‘Living twice’ emerged from a carte blanche project commissioned by Actiu at the invitation of Marisa Santamaria during Paris Design Week.

Living twice’: to live twice, but to live to the full.

It is a logical progression: an expansion of function, a new typology that calls upon the communal. Is there often an appropriation that goes beyond what was originally intended? Design, applied anthropology. Conducting fieldwork and being situated. Like an anthropologist, I have taken an interest in the unconventional uses that arise from repurposing. An initial approach is to embrace the informal.
The design allows two different yet complementary spaces to coexist, facilitating movement between them. Spaces where one can engage on two levels of interaction, with two ways of being together: either all together or in small groups.
We’re talking about being alive here in the context of a business: for me, that means building a community. The real issue is how to foster collaboration so that the business can become a social body. 

I am not talking about an individual way of being, but a collective one.  A form that creates a focal point. The capacity of a place to exert an attraction, to possess a polarising power that serves to… to anchor lived experience.
And a form that acts as a signal, with circles that provide a reference point for organising life all around it.
The world of work has devised a number of posturings that sometimes make it difficult for the younger generations to fit in. Posturings that emphasise status and a hierarchy that divides people rather than bringing them together. There is nothing spectacular about this, as it does not foster a sense of togetherness.

What matters is maintaining a human scale, along with an immediate sense of hospitality and the potential for liveability. The innovation lies in the presence and form of this screen. But I do not wish to speak of innovation; here, it is more a matter of caring – and in certain sectors, one might even speak of repair, given how brutal and lacking in kindness working methods have been.