La Tablée

Didier Fiúza Faustino // Mésarchitecture.

As part of The Aesthetic Experience project, the Centre Pompidou and the Evens Foundation are launching a new initiative experimenting with inclusive mediation practices.

La Tablée in French means an assembly of people sitting at a table. Designed specifically for the project by artist and architect Didier Faustino, it is a piece of mobile and modular furniture placed in the museum or elsewhere.

In essence, La Tablée is an invitation to sit and slow down, recount an aesthetic experience and question our ways of seeing. Different modes of language – whether specialist or non-specialist, critical or sensitive – intertwine to encourage the emerging of multiple ways of connecting with art.

Considered as a locus for conversations, artworks mediate encounters between strangers brought together through an aesthetic experience. La Tablée creates a space where people can share broader conversations, engage with artworks, and more importantly, with each other.

Hosted by selected artists, museum educators and volunteers of the Centre Pompidou, La Tablée will also leave the museum to travel to community centres, refugee accommodation centres, and public gatherings.

The recruitment and training of volunteers is an essential part of the project. It is an invitation to join the museum and partake in its mission of studying and transmitting heritage, by transforming it into a space of shared ownership.

As part of The Aesthetic Experience project, the Centre Pompidou and the Evens Foundation are launching a new initiative experimenting with inclusive mediation practices.

La Tablée in French means an assembly of people sitting at a table. Designed specifically for the project by artist and architect Didier Faustino, it is a piece of mobile and modular furniture placed in the museum or elsewhere.

In essence, La Tablée is an invitation to sit and slow down, recount an aesthetic experience and question our ways of seeing. Different modes of language – whether specialist or non-specialist, critical or sensitive – intertwine to encourage the emerging of multiple ways of connecting with art.

Considered as a locus for conversations, artworks mediate encounters between strangers brought together through an aesthetic experience. La Tablée creates a space where people can share broader conversations, engage with artworks, and more importantly, with each other.

Hosted by selected artists, museum educators and volunteers of the Centre Pompidou, La Tablée will also leave the museum to travel to community centres, refugee accommodation centres, and public gatherings.

The recruitment and training of volunteers is an essential part of the project. It is an invitation to join the museum and partake in its mission of studying and transmitting heritage, by transforming it into a space of shared ownership.