Paris 19: Mobility, Memory & Migration
© Paris 19: Mobility, Memory & Migration
'Paris 19: Mobility, Memory & Migration' is a collaboration work between Andrés Borda-González, David Kendall, Abbas Nokhasteh, and Moustafa Traoré. A project bringing together the practice of photography with personal and collective memories from the 19th district of Paris, realised in four films: Faith, Survival, Connection, Distance.
The 19th arrondissement in contemporary Paris, France is among the twenty administrative districts that form the city and has the youngest population. The majority of inhabitants are French citizens of West African and North African descent, commonly known in the Hexagone as ethnic minorities. In Paris political/public institutions and private organisations use historical photographs of daily life to visualise, commemorate and form specific social histories, public memories and pictorial archives. Low-income residents and ethnic minorities are often denied any form of historical recognition within the ocular identity of the 19th arrondissement and the city of Paris.
Photography and film have been utilised to bring people together and explore how collective memories could become socially embedded in architectural and spatial frameworks and act as productive experiences within the district. Open access to digital media devices, could allow private sensory, aesthetic, social and geographical knowledge to inspire new forms of imaginative civic experiences in the neighbourhood. Conversations could connect memories through acts of collaboration and may introduce flexible embodied frameworks for collective enterprise, spatial exploration and evaluation of public life in the neighbourhood.
The project explores, proposes and generates activities defined by individuals and groups on their terms and engages in pragmatic collaborative methodologies to generate new narrative tools, allowing the ephemeral to become definable stories that begin to map the past and present, affecting their lives and future. Local actions offer new definitions of the French republic and offer individuals and groups opportunities to be proactive and engage in the future potential of an eclectic social fabric and visual heritage. Sharing new images, knowledge and experience allows residents to tell and describe new stories, and to re-assemble oral and film narratives, activating new oral and visual discourse about spatial division, architectural regeneration, loss of social and cultural memory, social conflict/cohesion, assimilation, integration, citizenship and migration in contemporary French society.
Visit http://www.openvizor.com/Content/Index/472 to watch the films and learn more about the project.
The 19th arrondissement in contemporary Paris, France is among the twenty administrative districts that form the city and has the youngest population. The majority of inhabitants are French citizens of West African and North African descent, commonly known in the Hexagone as ethnic minorities. In Paris political/public institutions and private organisations use historical photographs of daily life to visualise, commemorate and form specific social histories, public memories and pictorial archives. Low-income residents and ethnic minorities are often denied any form of historical recognition within the ocular identity of the 19th arrondissement and the city of Paris.
Photography and film have been utilised to bring people together and explore how collective memories could become socially embedded in architectural and spatial frameworks and act as productive experiences within the district. Open access to digital media devices, could allow private sensory, aesthetic, social and geographical knowledge to inspire new forms of imaginative civic experiences in the neighbourhood. Conversations could connect memories through acts of collaboration and may introduce flexible embodied frameworks for collective enterprise, spatial exploration and evaluation of public life in the neighbourhood.
The project explores, proposes and generates activities defined by individuals and groups on their terms and engages in pragmatic collaborative methodologies to generate new narrative tools, allowing the ephemeral to become definable stories that begin to map the past and present, affecting their lives and future. Local actions offer new definitions of the French republic and offer individuals and groups opportunities to be proactive and engage in the future potential of an eclectic social fabric and visual heritage. Sharing new images, knowledge and experience allows residents to tell and describe new stories, and to re-assemble oral and film narratives, activating new oral and visual discourse about spatial division, architectural regeneration, loss of social and cultural memory, social conflict/cohesion, assimilation, integration, citizenship and migration in contemporary French society.
Visit http://www.openvizor.com/Content/Index/472 to watch the films and learn more about the project.
