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KLAXON 11 Artists Creating Urbanity

2020

By claiming to have a plural approach to urban spaces, artists stand out from the approaches deployed by professionals who are traditionally in charge of transforming the built environment, whether they are urban planners, engineers or architects. This issue of Klaxon is devoted to what will be called the "factory of urbanity".

p.3 OPENING - THE URBAN FACTORY

Pascal Le Brun-Cordier & Benoit Vreux

p.5 PANORAMA - ARTISTS CREATING URBANITY

Pascal Le Brun-Cordier

p.23 EXPLORATION - THE AGENCE NATIONALE DE PSYCHANALYSE URBAINE, A poetic science to fathom urban life

Julie Bordenave

p.30 “TRAITÉ D’URBANISME ENCHANTEUR” - Chapter: rising water (extract)

Charles Altorffer

p.33 “LA VILLE SUR LE DIVAN” - Introduction to psychoanalysis of the world (extract)

Laurent Petit

p.35 A NORTHERN FOCUS - AN URBAN EXPLORATION IN COPENHAGEN, FAR FROM THE LITTLE MERMAID

Pascal Le Brun-Cordier

p.36 SUPERKILEN – A SINGULAR, EXPERIENTIAL, AND HOSPITABLE URBAN PARK

Pascal Le Brun-Cordier

KLAXON 11 Artists Creating Urbanity

Table of contents

p.3 OPENING - THE URBAN FACTORY

p.5 PANORAMA - ARTISTS CREATING URBANITY

p.23 EXPLORATION - THE AGENCE NATIONALE DE PSYCHANALYSE URBAINE, A poetic science to fathom urban life

p.30 “TRAITÉ D’URBANISME ENCHANTEUR” - Chapter: rising water (extract)

p.33 “LA VILLE SUR LE DIVAN” - Introduction to psychoanalysis of the world (extract)

p.35 A NORTHERN FOCUS - AN URBAN EXPLORATION IN COPENHAGEN, FAR FROM THE LITTLE MERMAID

p.36 SUPERKILEN – A SINGULAR, EXPERIENTIAL, AND HOSPITABLE URBAN PARK

p.40 WHEN ARTISTS PARTICIPATE IN THE URBAN LANDSCAPE: A FOCUS ON SUPERKILEN - An interview with Jakob Fenger, Co-founder of SUPERFLEX

p.45 HAVING ARTISTS INVOLVED IN THE PROCESS - An Encounter with Tina Saaby, Copenhagen's Former Cityarchitect

p.51 A CITY WITH AN EDGE

p.52 INSIDE OUT ISTEDGADE

p.53 HOW METROPOLIS HAS CONTRIBUTED TO REINVENTING COPENHAGEN - An Interview with Katrien Verwilt, Metropolis’s co-director

p.58 A SOUTHERN FOCUS - DREAM CITY, AN ART BIENNIAL IN THE MÉDINA, IN THE HEART OF TUNIS - Encounter with Jan Goossens and Sofiane Ouissi

p.63 PORTRAIT - RAUMLABOR - Thirty years of inspiring ar(t)chitectural actions

p.68 TWO CREATIONS BY RAUMLABOR