BELLE MÉDITERRANNÉE - SEARCH – SENSUAL CITY STUDIO

CULTURE AND LEISURE Culture and leisure have become major elements in the perceived appeal of cities and a determining factor in the competition to attract a dynamic population, companies and investments. For the Mediterranean Arc, music and performance venues, cinemas, museums and libraries, but also the ever-growing variety of leisure activities, should not be exclusively linked to “town centres” but should be spread over the entire urban area, stretching along the coast. [ + ]

CULTURE AND LEISURE

Culture and leisure have become major elements in the perceived appeal of cities and a determining factor in the competition to attract a dynamic population, companies and investments. For the Mediterranean Arc, music and performance venues, cinemas, museums and libraries, but also the ever-growing variety of leisure activities, should not be exclusively linked to “town centres” but should be spread over the entire urban area, stretching along the coast. Specialist sports infrastructure, from stadiums to golf courses, sailing, trekking, and more, are also key. It also seems vital to us to include shopping centres, retail parks and other infrastructure linked to consumption in development plans. The boundaries between leisure, consumption and culture are becoming increasingly blurred in urban environments. Consumption – at once a pleasurable and stressful activity – has become so generic that, more than ever, it needs to include other offers aimed at meeting consumer demands or differentiating a product from a marketing perspective. Commerce, leisure, and culture (now condemned to emerge from its Ivory tower) have everything to win by integrating the coastal landscape in a synergetic and global vision.

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A LEISURE ECONOMY Today, leisure hours and work hours are increasingly liable to overlap. The Mediterranean arc is a region with rhythms for each season, as much for residents as for tourists. [ + ]

A LEISURE ECONOMY

Today, leisure hours and work hours are increasingly liable to overlap. The Mediterranean arc is a region with rhythms for each season, as much for residents as for tourists. A year-round leisure economy has thus emerged.

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THE CITY AS LANDSCAPE The Côte d’Azur landscape is often regarded as a disaster: the urban developments of the past fifty years have done irreparable damage to magnificent views, the holiday retreats of a “happy few”, such as shown by Alfred Hitchcock in To Catch a Thief (1955) where stunning landscapes act as a backdrop to the cabriolet-bound adventures of Grace Kelly and Cary Grant. Further West, the unspoiled lagoons and wilderness of the Languedoc region were invaded by new resorts for mass tourism with its galaxy of camp sites, in accordance with government policies. [ + ]

THE CITY AS LANDSCAPE

The Côte d’Azur landscape is often regarded as a disaster: the urban developments of the past fifty years have done irreparable damage to magnificent views, the holiday retreats of a “happy few”, such as shown by Alfred Hitchcock in To Catch a Thief (1955) where stunning landscapes act as a backdrop to the cabriolet-bound adventures of Grace Kelly and Cary Grant. Further West, the unspoiled lagoons and wilderness of the Languedoc region were invaded by new resorts for mass tourism with its galaxy of camp sites, in accordance with government policies. The Mediterranean coast is seen nostalgically as a lost paradise, and we should take note of the damage caused by a certain type of urbanization. But it is possible to adopt a different perspective and see the Arc extending from Genoa to Barcelona as a vast, 10 million person conurbation with the sea and the mountains for a horizon, strewn throughout with fragments of Mediterranean landscape. A sensual urban landscape where city and landscape are as one. We have chosen to adopt this perspective, as it is the reality experienced by the people who live there, but also because we see in it the potential to imagine a future for the development of this vast urban area.

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Le Sensual City Studio est conçu comme un lieu de réflexion où se fabrique la pensée, long cheminement nécessaire au travail de conception et de réalisation des projets. Approcher l’espace dans sa complexité physique, fonctionnelle, sociologique, nécessite un décloisonnement des disciplines et un travail collectif : c’est ce que reflète la composition de l’équipe, étoffée par un riche faisceau de contributeurs. Cette démarche, à la croisée des savoirs et de la création, permet la rencontre des regards : une démarche de co-construction ouverte qui enrichit la compréhension des enjeux et donne un sens à la conduite des projets menés au sein du Studio. Cette posture de recherche et d’approfondissement s’inscrit dans la tradition humaniste du studio, cabinet d’étude de la Renaissance où sciences et arts convergent et se nourrissent de leurs apports mutuels.

Cette interface est la matérialisation métaphorique de notre démarche : elle propose de partager une série de projets conçus dans des cadres variés et des logiques de recherche ponctuelles ou récurrentes. Que cela soit en déplaçant les cadres d’une commande ou en se créant des opportunités de réflexion, le projet reste le même : celui de la ville sensuelle.

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	TXT	IMG	VID
AMBIANCE	[61]	[120]	[15]
CIEL	[33]	[75]	[35]
CLIMAT	[31]	[67]	[33]
COMMUNAUTÉ	[25]	[26]	[9]
CORPS	[44]	[66]	[27]
EAU	[26]	[41]	[31]
ÉCHANGE	[80]	[130]	[20]
ENVIRONNEMENT	[21]	[82]	[17]
ÉQUILIBRE	[55]	[108]	[22]
ÉVÈNEMENT	[40]	[56]	[20]
EXPÉRIENCE	[45]	[90]	[9]
IDENTITÉ	[37]	[48]	[3]
IMAGINAIRE	[25]	[69]	[7]
INTIMITÉ	[11]	[21]	[7]
LUMIÈRE	[36]	[89]	[12]
MATIÈRE	[16]	[45]	[11]
MÉMOIRE	[18]	[41]	[1]
MISE EN SCÈNE	[48]	[74]	[38]
MOUVEMENT	[52]	[57]	[36]
MULTITUDE	[34]	[56]	[17]
MYSTÈRE	[13]	[47]	[8]
NUIT	[8]	[18]	[4]
PARCOURS	[33]	[54]	[5]
PAUSE	[35]	[17]	[22]
POROSITÉ	[24]	[54]	[1]
RÉCIT	[34]	[61]	[2]
REFLET	[5]	[21]	[10]
RYTHME	[6]	[20]	[4]
SEUIL	[37]	[64]	[8]
SIGNE	[43]	[62]	[13]
SITUATION	[40]	[54]	[23]
SON	[30]	[24]	[15]
TERRITOIRE	[36]	[59]	[6]
TRAME	[7]	[36]	[0]
TRANSPARENCE	[6]	[42]	[0]
VERTICALITÉ	[12]	[13]	[12]
VIDE	[7]	[30]	[5]
VIVANT	[47]	[74]	[34]
VOYAGE	[11]	[20]	[4]