Redistributing Trash: How seizing energy production systems can empower le Mirail

Toni Bosch Jerez

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Nour Lila Keller

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Pietro Trentini

On July 11 2007, a Delegated Public Service contract gave Veolia full control over the Le Mirail incinerator, including waste and district heating management. As essential commons, this infrastructure should return to the community it has always served. Reconnecting it to residents enables to reimagine economic margins for collective benefit, while questioning how we inhabit and use space and resources. How would a designed, hyperheated future for residents compare to a profit-driven, minimal warmth one?

Team
Author(s):
Toni Bosch Jerez, Nour Lila Keller, Pietro Trentini
Unit:
RIOT
Teacher(s):
Charlotte Malterre-Barthes
Assistant(s):
Elif Erez Henderson, Kathlyn Kao, Nathalie Marj
Infos
Year:
2024
Period:
Y1 (MA), Y2 (MA), Fall
Category:
Semester Project
Topic:  
Architecture, Construction, Landscape, Territory, Environment, Sustainability
Document Type:
Image, Map, Schema, Section, Sketch, Writing
Copyright:
CC BY Licence
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