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Mechanical Living is a project designed by Nelson Larroque within Peter Cook 's studio at the Ecole Speciale d'Architecture in Paris (studio that I was lucky enough to be part four years ago). This project is a very literal vision of dwellings created in former industrial sites which facilities manage to supply energy.

Following is the programme of an upcoming event I really invite you to join ! I'll be around for an installation, and I'll try to do a report for the unlucky ones that won't be able to come. See you there! Utopia today? Saline Royale Arc-et-senans, 22-24.10.2010 friday 22.10.2010 14:00 – 14:30 Andri Gerber, Brent Patterson (ESA Paris) introduction 14:30 – 14:50 Michel Pierre, Director Saline Royale welcome 14:50 – 15:00 Martial Marquet, Paris Rise above 15:00 – 15:30 break 15:30 – 16:00 Ole W. Fischer (Harvard) After Modernity – architecture between utopia, nostalgia and dirty reality? Comments on the uncertain state of an ancient profession… 16:00 – 16:30 Michel Pregardien (Université de Liège) Il n’y a plus de place pour l’utopie 16:30 – 17:00 break 17:00 – 18:00 David Harvey (New York) 18:00 – 19:00 round table discussion , moderators Odile Decq, Andri Gerber, Brent Patterson 19:00 – 20:30 dinner 20:30 movie projection ...

Following is the call for paper for an up-coming events in the Salines Royale in Arc et Senans (designed by Claude-Nicolas Ledoux ). This call for paper has been sent to us by the two organisers of this event : Andri Gerber, Brent Patterson both teachers at Ecole Spéciale d'Architecture in Paris. (version française à la suite du texte anglais) Utopia today? 22/23/24 October 2010, Saline Royale (Royal Salt Works), Arc-et-Senans After the utopian movements of the 1960s and 70s – Archigram, Architecture Principe, Utopie, Superstudio, Archizoom, the Metabolists, Yona Friedman, Paolo Soleri, Buckminster Fuller, Haus Rucker Co. or Coop Himmelb(l)au – utopian discourse and projects have disappeared from architecture and urban design. Utopia no longer appears to be a useful tool for architectural discourse or practice. If we consider our current condition, in part determined by a condition of atopia (Gregotti, 1991) – the non-places in large urban developments and...