Marseilles, February 2023 The art of writing is less about recognising shapes than about being able to reproduce them, trait by trait, with a pen, a pencil or a brush. Before reaching the virtuosity of Japanese calligraphy, it is necessary […]

Tirana, September 2022.
 In order not to forget the collective experience of the Socialist People’s Republic and to transform the paranoia of a 20th century dictator into a national heritage for the future, the new Republic of Albania has converted […]

The GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, has changed the life of European Internet users. Since its implementation, it has been impossible to visit a Web page without having to expressly state one’s choices regarding the use of the data that […]

Aix-en-Provence, Octobre 2022 In order to ensure the effective payment of the entrance fee, a simple and elegant solution has been chosen in this museum: a coloured sticker, displaying the logo of the place, is given to the visitors. It […]

Paris, November 2022.
 In France, depending on the relationship with the employer, the right to strike can be exercised either by the voluntary report of strikers, or by a bailiff going to the workplace to record the strikers. One of […]

Geneva, November 2022 Coming out of a joint seminar and before returning, the group had booked lunch for 18 people, and consequently occupied the whole central part of the venue in this cosy restaurant. Even though the menu was limited […]

By our guest: Florence Paterson Paris, November 2022. Emergency ward. After some paperwork at the counter and a stay in the waiting room, a nurse shouts my name. I follow him, passing the automatic doors that lead to the heart […]

By our guest: Victoria Brun Ugine, October 2022. While emptying my grandparents’ house after their death, I came across a stack of ‘Almanachs du vieux Savoyard’. Published since 1946, it is an institution in the Savoy region. About a hundred […]

Montpellier, July 2022. They retired, then moved to the South of France. It was a whole life of things to be arranged, sorted into carefully labeled boxes, transported and re-installed in a new apartment. In the process of administering his […]

Marseille, July 2022 They have invaded supermarkets, drugstores, the most diverse sales websites, public transportation, but also our professional and private meetings. Surgical masks have become a new source of complex plastic waste. Some have sought to recycle them by […]

Tirana, September 2022. Since its beginnings thirteen years ago, Scriptopolis has been describing the inscriptions on urban furniture and has shine a light on classified ads. In contrast to the city centre’s attempts to turn electrical cabinets into street art […]

London, September 2022. Portraits on each storefront. Her pixelated face followed by her name, white on black, form a circle that spins at the top of the tower dominating the city. And these two years, repeated over and over again, […]

Paris, July 2022. In this hot summer month, the door of the closet housing the photocopier reminds the agents of the Ministry of Finance that their writings are governed by other temporalities than those directly registered in the exchanges of […]

Zurich Airport, April 2022 Cigarettes are no longer popular in the West. Shared spaces have gradually become forbidden to them, pushing smokers and their foul-smelling and toxic odors further and further away. But what can be done in places that […]

Paris, June 2022.

 The first bell is visible in the hall. It arouses the curiosity of visitors, whose eyes have become familiar with terrariums, which have been trendy in recent years. As you walk through the floors and open the […]

Our guest : Florence Paterson Paris, June 2022. Small strip of pink paper pasted in the elevator, between 5 and 7, the warning oscillates between the register of a denunciation – sober, it must be said – of the surprising […]

Athens, May 2022. The international hotel was very classic: a cubic mass of about a dozen floors, located in a semi-central area with “sea view” for half of the rooms, i.e., the ability to look out over the port area. […]

Paris, March 2022. Since the return to the office, the posters in the social room have multiplied to remind users to behave. Clean the dishes, empty the fridge, leave the table clean, wipe up the coffee spills. It was as […]

Internet, March 2022 In the academic world, the verb “to publish” increasingly embraces two distinct meanings. On the one hand, it is about making public, sharing knowledge created by means of blog notes, working manuscripts or even preprints, all forms […]

Paris, March 2022.

 The approval of Parisian bouquinistes refers to a political-administrative practice from the seventeenth century: the control by a royal legal deposit and a corporation of booksellers that restricted the circulation of printed matter and regarded street vendors […]

Marseille, mars 2022. Writing is a powerful tool for collective alignment. Orders, instructions, rules, signals, information, guides, explanations, descriptions and designations are all concrete forms intended to create a society, mobilise, affect or simply communicate. The lower one defines the […]

Marseilles, January 2022 Over the past two years, we have become accustomed to these case counts, presented in the form of numbers or beautiful curves, showing the dynamics of the epidemic to everyone, or fuelling discussions on the quality of […]

Paris, September 2021.

 The poster was placed in such a way that no one who entered the door or walked along the sidewalk could ignore it. The typeface, without serifs or contrasts between the solid and the smooth, resembled Chrip, […]

Paris, January 2022. It is a competitive examination from nowhere. For more than a century and a half, far from localised recruitment and therefore necessarily suspect of localism, juries of seven members have been meeting for months, watching numerous candidates […]

By our guest : Victoria Brun Marseille, 3 December 2021. The laboratory’s sociability is concentrated in the break room, around the fridge, the coffee machine and the microwave. It is adjoined by the common library, which is overflowing with rare and […]

Paris, september 2018. For nearly 50 years, STS has been a uniquely rich forum for interdisciplinary discussion. Philosophers have discovered what concepts such as objectivity and truth that they inherit from epistemology become behind the laboratories walls that anthropologists walk […]

Between Paris and Marseille, Novembre 2021. In the announcements on board the train, we now hear the names of the persons who are there to ensure the smooth running of our journey: controllers, train drivers, baristas. Finally, a cleaner is […]

By our guest : Laurine Lièvremont Paris, September 2021. The definition of the fiber bundle of fiber F is written hastily and made as short as possible thanks to abbreviations. It becomes impossible to understand when one does not master […]

Paris, October 2021.
 On Saturdays and Sundays, the grinder takes his organ down and sets it up on the corner of the market, in front of a café. As a mechanical musical instrument attached to the French folklore of the […]

Marseilles, July 2021 The numbers were really bad, especially in this Mediterranean metropolis: the number of deaths, the number of contaminations, the number of hospitalizations, well above the defined alert thresholds. So the museum inevitably remained closed, exhibitions delayed or […]

Delphi, September 2021. The experience of ruins can lead to a wide variety of attitudes: from the deep melancholy of nineteenth-century travelers, to the desires for exploration actualized by the success of ruin porn, to the sudden confrontation with the […]

Arles, August 2021. Night trains are set to reopen in Europe as a key measure to combat climate change. Less than a century ago, before the triumph of commercial aviation, they were the epitome of luxury and the art of […]