News and Views
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I look at Rennes and see, here and there, a reddish-brown hue, sometimes tinged with purple. Brick ? Stone. Purple. A medical school, a printing works, a prison. The common thread is colour. Rennes is known for its half-timbered houses. But it was purple schist that took centre stage in the 19th century. The purple…
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To be a person, first and foremost a person And to live in a female body To realise one day that this body is not free That this body can bear children without the consent of the person inhabiting it To realise that controlling this body means being free Free to make choices Choices about…
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The sun rises on the new year and here is the Belvédère on the Vilaine again, bathed in light this time. With it, I wish you a happy new year. I wish you projects like this one : Complex projects, Piles, corollas, footbridges, Stay cables, masts, crossbeams, Propellers, lights, On the water, in the city.…
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For me, the end of the year is synonymous with lights twinkling in the night.Warm glows that say there are people there.Sparkles that shine to say there is something wonderful here. And… On the Vilaine river,A soft, subdued light floats,Smooth globes as if suspended,Airy reflections on small golden blades,They turn without a sound,Weightless above the…
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The summer holidays are here. This precious time because it rhymes with “outdoors.” Outside the walls to the right and left. Outside the courtyards and enclosed spaces. No screens to block the view. No ceiling to close the box. Rest from the digital world that overwhelms us. Outside, surrounded by nature and sensations. I wish…
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Shaped by time, our ports reflect our industrial and economic history. Taking an interest in their spatial organization means looking at the different policies that have underpinned our foreign trade. Looking at them may also be a way of imagining what will happen next, after the great transition we are going through. What follows is…
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Tomorrow is Women’s Rights Day. To mark the occasion, I’d like to share with you my daily gratitude for technology and what I would call women’s right to tools. We are often relegated to gendered jobs and gendered tasks because of unfounded stereotypes, of course, but also because of differences in physical strength. So it’s…
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Following last week’s floods, I’d like to say THANK YOU to the engineers for the hydraulic structures along the Vilaine. Rennes is partly protected from the flooding of the Vilaine by the Haute-Vilaine dam and the Cantache dam, as well as by the banks of the river. Like many people from Rennes, I was able…
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How can we finance all the pressing needs of our societies? In these times of permanent budget deficits, the question is posed with acuteness, and there are arguments between those in favour of reducing expenditure and those in favour of increasing revenue. In reality, the prism of the State budget is too narrow for such…
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And now the American election has taken place. And the world is in an uproar. But in the end, aren’t the Americans trying to stay in the center ? For the past 35 years, they’ve alternated between Republicans and Democrats. Wouldn’t that be a way of going straight ? down the middle ? I’ll leave…