October, 2015

Petite histoire du vélo à Montréal

Avec ses hordes de hipsters à fixie, ses 600 kilomètres de pistes cyclables et des événements comme le Tour de l’île, qui rassemble près de 30 000 cyclistes par an, on pourrait croire que Montréal a toujours été un havre du vélocipède. Pourtant, toute la culture actuelle du cyclisme n’est…

Living Design

  Analogies overly animate the urban life. The city can compare to an ecosystem, a beehive, a large star, and since the growth of biology in the 19th century, a living organism. We embellish the vital city as if it eats, breaths and defecates; but in the cold light of…

Fragments

In a student’s pocket lie fragments collected from a Montreal sidewalk (A List) Leaves on asphalt: you leave a book a couch a street three boys on one couch on one street the student in a towel on DeBullion crosses paths with the boy in an apron a cup of…

Chronique bogotanaise

Il est 5 heures 30, Bogotá s’éveille. À ce moment où le jour se montre timidement et où les immeubles sont bleus sous le soleil encore endormi, Mr. et Mme. Todo el Mundo s’activent pour prendre un bus crachotant sa fumée noire, parmi les milliers de véhicules qui sillonnent déjà…

Sleepless, Listless

Rain-kissed in the rancor, The world again becomes surreal. Broken shoes and beer bottles in black bags, garbage, city-stink, the sharp smell of piss in the underground — the scent of the lonely invisible. Little more than a dirty blanket, an empty bed lies on a stoop. The sleeper is…

We are the Robots

Our generation has been exposed to electronic music now for more than a decade. Techno, House, Ambient, Drum’n’Bass and many other genres of the electronic family have had an enormous influence on today’s western music. However, a closer look reveals that its roots and influences date from far back, and…

Crowded Desperation: Risk Factors in Urban Life

“We don’t have a lot of time on this Earth! We weren’t meant to spend it this way. Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about mission statements.”…

Make Art, Not War

Cities are not fixed entities, but living organisms in permanent flux. Natural and man-made erosion change their landscapes. While these changes alter the physical image of the city, they also alter the perception people have of their city, and therefore their interactions with it.