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• 15 jan 2018

  Paris

  Call for papers - Thought

  Thinking Places: museum, library, theatre

  Is it possible, while maintaining the momentum of Pierre Nora’ studies on Sites of Memory (Les lieux de mémoire, 1984-87), or Christian Jacob’s current researches on Places of Knowledge (Lieux de savoirs, 2007-2011), to consider particular public places – museums, libraries, theatre, the list is endless – as sites dedicated to the process of thinking, as places where one thinks? To what extent, in which ways, and for what purpose might institutions and places strive for stimulating, elaborating, shaping a thinking process? What kind of institutional, architectural, or design devices would such a dedication to the thinking process involve? What professional or artistic issues, limitations, resources, would this impact?

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• 10 déc 2013

  Paris

  Study days - Information

  The history of libraries: architecture and space

  French national library, book workshops

  Quatrième volet du cycle « L’histoire des bibliothèques » inauguré en 2010, cet atelier envisage cette fois la bibliothèque dans sa dimension matérielle et monumentale, et s’interroge sur le sens donné, à travers sa forme, à cet édifice public.

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• 14 déc 2010

  Paris

  Study days - History

  The History of Libraries: the State of Research

  "Book Workshop" seminar series at the BnF

  Les « ateliers du livre » proposent, sous forme de journées d’études, un rendez-vous régulier sur l’histoire du livre et son univers contemporain.

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