Tarik Chekchak
Environmental engineer, director and founder of the "Strategies Inspired by Life" division of the Institute of Desirable Futures.
Biomimetic Stories is a video work by Pierre Jean Giloux composed of four films. This work which questions the archology, the system that seeks to reach an alliance between architecture and ecology in the development of contemporary cities. Janine Benyus Biomimetism is defined as "a science that studies the nature for the purpose of imitating or basing itself on it to resolve human problems". These films explore fictional and in terms of urban forms and of social organizations in India, a continent particularly affected by climate change and countries in which the project was born.
Contents:
Marion Waller - Préface : L'adaptation des villes face au réchauffement climatique (Adapting cities to global warming)
Tarik Chekchak - Du biomimétisme au symbiocène : habiter le monde autrement ( From biomimetism to symbiocene: living the world differently)
Sophie Kaplan - Les dessins clés de Pierre Jean Giloux ( Key drawings by Pierre Jean Giloux)
Elie During - Lueurs d'espoir : à propos des fictions biomimétiques ( Lights of Hope: About Biomimetic Fictions)
Pedro Gadanho - Ajouter des couches de possibilités, ou comment améliorer notre avenir écologique ( Add layers of possibilities, or how to improve our ecological future)
Andrew Todd - La ville indienne entre cosmos et commerce ( The Indian city between cosmos and commerce)
Vanessa Morisset - L'art du déphasage, entretien avec Pierre Jean Giloux (L'art du déphasage, interview with Pierre Jean Giloux)