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Animals in the City,
an artistic project by Andrea Branzi – Stefano Boeri

Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in partnership with RATP

dal 21 ottobre 2025

Galerie Valois
Palais-Royal
Musée du Louvre metro station, Paris.

Animals in the City presents three stages of reflection led by architect and designer Andrea Branzi
and architect and urban planner Stefano Boeri.

In 2008, responding to the French government’s request for new ideas for Greater Paris,
they proposed releasing animals into the heart of the capital,
to envision a city no longer solely designed for humans.
Andrea Branzi then explained:
“the presence of free animals in an urban fabric creates a kind of stress reduction.”

Between 2014 and 2016, with architects Michele Brunello and Azzurra Muzzonigro,
Boeri extended this reflection in a workshop with their students from Politecnico di Milano (Italy),
dedicated to studying animal behavior in urban environments
and designing architectural devices for their integration into the city of Milan.

Finally, in 2023, Branzi revisited this project in a series of collages
where incongruous animal presences appear amidst familiar Parisian sites.
In a singular and humorous approach, Branzi outlines a new vision
of modernity, open to the plurality of living beings.


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