Panoramas the Parc Des Coteaux Biennial

panOramas The Parc des Coteaux Biennial Press contacts Partnerships is brought to you by the Grand Projet des National press panOramas, the Parc des Coteaux Biennial Villes, involving the towns of Bassens, Cenon, Léa Revon is sponsored by: Floirac, Lormont 06 15 04 92 39 [email protected] the GPV, the EU, the French Government, Project leader : the Conseil Régional d’Aquitaine, the Conseil Sophie Trouillet Irina Aupetit Ionesco Général de la Gironde, the Communauté Cultural engineering 06 67 10 39 65 Urbaine de Bordeaux, the towns of Bassens, & artistic direction : [email protected] Cenon, Floirac, Lormont, Caisse des Dépôts, Bruit du Frigo www.bruitdufrigo.com Aquitanis, Centre Commercial Rive Droite, Médias-Cité www.medias-cite.org Regional press TBC transports, 8motions, Côté Sciences, arc Label 2K10 www.label2k10.fr Charlotte Hüni en rêve centre d’architecture, the Goethe 06 61 43 04 50 Institute, BLF Impression, Nova, Destination Public relations : [email protected] Comptoir. CH. Graphic design : GUsto www.gusto. 2nd & 3rd October 2010

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Contents

Press Release page 4

Points of View - Jeanne Queheillard, professor at the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Bordeaux, art critic page 5

Artists, performances and dates page 6 panOramas facts and figures page 12

Cultural engineering and artistic direction page 13

Photographic documents page 14 On the 2nd & 3rd October Press release des Coteaux through a range of installations, digital data projections and waymarked trails. 2010, the Grand Projet des Vil- Each event has been designed for future use les (GPV) Bordeaux-Rive Droite A Biennial for the Parc des Coteaux by the localities involved and in the wake of The topographic layout of Bordeaux’s right the festival a white paper will be presented, will be launching panOramas, bank has endowed the hilltops overlooking drawing on our experience and outlining a new Biennial, bringing art the Garonne with a string of parks and public general rules for urban parks as innovative gardens. The area bears the stigmata of cultural amenities. and culture to the localities profound urban, social and economic change, of Bassens, Cenon, Floirac and be it the result of industrial activity in the 19th century, now long since abandoned, or Artistic and cultural programming Lormont. the building of social housing tower blocks The artistic and cultural direction of the in the 1980. For years the area was deemed festival, along with its public relations services undesirable. Today, however, its considerable have been divided into three domains, The festival goes hand in hand land assets, verdant natural environment and allowing us to bring the tangible and digital with the creation of the Parc des rich social diversity have led it to become a dimensions into epiphanic contact: leading light in the Bordeaux conurbation Coteaux, encouraging new uses Bruit du Frigo is responsible for episode #3, for urban parkland and culmina- panOramas will be taking place in the Parc entitled Lieux Possibles exploring Possible Places in the Parc des Coteaux. The events ting in a Green Night beneath the des Coteaux, a string of 10 public parks linked together by a 25 km-long footpath. Our aim will include a collective performance, a hike/ stars. is to familiarise the general public with these ramble through the park, bivouac facilities, The originality of panOramas amenities and encourage them to appropriate cartographic installations, culinary adventu- these constantly evolving natural spaces. The res, mobile scenography and a prototype for lies in the connections it creates festival, held over a weekend and all through an urban shelter for walkers. between nature and open-air the night, will invite the public not only to discover works of art and performances, but Médias-Cité has harnessed data networks in digital artistic production. also indulge in an open-air siesta, go for a the area and will explore them through mul- stroll, discover new places and enjoy the park timedia set-ups, artistic installations, speech and natural landscape as a place for leisure hubs and ground positioning equipment. and recreation, be it physically or digitally. CH., is in charge of the Biennial’s public The parks are studded with panoramic view- relations and has entrusted graphic design points, offering fine vistas over the landscape, studio GUsto with the festival’s general design but panOramas has decided to combine these charter, inviting photographers and landscape with cutting-edge digital technology as a way designers to share their vision of the Parc des of reconfiguring the urban environment and Coteaux. seeing it through fresh eyes. The works of art presented also shed light on the new urban fabric of the city, providing visual explorations of the digital networks created by facebook, twitter, sms…

