Présences du littéraire dans l’espace public canadien

The intersection of des Pins and Parc avenues, in Montreal, is a place of transit where cross pedestrians, cyclists and motorists. Place border between downtown and the mountains, this site is characterized by a multiplicity of paths and crossings that are thousands of people daily.

In this context, the four bus shelters located at this intersection each represent an area where the expectation promotes various types of relationships between people. (See Figure 1)

The project is to reinvest these shelters by proposing that each is identified with a position exchange, that is to say a form of verbal interaction between individuals. The four positions are selected: MOI (me), TOI (you), NOUS (we) and VOUS (you) (See Figure 2). Each bus shelter is the subject of a singular design, for its volume than available seats, which represents this posture:

MOI : shelters divided into several individual cabins
TOI : shelters divided into several cabins for two people sitting next to one another (See Figure 3)
NOUS : shelters recreating the circular space of a small community that comes together
VOUS : shelters creating an interaction between a person sitting alone and facing a small group of people. (See Figure 4)

In every bus shelter, the text is located at eye level while seated (see Figure 5). It contains fragments that evoke the posture of exchange through various channels: introspection (MOI), dialogue (TOI), shared desire (NOUS) and the relationship of authority (VOUS).