February 2025, Year XVII, no. 2
Patrick Bernard
A city made of villages
Telos: The Parisian is associated with the râleur, those who are always grumbling because they are angry - in turn or at the same time - with everything and everyone. Yet, in 2017 you began to think about how to stimulate a return to personal relationships in an often-difficult metropolis. Can you tell us about the beginning of your bonjours in the café down the street?
Patrick Bernard: It's true that asking a Parisian to stop grumbling is a bit like ripping off his arm, and this universal image of the hostile Parisian paradoxically helped our approach a lot. But to initiate our project, it was essential not to take ourselves too seriously, and to propose a kind of game, resolutely innocent, that my neighbours could integrate easily and confidently, without fear of being manipulated or embroiled in a commercial or politically-motivated project ...more
Editorial
An urban neighbourhood doesn't have to be unfriendly or anonymous at all. We want to create the atmosphere of a village in an urban space! Who says so? Our guest for this February issue of PRIMOPIANOSCALAc, the revolutionary Patrick Bernard. How? By leading a distinctly un-Parisian revolution although it began on an inner-city street. No barricades were assembled to block the nearby boulevards and no radical students hurled cobblestones ripped from the pavement ...more
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