Dezineo workshop:

« At home everywhere »

The Ultra Sedentary Mobility
The end of the 20th century was known as the huge acceleration of physical and virtual mobility through the rapid development of transportation and new technologies. Because they are economically migrant, jet setters, delocalized or transborder, the new nomads make good use of the increased ease in movement and communication. Difficult to do more quickly, more accessible- this double evolution of the physical and virtual mobility spawns a certain impact on the conception of spaces and tools.
The issue finds itself waiting for the voyager to regain their mark in home mobility anywhere: Of the personal benchmarks is having mobility at home, even one is outside their home.

Multiplication of “at home.” The ultra mobility, physical and virtual, has led to a fragmentation of living spaces.
The new nomads show all the characteristics of the multiplication of emotional attachments: several living spaces, of multiple origins, of intercultural links, of parallel lives…They are of the physical and virtual residences, fixed or mobile, the interest is of making their spaces comfortable and personal. It is the quality of relaxation that facilitates this acceleration. This phenomenon spawns a strong trend, towards a new sedentary aspiration who returns on the front of the scene for becoming a post modern value and translates itself through finding “home” everywhere. But, what gives a sense of being “at home.”

Agenda

• 8:45 am : Welcome: coffee, tea, fruit juices
• 9:00 am : Presentation of the study “At Home Everywhere,” and the guest speakers who are leaders in innovation and research: Sylvie Guerrand, in charge of the department of comfort and customer services and/or Sylvain Jolivet, who is in charge of design forecasting research: “Services in Mobility”: forecasting research at the SNCF.
• Closing : Discussions during breakfast

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Talking about moving… I want that:

Casulo: Mobile Living Furniture.

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“What if immigration could be liberated from government control?” Check the P2P immigration network via Citizen Exchange Program (image from weblog). Found via Rhizome on border crossing.

La SNCF maintenant propose de calculer l’indice environnement, càd les emissions de CO2 , selon que l’on voyage en train, par avion, ou en voiture. 80 Kg. de CO2 émis si l’on voyage en TGV (Aller-retour Paris-Strasbourg) contre 115 Kg par avion… (Payer plus cher pour un voyage plus long (car il faut se rendre à l’aéroport si l’on y est pas en transit), voyager moins confortablement, et polluer plus! You get the message :)

Governments have always been suspicious of nomads. Read a little about the carnet anthropométrique, a document specially designed for the “gens du voyage.” Someone does not have an identity if not attached to a geography. Human Being-AOC… Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée? Remember my friends Jerôme and Eléonore’s finding: Interdit Aux Nomades.

Read this article in Le Monde: La Halde veut une réforme du carnet de circulation imposé aux gens du voyage.

“Saisie de nombreuses plaintes concernant les gens du voyage, la Haute Autorité de lutte contre les discriminations et pour l’égalité (Halde) a adressé, vendredi 11 janvier, au gouvernement des recommandations afin que soit rétablie une égalité de traitement à l’égard de cette population.

Bien que citoyens français, ces personnes ayant adopté un mode de vie nomade sont victimes, dans de nombreux domaines de la vie quotidienne, de discriminations qui résultent, observe la Halde, de comportements individuels comme des textes en vigueur, et notamment de la loi du 3 janvier 1969 leur conférant un statut spécifique.

Ainsi, en vertu de cette loi, pour pouvoir se déplacer sur le territoire national, les gens du voyage français doivent être munis d’un carnet de circulation, au risque sinon d’être passible de délit. Aussi, ce carnet, qui doit être visé tous les trois mois, donne-t-il lieu à des contrôles permanents.

En les soumettant à une telle obligation, ce dispositif, estime la Halde, est contraire à la déclaration universelle des droits de l’homme et à la Convention européenne des droits de l’homme (CEDH), car il enfreint le droit à la liberté de circulation des personnes et établit une discrimination dans la jouissance de ce droit.”

The image above comes from the website of the association A Part Entière. It is the carnet anthropométrique of Jean Baptiste Bouvrisse. “Image reproduite avec l’aimable authorisation of Patrick Sol.”

Neo-nomads are traceable, chipped, tagged… They have given up on an identity attached to a specific territory. Yet in France, Neo-nomads do have a passport (valid 10 years) that they need to change everytime they move (The French consulate said; an address is still written on the passport): How awkward when you move your base camp so often?!

There was an experiment in Quebec for issuing passports to citizens of nomad territories… Unfortunately, the link does not work anymore :(

For more reading find the book by Xavier Rothéa, France pays des droits des Roms ? Gitans, « Bohémiens », « gens du voyage », face aux pouvoirs public depuis le 19e siècle (Lyon: Éditions Carobella ex-natura, 2003)

Carry your home… “like a snail” would say Do-ho Suh… who presents in an interview for art:21 the Seoul-Home/LA-home project:

“The experience was about transporting space from one place to the other. A way of dealing with cultural displacement. And I don’t really get homesick, but I’ve noticed that I have this longing for this particular space and I want to recreate that space or bring that space wherever I go. So the choice of the material, which was fabric, was for many reasons. I had to make something that’s light and transportable. So something that you can fold and put in a suitcase and bring with you all the time.”

About “My town in my home” artist Mafuyu says in her Ping Mag interview that:

“I think the image or the concept of a “house” exists in everyone’s mind regardless of shape or form - as a “home”, “a cozy place” or “a space for family communication.” Therefore, the common denominator between him [Yamagata, the fashion designer with whom she collaborated] and myself might be a “house.”"

Screenshot from Mafuyu’s website: www.writtenafterwards.com

Anyway, carrying home with you is what Nomads do. Traditionally the baggage is rather bulky. Nowadays home may have shrunk to a USB key or to the skin.  More than something that you carry, home is something that you wear. The project recalls that of Sylvie Ungauer, At Home, 2000. And that of Lucy Orta, Refuge Wear City Interventions, 1993-1998:

Refuge Wear City Interventions by Lucy Orta, 1993-1998. Screenshot from Orta’s website

My friend Jan, who will go to Gengis’ land in January to distribute the One Laptop per Child sends me the note below. Funny that a generation of traditionnal nomads will transform into neo-nomads via a green looking device :) Well… they already are modern… check this picture (sorry for the reflection :( of an image taken by Titouan Lamazou when in Mongolia… (In the background in very small, you would notice a Mongolian yurt). A modern nomad in Mongolia…

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OLPC is an education project, not a laptop project. Children are a mission, not a market. After 30+ years of research at the MIT Media Lab, based on Seymour Papert’s theories of constructionism, we have had three years to pilot in primary schools around the world, in Cambodia, India, Nigeria, Brazil, Peru and other places. The XO laptop is now in mass production. It was reviewed recently by the NY Times. If you have a chance, I urge you glance at David Pogue’s video as well.

Our goal is to reach the poorest and most remote children, in countries where as many as 50% do not even go to school. The long term purpose is to eliminate poverty.

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Via Archinect. Antoine Picon, was lecturing and debating!

LUNDI 12 NOVEMBRE 19:00 Debat animé / Panel Discussion par Jacques Boulet, Jean-Pierre Le Dantec, Philippe Duboy, Françoise Fromonot, Antoine Picon, et Bernard Vaudeville.

MARDI 13 NOVEMBRE 9:00 Antoine Picon Harvard University, ” Vers une aura numérique ? ”

Enjoy all the rest…