A Biennial in Limited Time Four editions, each on a specific theme, have been planned for 2010-2016. The first will explore the theme of Revela- tion, and its format and programming are experimental. Our aim is to shed new light 4 on the social and physical fabric of the Parc « Something in the landscape Points of view come here and use it, and in turn bring their own touch. Its hitherto unknown reaches bowled me over and I felt com- Jeanne Queheillard Professor at the École des Beaux Arts de and secrets will be uncovered thanks to the pelled to share it with others, Bordeaux, art critic artistic events planned for the festival, and but couldn’t find a satisfactory through the night of Saturday to Sunday. The parks and public gardens along From performances to picnics, digital artworks way to do so. What mattered the hilltops of Bordeaux’s right to siestas, with a whole range of rambles and was not the finished result, but bank, stretch out in a continuous hikes, new light will be shed on ways of using swathe covering some 400 hectares. this public urban landscape. A variety of maps all the alternative stories told These verdant parklands go by the collective to aid the visitor in their adventures will be along the way, the sense of ha- epithet of ‘Parc des Coteaux’, and form a available and the geographical and topogra- leafy bond between the towns and localities phical appraisal of the terrain will be compa- ving embarked on a journey. It perched on the cliffs overlooking the River red and contrasted with the digital footprint doesn’t have to be some great Garonne. left by social and institutional networks. The The Parc is an ever-evolving entity, rooted landscape will be freed from the shackles of expedition, just a few steps, a both in time and space. its officially defined spatial frontiers and its little trip on tiptoe will suffice. Years of work have gone into the creation of virtual dimension, formed by parallel digital networks connecting people and places, will It is only by changing our own this spatial crossroads linking north and south and east and west along the banks of the be made visible position that new things in river. For years the area suffered the stigma the world become visible to of its suburban character, but in recent The unseen fabric of the urban years has enjoyed reappraisal thanks to new landscape will be brought to the us, things we had never seen horizontal models of urban design. surface. before. » Here digital phenomena and information Yet our familiarity with the park, its material exchange via the internet, so often consi- presence and layout, is entirely dependent on dered as limited to the purely personal and Gilles A. Tiberghien the distance we maintain with it. Near and far domestic sphere and therefore neglected in our study of a specific area, are taken here Seuil in Paysages et jardins divers are both essential features in our understan- as key indications of social exchange. They éditions MIX., 2008. ding and experience of this public landscape, permanently confronting us with the need to become crucial factors in how we perceive the readjust our position and focus, as we shift environment in which we live. between immersion and detachment. The panOramas Biennial will be investing the park How we use public spaces also becomes part in October 2010 for the first of four editions of a new matrix in which local inhabitants, and is an invitation for the public to reinvent walkers and shoppers initiate data systems their own relationship with it and explore it in transforming the existing topography of the their own unique way. landscape.

The festival aims to present the park Alternative stories are given pride of place, as not only within its natural frontiers, philosopher Gilles A. Tiberghien so eloquently but also as a wider urban landscape puts it, turning this rich and varied landscape in the fullness of its diverse parts. into a public space for us to explore, examine Administrative memos concerning the park do and appropriate. little to promote it in the eyes of the general public. This rapidly developing environment needs to find its way into common discourse and become part of the social bonds created between individuals. In other words, the Parc des Coteaux needs 5 to become part of a shared experience and vision, intricately linked with the people who Artists, performances Electronic Shadow visitor. In turn the visitor will be invited to leave their own mark in the park, so that the and events story can continue…

Where? www.brandonlabelle.net Parc des Coteaux La Grande Randonnée Bassens, Cenon, Floirac, Lormont Lieux Possibles #3 Rive Droite Bordeaux Conurbation + www.terresnumeriques.net Created in 2000 by architect and artist Naziha Mestaoui and artist and film director When? Yacine Aït Kaci, Electronic Shadow’s aesthetic Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd approach is rooted in experimental research Bruit du Frigo has designed a waymarked trail October from 10am to 8pm and innovation. Its originality springs from the some 35km in length from Floirac to Bassens, multi-disciplinary nature of its production, in entitled the Grande Randonnée or Great Hike. in the Parc des Coteaux which spaces and images, matter and light are The hike in this instance becomes more of a brought together in a variety of artistic media. collective performance involving some one Electronic Shadow will be presenting 2 exis- hundred participants, and is an effective way The Green Night ting works - Ex-Iles and Superfluidity, along of rediscovering the park and the artistic ins- Saturday 2nd October with a work especially created for the festival, tallations dotted throughout the landscape. entitled o10c, an interactive dreamlike fable Delicious picnics and mouth-watering snacks 10pm – 2am to be read to the rhythm of one’s footsteps will provide welcome moments of respite. Parc des Iris, Parc de l’Ermitage Pierre Mahey, the founder of Arpenteurs and Lormont www.electronicshadow.com Thierry Lafollie from the Agence de Géogra- phie Affective will accompany the event to Brandon Labelle map out this human adventure and tell the Lieux Possibles #3 tale of its extraordinary creativity.

