Regardless of what they are called - suburbs, outskirts, banlieues - the Oakland/sSaint-Denis program aims at centering the margins. Artistic movements, social struggles, urban innovations: Oakland, California and Saint-Denis, France are now asserting their cultural and artistic influence and inventing solutions to the challenges of inequity and accelerated urban development that metropolises are facing.

AN INTERNATIONAL AND TRANSDISCIPLINARY DIALOGUE

Calling upon a great diversity of points of view - from the Mayor to inhabitants, artists to urban planners, entrepreneurs to officials, or from the local to the federal level -, the cooperation program questions how we are making cities in France and in California with the same conviction that our cities must be built collectively.

This diversity of perspectives is at the heart of intercultural and inter-professional exchanges and requires taking time to translate, from one culture to another, from one profession to another, in order to build together open, sensitive, and inclusive cities. These translation processes are at the very heart of the collective productions we are willing to share.