WALLS HAVE VOICE by Les Editions Counter-Allée and Ear Book
The FCB website (Fives Lille) and the surrounding area is a global epicenter of labor history, a lookout on the industrial history, the history of the labor movement, the history of globalization.
The plant has signed some of the finest works of the industrial era: first steam locomotives, the Alexandre III bridge, steel structures of the Gare d'Orsay and the Eiffel Tower elevators. It was even the immediate vicinity of the plant that was written universal anthem "international".
The size of the site, you need to walk kilometers to get around, and the high walls of the plant make it a true neighborhood-continent, totally asleep.
His ongoing rehabilitation will blur the traces of an extremely rich industrial activity that separates the establishment of the factory in 1867 was finally closed in 1997. At the peak of activity, 6,000 people worked in this
Temple of metallurgy.
It is primarily the noise footprint of the place that, disappearing, began to transform the neighborhood. The factory now has grown silent ghosts that remain in the oral tradition, in the work of historians. Ghosts that we must invoke the time of a journey around the wasteland before it establishes the laboratory of contemporary urbanism.
A seemingly simple application ...
Once arrived to the area bounded space of the visit, the user focuses on his career and not on a smartphone screen. The sound does the rest, but in an adjusted place for each journey.
The FCB website (Fives Lille) and the surrounding area is a global epicenter of labor history, a lookout on the industrial history, the history of the labor movement, the history of globalization.
The plant has signed some of the finest works of the industrial era: first steam locomotives, the Alexandre III bridge, steel structures of the Gare d'Orsay and the Eiffel Tower elevators. It was even the immediate vicinity of the plant that was written universal anthem "international".
The size of the site, you need to walk kilometers to get around, and the high walls of the plant make it a true neighborhood-continent, totally asleep.
His ongoing rehabilitation will blur the traces of an extremely rich industrial activity that separates the establishment of the factory in 1867 was finally closed in 1997. At the peak of activity, 6,000 people worked in this
Temple of metallurgy.
It is primarily the noise footprint of the place that, disappearing, began to transform the neighborhood. The factory now has grown silent ghosts that remain in the oral tradition, in the work of historians. Ghosts that we must invoke the time of a journey around the wasteland before it establishes the laboratory of contemporary urbanism.
A seemingly simple application ...
Once arrived to the area bounded space of the visit, the user focuses on his career and not on a smartphone screen. The sound does the rest, but in an adjusted place for each journey.
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