Exhibition “La rue des transitions, tissons la ville de demain”

Discover the exhibition from 13 April 2024 to 12 January 2025 at the Eglise Saint-Pierre in Firminy.

The Site Le Corbusier’s aim is to question the challenges facing the city of tomorrow. In 2024, the focus will be on transition and, more broadly, on the transitions that cities will have to make if they are to limit their impact on climate change.

More than 50 years after the Athens Charter, the Aalborg Charter is an acknowledgement of the responsibility of cities to tackle environmental problems. As the stakes evolve, so do the response options. The exhibition looks at the modern town of Firminy-Vert and places it at the heart of current issues. As the city of tomorrow is also the city of yesterday and today, how does this project from the 1950s now reveal its sustainable potential in the light of new social and environmental challenges?

Caroline Manovicz and Costanza Matteucci invite visitors to explore the future of our cities without fossil fuels, with an eye that is both sharp and benevolent. Projecting into a more or less distant future, new possibilities emerge. Through this projection, visitors are immersed in six scenarios of ecological redirection, examining our urban social spaces, our modes of transport, our diet, as well as the noise of the city…

At the level of the hand, the individual, the street and the community, the actions proposed here are incentives for change. Through interactive installations, visitors become actors, weaving, sowing, drawing and recomposing this city in transition. Numerous workshops with local residents will punctuate and enrich this event, highlighting the importance of the democratic process in shaping this city.