do you remember your school
kindergarten do you remember
activities that the mistress you
had me do I have a very memory
marking the mistress had us
asked to bring pieces of file
strands of wool from the ends of string
it was like that and with all these
pieces we had woven small
squares of multicolored canvases we are
very very proud and today I’m going
tell you the rest of this story
following this story is the
method of weaving urban ruptures
at one time I was in charge of
the a10 motorway linking paris to
bordeaux and running through towers there is the
mayor who call me and summons me
in his office
sir rousseau this highway and not
unbearable break in the city l
acer the agglomeration he’ll have to
do something
the municipal elections it’s in a
year
so it will cost what it will cost
but it’s you who will pay or sweet
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have to do something but what to do
but why the highway is there in
1850 and a canal that was built
between the Loire and the expensive in 1900
channel was abandoned with the arrival
railroad tracks in 1945 tower was
bombed and rubble were
thrown into the canal that has been filled
in the early 60s when we
was trying to build the deviation of
towers were not yet the highway
follow the deviation of turns all
naturally there was a location
available
the deviation settled at the
canal place here for the story
but what to do while flowing in
turn in search of ideas throws in
car I had a revelation but
really the moment looking at my GPS
this is the photo of my gps this photo
it’s exactly the mental map
elected officials in the city
unbearable the bleeding injury
it’s the red line these lotos the
urban roads even at two times two
way
it’s the white roads but the
little dots what’s the little ones
dotted there is put on this
map it’s railroad tracks I put
in blue are the railways
cut laville
well no no because the train is
modern and friendly the highway that
stinks it’s noisy it’s the car
it’s not modern it’s the dimension
symbolic of infrastructure then
let’s stop on a concept that’s
jacques lacan the world is real
symbolic is imaginary it’s all about
both symbolic and imaginary real
you can not separate all that
simultaneous it means that our
field of action was so symbolic
that the real but that we act is
symbolic we act on the real
so with jérôme barratier director
the urban planner and abdu gnaba a
anthropologist
we have been to see the inhabitants and
we were questioned what
was their perception
what was their experience and the inhabitants
and 10 three things the first
the highway is a natural boundary
accepted by all this is a border
but natural the second the value
colossal
I use it every day to go
at work to take my kids for
do my shopping especially do not touch
not the highway is fragile you do not
touch and the third if you can
not move the highway outside of
the city
move bordeaux implied as well
in Paris they will stop
to go home what is that
say locals
so I made a map and that’s
a rousseau card why rousseau
it’s my name but especially it’s my
look
I blackened the loire the dear in
orange railroad tracks and the line
blue there is the highway
what is the reading of this map the
reading this map this is a
territory divided by the Loire the
sheikh of railways and the son of
life that holds territory together the
son of life who holds life together
inhabitants
this is the highway here is a look a
little different than the elected ones
even presented at the beginning but then that
do with this fabric of this exploration
actions have been proposed
the first is extremely difficult
it is a project 10 euros and mobilize
on a project at 10 euros it requires
solid means
you see on one side a walk of vine
virgin very well worked the other side
a concrete wall yielded the project
what was it going to buy a foot of
vine is less than 10 euros is
at the base of the wall we plant the foot of
creeper but simply planted
creeper has no species
interest
we are going to knock them on the doors of
inhabitants we will find someone who has
want to water the vines
Virgin
we will go see the association of
gardeners who at the foot will put a
urban vegetable garden and then we will make a
party for launching the garden we go
put in the local newspaper
and there is something going
start to happen and the human bond
beginning of a story
this is an example of action a second
it was a few weeks ago
it’s a show called the wild
west show freely transpose roméo
juliette of shakespeare and it’s
passed under the highway there are 3000
spectators 3000 inhabitants who are
come to see a show under
the highway and there we transform
the highway from where we pass
of a place that separates into a place a
where are we going to go see a
show to make a fact one recreates
a location a third action
it’s a town planning contest and
the outcome of this contest the team
winner called micro for bone has
invented a mini-square concept
urban are 13 that are
interconnected and implanted
in totally unlikely places of
places we would never stop and its
mini place it’s places we go
can just sit
converse and again it comes back
small places of life that implant themselves
are chosen places
we could imagine putting the buses
on the highway so that
the highway becomes a piece of town
from this experience and other I
pulled a method that I called the
method of weaving urban ruptures
how’s the first step
we assemble a team we assemble a
team we take engineers
human sciences
sociological anthropologists between
two urban architects
environmentalists and this team
she was worth exploring a territory the
above the bottom his story his
scars his networks and from there she
will not write them reports from there
she’s going to assemble them stories
individual in a collective narrative
who will feed a dream to share and
that they do it all they enter
saw he goes back to the field and there
in the field they will look for everything
which comes under the border all that
breaks up everything that
is separation and that it goes
incorporate that into the story and
go back again and search
the lines of uzège all that assembles
for example there can be two
organizations totally opposed badly
interior to organize
lyon two people they get along
perfectly because I play football
Sunday must know how to identify gender
of things and here the major point is
at the intersection of break lines
and used lines they go
implement a micro action plan
consistent with each other and its actions
and crossover implants that are
hotspots
some talk about urban acupuncture
and 7 urban acupuncture to those made
by these micro action and again
this plan of action we will write but
the essential thing is not to write it
the main thing is to tell it the
tell the inhabitants to tell it to the
other partners is like that he’s going
spread then we renew
renew is the method of weaving
urban ruptures then this
method
than to make that imagine
apply it in neighborhoods
Popular
imagine applying it in a
isolated countryside imagine especially of
apply it in your own neighborhood
there is no need to be
professional just be
many are in turn we will take
embody the role of the anthropologist of
engineer sociologist I you
invite to experiment gather the
strands of wool pieces of canvas
multicolored aletti cd urban break
and raised a humanistic momentum and
enthusiastic thank you
[Applause]
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