In the 1960’s, Ivry-sur-Seine – a south-eastern Parisian suburb– was the theater of a groundbreaking social housing operation, in which architect and urban planner Renée Gailhoustet, together with Jean Renaudie, designed an architecture deeply anchored in socialist values of communal living and social equity. The generous space dedicated in their buildings to urban ecosystems on the many public and private terraces makes it an example of resilient, ecological and foremost deeply social architecture today.
In May 2023, we conducted an artistic investigation in Ivry-Sur-Seine to record the life of the neighbourhood and its inhabitants, in cooperation with local initiatives Jardin à tous les étages (Ivry) & Arch'Ivry. The research focus was set on the different forms of care that inhabitants are enacting towards this particular architecture. During our time spent in Ivry, we observed and recorded moments of collective gardening, joint work on the documentation of the buildings and their history, composting, hosting, visiting each other’s apartments, publicly discussing the fate of public spaces... Small acts that make up a neighborhood and help preserve the particularity of this architecture.
Inspired by the diversity of these practices and the generosity of the surrounding spaces, we worked together with inhabitants to create 3 fictional narratives that were shot on the spot. The final outcome will be a sound and video installation displayed publicly in Ivry-sur-Seine during the Journées du Patrimoine in September 2023 and which will later be shown in Berlin. Stay tuned!
In May 2023, we conducted an artistic investigation in Ivry-Sur-Seine to record the life of the neighbourhood and its inhabitants, in cooperation with local initiatives Jardin à tous les étages (Ivry) & Arch'Ivry. The research focus was set on the different forms of care that inhabitants are enacting towards this particular architecture. During our time spent in Ivry, we observed and recorded moments of collective gardening, joint work on the documentation of the buildings and their history, composting, hosting, visiting each other’s apartments, publicly discussing the fate of public spaces... Small acts that make up a neighborhood and help preserve the particularity of this architecture.
Inspired by the diversity of these practices and the generosity of the surrounding spaces, we worked together with inhabitants to create 3 fictional narratives that were shot on the spot. The final outcome will be a sound and video installation displayed publicly in Ivry-sur-Seine during the Journées du Patrimoine in September 2023 and which will later be shown in Berlin. Stay tuned!
april 2023 - oct. 2023
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#care
#multimedia
#installation
#publicspace
#sitesituated
#visiting
#care
The outcome of this research will be shown
on 16.9.23 in Ivry-sur-Seine &
on 6.10.23 in Berlin.
More info hier ↗
on 16.9.23 in Ivry-sur-Seine &
on 6.10.23 in Berlin.
More info hier ↗
urban fragment observatory
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