Clara Thouard

In my work, I question the way spatial design addresses (or does not address) the general public. We all experience spaces that have been designed and arranged, but their modes of representation remain mainly technical, fixed or idealised.

Drawing on testimonies from inhabitants of Dijon, I am interested in individual memory and the intimate relationships each person maintains with their living spaces. I work on the transition from speech to comics, using graphic narrative as a tool to tell the story of the city differently.

This project proposes a sensitive and accessible mapping of our everyday spaces through comics, by creating more intuitive points of connection between spatial design and users. Comics make it possible to render visible more subjective aspects, linked to the experience of places, atmospheres and forms of appropriation, which traditional tools of representation often tend to render invisible.

It presents itself as a complement to project communication tools, and forms part of a practice in which narration, mediation and design mutually enrich one another.