From a collection of places, the Habitante magazine observes the diversity of ways of thinking and constructing the world. From fiction to critical theory, from the tree to the territory, from the house to the (micro)nation, Habitante crosses approaches, sensibilities and scales.
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\nIn this pilot issue, Célia Houdart evokes, almost with nostalgia, the tropicalism of the Ryanair base in Lanzarote, Daniel Fernández Pascual and Alon Schwabe argue about the quantification of New York trees and its indirect social impact. Hamed Khosravi examines the former Fort Roughs platform whose libertarian potential turns out to be inversely proportional to its habitable surface area. Matthew Stewart concisely describes the fundamentally chimerical logic that presided over the Sidewalk Toronto urban project. While Elvia Wilk invents an architectural, real estate and social experiment in a Berlin that is not so phantasmagorical. An island, a seafront, platforms, an urban forest, houses on a former tarmac: as many perspectives as there are worlds to remake.
