MAISON D'ÊTRE
home (fr. maison)
is a cultural product as much as a physical structure
is a cultural product as much as a physical structure
We are independent professionals — urban planners, creative writers and filmmakers.
City is our focus, home is our lenses, maisonthropology is our science.
City is our focus, home is our lenses, maisonthropology is our science.
Complex and intertwined urban planning agendas often remain beyond the radars of the narrow specialists and governmental agencies. Urban mediators such as municipal deputies, advocacy planners, urban activists and professors of urban science could benefit from synthetic approach more than from extra sophisticated tools.
"Home values" concept gives us the "point of view "and an insightful documentary provides us with the "integrating solution".
"Home values" concept gives us the "point of view "and an insightful documentary provides us with the "integrating solution".
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Multifaceted urban reality could be effectively comprehended through the artistic instruments such as creative writing and documentary before it gets divided among professionals. Documentary as a genre combines artistic approach with facts and the methodology of fair representation of the facts.
We believe the documentary could be both, — an excellent point of entry into the urban reality and a synthetic media capable of integrating silo views on the city.
We believe the documentary could be both, — an excellent point of entry into the urban reality and a synthetic media capable of integrating silo views on the city.
documentary as a method
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...home did not have to be beautiful, or luxurious, to be the place one wanted to be…
Flanders, Judith. The Making of Home, 2015
Flanders, Judith. The Making of Home, 2015
The RER train will take us to Parisian suburbs where there used to be cabbage fields and peach gardens in the mid-20th century, and where the majority of Parisians live and work today.