Book Publication - Architecture in China Today - Sustainable approaches
Françoise Ged and Héloïse Le Carrer selected 40 recent projects from award winning architects and urban planners in China and the West, as well as others who are less visible to the public.
This book introduces a number of initiatives bringing together developers, inhabitants, and local governments associated with architects and town planners to demonstrate a collective dynamic in the countryside as well as in the cities.
These groups are committed to preserving natural resources, traditional know-how, the quality of lifestyles, and inventing new ways of working together. Presenting their achievements and the framework in which they are embedded will contribute to building bridges between countries and their cultures.
Book Launch - Cité de l’architecture et du Patrimoine
During the publication event for their book, Héloïse Le Carrer and Françoise Ged discussed with Lucie Morand, author of a thesis on Xiamen, a pioneer city in the implementation of environmental planning, and Ingrid Taillandier, head of the Franco-Chinese master's degree in Ecological Urbanism set up by the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Versailles and the College of Architecture and Urban Planning of Tongji University (Shanghai).
Post Master Academic Research ( DPEA ) Philosophy lab Gerphau
Title : In cohabitation with trees. Images and imaginery in architecture. Towards a new alliance with the vegetal world.
This research project recognises there is a widespread call for a renewal of our awareness to the interactions between humans and non-humans. This call comes from the life sciences, but also from anthropology and other human and social sciences. Authors such as Philippe Descola, Eduardo Kohn and Emanuele Coccia are seeking to take the social sciences beyond the strict limits of human relations.
How do Architects through their production of visuals rethink our links with the living and respond to the crisis of sensitivity resulting from modernity.
« Ambiances Tomorrow»
Mathilde Planchot and Héloïse Le Carrer wrote a paper entitled Shanghai Streetscape: an installation project about atmospheres, ‘ a look on the landscape passer-by’. They also participated at ‘Ambiances Tomorrow’ the Third Congress on Ambiances, held in Greece, September 2016.
Shadows of Dailylife
Mathilde Planchot and Héloïse Le Carrer were invited to participate in an event curated by Jeremy Cheval, gathering various artists in the streets of a lilong in Shanghai. Located in Dong Si Wen Li, an old district where the majority of the inhabitants have been evacuated before its transformation.
A white sheet hanging in the lane is seen as a reminder of the clothes which used to dry there. The sheet acts a memory screen, it captures the shadows of the daily objects installed behind. A playing area to one side, shadows show on the other, the installation comes to life with each passer-by. This small alive scene evokes a missing daily life.
Shanghai Streetscape
Exhibition by Mathilde Planchot and Héloïse Le Carrer curated by Ni Ming Jing
Shanghai Streetscape is an installation project which aims to grasp the ambiance of a street for an instant: life, people, their everyday lives, the ordinary, a component of the identity of the city. Jiashan Lu is a street located in the Xuhui district which is under transformation. Along this street we observe a singular atmosphere which comes with a series of streetscape, thus creating animation and an atmosphere of happy mess. The installation is composed by a series of models, their shadows, and a soundtrack of a street. As an inventory, the installation identifies multiple uses and practices which expose themself within public space. The ground floor associated with the small shops ends up being the active space of the city.
Uses analysis
To live abroad and confront yourself with the unknown leads you to reconsider the ‘obviousness’, the acknowledged, the commonplace. This series of drawings identifies multiple uses and practices which expose themselves within public spaces. The inhabitant and the passerby appropriate the street, the public space spontaneously becomes: a living room, a play area, a market, a garden. Life is present from morning to evening.