active design with artist Cécile Jaillard on a public square in Alençon
Customer : City of Alençon
Location: Alençon
Artist : Cécile Jaillard
Photo credits: PALM
A new, reinvented square in Alençon!
For the Fête des Voisins, PALM had the pleasure of delivering an artistic and participatory project on the Place du Champ-du-Roi in Alençon (61), designed for all generations.
The objectives of this project for the town of Alençon
- Energizing public spaces with active design ;
- Enhancing the living environment;
- Encouraging encounters and conviviality;
- Reduce incivilities through positive reappropriation of the site.
A murals by artist Cécile Jaillard
Graduating in graphic design in 2015, Cécile initially worked as a graphic designer before gradually shifting her practice towards more manual forms: mural painting, collage, illustration.
Her universe is inspired by living things. She explores plant forms in colorful, poetic compositions, sometimes inhabited by fantastical characters or cosmic elements. These figures, seemingly straight out of a fairy tale, reenchant urban space and invite reverie.
On a small section of the square, a motif was deliberately left empty, so that children could come and color it in with chalk. A way of allowing them tomake the square their own, to express themselves freely on the public domain, through art.
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