"Everyone dreams of an ideal city. Except for those who consider the town where they live to be satisfactory. But they are rare. As rare as those who find perfect the society in which they live. The philosopher in his library and the exile in a shanty town dream of a city that could satisfy their everyday lives as much as their fantasies."
Michel Ragon, "L’homme et les villes", 1995
In partnership with Le Grand Café Contemporary Art Centre in Saint-Nazaire, LiFE presents, from 3 June to 9 October, Neocodomousse, an exhibition by raumlaborberlin, a Berlin based network-collective of nine trained architects.
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Raumlaborberlin is a collective of nine architects, city planners, landscape architects and artists. Their name could translate as both space and laboratory, since there is no equivalent pre-existing common word in German for Raumlabor: a neologism referencing notions of experimentation and empirical research, guided by a community manufacturing process.
