CHLOÉ MACARY-CARNEY
I am really interested in the opportunity to collaborate with local youth and other artists to imagine and build spaces where people can participate in community all the while feeling seen, heard, safe and respected.
Chloé Macary-Carney (FR)
Chloé Macary-Carney is an architect and artist based in Paris, France. She obtained the French license of architect, or Habilitation à la Maîtrise d’Œuvre en Nom Propre, in February 2021 at the ENSAPLV from which she graduated in 2019. She defends the idea that architecture is a social art, space being a medium to which we all have access and which we all have our own experience of, every day. She wants to make architecture, and especially public space, more accessible and inclusive by creating spaces and projects that allow for dialogue, exchange, and the listening and welcoming of others. She has been working on the question of gender in spaces since 2018 with the collective she created with artist Léticia Chanliau, called the Woman Cave Collective. Since 2019, she has been exploring how to create tools and spaces for safe moments of exchange and inclusivity, by pulling inspiration from the rituals and the spaces of New Age communities in France and Hungary. More recently, she has been developing this research by exploring the notion of inclusivity via the co-construction of what could be a «safe space». Discipline: Architecture / Design |
NOMADIC ISLAND PROJECT
My personal motivation is to meet people and to create social awareness together. Nomadic Island provides the ability to experience with urban spaces, to connect people, and increases various ideas for alternative futures."
ARCHITECTURE AND SELF-BUILD SPACES
Chloé Macary-Carney addressed the notion of privacy and intimacy in situations of communal living via the co-construction of the daily ritual we all undertake, the meal. Her refection starts from the point of view that if we want to create new modes of living in a less capitalist system of consumption, we must be careful to not also regard privacy as a luxury, for it is a necessary element of self-actualisation. With the help of the participants, Chloé tried to answer questions like ‘how can we design communal living facilities that are comfortable, yet also respect the needful privacy of each and every one’.
Chloé Macary-Carney addressed the notion of privacy and intimacy in situations of communal living via the co-construction of the daily ritual we all undertake, the meal. Her refection starts from the point of view that if we want to create new modes of living in a less capitalist system of consumption, we must be careful to not also regard privacy as a luxury, for it is a necessary element of self-actualisation. With the help of the participants, Chloé tried to answer questions like ‘how can we design communal living facilities that are comfortable, yet also respect the needful privacy of each and every one’.
Reflections after Nomadic Island
How it started...
The Nomadic Island residency questioned what the role of the artist is as we were confronted with children, their supervisors, the sponsors and the local politics and public funded projects. All these different perspectives had their own expectations of what the work of an artist is, and this brought up very profound debates and discussions. I think it was very interesting for these different actors to hear about it, for there were many misconceptions about the work of an artist and the economy around such a work. |
...how it ended.
To learn more about Chloéhttp://www.cm-c.studio/ and her work, check out her website www.cm-c.studio and social media channel: