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‘RACONTONS DEMAIN – Acknowledging, connecting and projecting with living things’.
This series of monthly meetings is part of Event 25 – Living trails. The aim of these meetings is to bring together professionals and members of the public involved in the M28 approach and to share ideas on M28 themes.
One Monday a month, two guest speakers – artists, researchers or project leaders – are invited to discuss thematic issues at the Hôtel d’Aurès in Montpellier, the beating heart of M28.
Fiction at the service of the public #1
The launch will take place on Monday 2 December 2024 at 6pm at the Hôtel d’Aurès in Montpellier on the theme of ‘Fiction at the service of the public’ with Pascal Ferren, Philosopher and Urban Planner, nominated for the Prix COAL 2024, and Marie Boissard, Designer with the Sismo agency.
Pascal Ferren
Pascal Ferren is a philosopher, urban planner and author of eco-fictional devices. Co-founder of the Camille Alfada agency (a consultancy specialising in consultation and maitrise d’usage) and of Lichen (a laboratory strudying inter-dependencies between humans and non-humans), he designs and organises surveys of users in order to plan action strategies, planning schemes, urban development schemes, public facilities, etc. As deputy director of the POLAU-arts and urban planning centre until 2019, he has worked on cultural approaches integrated into urban design. For nearly fifteen years, his career has been marked by a number of experiments in design-fiction and foresight around inter-species governance and a sensitive relationship with ecosystems. Since 2023, he has been developing La Mission Relations, a fictional work that imagines a public service for relations with living environments. Pascal Ferren is a writer associated with Agence Bipolar.
Marie Boissard
Marie Boissard is a designer with the Sismo agency, an interdisciplinary collective committed to the ethics of care. Initially trained in the humanities and social sciences, she spent 4 years working alongside public and private players in the story of their transformation. In 2021, she decided to take a greater interest in design and the way in which this creative design method, based on the study of uses, can change our relationship with our environments. Since then, she has been co-creating and experimenting with the public with the aim of inventing new emancipating objects, spaces and services that reveal our individual and collective capacity to act.