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Eager to share more generously the fruits of its collaborations and research, PCA-STREAM publishes STREAM VOICES, a digital research and innovation magazine that explores the making of the metabolic city.

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“ Building the City, Deconstructing the Method. ”

Podcast

“ Building the City, Deconstructing the Method. ”


Building the City, Deconstructing the Method

Through the act of building, architect and Grand prix de l’urbanisme 2019 laureate Patrick Bouchain reconsiders public procurement and puts it to the test of reality. He outlines his experimental Université Foraine project of an itinerant university promoting open, citizen-centric programming. Read transcript A PCA-STREAM production Coordination: Jasmine Léonardon Editing: Mattéo Caranta Music: Alexandre Desplat

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Care & repair for the urban future

In the current climate of instability, new ways of thinking and acting are being considered. Among them are two attitudes of care for the living and the non-living. The planning of cities and territories is the privileged field of application of these concepts, symbols of a profound reconfiguration of our relationship to the world.

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Designing a façade like a membrane

How can a building’s energy balance be maintained as a living organism would? The search for solutions has come to the forefront of contemporary concerns, with a view to finding a way for architecture to self-regulate its energy consumption based on uses and the fluctuations of the environment. One of the first surfaces concerned is the building’s façade, which is very similar to the material envelope of a body or the membrane of a cell: an interface between an interior that must be kept in balance and an exterior that is subject to variations the interior must be protected from. Much is at stake in the case of high-rise buildings. The double-tower high-rise “The Link,” which will emerge in La Défense in 2025, is typically subject to various constraints and challenges. To optimize user comfort, an ideal balance must be found between two paradoxical factors: the importance of daylighting and protection against exterior heat.

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“ Approaching the world in all its complexity. ”

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“ Approaching the world in all its complexity. ”


The construction of collective intelligence

La Fabrique de la Cité is a think tank dedicated to urban innovations headed by Cécile Maisonneuve, who emphasizes the importance of triggering forms of collective preparation in large construction projects. She envisions a new humanism taking shape thanks to disciplinary mixing. Read transcript A PCA-STREAM production Interview : Philippe Chiambaretta Coordination: Jasmine Léonardon Editing: Mattéo Caranta Music: Alexandre Desplat

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When Architecture Conveys a Narrative

Architect, professor, and curator of the future exhibition “Paris Animal” [Animal Paris] at Pavillon de l’Arsenal, Léa Mosconi considers that architecture is fundamental to reconciling humans with their environment. An invitation to infuse poetry into places and lend a voice to the voiceless!

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Larissa Fassler

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An Attempt to Drain Places

Larissa Fassler is a “Neo-Situationist” artist. By exploring places over the course of many hours, she gleans their ephemeral essence, which she then superimposes on the fixed urban master plan. The subjective maps thus generated highlight both urban narratives and history.

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Caring for the relational city

Geographer and Director of the École Urbaine de Lyon, Michel Lussault brings attention back to the forefront of urban planning, via the One Health concept. He thinks through the pandemic, which accelerated the dematerialization of human interactions, inviting us to ponder which relations should absolutely be protected.

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Sandra Laugier

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Revaluing vulnerability

Sandra Laugier is a professor of philosophy and gender studies specialist. She views vulnerability and care as the key to a revolution in ethics and governance. Environnement, women, and “social invisibles” are part of the same struggle.

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AI Doesn’t Replace Architects But Supports Them

Researcher and data scientist Stanislas Chaillou investigates how AI can enable architects to support and enhance their practice. A small sampler of a new book published by Éditions du Moniteur in March 2021.

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Frédérique Aït-Touati

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Reversing the image of the world

The historian of science recently co-edited, with Emanuele Coccia, the collective work Le cri de Gaïa, penser la Terre avec Bruno Latour. Here she opens the way to an unprecedented exploration, that of a “New New World” that disrupts the codes of cartography and learning.

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A global city for the Living

Yona Friedman granted us one of his last interviews before passing away in December 2019. In this unpublished video, he questions centralization and urban density and envisions the future as the establishment of a diffuse “global city,” a position that resonates deeply in the present context.

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Eager to share more generously the results of its collaborations and research, PCA-STREAM publishes STREAM VOICES, its online magazine!

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