Fondation Thalie and the École nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris join forces for the 3rd season of the series of conversations Creators facing climate emergency, and invite architect and urbanist Patrick Bouchain and Frédérique Aït-Touati, Academic Director of the Experimental Political Arts Programme at Sciences-Po Paris, to address the theme of a sustainable urbanism.
Launched in 2020 by the Fondation Thalie’s founder Nathalie Guiot, this cycle - which has been developing in dialogue with the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris since its third season - aims to shed light in the present, and to mobilise for the future, the capacity of creators to imagine possible futures in dialogue with researchers with the aim of encouraging new collaborations between disciplines within which new visions of the world are produced. To bring out new imaginaries of transition, new ways of imagining and preserving the planet.
The full series of conversations is now available as an audio podcast!
How can we transform the function of urban or architectural projects into supports for collective action in the service of the expectations and needs of a territory? How do theater and fiction constitute essential elements in the construction of knowledge?
Patrick Bouchain and Frédérique Aït-Touati share an experiential and sustainable vision of urbanism, particularly through a collective perspective. Faced with the injunctions on the future of our cities and their necessary adaptability to climate issues, they will discuss a possible transformation of architecture, shedding light on the intelligence and know-how of researchers, philosophers, entrepreneurs, and citizens, who constitute fundamental aspects to think this new world and living in it differently.
Based on a curatorial proposal by Fondation Thalie, this third season hosted at the École des Arts Décoratifs is organised by Chiara Vecchiarelli, coordinator of the programme Creators facing the climate emergency, in co-construction with Francesca Cozzolino, teacher in human and social sciences, and Patrick Laffont-DeLojo, teacher in stage design at the École des Arts Décoratifs.
