matali crasset, autrement, a monograph published by éditions de la Martinière.How can design, art and architecture, viewed as disciplines for thinking and acting in a world undergoing profound change, set us in motion?

In this book, internationally renowned French designer matali crasset offers answers to the central question of our time, ‘How should we inhabit the world?’, through 80 projects. The world's resources and vulnerabilities are
the raw data from which we must now move forward. Rejecting the well-trodden paths of a discipline focused on objects, matali crasset has invented a unique approach, rooted in communities, close to the people who live there, and resolutely anthropological. At the crossroads of artistic, ecological and social practice, its design is committed and always in action, from individual housing to collective forms of being together, from urban to rural areas, from the men and women who conceive them to the species that engender them, and from the necessary cohabitation between all for the sake of life. But from the observation of this ecological and political reality arises a reflection on the utopias necessary for the reinvention of communities. matali crasset demonstrates here all

the power of creation when it is put at the service of the common good.

Texts by Geneviève Gallot
26 x 37 cm – 112 pages
€32.50