The Missing Dimension
I am a social designer, researcher, digital and cultural project coordinator.
With a background in cultural and digital studies with a focus on the redistribution of commons and public encapacitation through co-creative process, I’ve worked for seven years in cultural institutions such as Palais de Tokyo and Fondation Cartier as digital project manager. There, I’ve been curating digital content and developing web-based mediation tools (living archive of Sally Gabori and kaiadilt community (https://www.sallygabori-fondationcartier.com/map), Night Vision augmented reality experience with Sarah Sze (https://www.fondationcartier.com/projets-en-ligne/night-vision-20-20)).
This practice has been extended to digital community research project including « The everyday data (h)activism toolkit » https://data-activism.com/ I co-authored and teaching as associate teacher of « digital strategies » for museums studies MA students at Sorbonne Nouvelle.
In parallel, I’ve co-founded Umarell, a collective of architects and spatial practitioners. With the collective, I’m experimenting with research methods and tools that can bring out vernacular knowledge and help users recognize their own power of invention and intervention towards regenerative practices. In my work, I like to hybridize architecture with other fields including: journalistic investigation, audio-recording, artistic intervention, writing and speculative design like in the action-research residency « Un trou dans la raquette » (https://www.ma-lereseau.org/residence-architecture/un-trou-dans-la-raquette) or Europan 16 (https://www.europan-europe.eu/en/exchanges/the-bet-of-the-living).
"The Missing Dimension" is an on-going research project on chronotopic approaches towards city-making.
The notion of 'chronotopy' refers to the simultaneous consideration of temporal (chronos) and spatial (topos) dimensions.
For decades, notions of time have been largely overlooked by modern and contemporary city planners, who prioritize instantaneity over long-term considerations.
What if the consideration of upcoming city-makers’ could be to build not only over space?
In the face of the imminent sixth extinction and the global climate crisis, the objective of this research is to break away from established capitalist criteria of performance and efficiency. Instead, it seeks to embrace a long-term vision of time that aligns with the natural pace of the living world and reconnects with ancient beliefs (7th generations rule). Frequently linked to the concept of space/time optimization (diversification of uses in existing spaces, 15 minutes city), 'chronotopy' functions as a non-anthropocentric and post-growth tool to understand temporalized and gendered uses of places shared between all living forms.
Chronotopic approaches to space-making offer a comprehensive understanding of the dynamic interplay between organisms and their environment, facilitating a deeper exploration of ecological processes and their temporal dimensions.
However, unlike space, time is difficult to perceive.
"The Missing Dimension" aims to transform abstract scientific research data into a tangible and comprehensible representation, allowing us to grasp the presence of time in a more concrete and accessible manner.
The ultimate objective of this research is to provide city-makers with a comprehensive tool-kit, to take care of space and time towards a regenerative city.
The project could take various participatory forms, including workshops, collective field research, an exhibition or a lecture. So far, a first representation of regeneration time scale has been edited.
