Writing the article ‘In Nouméa, “new” urban festivals and sensorial cartography’
Giving an account of the redaction of a scientific article is unusual. Generally speaking, little is known about the context in which it was written; only the published text remains, and becomes the sole object of reference for all readers. Personally, I would certainly never have chosen to quickly describe the process of writing ‘In Nouméa, ‘new’ urban festivals and sensorial mapping ’ , but to me it carried a strong emotional weight, its ‘own’ little story, which went far beyond the simple final ‘result’. But first, a bit of background: on 22nd August 2024, the website Visionscarto published my article ‘ In Nouméa, “ new ” urban festivals and sensorial mapping ’ , in which I was coming back to my sensorial cartography workshop organised during the ‘ Noumean Youth Identity Day ’ (NYID) on 26 August 2023 and took the opportunity to analyse this urban festival, developing and presenting the French notion of ‘new festivals’. But originally, this article never aimed to developp t...