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À Nous Les Toits: Medina

Client
Urbameds Université Aix Marseille

Services

Exhibition, Documentary, booklets

Year
2023

With our collective À Nous Les Touts, we collaborated with students from the Master Transitions Urbaines et Coopération en Méditerranée at Aix-Marseille University on a field-based research project in the Medina of Tunis. Exploring the everyday uses of rooftops as lived urban spaces, the project sought inspiration for Marseille on the opposite shore of the Mediterranean. Students visited and interviewed nearly 40 rooftop owners, documenting practices, stories, and spatial possibilities. The research culminated in a public exhibition, the production of four thematic booklets, and a documentary film, Stâh, directed by Laura Taubman, which stands as a precious and sensitive trace of this collective work.

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The Architecture of the Logo

‘’Redaction ■■■■■■ is an intervention into the textual surface of the present, ■■■ one which makes the contours and logics of this surface more legible. Its aesthetics of forgery and détournement, of re-appropriation and re-performance, produce a uniquely direct and ■■■■■■ effect ’’   Andy Zuliani

The Publishing Power of Place logo draws on the act of redaction as both a graphic language and a spatial metaphor. The blacked-out letters reference redaction as an intentional intervention on the page—an act that conceals while simultaneously drawing attention, shaping meaning through absence as much as presence. Rendered in a marker-like style, the logo suggests collective authorship and co-redaction, evoking community input, informality, and an ongoing process rather than a fixed, finished identity. This approach parallels the co-design of space and place, where existing conditions are intervened upon, rearranged, and reinterpreted rather than erased, allowing new possibilities to emerge over time. Like spatial practice, the logo embraces incompleteness and adaptability, positioning publishing as a living process, something continually revised, built upon, and shaped by those who engage with it. Omar Wanas