E16 Portraits - The Bet of the Living

Douaisis Agglo (FR) - Winner

The Bet of the Living

Associates: Louis Robert (FR), Camille Bonnaud (FR), Cecilia Lopez (FR), Antonin Lenglen (FR) – architects
Contributors : Johanna Musch (FR) – designer, Adrien Fricheteau (FR) – artist

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"We based our project on two key principles: the notion of subsistence that we completed with the concept of intractivism as the negative space of extractivism. We made the assumption that we should cross an economy of proximity, that redefines human interaction, with a symbiotic approach where human and non-human inhabitants that compose the living environment become the starting point of prosperity."