
Articles

Le projet Troisième Lieu : les lieux de convivialité comme patrimoine de nos villes ?
urbz Paris a lancé une enquête participative et créative, visant à découvrir et raconter les espaces spontanés de sociabilité dans nos quartiers à travers le regard de leurs habitués.

The Third Place Project: spaces of conviviality as a form of urban heritage?
urbz Paris has started a creative participatory inquiry, aimed at discovering and narrating spontaneous spaces of sociability in neighborhoods through the eyes of their users.

Visual Narratives for Participatory Urbanism: Documentation as Intervention
urbz has started initiatives in Europe, that combine ethnographic participation with visual storytelling to accompany, facilitate, or initiate urban planning, heritage, and transformation projects.

The Golden Thread
One among the many ways of watching Nishtha Jain’s exquisite documentary, ‘The Golden Thread’ (2022), is by following the imagination of urbanist Patrick Geddes.
Works

Third Places in Cologne: Designing Transformations for Convivial Encounters
A collaboration with Köln International School of Design, (KISD) and urbz as part of the Global Design Initiative (GDI) 10th anniversary event.

Les futurs de l’Hôtel-Dieu
Respiration, Hôtel-Dieu, Nantes. Automne 2024.

The Third Place Project
Recognizing and narrating our cities’ ordinary places of sociability, friendship, and community life.