Strangers need strange moments together: Designing interaction for public spaces
CAD 45.00
Strangers need strange moments together: Designing interaction for public spaces
CAD 45.00
Mouna Andraos and Melissa Mongiat—together with their team at Daily tous les jours—have been creating celebrated interactive art and narrative experiences for public spaces around the world for over 15 years. Their groundbreaking work is part of an emergent practice that combines technology, storytelling, performance, and placemaking to build a new infrastructure for the human spirit.
In Strangers Need Strange Moments Together, Andraos and Mongiat invite a broad range of readers—fellow practitioners, urbanists, policy makers, educators, and engaged citizens—to take a joyful approach to building resilient urban communities and re-enchanting public space.
In times of unprecedented pace of urban growth, with increasing loneliness and division, they shed light on the importance of moving beyond purely data-driven urban planning methodologies—which prioritize productivity, efficiency, and automation—and forging new modes of public interaction. Cities must be spaces for the whimsical, unexpected, and weird, and for the wasted time and strange moments of serendipitous encounter. Andraos and Mongiat use the raw material of the “daily everyday” to propose new models of living together in the 21st century, and to foreground the dimensions of life that characterize what it means to be human in the first place.
S'appuyant sur les travaux de penseurs tels que Jane Jacobs, William H. Whyte et Jan Gehl, dont les écrits sur la dynamique et la vie sociale des espaces publics remettent l'accent sur les êtres humains, ce livre est à la fois un journal, une série d'études de cas et une réflexion engageante.
Mouna Andraos, Melissa Mongiat
Set Margins, 2025
24 X 17 cm, 240 pages