Mobilizing Peripheries
A virtual field trip to the Porte de Bagnolet interchange on the Boulevard Périphérique, Paris
How could sound, film, and performance, work together to make a virtual encounter with a place a possibility for an expanded imaginary of its sensorial conditions and capacities?
This film was born from a cross-cultural exchange between the landscape architecture students of CalPoly Pomona, University of Los Angeles, and interdisciplinary teams in France who were invited by Rennie Tang to explore peripheral landscapes through embodied modes of site research. In the context of Covid, the films proposed new modes for the architectural site visit, an essential part of the design process, but one made impossible during the pandemic. They were presented to students at the beginning of a remote design brief focused on the interchange and the spaces within it