Research project on the reclassification of the banks of the Aveyron using an experimental design approach favouring a contextual dimension, from a memory of the places to an update of its uses.
Carried out in collaboration with the archivist Olga Ponchet for La cuisine, art and design centre, Nègrepelisse. www.la-cuisine.fr
Touring exhibitions from 28th April to 15th October 2012.
Saint-Etienne Design Biennial 2013.

During the first two-thirds of the 20th century the banks of the Aveyron were popular with the locals who regularly went there on Sundays for country parties. Today these banks are abandoned, apart from several fishermen or children who go to paddle there in the summer.
Three particular areas on the banks of the Aveyron have been chosen for their special features and uniqueness, to be reclassified, appointed and designed: the banks of the Nègrepelisse, Cazals and Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val.
The idea is to recall these places and the people who roamed them, with their history, and to take into account the current uses of these areas, to suggest ‘Citations-Objets’ (Acknowledgments-Objects) which give rise to new narrations.
Today on the banks of the Aveyron, referents or benchmarks cause forms and functions to ‘re-emerge’ with each context, within the extended urbanisation of the space, raising questions about public areas and shared nature.

‘Citations-Objets,’ the diving-board, boat and hanging laundry, recall souvenirs and traces of past moments by proposing and giving rise to a new history and new forms experienced. They take place on the surface of the water, a true flowing and continuous public area, to form floating areas.

Modular system.
Floats: steel containers.
Pontoons: wood.
Structure: metal.
Canvas: technical outdoor textile.

Modular framework 1 x 1 m.
Basic system 4 x 2 m.