Studio 13/16, Centre Pompidou Teenagers Space
Studio
13/16 is a permanent area dedicated for
teenagers. Inevitably risky for a museum when aimed at a volatile
teenage population, Studio 13/16 finds a functional and formal
solution based on the ergonomics of the desire :
"I dreamed about a place which was conceived and built like a television, cinema or music studio. I wanted this place to offer teenagers the same potential for action and creation as the professional equivalent. A far cry from an attempt to reconstruct a hypothetical "teen" style, from adolescence I have only kept this desire - and at times this capacity - to contort things and places. I admire this unique way of making the world more flexible to better integrate into it. And what is true for a town or for clothing is even more so for institutions like museums..."
"I dreamed about a place which was conceived and built like a television, cinema or music studio. I wanted this place to offer teenagers the same potential for action and creation as the professional equivalent. A far cry from an attempt to reconstruct a hypothetical "teen" style, from adolescence I have only kept this desire - and at times this capacity - to contort things and places. I admire this unique way of making the world more flexible to better integrate into it. And what is true for a town or for clothing is even more so for institutions like museums..."
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