www.bruitdufrigo.com www.arpenteurs.fr www.agencegeographieaffective.blogspot.com

Benedetto Bufalino

Lieux Possibles #3 Brandon Labelle is a musician, artist, exhi- bition curator, writer and editor. His work is rooted in sound installations, performance, recording and the use of recycled sound bites and the environment in which they are re- layed, as the basis for his theoretical musings on the social dimensions of listening and the way in which sound and its multi-facetted variations affects public spaces. Benedetto Bufalino uses the environment to For panOramas, Brandon Labelle has create poetic situations enabling us to see our created 1000 secrets, an audio tour unlocking daily life through fresh eyes. Since 2005 has 6 the secrets and legends of the park for the been invited to set up plastic art installations across France, the most illustrious of which Zébra3 / Buy-Sellf Eau là, and becomes an electronic instrument was his transformation of a telephone box on which the public may play. MobilaSon, is into an aquarium in Lyon in 2007. For this + Bruit du Frigo also a sound-based instrument, playing a festival he has chosen to use pre-existing Lieux Possibles #3 variety of sound flows, some recorded in situ elements of the Parc des Coteaux to create or in other places, some evoking sound lands- a surrealist Table de pique-nique, inviting capes, interviews, snatches of music… the public to use it in unanticipated and www.latruc.org unconventional ways. Fabien Bourdier www.benedetto.new.fr Larsen 3G offers a new approach in the Eric LaCasa field of participative creativity, in which & Jean-Luc Guionnet photos and videos taken with a mobile Lieux Possibles #3 phone are circulated to the public. Created in 1993, Zébra3 works in the field of contemporary art and made a name for itself www.larsen3g.com in 1998 when it launched the first mail order art catalogue, Buy-Sellf, now at its fourth issue. Bruit du Frigo is a hybrid body, part Anne Laure Boyer urban analysis agency, part creative collective Jean-Luc Guionnet is an alto saxophonist and and popular education institution, whose aim organist and specialises in improvisation and is to initiate participative projects in a range free jazz. He is also a plastic artist, performer of urban environments in the field of art and and composer of electro-acoustic music. He culture. Its pluri-disciplinary team has worked in partnership with Eric La Casa, has designed an urban refuge for panOramas Eric Cordier, Edward Perraud, Dan Warburton, providing shelter for up to 8 people. The refuge Pascal Battus ... and is a member of the group will be tested for the first time during the For the last three years, Anne-Laure Boyer Hubbub. Grande Randonnée and will go on to be used has been compiling a memory bank relating Éric La Casa is a sound artist whose work at the Parc des Coteaux on a regular basis. to the demolition of social housing blocks. bears reference not only to the history of www.buy-sellf.com Before leaving their flat, the inhabitants sort music (concrete music and electro-acoustics) www.bruitdufrigo.com out their personal possessions and pack them but also to the use of microphones as a tool away, with their memories, in cardboard for measuring space. He designs installations Cyril Hernandez boxes. Anne Laure Boyer has been privy to and sound environments using specifically such intimate, transitional moments in which engineered in situ set-ups, in the light of his the inhabitants are no longer really in the old research (into reality and landscapes) and the place and not yet in the new. These house past, present and future of a given place. moving experiences are the subject of her Together these two artists have videos, in which spaces are emptied of their created Appel à contre-courbes for the festival, substance, before being filled once again. Her a sound trail exploring the rumble and ‘memory bank’ began with photographs of reverberation of the site, showing it in a quite the inhabitants’ interiors, to which were then different reality. added abandoned leftovers from the removal process, until finally a whole flat could be www.jeanlucguionnet.eu reconstituted, with fragments from the former www.ascendre.free.fr/home2.htm The Charrette de Troc is a travelling musical lives of different individuals. This she calls handcart, in which a musician, at the helm of her Boutique-Souvenirs, a souvenir shop in this unusual instrument, offers a brief private which the vestiges of a recomposed collective concert to passers-by, by means of headpho- existence are now stored. Her work entitled 7 nes, in return for a short interview with them. Appartement will be moved to the woods in Water is the inspirational driving force behind the Parc des Coteaux, a place free of walls, has created a consummately intimate world Thomas Brasleret is head chef at Ze Rock, a just like the demolished housing blocks. whispering promises of mystery and exoticism, restaurant in the Rocher de Palmer in Cenon. in partnership with Studio 21, the well-known Annabelle Lecointre is a pastry artist who http://boutiquesouvenirs.wordpress.com/ Bordeaux swingers’ club. On the evening of cooks with colour and paints with a palette of the official opening of the festival, the public flavours. As to Elodie Casanave, she has been will be invited to join the party atmosphere surprising and intriguing her clients with her 2Roqs and embrace this unusual installation and the inventive cooking in the Saint Michel district for confidential world it enfolds. the last ten years. Together they will be providing the www.21bis.org gastronomic interludes over the weekend - delicious lunches and snacks Le Bureau Baroque to share with the artists present in the stunning landscape of the Parc Lieux Possibles #3 des Coteaux.

