Bordeaux 2030. Scenography by Petra Blaisse

For this year's edition, the curator, French-Lebanese architect Youssef Tohmé, addresses the guiding influence of culture, economy and politics on public space.

Diagram. BORDEAUX 2030 – a project by the city of Bordeaux and the origin of AGORA. © Inside - Outside Petra Blaisse.

Inside Outside has developed a scenography for the exhibition that supports the curatorial content. In Hangar 14, the beating heart of the Biennale, Youssef Tohmé showed varied conditions through films and interviews and share conversations with architects and inhabitants of cities globally. Simultaneously, the renowned Architecture Institute Arc en Rêve featured a cinematic exhibition about recent works of Inside Outside- Petra Blaisse, 'In Motion', in the Gonflable, their inflatable pavilion next to the Pont Jacques Chaban-Delmas. Petra also delivered a lecture in the auditorium of the Architecture Center Arc en Rêve, Entrepôt, 7 rue Ferrère.

CREDITS.-

Curator.- Youssef Tohme.
Scenography.- Inside Outside - Petra Blaisse con Laura van Santen, Marieke van den Heuvel, Peter Niessen, Rabia Zuberi, Agnieszka Zborowksa, Carlotta Basoli, Mikel Orbegozo, Jana Crepon.
Graphic Design.- Studio DB.
Venue.- Agora main exhibition at Hangar 14. Hangar 14, Quai des Chartrons 33000 Bordeaux.
Dates.- Thursday, September 11 till Sunday, September 14.
Lecture Petra Blaisse at Arc en Rêve Thursday, September 11.
Client.- City of Bordeaux, 6th AGORA Biennale of Architecture, Urbanism and Design (theme 2014 : public space).

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Poster. BORDEAUX 2030 – a project by the city of Bordeaux and the origin of AGORA.

BORDEAUX 2030 – a project by the city of Bordeaux and the origin of AGORA.

Petra Blaisse. BORDEAUX 2030 – a project by the city of Bordeaux and the origin of AGORA. © Inside - Outside Petra Blaisse.

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PETRA BLAISSE

Petra Blaisse (London 1955), more popularly known in the world of architecture, for her colaboration in some of the most brilliant projects by Rem Koolhaas, as the carpets and finishes for the Seattle Central Library (2000-2004) or finishes and curtains for the Casa da Música in Porto (1999-2005) and acoustic walls, started her career at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, in the Department of Applied Arts. It was there that Blaisse first collaborated with Koolhaas. From 1987, she worked as freelance designer and won distinction for her installations of architectural work, in which the exhibited work was challenged more than displayed. Gradually her focus shifted to the use of textiles, light and finishes in interior space and, at the same time, to the design of gardens and landscapes.

In 1991, she founded Inside Outside. Since 1999 Blaisse invited specialist of various disciplines to work with her and currently the team consists of about ten people of different nationalities. Inside Outside works globally on projects of increasing technical sophistication and scale. Throughout the years, Inside Outside has collaborated with various architects and designers. Blaisse has lectured and taught extensively in Europe, Asia and the United States.

In the past years, the opening of a number of public and private buildings in which Inside Outside implemented interior and landscape interventions brought the work of Blaisse’s studio to the attention of a broader public. Examples are the restoration project for the Hackney Empire Theatre in London (all curtains, 2000-2005), the gardens, carpets and finishes for the Seattle Central Library (2000-2004), finishes and curtains for the Casa da Música in Porto (1999-2005) and acoustic walls and curtains for the Mercedes Benz museum in Stuttgart.

For landscape design, the studio presently works, together with OMA Hong Kong and Rotterdam, on the landscape masterplan for the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong and on public gardens (Shenzhen Stock Exchange, Qatar Foundation Headquarters and Education City Library) and on master plans for new urban development areas in Ghadames and Sebha, Libya.

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