E17 Portraits - Solstice, ou Le Contrat Vivant

Courcy-Grand Reims (FR) - Winner

Solstice, ou Le Contrat Vivant

Associates: Manon Vandenbussche (DE) – landscape-designer, Olivier Chenevier (FR) – architect and landscape-designer

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"By questioning the notion of milieus, the second edition of the theme "Living Cities" exposes a clear fragility regarding the consideration of life at all its scales of understanding. The Solstice project strives to examine the necessity of a plurality of environments within the BA 112, but also on the scale of Grand Reims, and then at the regional level. This transgression of administrative boundaries thus involves resonating the operation of the base with the territorial structure and instigating the systemic mutation of human and non-human living spaces."

The Air Base 112 and its territorial influence
November: Immersion in the nature reserve of Campus 112
July: Harvesting by seasonal workers and students from the base