The future often feels distant, a concept discussed in reports and conferences. But for coastal and riverside cities around the world, the future is arriving faster than we think. The whispers of climate change are now a clear and present reality, echoed by stark warnings from the world’s leading scientific bodies. The challenge of rising sea levels is no longer an abstract threat; it is the defining architectural and social challenge of the 21st century.
Today, we’re taking a speculative journey to Nantes, France—a city defined by its relationship with the majestic Loire River. What happens when that relationship is irrevocably altered? What happens when the water rises for good?
This article was originaly written for a book that will now hardly be published due to several reasons. The text hold by Laurent Lescop, Hadas Sopher (1), Olivier Chamel (2) and Bernd Dalgrün (3) describes the very pionneer experience of Immersive Learning using Metaverses during the covid pandemia. This has been a fondation for what we do now and it would have been sad to hide it on the folder of forgotten works.
ENSA Nantes AAU-CRENAU, UMR-CNRS 1563 – Nantes, France
Une archéologie de l’immersion, dispositifs et concepts.
Si l’on associe les dispositifs immersifs à des solutions techniques récentes, c’est peut-être en oubliant que la plupart de solutions proposées l’ont déjà été dès le 18ème siècle avec les panoramas. Le retour vers les solutions anciennes et de leur évolution jusqu’à maintenant nous permet de retracer la généalogie des concepts, des méthodes et des objectifs de ces machines à illusion. C’est aussi un moyen de positionner pour la fabrication des contenus les ferments d’une grammaire narrative de l’immersion et de mesurer les enjeux de cohérence entre les dispositifs et les contenus proposés.
Continuer la lecture de Nantes: A Glimpse into Our Aqua-Future 
