RETOUR À LA SOURCE

TEAM PORTRAIT

VIDEO (by the team)

INTERVIEW
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1. How do you define the main issues of your project in relation with the theme “Re-sourcing”? Re-sourcing thanks to nature, to social dynamics, to new materiality? In which way do you think your project can contribute to an ecological and/or social evolution? And in which way do you think your project can be called a “regenerative project”?
Since the Industrial Revolution, modernity has instrumentalized the world. The utilitarian gaze fragments territories to resources, disconnects societies, and accelerates the ecological crisis. Existence of resources holds inherent value, independent of its utility. RETOUR À LA SOURCE is a manifesto of “de-resourcing”, to return to a place where nothing and no one is treated as a mere instrument. It’s a return to a state of symbiotic cohabitation with the living world. Our design regenerates on the basis of Grand Nancy’s past, reconciling with its industrial heritage while creating spaces for ecological restoration and social integration.

2. How did the issues of your design and the questions raised by the site mutation meet?
Grand Nancy developed on the Lorraine plateau rich in resources which made the region one of the main industrial bases of France. The development of the industry is at the cost of the exploitation of the landscape. With industrial decline, the site faces fragmentation and amnésie. To restore ecological and social bonds, we design three guiding principles as foundation: REWEAVE, EMPOWER & ENGAGE: REWEAVE the blue-green infrastructure and slow mobility, EMPOWER humans and non-humans, ENGAGE in the long-term development of the site.

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