Expression(S) is a collaborative work which Nous Sommes uses the surrounding physical context as a big screen. It takes place in real time, and uses text messages sent by the public via their mobile phones as its raw material. The words are turned into geometric forms and dropped Bureau Baroque is an architecture and onto the top of the screen. They filter down design agency specialising in scenography it, bumping into each other and elements of and signing. Their work explores new ways the building, obeying the laws of physics, but of offering greater user comfort in this field also giving birth to new messages. They pile and seeks to bring better definition to such BikeBQ is an itinerant service offering a selec- up, change direction and overlap, creating a notions as quality, usage and programme, with tion of grill-your-own kebabs. For the Parc des structural and spatial game of consequences an aim to promoting creativity. For panOra- Coteaux, Nous Sommes has also created an ins- inspired by the specificities of the projection mas, they have designed Sous la nappe, a vast tantaneous souvenir shop which will be brought surface. The spectator is also invited to play picnic awning accommodating 100 people and along with the walkers and displayed to herald a key role, by sending personalised messages, light enough to be portable. It will serve to the arrival of the Grande Randonnée. playing with word length, dislocating syntax house the 4 gourmet events planned for the and punctuation or simply by replying to festival www.nous-sommes.com others www.lebureaubaroque.fr www.2roqs.fr Topotek1 & the Students Annabelle Lecointre of EnsapBx Studio 21bis Elodie Casanave Lieux Possibles #3 Thomas Brasleret ZE ROCK Lieux Possibles #3

Studio 21bis creates works out of cardboard in an innovative play on the codes and Under the aegis of the landscape designers symbols of architecture. Its creations are of Topotek, the students of EnsapBx have desi- rooted in the collective imagination and run gned and built a number of snack bars fitting contrary to the fetishism of contemporary seamlessly into the surrounding environment. society. For panOramas, Studio21bis 8 These are ephemeral installations of great Albertine Meunier thereby becoming an integral part of the life quality which respect the rhythms of daily of this communal environment. human existence and establish meaningful connections with their context. www.terresnumeriques.net www.topotek1.de Tactile Memories An interactive installation brimming with Edouard Decam images of the Parc des Coteaux and four partner towns. Bruno Ferdinand Co-construction: Médias-Cité / Cyber-base de Pascal Fellonneau Cenon Anne Laure Boyer Albertine Meunier is an actress working in the 360 4 photographers present us their insightful sphere of digital creativity. She casts a playful A place to discover the stunning vision of the Parc des Coteaux. From the dark but critical eye on such internet phenomenon views across the park and beyond. forest, to shady clearings and manicured as Google and Facebook. For panOramas, Wish you were here! public gardens, they have explored the Parc she has created variations sur angelino, which Co-construction: Médias-Cité / in its most intimate reaches. Their photogra- will be shown at various sites across the park Frédéric phs will soon be flooding the streets of the and on the internet. Dancing figures impriso- Bianchi / Nitroscenium Bordeaux conurbation in poster form. ned in glass bottles will move to the rhythm of digital data flows, and Twitter, with its curious www.archiskatecture.net + www.bruno-ferdi- abundance of air-borne messages, will have A number of other amenities nand.com + http://pascal.fellonneau.free.fr + them dancing with the angels. http://annelaureboyer.free.fr have also been designed, inviting the visitor to dance, www.albertinemeunier.net Les Embarqués play, taste, contemplate, Lieux Possibles #3 Laurent Dailleau read, feel, listen, touch, share and enjoy…and revel in & Anahata Bruit du Frigo’s latest invention is les embar- this unforgettable revela- qués, in which two people are invited for a sponsored by SCRIME night-time boat trip with an artist. On board, tion of the Parc des Coteaux. a variety of activities are available – reading, Four instrumentalists, Laurent Dailleau, dancing, performance, improvised music, a Julia Al Abed, Florent Colautti and Joseph Full programme available at: tasty little snack or a sound massage, on the Larralde, will be performing on four unusual www.panoramas2010.com serene waters of the Parc de l’Ermitage during instruments, each of which present their the Green Night. With Erell Latimier, Scott own technical challenges. They give rise to a Stroud, Austin Banned, Sophie Dales, Elodie surprisingly sonorous symphony to a delight Casanave et Anabelle Lecointre, Vincent not only the ears but also the eyes. Portal, Nathalie Goldstein, Laure Moreau, Pascal Battus, Mc Schrob, Christine Sehnaoui - www.dailleau.net Abdelnour, Chloé Delaume . www.corpselectriques.org parc des Coteaux, the digital dimension

