Par Leonardo Calcagno

Consulting firm in urban prospective, “dealers of imaginations”, agitators of cities and explorers of popular culture … But who hides behind this “urban pop-up”, determined to infuse a little fun in our reflections often if serious about the city? Two passionate acolytes of pop-culture (from science fiction to Korean pop, video games or Bollywoods) with very different but complementary profiles: Philippe Gargov, a geographer by training and a lover of the city, who founded [pop-up] urban in 2009; as for Margot Baldassi, it is after having left the study of the cities in the Middle Ages that she devoted herself to that of the possible interdisciplinary between the trades of the city and the video game. Meet this intriguing duo by their offbeat approach and necessarily exciting urban mutations. Read more onurbanews.fr