Petra Marguč

LEARNING FROM LIMITS IN Three partners, the city of progressive blockage and the TRANSVERSAL Bobigny, Polimorph association breakdown.This presentation DESIGN and the MRTE laboratory of the attempts to evidence beyond The stakes of mutual University of Cergy-Pontoise individual and collective emotions - undertook in 2013/2014 the the underlying phenomena, understanding within the action research project “Places facts and situations that led to project for the Deportation of memory, places of urbanity”, the blocking of the transversal Station in Bobigny on the site of the former Bobigny approach and the interruption of railway station in the Paris region action research, such as mutant which served to deport one identities, divergent ideas of third of French Jews during the conflict management, ubiquitous Second World War. The project sectorization, and maintenance was financed by the Ministry of of dominant spokespersons. Culture and Communication, Furthermore it explicates how within the program “Intercultural these may be recurrent in practices in heritage institutions” intercultural practice and how and by the City of Bobigny. The they are intrinsically related to KEYWORDS site is managed by the city, the shaping our environment. It Transversal design, conflict, which since 2006 has aimed to reflects on the role of the architect translation. integrate it better in its current in transversal design process, territorial and social context, and how an alternative model AUTHOR the idea being to transform the than the juxtaposition of material PhD candidate, KU Leuven, railway wasteland into a place and immaterial phenomena Faculty of Architecture, Belgium / of memory and a place of life for is necessary to bridge the ENSA Nantes, CRENAU, France Bobigny. The action research gap between body and mind, [email protected] also sought to explore the individual realities and social process of patrimonialization by realities, and to contribute to SUPERVISORS experimenting with participatory a continuity between sensing, Johan Verbeke (+), mechanisms. The initiative led thinking, telling and enacting upon Laurent Devisme (ENSA Nantes), to a situation of disagreement our environment. Jo Van Den Berghe (KU Leuven) between the partners, to a 22