Somewhere between a magazine and a fanzine, A°2021 is an original editorial object co-published by the École urbaine de Lyon and Éditions deux-cent-cinq. It brings together texts by numerous authors from a variety of scientific, literary and artistic fields that allow us to understand the notion of the Anthropocene.

What we propose to call the “Anthropocene” is the historical moment that began after 1945 with the onset of the phase of generalised urbanisation of the planet, during which it becomes undeniable that human activities are having an increasingly strong impact on biophysical systems. These upheavals can be observed everywhere, both globally and locally. To such an extent that the Earth’s habitability for humans and non-humans is being questioned.

The aim here is to revisit thought and social phenomena based on the recognition of this crisis of habitability on an unprecedented scale and to propose avenues for reflection and action so that we can collectively invent new ways of co-habiting.

Ensuring that we can reflect on and discuss these major contemporary issues is a requirement at the heart of the second issue of the magazine and of the Urban School's public service mission.

To design this publication, Bureau 205 have exclusively used fonts distributed by 205TF: Molitor, Muoto and Zénith by Matthieu Cortat; Album Sans and Album Slab by Thomas Huot-Marchand; Cardone by Fátima Lázaro; Romain 20 by Alice Savoie.

Lointain intérieur shows the results of Yveline Loiseur’s work at the Center Hospitalier Métropole Savoie and the special relations which grew with patients and caregivers. Their exchanges and mutual understanding produced images where one can perceive the sensitivity of a relationship, with its intelligence, fragility and empathy.

The plays of veil, whiteness and transparency of the images of Yveline Loiseur are transcribed in the delicate paper of the editorial object. The book experiences time, as does the photographer, as do photography. A time of patience, latency, slowing down the pace of life, as in the hospital.

The book designed by Bureau 205 comes as a folded sheet that the reader have to patiently cut open in order to see texts and images. The author Michel Poivert is retracing the parallel histories of art and medicine, inviting the reader to understand how “ethics and aesthetics [are likely to generate] a new photographic language”. The reader re-enacts the envelopment and unveiling of bodies, allowing the invisible to get revelead.

Alice Savoie’s Romain 20 (205TF, 2020) is used throughout.