together with Rachel Rouzaud
Our workshop explores the future of architecture through the prism of Timothy Morton’s theory of hyperobjects. These vast and complex entities - like climate change or capitalism that shape contemporary culture and the environment. Drawing on Richard Weller’s To the Ends of the Earth, we reinterpret the Grand Tour in the 21st Century, studying sites symbolic of a modernity such as Tesla’s Megafactory, Amazon’s distribution centres and Ceaușescu’s architectural ambitions in communist Romania. We will examine how these landscapes evoke the sublime today and how they shed light on what tomorrow will be like.
Through the creation of textile tapestries, participants will materialise the invisible connections between hyperobjects and these symbolic territories of architecture today, offering a collective reflection on how these forces shape our environment.
Through the creation of textile tapestries, participants will materialise the invisible connections between hyperobjects and these symbolic territories of architecture today, offering a collective reflection on how these forces shape our environment.
Winter School 'Horizon(s)' of Paris Est School of Architecture
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'Every year between semesters, the school organises a week-long Winter School, bringing together more than 400 students from the first to the 4th year to discuss a common issue. Open to students at the school as well as to French and international students from outside the school, the Winter School is designed as a time for cross-disciplinary reflection, providing an opportunity to tackle a wide range of themes and to question architecture, the city and the territory. The approach is deliberately exploratory: the aim is to vary, over a short period of time, the teaching methods used in the project workshops and tutorials.
Horizon(s)
The theme 2025 was chosen by Giaime Meloni, photographer, artist, doctor of architecture, teacher and curator of this 10th edition of the exhibition.
The horizon represents not only the line that separates the earth and the sky, but also a vision towards the future. Between the concretisation of tangible elements and the evocation of intangible ideas, this duality inspires the 2025 theme.
How can the imaginary line of the horizon guide us in designing our future ? By inviting reflection on this notion, in both its physical and metaphorical dimensions, the Winter School aims to examine how the future can be imagined and represented, paying particular attention to the way we live and interact with our future environment.' (from Paris Est website)
