Winner of the The Young Architects and Landscape Artists Contest (AJAP) in 2016, Guillaume Ramillien is part of a young generation of French architects who seek to reconcile reality and the imagination. He describes here how the environment informs the way a building is designed.

Having worked in Detroit for more than 10 years with her partner Jean-Louis Farges at the Akoaki studio, architect Anya Sirota explores meaningful approaches which aim to allow citizens to reclaim public spaces. From temporary interventions to the overhauling of urban environments, each of her...

The Lebanese artist Nathalie Harb lives and works between London and Beirut, and develops consideration of the notion of shelter, but also how what is private/public is structured in the urban space. A work designing settings fed by changes in the contemporary world.

Ruedi Baur trained as a graphic designer and has worked with many institutions including the Centre Pompidou, for which he designed the signage and graphic identity in 2000. He and Vera Baur-Kockot, the sociologist who specialises in visual anthropology, have created the Civic City institute and...

Louise Granger and Victor Toutain, two members of the yakafokon collective, look back at the project’s beginnings and reflect on their design and production work. They also discuss their upcoming residency in Germany, focused on children's play areas.