Please join us for a conversation about the first publication by Daily tous les jours, Strangers need strange moments together, published by Set Margins with Mouna Andraos et Melissa Mongiat.

In Strangers need strange moments together, Andraos and Mongiat invite a broad range of readers—fellow practitioners, urbanists, policy makers, educators, and engaged citizens—to take a joyful approach to building resilient urban communities and re-enchanting public space.

Reflecting on our period of unprecedented urban growth, with increasing loneliness and division, Androas and Mogniat shed light on the importance of moving beyond purely data-driven urban planning methodologies, which prioritize productivity, efficiency, and automation, and forging new modes of public interaction. Cities must be spaces for the whimsical, unexpected, and weird, and for wasted time and strange moments of serendipitous encounter. They use the raw material of the “daily everyday” to propose new models of living together in the twenty-first century and foreground dimensions of life that characterize what it means to be human.

This event is open to the public; no reservation needed.

Mouna Andraos and Melissa Mongiat are the duo behind Daily tous les jours, an award-winning art and design studio working in an emergent field of practice combining interactive art, storytelling, performance, and urban design to reinvent living together for the twenty-first century. Using the raw material of the everyday, their work explores the dynamics of interpersonal cooperation by proposing new models of living together. Established in Tiohtià:ke Mooniyang Montréal in 2010, with permanent and temporary installations created in more than sixty cities around the world, their work encourages citizens to play an active role in the transformation of their cities, with public spaces as their canvas. The studio has garnered numerous recognitions, including a UNESCO Creative Cities Shenzhen Design Award (Grand Prize), Winner of the Knight Cities Challenge, and Fast Company’s Innovation by Design Award.