Site Visit: Station F 

4'22" 

dir.& prod.

2020

In 2017, Station F, the world’s largest startup incubator, opened as an anchor to the Paris Rive Gauche building development, the largest development in Paris since Haussman’s renovations, enticing new business to the capital. Innovation hubs, such as Station F, are designed as part of wider city regeneration programmes worldwide to entice startup culture and investment to accommodate the new knowledge economy. Startup culture is future-orientated and favours collaborative and productive workplaces. However, my site visit to Station F suggested an entanglement between the future-oriented space and its appropriation of the past through its reuse of an industrial structure.

Creative Team:

Pauline Blanchet: Director, Producer, and Editor

Screenings:

Site Writing Jane Rendell / UK / October 2020