Jacques Lévy, Olivier Lazzarotti et Xavier Bernier | 01.12.2021
This work experiments with writing constructed by a combination and assembly of cut-out images. The discourse produced is based on a new visual grammar and seeks to show how space is broken up in order to be recomposed. To give substance to this project, a work of expression through images is proposed through a photograph of a district of Tokyo (Japan) likely to allow a kaleidoscopic writing and reading of an urban crossing. [...]
Kevin Sutton | 06.11.2013
Crossings are the more often identified when they are successful, that is to say when the act of crossing a defined obstacle so as to reach a spatial entity considered a posteriori as the end of the process is done. The action is actualized by the addition of several validated social stages. Is it possible to speak of failed crossings ? Would these be a kind of crossing or would we consider them as “non-crossings” ? This paper deals [...]
Jean-Christophe Gay | 23.09.2013
Supposedly fluid, continuous and transparent, contemporary societies are in fact societies which divide, separate and cross boundaries. Micro-geography focuses on the numerous transformations that are part of daily life and have generated systems and sophisticated infrastructures to facilitate flows, while controlling and channelling them. Keys, tickets, access or credit cards, badges, remote controls, ID cards, etc. are essential today to get around. Inequality in the allocation of such “magic tools” make the ability to cross boundaries a discriminating resource [...]
