beaux livres : photo, architecture, art

This book brings together contributions from architects, designers, theorists, and artists who develop projects and ideas related to the complexity of contemporary urban spaces. These contributors embrace the unpredictable and the unexpected, operating according to the nomadic principles that characterize the “war machine” theorized in 1980 by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in A Thousand Plateaus. The book offers a glimpse into the variety of approaches that are thus being invented: guerrilla gardening, the emergence of new landscapes produced by the new place given to nature and its spontaneous dynamics in the city, novel forms of urban agriculture, artistic and architectural interventions in interstices and “in-between territories,” urban walks and drifts, cartography and navigation, “territorial narratives,” but also urban micro-factories and heterotopias that nourish contemporary urban practices, theories, and imagination.

The texts collected in Urban War Machines come from research carried out in parallel within the framework of the activities of the LARU (Urban Research Laboratory) of the National School of Art of Dijon and the Manèges conferences organized by the La Maréchalerie art center of the National School of Architecture of Versailles.

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