Exhibiting the street[s]
Streets! Theme, theme park - or simply just another event to remember that we are all citizens and urbanites in our global cities and use streets. It is of course not new that an event as the exhibition organized by the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Paris Val-de-Seine is focusing on the streets as a main and essential space of our cities. 
Underlying a democratic title “La rue est à nous” , literary in english The Street Belongs to All of Us, this exhibition curated by François Asher is sponsored by the Institut pour la Ville en Mouvement . The aim of this exhibition is definitely not to historicize the street as an urban artifact but more to have a contemporary understanding of its forms and uses as a global social phenomenon. What is street of our cities? Where and how is it used? Is it still a public good/space?
With this global concern in mind this exhibition will therefore travel; it will go to Shanghai and Sao Paolo. In Paris, few other events will be and have already been structured around this ‘cultural street’ : like the publication of the last issue of the review Urbanisme (March/April 2007, Nº 353), a small colloque around the review Flux [PDF program here ] , or a conference on kids living in the streets of Mexico City at the Institut du Mexique .
In addition to this mobile exhibition there will be for those who would not be able to follow the itinerary from Paris to Shanghai - to buy simply the catalog .
Underlying a democratic title “La rue est à nous” , literary in english The Street Belongs to All of Us, this exhibition curated by François Asher is sponsored by the Institut pour la Ville en Mouvement . The aim of this exhibition is definitely not to historicize the street as an urban artifact but more to have a contemporary understanding of its forms and uses as a global social phenomenon. What is street of our cities? Where and how is it used? Is it still a public good/space?
With this global concern in mind this exhibition will therefore travel; it will go to Shanghai and Sao Paolo. In Paris, few other events will be and have already been structured around this ‘cultural street’ : like the publication of the last issue of the review Urbanisme (March/April 2007, Nº 353), a small colloque around the review Flux [PDF program here ] , or a conference on kids living in the streets of Mexico City at the Institut du Mexique .
In addition to this mobile exhibition there will be for those who would not be able to follow the itinerary from Paris to Shanghai - to buy simply the catalog .
