Mickaël Labbé has unfriended a park bench armrest and a café that no longer serves warm drinks after 5 p.m. And he has withdrawn affection from a former favorite place in the city where the director of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Strasbourg teaches aesthetics. Because what was previously a lack of charm and urbanity on the Place d’ Austerlitz in Strasbourg, a shabby bus station, an “orphaned, oppressive area on the edge of the city center” at night, became a showcase project for the “reconquest of urban happiness”. Against which the philosopher, since this happiness is also a misfortune, starts a rebellion. His manifesto is an “Outrage!” the interpretation of space.
“Take a seat. Against an architecture of contempt” by Mickaël Labbé – Culture
