Palama, 2020 [draft]

A refuge on the edge of Marseille since 2020.
Accessible every day and welcoming the public for the night.
Position: 43°22’47.4”N 5°26’07.6”E

Reservation at palama.info

Palama is situated in an isolated position overlooking the city, welcoming the public for the night by booking.

Palama uses the exhibition format as communication and to finance its maintenance and transformations.

Palama is rooted in a notion of commons extended to all living beings; an extended community integrating the whole of the biocenosis. From a design perspective, Palama proposes to no longer think of objects as autonomous productions, but as constitutive elements of their environment. The primary goal of the objects produced is to contribute to the balance of the place.

The design methodology becomes highly specific to the place and is inspired by the changing biotopes of our contemporary societies, by integrating the diversity that we discover onsite every day, associated with the study of vernacular and oft-forgotten knowledges.

The objects at Palama are always transitory, in that they will have to be transformed again in order to remain constitutive of their environment. Design as an appropriation of resources and environment is replaced by design as an endless process of tuning to human dependency with respect to where they live.

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