Theater of Thermodynamics
2026, winter workshop
w/ Ansgar Stadler
Every human, building and action participates in a continuous exchange of energy - radiating heat, circulating air and setting matter in motion to sustain the metabolism of our built environment. Movement, presence, and even stillness become part of this energetic choreography, producing subtle gradients of temperature, pressure, sound, and vibration that shape how space is perceived and inhabited.
Most of this energy serves a single purpose - to warm, illuminate, or move - before it quietly dissipates. Its residues remain unseen: waste heat, exhaust air, cyclical movements. Yet these by-products persist in the margins of buildings and cities, accumulating in ducts, atria, thresholds, and interstitial spaces where they continue to act upon materials and bodies alike.
But what happens after their task is done - what else might they become? This question re-frames excess not as something to eliminate, but a latent resource awaiting a second role: a catalyst for interaction, perception, and performance — occasionally ready to steal the scene.
@ensaparisest
Ecole d’architecture de la ville & des territoires Paris-Est
The Arts of the Environment
@sub_architects @vanessa_pointet @thibaut_pierron
Together with great participants:
Arthur Mary, Hugo Dumont, Carmen Lozano Rodriguez, Alya Unver, Aristide Givois, Erwan Agard, Ismaël Sow, Caesar Avila-Touche, Nathan Cuina, Pierre Chezeau, Gladys Ojiakor, Anelina Radjou Sattianaden, Cyane Rougerie, Tsipora Sitruk, Zina Mechouar, Ivy Maria Sassine, Ines Morvan, Yanis Carrier, Maylis Berranger, Ewen Calentier, Loïse Frangiosa, Mathilde Moreaux, Camille Guipet, Ilhem Benderdouch, Valentin Rousseau, Loanne Bouchet, Fanny Van Hecke, Florian Montourcy, Tom Degruson, Aksel Katlan, Idris Eren Hatipoglu, Ela Naz Tokatlı, Chloé Prevost, Manon Kraus
