ENSA Versailles. In her final thesis, which won an award from the Maison de l'Architecture Île-de-France, architecture turns into a place between fiction and documentation to question the ways of dwelling that are customarily described as informal. A matter of perspective…
February, 3, 2023
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Anouchka Vasak is a lecturer in French literature. At the juncture between climatehistory and climate science, she elaborates a model of thinking based on meteorology, shifting like clouds. Her book 1797 – Pour une pensée météore [1797 – For Meteorology as a Model of Thought] is its “Discourse on the Method”.
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January 27 2022
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The star of the stage of the september 2022 Design Week in Paris, plastic seems to have moved beyond the disdain it had been experiencing lately. Thanks to recycling, its environmental footprint is now better controlled, which has turned into a real selling point. But beyond the material itself, it is an entire production logic that should be "recycled" to extricate ourselves from the dogma of newness and disposability.
January 18, 2022
Looking back on last year, preparing for what is to come.
Discover our 2022 retrospective !
Janyary 6, 2022
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To understand the living, you need to understand the invisible. This is what Véronique Mure, a botanist specializing in Mediterranean landscapes, is convinced of. By focusing on the relationship that people have with plants, she raises awareness on the importance of soil and roots and invites us to take care of them, like gardeners. An interview to discover now!
January 01, 2022
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December 20, 2022
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Through the long-term perspective specific to paleoanthropologists, Pascal Picq can analyze the evolution of the human line in view of the parallel and sometimes jarring history of its habitat. In particular, he highlights how changes in ways of working have been a driver of the radical transformation of urban forms throughout history. He considers that the conditions for a new wave of change that could thoroughly transform our cities are already established, and he calls for new forms of nomadic living, in terms of housing and ways of moving around, as well as lifestyles organized on the basis of fusion-fission models of society. He also calls for a return of anthropology into the city, in order to make it easier for residents to reclaim their space. A Stream 05 article to discover now!
December 16, 2022
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Last weekend to discover Michel Blazy's exhibition "Six pieds sur terre" at the Portique!
Michel Blazy's work is the result of collaborations with snails, mosquitoes, moulds and bacteria. In his article for Stream Voices, he questions through his living works the temporality of art and the boundaries between living and non-living, natural and artificial. A Stream Voices article to discover now!
December 09, 2022
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Maximum is a design studio that maximizes the value of waste; its material, its form and its engineering. Some materials are transformed in a semi-industrial process while others give birth to unique pieces, such as the glass walls of the Centre Pompidou caterpillar. Discover now the exclusive interview with Armand Bernoud, co-founder and president of Maximum!
December 05, 2022
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Given that space influences behavior, Sonia Lavadinho calls for a “relational city” to kickstart the process. Like the city itself, mobility could be perceived as not only functional, but as something that can take on a new dimension, as events. Enriching the urban experience would then change our spatiotemporal relationship to the city and foster better social behavior.
A Stream 05 article to discover now !
November 30, 2022
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How can we then assign a new status to nature in order to better preserve it? For Marine Calmet, this involves moving beyond our attitude of domination of the living and productivist logics of growth and to instead think in terms of commons and the protection of the living. With the forward-looking curriculum Wild Legal, she explores and imagines the creation of new legal tools based on concrete case studies, in particular around the concept of ecocide, to protect the environment and imagine types of governance that could help achieve a more harmonious articulation of the local and global scales.
A Stream 05 article to discover now !
November 28, 2022
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Through the example of the Stream Building, a modular and reversible building with a wooden structure and mixed programming, this article from Madame Figaro looks at the approaches that architects are exploring to implement resilient urban strategies.
November 25, 2022
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Caroline Goulard is a data journalist and co-founder of Dataveyes. She turns collected data into digital experiences to make it more understandable for everyone. Thanks to new ways of visualization, it is now possible to understand a population's needs and to develop services that anticipate new uses.
November 18, 2022
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The notion of urban metabolism can be viewed in several ways. From a quantitative perspective, by considering flows; from a political ecology perspective, by considering social factors; and from an urban design perspective, by considering the sum of intertwined environmental and social ecosystems beyond administrative borders. In each of these approaches, urban technologies and the availability of data provide exciting prospects.
Discover the article by Urban AI's Emerging Leaders !
November 14, 2022
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Discover the 2022 edition of Traits Urbains on the 100 who make the city!
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