two days of inspiration at the Ecole Camondo
4/5 September 2017
Ecole Camondo, 266 Bld Raspail 75014, Paris, France
On the 4th and 5th of September, for the first edition of Le Chaudron, Camondo school will be hosting two days of inspiration, dedicated to thinking, building and sharing this year’s theme: Property.
Five sub-themes will be explored: properties of matter, ownership of the means of production, intellectual property, from ownership to use, appropriation and creation. Two fertile and joyous days during which teachers, researchers, students, designers, architects, philosophers, artists… will talk and meet surrounding concepts, knowledge and perspectives on our living spaces, from the object to the city.
Five themes surrounding Property
Properties of matter
It seems obvious that no design or interior architecture project could be done without matter. If you start considering matter from the angle of its properties, and take into account the recent scientific discoveries on what our universe is made of, you open a vertiginous realm of imagination which far exceeds what we perceive as being for granted.
Intellectual property
Throughout history, our hyper-industrial societies have developed an arsenal of judicial tools to protect property, be it the rent of the land owner, industrial investments in research and development for new products or the exploitation of works of the mind. This context of increasing protection of property can become a fertile soil for criticism and invention, for projects where new relations to utilization and exploitation may flourish and where the traditional balance between “small” and “big” land owners may evolve.
From property to use
The question of common goods has structured the history of our political regimes, along with the economy and the property of the spaces and objects. Communist systems were founded on the transfer of private property towards a central, State owned system. In ultraliberal systems, the concentration of property is also confirmed, but outside of the State, taking the shape of globalised finance. In the face of this concentration and privatization of goods and services, in the face of the enclosure of commons by giant industrial groups, citizens tend to start using objects and places in a temporary way, unburdened by property. This situation is not necessarily synonymous with common good, freedom or reappropriation. In some cases, property is concentrated and governing powers are centralized. In others, property is redistributed and the user reunites with his freedom to choose. Proudhon had already envisioned the evolution of property towards a concept he called possession, the underlying prerequisite being a reinvention of the ways we put things in common. This concept echoes some contemporary architectural and design practices, which attempt to invent new forms of sharing property.
Appropriation and creation
It seems difficult to imagine a form of artistic creation which wouldn’t use the past to envision the present and the future. The pastiche in the fine arts tradition has been an exercise in training many great masters have followed. Closer to us, the practice of sampling or the use sound bites from our everyday lives in music can find echoes in other fields of creation. The way a projects can reappropriate existing elements, by quoting them or by transforming them, beckons a vast array of questions, technical, judicial, economic, symbolic…
Property of the means of production
In a contemporary context of economic tensions, many situations arise where developing new project strategies seems called for. The creator also wants to become the builder, without having to rely on an infrastructure he can’t control. New unexplored territories of creation can be found through the appropriation or invention of new ways to draw, build, produce and sell. These new ventures can rely on the access to recent technologies or innovative ways to reappropriate and reinvent the knowledge of the past.
Chaudron #1, La Propriété
4/5 September 2017, two days of inspiration at the Ecole Camondo
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Programmation
Lundi 4 septembre 2017
9h30 Introduction par René-Jacques Mayer (Directeur de l’école Camondo) et Vincent Tordjman (Enseignant)
10h15 « Propriété et droit naturel » conférence inaugurale par Céline Spector, Philosophe
11h15 Meet de speakers, rencontre autour d’un café à la Passerelle
11H30 Privatisation de la couleur, conférence par Frédéric Rossi-Liegibel avec Catherine Breitner (Ratp)
11h30 Petite histoire de la copropriété, conférence par Alexis Markovics, historien de l’art
11h30 Propriétés et mystères de l’univers, conférence par Nicolas Darrot, artiste et Olivier Dadoun, physicien
12h30-14h Pause déjeuner
14h Many Ghost & More Shells, conférence par Alexandra Midal
14h Volere-Avere, conférence par Martine Bedin
14h Déjouer les propriétés, conférence par Sylvain Dubuisson et Vincent Tordjman
15h30 Temps et Propriété des projets, table ronde avec Béatrice Grondin (historienne), Marie-Christine Dorner (Designer) et Evangelos Vasileou, designer
15h30 S’approprier la construction, table ronde avec Caroline Ziegler et Pierre Brichet (Designers), Marie Zawitowski et Keith Zawitowski (On Site Architectes)
15h30 L’Avenir de la Propriété, Dialogue avec Bernard Roth (Fondation Palladio), Isabelle Moulin (Europan)
Programmation
Mardi 5 septembre 2017
10h15 Les Communs, conférence par les Dant
10h15 Propriété et Street art, conférence par Michèle Mergui, (Avocate)
10h15 Nouveaux lieux de travail, conférence par Julien Eymeri (Quartier libre) et Clément Berardi (Quartier libre)
11h30 Bricolage et réappropriation : l’expérience cubaine, conférence par Grégory Marion (Docteur en esthétique)
11H30 Architecture de pouvoir : propriétés, réseaux et machines, conférence par Nicolas Moulin (Artiste)
11H30 conférence par Alain Bublex
12h30-14h Pause déjeuner
14h Propriété et mutations de l’industrie immobilière, dialogue avec Sandra Roumi (Revue Businessimmo), et Gaël Thomas …
14h Villes productives? conférence par Isabelle Moulin (secrétaire fédérale concours Europan et Paolo Georgieff (Coloco)
14h conférence par Agnès Thurnauer (Artiste)
15h30 Musique éléctronique, sampling, mix et remix : de l’appropriation des sons à l’appropriation des espaces conférence/performance par Jean-Yves Leloup (journaliste, musicien)
15h30 Propriétés temporaires, table ronde par Patrick Rubin (Architecte), Anne-Marie Fèvre (Journaliste) et Arthur Poiret (Architecte, atelier George)
15h30 Six Présentation de mémoires de fin d’étude par 6 alumni : Margaux Botton – Collectionner; Sacha Gascuel – Désuétude; Amélie Demay -Objet unique; Laure Gravier – Habiter l’art? – Billy Poitevin – Fais comme chez toi; Philippine Gallet de Saint Aurin – l’enseignement de l’informel.
17h30 Circuit Bending, conférence/performance par Val Kiri.
On the occasion of Le Chaudron #1 Property, the bookshop Tschann is providing a reading suggestions table of books connected to the theme.
Librairie Tschann, Librairie qui existe sans la phynance
125 boulevard du Montparnasse 75006 Paris Tél. 01 43 35 42 05 – courriel : librairie@tschann.fr

On Monday 4 September and Tuesday 5 September, Jonathan from Braisé restaurant will be setting up his cauldron at the Ecole Camondo, providing hot meals from 12.30 to 2pm for the benefit of the entire community.
See the Le Chaudron program
See the Bibliography related to the theme
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#lapropriété