E17 portraits - L'Enfant, la Ville et le Ruisseau - The Child, the City and the Stream

Marseille (FR) - Special Mention

L'Enfant, la Ville et le Ruisseau - The Child, the City and the Stream

Associates: Marc-André Meyer (FR), Anaïs Parcheta (FR), Charlotte Vermeulen (FR) – architects, Thibault Carcano (FR), Loukia Peneau (FR) – urbanists, Mathilde Morize (FR) – landscaper, Julie Vincent (FR) – mobility expert

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"The "Living City" brings to mind an urban production that is no longer synonymous with fractures but with cohesion between the human and non-human entities that form the territorial ecosystem. In order to highlight the richness of the relationships that precede our intervention, we have based our thinking on the already-existing: equipment, cultural, social and economic systems.
The figure of the child, at the center of our discourse, embodies the hope we pin on the already-existing. The child represents both the vitality of the city - life finds a way, as Dr Ian Malcolm would say - and the vulnerability to which he is exposed. Children are the keystone that guarantees the balance of the area. As such, the attention and care they receive extends to all the entities with which they coexist."