Pasta & Vinegar

mind/tech bazar from outer space by Nicolas Nova

Circumnavigation septentrionale de l'archipel alpin

Parmi les multiples entrés qui n’ont pas trouvé leur place dans les Fragments d’une montagne, il y a ce récit de voyage en train entre Marseille et Munich. Si je ne l’ai pas retenu c’est à la fois car il ne “fonctionnait” pas bien avec les autres entrées, et qu’il y avait déjà d’autres textes de ce...

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Parution : Fragments d'une montagne

Mon dernier livre Fragments d’une montagne. Les Alpes et leurs métamorphoses est paru au Pommier. En voici la quatrième de couverture :Notes d'observation et de lecture, conversations entendues par hasard, bribes de réflexions ou encore recettes de cuisine... Ces Fragments ont été rassembl...

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New article for Atelier Luma

A chapter about the kinds of investigations/inquiries designers put together in their work, in the book by Atelier Luma, celebrating their ten years of design research.Nova, N. 2023. Les designers-enquêteurs et leur singularité, Pratiques biorégionales de design — Bioregional Design Practi...

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Project blog: Machine Mirabilia

After 20 years blogging here, I realize it’s a big hard to put all my (scattered) interests in the same series of posts… which is why I think I’ll use this place for general announcement (new books, general observation) and use project blogs. The new one is called Machine Mirabilia, and it focuses ...

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20 years of Pasta & Vinegar

I just realized this morning that this blog (Pasta & Vinegar!) started twenty years ago… here’s the third server where the content is located. ...

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Latitude 0

July 28, 2022. Located at La Mitad Del Mundo, the Quitsato Sundial is a place that shares various aspects of the astronomical knowledge of the prehispanic cultures of the region. Not far from the monument built to commemorate the first Geodesic Mission of the French Academy of Sciences), i...

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"icônes" by Susan Kare in Lyon

The Musée de l’Imprimerie et de la Communication Graphique (Lyon, France) currently has an exhibit about Susan Kare’s work. Kare, who’s an American artist and graphic designer best known for her interface elements and typeface contributions to the first Apple Macintosh from 1983 to 1986. T...

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Antenna-Tree

January 6, 2022 (Solaison, France). Two trees, two different species. The one in the background is a mobile phone mast, designed as a tree. The locals think it looks like a “morille” (morel) mushroom, but they reported how it was helpful for kids during COVID lockdown (zoom calls and on-li...

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Sens-Fiction

In Nantes for Sens-Fiction at Lieu Unique curated by Ramy Fischler and Scott Longfellow. An exhibit that investigates how fiction influences our conception of future practices; in this laboratory, designers’ methods are informed by the desired outcome. This exhibition also examines what fi...

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