E14 Winning Teams Portraits/Interviews

Kintsugi, ou la stratégie des petits moulins

Pantin (FR) - Winner

Team Representative: Daniel Garcia Lopez (ES) – architect 
Associates: Paul Jacquet (FR), Jean Remy Dostes (FR) – urbanist architects; Louis Lazaro (FR), Eugénie Denarnaud (FR) – landscapers; Alegria Giovannini (CL), Dimitri Pagnier (FR), Nicolas Bayret (FR) – architects
Contributor: Simon Cristiano (FR) – architecture student

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D. Garcia Lopez, A. Giovannini, D. Pagnier, S. Cristiano, N. Beyret, J.R. Dostes, P. Jaquet & L. Lazaro

"In a way, our project is a synthesis of our questions around two major issues: - How could we go along with the transformation of the city heart as a whole through a reflection on the future of work and economic activities? - How could we open in use private lands and create porosity towards the public space while using existing and easily accessible resources (technological, energy, logistics, organic ...)? We make the assumption that the productive city of tomorrow will be multiple and will go far beyond the traditional categories: industry, services, craft ... In line with the research conducted by the philosopher Bernard Stiegler, we integrate the urgency of differentiating the employment which is automatized (47% of trades may disappear in the next two decades), based on consumption objectives and work which is on the contrary "desautomatized", provider of meaning, of unforeseen, and of "capabilities". This new productive city is shaking up the way to do things: new places and programs, widening learning places, strengthening links between workplaces and public spaces... "