La rue est à nous...tous!

Exhibition at the École d'architecture de Paris-Val-de-Seine. The exhibition showcased various open space/streetworks projects all over the world, including Federation Square in Melbourne, Australia – which provided a good memory for me – But also there were many boards which raised fairly obvious questions, and offered very few answers. How do we go about sharing the road, how can pedestrians be safe, or how do we move forward with developing new technologies of moving people, were all questions raised. For me, the exhibition was interesting, however, these are all questions we are well aware of as architects, and I left feeling roughly the same about the ideas.





City Life, A video game that was shown in movie form in order to explain its function. This was totally fascinating to me, people in the game are separated into social classes, and have a corresponding dress code. Its absolutely amazing to watch a city being built on the computer, sped up through the use of film effects. I guess this game is real, I’m not totally sure, but it provides for an interesting reflection on our society.


Poor photo, however, this room was super amazing, four walls all going with projections of streets at the same time. Not necessarily the same street, however there were moments of synchronization throughout. The room was huge, with projections on the ground as well. Sounds would come out of speakers in the corner to correspond with or not correspond with an image on one of the 5 walls. I hope this makes sense, because it totally rocked.