Acceso usuarios
Chris Younès
Misunderstanding plays just as much a part in our relations with the world as it does in how we take action. With its slogan “Me-You-Nous – Designing Common Ground,” the International Design Biennial held in Saint-Étienne straddles various forms of incommunication and seeks to make them bear fruit. Likewise Europan, the European competition for young architects, which has been held for the past 30 years, engages with the diversity of its participants, of local and regional authorities, of institutions, and of themes and languages, thereby bringing forth a co-production of urban projects without the cacophony of discord. It is as if all possible misunderstandings and probable acommunication were canceled out or dispelled with the emergence of a common ground. On the basis of these two examples, this article shows how communication is carried out through action, despite the static that constantly interferes with it.
Le malentendu participe aussi bien à nos rapports au monde qu’à nos manières d’agir. La biennale internationale de design de Saint-Étienne en affichant « Me-You-nous créons un terrain d’entente » enjambe les incommunications pour les féconder. De même le concours européen d’architecture, Europan, qui existe depuis 30 ans, joue de la diversité des participants, des collectivités territoriales, des institutions, des thèmes et des langages, pour faire advenir une co-production de projets urbains, sans cacophonie, comme si les incompréhensions éventuelles, les a-communications probables, s’effaçaient, se dissipaient avec l’émergence d’un terrain d’entente. À partir de ces deux exemples, l’on voit comment la communication, malgré ce qui la parasite en permanence, s’effectue par l’action.
