Valérie Chatelet, active member of anomos m’a fait part de la thématique 2005-2007 du service des publics du FRAC Centre: la mobilité dans l’architecture!

“Seront proposés :
- des interventions dans les classes ;
- le prêt de dossiers de documentation ;
- l’organisation d’expositions d’œuvres de la collection du FRAC Centre ;
- la mise en place de rencontres avec des architectes et des artistes.”
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Pierre Bourdieu
http://www.espritcritique.org/ : Dialectique des structures sociales objectives et structures mentales des agents sociaux dans l’appréhension du processus de construction du sens –Par Martine Arino

Les travaux de Lucy Orta, Christa de Carouge…

I have met Julia at the SASE2005 conference, a meeting on socio-economics held in Budapest, June 30 - July 2, 2005. Her research interests are “actor network theory”, “collaborative virtual environments”, “cybergeography”, and “economic geography”… Julia works on socio-economics of space. We spoke about interdisciplinarity and methodology.

SZ: “The nomad of today expects McDonald, the same hotel room, the “McEverything”! Are we nomads to get things better or because we are craving for familiarity? It is a communal responsibility because if everything looks the same, people still are different. The alienation of spaces implies policy implications regarding crime and the engagement of the community.”

THESIS/UbiComp2004 Conference:: Today, we observe an increase in mobility, people being able to travel “everywhere” they are permitted to for work, living and leisure while staying connected from “anywhere” in the global matrix. In this space of mobile populations, goods, and information, a new breed of nomads arises, as dependant of the environments they travel in as traditional nomads. These new nomads, neo-nomads, are technologically geared and pass through environments, essentially urban, which offer the receptive milieu they need to survive. These nomads are no “Flâneurs.” They move purposefully, and fast usually.
If anywhere and everywhere is their realm, and in a time where there is no limits to roaming, be it mental or physical one wonders how these new nomads assert a sense of belonging to a place, and what is the nature and extent of their territory.

Here we speak Franglais. It is not the first time I meet Jérôme. We have met in Cambridge, MA, a long time ago. He was working for Nokia, and I had just finished my Master of Science in Architecture Studies at MIT which was about neo-nomads already!

Jérôme? It is ifeedyou.com, www.parlonstennis.com, www.assiettevolante.ch, www.parlonsfoot.com and many more projects.

I speak people and buildings, trying to understand how we evolve and build with new technologies… He makes them!