Inauguration of Le Magasin Électrique

Atelier LUMA will unveil Le Magasin Électrique by presenting the renovation project Lot 8 through a series of conferences and special guided tours of the building.

How can we use local resources in ways that make environmental and social systems stronger?

Atelier LUMA has been exploring bioregional design practices in the South of France and elsewhere since 2016. In contrast to territories, which have human-made borders, bioregions are defined by ecosystems and environmental conditions, and by how people have lived in and alongside them.

Since 2019, the Atelier LUMA team has been collaborating with BC architects & studies and Assemble on the Lot 8 project to renovate Le Magasin Électrique. Located in the Parc des Ateliers, this building is designed as a pilot for an architecture that places at the heart of its approach the valorization of traditional know-how, collective experiments on-site, the development of materials rooted in the Arles bioregion and the creation of a local and international network of expertise to share knowledge.
 

Saturday, May 27, 2023 from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Guided visits of Le Magasin Électrique and the Bioregional Design Practices exhibition

Le Magasin Électrique will become the core of Atelier LUMA's activities. On the occasion of its inauguration, visitors are invited to discover its activities from the inside through a 2,000m² tour that includes the research lab, the production workshops, the resource center, and the exhibition retracing the rehabilitation of the building.

Saturday, May 27, 2023 at 6:45 p.m.
Conference “Every building is a prediction, and every prediction is wrong”

This panel will be held on the occasion of the Environmental History Symposium, a conference program that explores the historicization of the global, climatic challenges we are currently facing through various realities.

The title of the panel comes from a quote by inventor and entrepreneur Stewart Brand, in his seminal book - How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built, in which he asserts that a building is never finalized, but constantly evolves through the uses to which it is put. What does this mean? Architects, engineers and designers must imagine architecture as a set of processes that can be readapted to the uses and activities that will take place in their building. These are the issues to be explored in a building that is certainly old, but whose history has yet to be written by the members of Atelier LUMA who will be working there every day.
 

Replay of the discussion

The inauguration program of Le Magasin Électrique is organized as part of The Sustainable Institution program with partners E-WERK Luckenwalde (Germany) and Rupert (Lithuania).

The Sustainable Institution is co-funded by the European Union and Teltow Fläming. 

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