Paris, La nuit!

«PARIS, LA NUIT» NOCTURNAL CHRONICLES.

The Pavillon de l’Arsenal has invited architectural office of AWP to curate an exhibition whose aim is to show how the night is a major challenge for urbanism, landscape, and of course architecture. The exhibition spans from the mythologies of the City of Light since 1789 to the unknown, unnoticed realities of the current nightscape. This historical and almost archaeological approach allowed the rediscovery of old practices,occupations and abandoned places: cabarets, halls, lighting factories, dance halls, universal exhibitions gardens, festive night sites, small business night owls, brothels and so on. The iconography of these epic nights will be shown for the first time as urban subjects. To create a well balanced portrait of the modern night, AWP collected data of the metropolitan nightscape at an unprecedented scale, covering the following areas: mobility,logistics, maintenance, employment, services, transgression, leisure, turism and culture.

Despite its extraordinary quality, we tend to underestimate both its reality and its potential, also in terms of economic growth. This exhibition will demonstrate how the night can serve as a guide to sustainable, innovative metropolitan strategies addressing:

- new centralities.
- new uses of landscape.
- temporary buildings.
- urban networks.
- new services and politices

La noche también se estudia como un «fuera» del programa Le Grand Paris, y como una nueva frontera para iniciar una acción eficaz e inmediata. Algunos de los principales grupos de interés de la ciudad lo han entendido y se comprometen con una serie de acciones que se pueden presentarse durante la exposición.

AREAS OF THE «PARIS, LA NUIT» PROJECT.

From Stalingrad to Rosny sous Bois, along the channe land to Chinagora Rungis, from the stade de France to Enghien, the Confluence Seine-Oise Cergy Pontoise, La Défense Paris CBD and St-Germain:

Over 500 students, researchers, and artists have joined the nocturnal explorations conducted by AWP across the Parisian Metropolis to answer these shared questions:

- What are the boundaries and identities that are unique to the night?
- Where are conflicts, collaborations and groundbreaking places?
-Who is working, who is playing, who is moving and who is going where, how and why?
- What architectures and lanscapes are hiding in the nightscape of the Shadow Gran Paris (Gran Paris Fantasme)?

A preview of such explorations has been undertaken during the Nuit Blanche 2012 and experimented with a participatory atlas of the night – with over 18,000 contributions were projected in real time on an interactive map at the Pavillon de l’Arsenal. This exhibition will continue this approach, punctuated by a new series of creative explorations outside the walls, in the company of urban stakeholders, elected officials and forward- thinking creatives, allowing participants to increase the database and to participate in the debate on the future of the city at night, culminating in the forthcoming Nuit Blanche, 2013.

CREDITS.-

Project team.- AWP Marc Armengaud (Guest Curator), DVVD Daniel Vaniche (Scenography), Graphique Lab (Graphic conception).
AWP team.- Marc Armengaud, Matthias Armengaud, Alessandra Cianchetta (AWP Partners), G.Barnavon, D.Brochard, J.Booth, C.Bouscasse, H.Cappela, E.Delprat, Z.Flambard, B.Gentil, A.Grosset-Brun, L.Guilpain, A.Ibnolmobarak, J.Ippolitti, M.Kervarec, M.Karimjee, L.Latzarus, D.Mikic, M.Nemeta, C.Raillard, O.Reveillac, M.Rhein, A.Roy, I.Sabatier, J.Tartour.
Venue.- Le pavillon de L'Arsenal, Paris.
Dates.- 23 May- 6 Oct 2013.
Client.- Pavillon de l’Arsenal.