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Panorama is born with a very specific mission: to help create and reinforce a global consciousness regarding the different challenges we as a society face in terms of landscape and territory.

For that reason, we’ve decided to create this platform to join together artistic projects with didactic content to attempt to reach, in the easiest and most comprehensive way, this reflexion to a large part of the society.

We believe that artistic projects accompanied by specialized texts are the best tool for any person, even those who haven’t  shown interest in this subjects before, to understand how as a society we need to reflect on our relationship with landscape and territory.

With this idea Panorama aims to become a big archive where anyone can meet and consult the different authors regarding this matters. And what’s also important, to contemplate them from different points of view.

 

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Panorama nace con una misión muy concreta: ayudar a crear/reforzar una conciencia global sobre los distintos retos que tenemos como sociedad en relación al territorio y al paisaje.

Para ello, hemos decidido crear esta plataforma que aglutina proyectos artísticos con contenidos didácticos para intentar hacer llegar, de la manera más fácil y entendedora posible, esta reflexión a un amplio conjunto de la sociedad.

Creemos que los proyectos artísticos acompañados de textos especializados son la mejor herramienta para que cualquier persona, aunque nunca antes se haya interesado por estos temas, pueda comprender que como sociedad tenemos que hacer una reflexión sobre nuestra relación con el territorio y el paisaje.

Panorama pretende con esta idea convertirse en un gran archivo donde cualquiera pueda conocer y consultar los distintos autores que trabajan en torno a estas cuestiones. Y lo que también es muy importante, contemplarlas desde distintos puntos de vista.

 

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Panorama neix amb un objectiu molt concret: ajudar a crear/reforçar una consciència global sobre els diferents reptes que tenim com a societat en relació al territori i al paisatge.

Per això, hem decidit aquesta plataforma que aglutina projectes artístics amb continguts didàctics per intentar fer arribar, de la manera més fàcil y comprensible possible, aquesta reflexió a un ampli conjunt de la societat.

Creiem que els projectes artístics acompanyats de textos especialitzats son la millor eina per a que qualsevol persona, tot i que no s’hagi interessat mai abans per aquests temes, pugui comprendre que com a societat hem de fer una reflexió sobre la nostre relació amb el territori i el paisatge.

Panorama pretén amb aquesta idea convertir-se en un gran arxiu on qualsevol pugui conèixer i consultar els diversos autors que treballen a l’entorn d’aquestes qüestions. I el que també és molt important, contemplar-les des de diferents punts de vista.

 

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The new quarter La Confluence – the confluence – is located in the centre of Lyon, France, at the tip of the peninsula where the two rivers Rhône and Saône meet. Construction has been underway since 2003. Before that, the entire area was largely wasteland. The new concept is a great experiment planned to be finished in 2025: With an area of 150 hectares and designed for around 16000 inhabitants La Confluence is one of the first entirely new quarters in the centre of a town in Europe of this dimension that unifies social housings, offices, stores, green spaces, university buildings and leisure facilities. All of this based on a concept of energy-efficiency. An eco-city of its own, a young, cutting-edge, energy-efficient form of architecture.
The long-term photography project La Confluence is an artistic examination of this visionary architecture. The photographs were taken between 2014 and 2017, a period in which the main buildings and structures of the new district were already completed, but settlement and urban design still at the very beginning. At first there are just shiny facades, colours, structures, fascinating but inanimate scenery. An artificial, surreal world. Only very slowly people appear, almost imperceptibly between/in/beside the lifeless new buildings, leave traces and make the new city theirs. La Confluence is like a stage setting where the few people are acting like extras in a play. The photographs take the viewer on a journey seen through the photographers’ eyes and how she experienced the neighborhood. 

Marie Hoffmann is a 30 years old photographer based in Germany, currently living and working in Cologne as for HGEsch Photography. Having studied in Hamburg and Tel Aviv, her photographs explore architecture and urban landscapes, mostly in their interaction with people. By means of different kinds of alienation and settings she creates abstract worlds where the borders between reality and perception become blurry.

She became aware of the urban planning of La Confluence in its very first state when she lived in Lyon between 2008 and 2010 and her enthusiasm for this project has never left her since. The full series consists of 36 photographs combined in a photobook and has been exhibited in various exhibitions as part of the European Architectural Photography Prize 2019 “Joyful Architecture”.

© text and pictures by Marie Hoffmann

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