Claudia Ferrazzi, former government advisor on culture and audiovisual affairs, aims to put the artist back at the heart of the city by bringing together disciplines and industries. Founder of VIARTE, she uses art to support the implementation of new management methods. By adopting a narrative rather than a medium-based approach, she seeks to build bridges between the corporate world and artistic practice.
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Xavier Veilhan is a visual artist. He represents France at the 57th Venice Biennale. Since he has been collaborating with PCA-STREAM on a regular basis for a decade, we interviewed him for the documentary “PCA-STREAM: from research to action”. In this talk, he evokes his relationship to architecture, which he considers both as a constraint to the creation process and as a source of inspiration and reflection that nourishes his practice.
The digital revolution brings about a changeover akin to that of the Renaissance, embodying, according to Cécile Maisonneuve, a new manifestation of human genius. Beyond catastrophism, she considers that the environmental crisis is a challenge we give ourselves that we must address head on in order to invent a new humanism. She chairs the Fabrique de la Cité, an international, multidisciplinary observatory/school of urban good practices, investigating the city in all of its complexity in order to share a level of understanding of today’s key challenges and to build a shared vision. The challenge is to invent new forms of democracy and to provide proof by example of what collective intelligence can tangibly achieve in cities.
Written in 1896 by Louis Sullivan, the founder of the Chicago School, of which reputable phrases were invented such as « form follows function », this text analyzes the characteristics of a new urban form for the city of the nineteenth century. Sullivan questions the role of the architect within these architectural standards – vertical and repetitive office buildings, the birth of the Fordist production-materialization model in urban space. Louis H. Sullivan is an American architect (1856‒1924), who has been called the father of skyscrapers.