human cities

Public design competition with Tôlerie Forézienne

© Alexandre Moronnoz, Muscle

Saint-Etienne, Nov. 2008

Tôlerie Forézienne, a company active in made-to-measure metal working, joins the Human Cities project. Six projects of urban design that were selected internally following a contest organised by Pro Materia between French and Belgian designers, have been prototyped by the Rhône-Alpes located company. The project with Tôlerie Forézienne goes for the long run. It aims at identifying sustainable social-cultural links, rewarding and communicating around urban furniture and equipment in adequacy with the need for a better quality of life and an interactivity of its users. It brings a critical look and a concrete response to the expectations and functions of the contemporary city.

The prototypes were exhibited at the International Design Biennial of Saint-Etienne in November 2008.

The initiative is also nominated for the Index Award Denmark 2009, Section Community. The results for these prizes will be known in June 2009.

You can download the resulting brochure, presenting the six prototypes, below.

• Tôlerie Forézienne Brochure (pdf)
• http://tolerie.humancities.eu