R&Sie(n)

The R&Sie(n) collective, revolving round François Roche, Stéphanie Lavaux, Jean Navarro and Benoît Durandin, was set up in Paris in 1993. Their uncompromising views and creations are highly experimental. Such elements as metamorphosis, fluid ecology, clones, biorobotics and advanced medicine play an important part. Their 'architecture non standard' is not static, but lively and amorphous. Their visionary exhibition 'I've heard about (a flat, fat, growing urban experiment)' shows an urban planning Utopia comprising a self-engendered, independently growing biostructure. This project was presented at the Museum of the 21st Century in Kanazawa in Japan as a vision of the future, and last year it was at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris as reality. The third and final stage of this exhibition evokes a look back at this intriguing project from the future. In addition to models and computer simulations, R&Sie(n) are making a film produced specially for the occasion, on which the actor François Beukelaers also worked.