Bruit du Frigo

Bruit du Frigo (Fridge noise) was founded in 1997. The collective is composed by a permanent group of artists, architects, urbanists, photographers and a flexible collaborations with various professionals and inhabitants, depending on the type of project. It is an hybrid between an urban planning practice, a creative collective and a popular education structure dedicated to the study and intervention at city and territory level through participatory, artistic and cultural initiatives. Its aim is to study the quality of the environment in its broadest sense: not just its architecture, townscape, ecology or landscape, but its perception as a cultural experience. We also improve singular and particular procedures that have the capacity to bring about change. The result is intended to be the provision of an educational experience that is accessible to all, the offer of an effective mediation service and the encouragement of cultural and artistic innovation. We want to find new ways of bringing together those who live with those who plan and manage, to make life more friendly, with greater citizen involvement and better consensus on the values and resources that should be shared in common. In most projects we build in sited architectures that are tools for the upcoming workshops. The act of building and living temporarily in the neighborhood is the first approach that we create with the inhabitants.