Frédérick Thompson has staged the Parc des Coteaux using OpenSimulator in such a way as to gradually unveil its 400 hectares to the 9 visitor as he or she strolls through the park, Events Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd October Saturday 2nd October 9am – 8pm 9am departure of walkers on the Grande Just before… Randonnée Domaine de la Burthe Floirac Domaine de la Burthe Floirac Anne Laure Boyer L’appartement 11th September 11am-13am Work in progress Benedetto Bufalino La table de pique-nique Explore panOramas and the Parc des Coteaux performance by Cyril Hernandez Cyril Hernandez MobilaSon on OpenSimulator Parc des Coteaux at www.terresnumeriques.net Parc du Cypressat Cenon 11am an introduction to Tai Chi Chuan / Studio21bis Surprise-Party Mosaïque Totem 11th September Parc du Cypressat Cenon 10.30am official opening of the Pôle Cultu- Parc des Iris + Parc de l’Ermitage 12 noon gourmet picnic rel et Sportif du Bois Fleuri / Lormont Lormont + Panoramis Bassens Thomas Brasleret ZE ROCK Albertine Meunier Variations sur Angelino & Le bureau baroque 18th September Domaine de la Burthe Floirac 3.30pm demolition work will begin on the Parc de l’Ermitage Lormont 4pm official opening of panOramas Libération neighbourhood and the first stone Brandon Labelle 1000 secrets parc de Séguinaud Bassens will be laid for the Résidence du Marais / Bruit du Frigo + Zebra3 / Buysellf Refuge 6pm Laurent Dailleau + Anahata Floirac périurbain Parc du Cypressat Cenon Mémoires tactiles, Médias-cité + Cyber base 18th & 19th September 7pm aperitif de Cenon jEuropean Heritage Days Annabelle Lecointre + Elodie Casanave & Le bureau baroque Bassens, Cenon, Floirac, Lormont / further Domaine de Séguinaud Basens information at www.ville-bassens.fr / www. Parc du Cypressat Cenon Éric La Casa & Jean Luc Guionnet Appels à 7pm musical aperitif and slide show / ville-cenon.fr /www.lormont.fr / www.ville- Contre courbe floirac33.fr Anne Laure Boyer Domaine de la Burthe Floirac Panoramis Bassens 8.30pm arrival of the Grande Randonnée, 24th September Nous Sommes Souvenir des coteaux 2pm – 1am Round the clock at the Rocher erecting bivouac facilities for 100 people de Palmer / Cenon Domaine de la Burthe FLOIRAC Parc des Iris Lormont programme at www.lerocherdepalmer.fr + Parc du Cypressat Cenon + Parc de l’Ermitage Lormont Sunday 3rd October 25th September + Parc de Séguinaud Basens 9am – 12.30pm Round the clock at the Le Bureau Baroque Sous la nappe 10am departure of walkers on the Grande Rocher de Palmer / Cenon, public picnic / Topotek1 + Ensap Bx Workshop Buvettes Randonnée Parc Palmer Parc des Iris Lormont Parc des Coteaux 11am an introduction to Tai Chi Chuan / 30th September Bruit du Frigo + Pierre Mahey +Thierry Lafollie 6.30pm Topotek1, landscape designers, Mosaïque Totem / Agence de géographie affective La Grande Parc du Cypressat Cenon Berlin / conference at arc en rêve centre Randonnée d’architecture / Bordeaux 12 noon gourmet picnic Electronic Shadow o10c, le parc imaginaire Chef Surprise & le bureau baroque Cyril Hernandez La Charrette de Troc www.arcenreve.com Parc de l’Ermitage Lormont Nous Sommes BikeBQ 2.30pm Tea dance / L’Appartement Domaine de la Burthe Floirac www.terresnumériques.net 3pm Laurent Dailleau + Anahata Electronic Shadow Superfluidity, Ex-îles, o10c, Panoramis Bassens le parc imaginaire 4pm gourmet snack Frédérick Thompson Parc des Coteaux, Anabelle Lecointre & Le bureau baroque versant numérique parc de Séguinaud Bassens Albertine Meunier Variations sur Angelino 5pm arrival of the Grande Randonnée 2Roqs Expression(S) 10 Panoramis Bassens Fabien Bourdier Larsen3G The Green Night

