Introduction

Abstract

On 7 and 8 May 2018, the closing colloquium of a research project questioning the notion of public space in South Benin was held at the Faculty of Architecture La Cambre Horta of the ULB. This colloquium extended a reflexive work on the tools of architecture developed during study days organised in September 2017 in Porto-Novo, Benin. These two events constitute the body of the present publication. During these events, the notion of situation was imposed. This notion draws attention to the always situated ways in which realities are established by the perspectives they bring together: they exist only through them. It helps us to consider realities beyond binary oppositions such as object/subject, figure/background, inside/outside, mind/matter, etc. and leads us to think and act in terms of connections, interdependencies.