Since Manifesta 12 Palermo, Manifesta has commissioned a pre-biennial urban research led by the internationally renowned architectural bureau, with the aim of unlocking ‘knowledge and structures’ and creating a foundational base for the biennial.
Le Grand Puzzle is the urban study, commissioned by Manifesta 13 Marseille to the Rotterdam based architectural studio MVRDV and The Why Factory led by Winy Maas.
The book is the result of intensive research – made from 2018 to the start of 2020 – by an international team of architects and urbanists, in collaboration with Manifesta 13 and representatives of both Marseille institutions and universities. Le Grand Puzzle proposes a methodology, an agenda and an analysis to portray today’s Marseille and can be perceived as a ‘manifesto’ for the city.
Le Grand Puzzle was commissioned as the foundational step of Manifesta 13 Marseille as a new model of creative mediation that serves both as a blueprint for Marseille to plan its future and as a research framework to ensure that Manifesta 13 impacts the city and its citizens in the long-term. The research reveals Marseille’s specificities, possibilities, dreams, necessities and complexities, resulting in a multi-narrated, mosaic-like grand puzzle. Le Grand Puzzle is a tool for citizens to rethink the potential of their city and illustrates different possibilities for new and more accessible urban landscapes.
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Publisher: Hatje Cantz
ISBN 978-3-7757-4763-9
Softcover
16.80 x 23.30 cm
336 pages