Saturday 2nd October 10pm – 2am Parc des Iris + parc de l’Ermitage Lormont

This is the weekend’s high point, a festive and poetic evening of live artistic performance, digital creation and enriching encounters with astonishing artists beneath the starry heavens

Bruit du Frigo / Lieux Possibles # 3 Les embarqués

Electronic Shadow Ex-îles, Superfluidity, o10c

2Roqs Expression(S)

Fabien Bourdier Larsen 3G

Laurent Dailleau + Anahata Pièces musicales

Cyril Hernandez La charrette de troc, Eau là

360, Tactiles Memories, parc des Co- teaux tactil… Come and join the fun!

Light meals and snacks available on site, or bring a picnic.

Don’t forget your pocket or head torch. Warm clothing recommended!

11 panOramas 2010 facts and figures

48 hours of digital creation and alternative leisure and recreation activities

400 hectares of urban parkland

25 km of waymarked trails

25 forming the Parc des Co- teaux

1 biennial limited to 4 éditions

4 towns, Bassens, Cenon, Floirac and Lormont

1 tangible space + 1 digital space for creative activities

+ over 20 artists performing in the natural environment

4 gourmet events

1 Grande Randonnée for 100 walkers

12 Cultural Engineering Médias-Cité supports organisations see- Bruit du frigo is a hybrid body, part urban king to promote the use of multimedia in the analysis agency, part creative collective and & fields of education, culture, the plastic arts or popular education institution, whose aim is Artistic Direction popular education and works in partnership to initiate participative projects in a range with local communities and associations. It is of urban environments in the field of art and particularly keen to help those who give pride culture. It operates at the crossroads between Linking tangible and virtual of place to the social and collective dimen- art, the population and local authorities and its sions of their projects. projects suggest alternative ways of imagining worlds – the festival’s artistic Médias-Cité eis a rich source of inspiration and shaping the environment we live in, through and cultural programming and to its partners thanks to its artists in resi- urban design workshops, public cultural events, public relations services have dence and digital resource platform, enabling support to project managers, artist residences, it to design and instigate multimedia projects. educational projects, seminars and training been entrusted to two organi- Training for partner institutions is also availa- courses. Bruit du Frigo works in partnership sations. ble at its information centre, with an aim to with local authorities, towns and villages, sharing skills and know-how and providing cultural organisations, civic centres, schools project managers with greater autonomy. Its and community associations. free hosting service provides non-commercial organisations with Internet accommodation panOramas will be hosting Lieux Possibles # 3 and its flourishing digital initiatives are a – the creative city and desirable development fertile source of innovative solutions for the –designed and produced by Bruit du Frigo. projects of tomorrow. Lieux Possibles is the project’s second edition, exploring the future of our urban environment Its team of permanent staff travel across the and investing public spaces with participative Aquitaine region promoting multimedia acti- events in an aim to temporarily modify their vities (Jeudis Multimédias, information events, function, exploit their creative potential, support to event managers, cultural enginee- experiment with new uses, stimulate the ima- ring etc.) Its productive national networks gination of the people who live in and around enable it to accompany partner institutions them and invent new ways of landscaping thanks to its wide range of … interconnections! them. It has established a multimedia ecosystem Lieux Possibles # 3 will be using the Parc des involving 62 member institutions, making Coteaux in surprising new ways, offering a range Médias-Cité a key associate in projects of artistic and cultural events for all, inclu- led by towns across the region, be they major ding a waymarked trail, sound installations, events, or small-scale initiatives. artworks, gourmet picnics, a peri-urban refuge and bivouac and artists in boats. The aim is to For panOramas, Médias-Cité has been trigger new uses for the neglected or forgot- working hand in hand with lable2k10 ten areas of the park, shed new light on their Côté Sciences, Cyber base in Cenon, Labomé- potential and encourage the public to discover dia. and enjoy them.

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