ROC·HES
Recherche art & Sciences
ROC··HES is a collection of stories on many different scales. The common denominator of these stories soon emerged as stone, both a support and a medium. As a trained architect, I’m particularly sensitive to the materials that make up the constructions that surround and shelter us. Linking personal narratives, scientific explanations and my architectural researches, I have woven a web in which the multiple points of view do not contradict each other, but rather generate a multifaceted and complex image of stone.
It can be perceived as an element that is anthropological and geological and social and heritage and architectural and...
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Roc··hes is a project that aims to question the way we use our heritage, our places of memory, in the light of current social, ecological and economic upheavals. By bringing together geologists, anthropologists, stonemasons and other stone professionals, the project aims to break away from a Manichean view of our territories and their uses.
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Striving for pluralism, it does not seek to solve the problems of heritage and resources, but rather to raise awareness of the complexity of the issues that surround us.
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The project is available on-line in the form of a website and is and will be regularly updated with new elements that feed into the research. Through fiction, the misuse of spaces and sensitive cartography, Roc·hes aims to open up a catalog of possibilities, giving permission to dream.
It can be perceived as an element that is anthropological and geological and social and heritage and architectural and...
Roc··hes is a project that aims to question the way we use our heritage, our places of memory, in the light of current social, ecological and economic upheavals. By bringing together geologists, anthropologists, stonemasons and other stone professionals, the project aims to break away from a Manichean view of our territories and their uses.
Striving for pluralism, it does not seek to solve the problems of heritage and resources, but rather to raise awareness of the complexity of the issues that surround us.
The project is available on-line in the form of a website and is and will be regularly updated with new elements that feed into the research. Through fiction, the misuse of spaces and sensitive cartography, Roc·hes aims to open up a catalog of possibilities, giving permission to dream.
Art & Science residency Iméra amU & Citadelle De Marseille
“Utopian viewpoints on Marseille” chair
2025
photos ©Carol Thusek & ©Mathilde Dewavrin
➔ Une démocratie de pierres
➔ Iméra
➔ Citadelle de Marseille
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