RÉINVENTER L'AGORA— Malte Martin & Agrafmobile

27 x 20.7 cm / 200 pages / September 2023

Texts: Malte Martin, designer and visual artist / Ludovic Duhem, philosopher and teacher at Valenciennes art and design school / Stéphanie Aubin, director of Maison des Métallos

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In September 2019, on the initiative of Maison des Métallos, Malte Martin has proposed an artistic cooperative, with the theme “reinventing the agora”, an experiment at the crossroads of visual arts, social design and transitional urbanism.

Installations, performances and a program of creative workshops with residents and passers-by, local schools and associations took part in this factory of urban utopias, culminating in a large-scale graphic and plastic installation: “modular landscape/urban forest”.

This book is the result, in images and texts, of this “artistic cooperative” in a 200-page, four-color, 2 mm cardboard cover, bound with visible stitching.