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05.2021 Talk "Observation as a project" and presentation of the Material Memory Map project at EPFL, Atelier Maria Lisogorskaya, Assemble 04.2021 Workshop at Plâtres Vieujot, plaster coating manufacturer 03.2021 Visit and shooting at the Jean Mermoz school construction site in Rosny-sous-bois. Site made mainly from local ressources. 03.2021 Visit and shooting at ApijBat workshop, where straw panels are made out of local agriculture These panels are coated with clay and then transported on site to be assembled on the facade 03.2021 Shooting at the sandstone quarry of Fontainebleau. The quarrying of a block 03.2021 Visit and shooting at Plâtres Vieujot, plaster manufacturer near Paris 02.2021 Talk at CentralSupélec within the framework of “Utopies constructives” supervised by Marc Hymans and Geoffroy Clamour from BETA.  12.2020 Material Memory Map is proud to be one of the 16 projects selected by the jury of FAIRE Paris 2020 10.2020 Visit and shooting at DeWulf brickworks, in Allonne. With their Hoffmann kiln, DeWulf is the nearest brick manufacturer from Paris. They only use clay that is locally sourced. Clay extraction only happens once every one or two years. We will be there for the next one in September 2021 09.2020 Visit and shoting at Georges Fils. Traditional veneer manufacturer, based in Bagnolet for nearly a century. The direction bought veneer saws from the early XXst century. They still work beautifully  09.2020 Visit and film at the Société de Placage Francilien, Montreuil, where veneer strips are assembled onto panels. 01.2020 Visit and shooting at Roëser sawmill, in east Paris. This sawmill is among the very last in the region, after the exponential bankruptcy of most of the places of first transformation during the second half of the XXst century. 11.2019 Talk "The figure of the Bricoleur" and presentation of the Material Memory Map project at Ecole Spéciale d'Architecture within the framework of studio M1 Marc Hymans. 11.2019 Visit and shooting at the sandstone quarry of Fontainebleau. Nearly self-sufficient quarry. Degree zero chain from nature to finish product