Carpet-making workshops with citizens of Greater Paris. Made from materials produced in the Île-de-France region, the carpet becomes a tool for collaborative and concerted urban planning.
PROJECT PRESENTATION
Numerous artists and architects have designed carpets, which are often used as insulation, thermal or acoustic, or as a performance medium.
But carpets can be more than that, because of the social, ecological and territorial issues they raise, and can be used as a tool for co-production.
Le tapis : outil de co-production pour la ville de Paris is a series of tapismenated workshops with citizens of Paris on issues of living together, using materials produced in the Île de France region. The project also aims to continue research into the use of carpets as discussion and workshop tools, as well as for exhibitions.
Through the use of carpets, the project aims to introduce greater inclusivity into conversations about architecture and urban planning.
Carpets are everyday objects that are very present in many cultures. They can therefore be less intimidating for non-architects and serve as a language for the exchange of ideas. What's more, its texture makes it attractive and fun to take part in the exchange, and includes the youngest participants in discussions. It also puts workshop participants back at the heart of the discourse by creating an object that has a dimension of its own, that can be walked on, that can wear out... Linking several stories in the same object also puts workshop organizers and participants on an equal footing. It's about creating an opportunity to get together and exchange ideas.
The fact of telling the story of a territory using materials produced directly from its soil, beyond an ecological logic, allows us to link up production sites, as well as raising participants' awareness.
PROJECT LEADERS
Rachel Rouzaud is a qualified architect who teaches at ENSA Versailles and ENSA Bordeaux, as well as pursuing an artistic practice. She is interested in codes of representation, and more specifically in new ways of communicating architectural projects through the production of hybrid objects.
In particular, she produces carpets, domestic and artistic supports for weaving links between histories, cultures and disciplines, making architecture accessible in a different way: flat landscapes laid end to end, colorful fantasy scenes of cities, supports for architectural representations, ephemeral objects destined to decompose little by little, or like carpets made by several hands.
She is taking part in the Chaumont-sur-Loire International Garden Festival on the theme of Resilience, illustrating with a garden the episode of forest fires that affected the Landes forest in the summer of 2022. With Bernadetta Budzik, they are selected by the LINA platform to be Fellow 2023 with the project 'An Atlas of Forest Occupations'.
