150 mètres d’altitude

The concept

The residency, a tool for the territory

ANISOTROPIE created 150 m d’altitude to meet its own needs. In meeting them, the residency answers those of the rural area where it works, and of the territory as a whole.

The residency studio in Le Vauclin

The starting point

A cutting-edge ecosystem on a hill in Le Vauclin

ANISOTROPIE is a Martinican arts, sciences & technologies association. It works in Le Vauclin, in the hills of rural Martinique. There it brings together rare tools: a performance capture studio, a digital twin and virtual reality hub, a photo and video studio, a darkroom.

This choice is its strength: a calm place, between sea and mountains, in touch with a living territory. It also raises four questions, every day. To answer them, ANISOTROPIE created a tool: the 150 m d’altitude residency.

Four needs, one tool

What keeps the residency alive keeps the territory alive

  1. 01Connecting with the world

    ANISOTROPIE’s need

    Far from the big centres, ANISOTROPIE needs skills, fresh eyes and encounters.

    What the residency does

    The residency brings artists, researchers, technical artists and craftspeople from all over the world. They live here for several weeks, at the pace of the place.

    What the rural area gains

    The Martinican countryside welcomes the world at home. Residents of the area meet creators from Germany, Canada, the Arctic Circle or Lisbon, and every resident leaves as an ambassador for the territory.

  2. 02Keeping the tools alive

    ANISOTROPIE’s need

    Cutting-edge studios live through the projects that pass through them: they need uses, talent and ideas.

    What the residency does

    Residents take over the studios: they capture movement, digitise a place, photograph, develop film. The tools work, get tested and improve.

    What the rural area gains

    A cutting-edge infrastructure exists in a rural area, and it runs. Around it, residents stay, eat, travel and work with local producers, craftspeople and shops: activity circulates.

  3. 03Training and keeping talent

    ANISOTROPIE’s need

    To carry its projects, ANISOTROPIE needs talent trained here, who know the place and its tools.

    What the residency does

    Every residency passes something on: workshops, shared gestures and know-how, working side by side with young people and creatives from the island.

    What the rural area gains

    Young people learn the jobs of tomorrow close to home and connect with the world from their own town. Talent stays, and it shines.

  4. 04A space for slow time

    ANISOTROPIE’s need

    A place was missing where time, encounters and research can coexist freely: to observe, experiment, start again, think together.

    What the residency does

    The house in Le Vauclin, and now living spaces beyond our walls, as in Plaisance, welcome the residents. ANISOTROPIE’s supporters prepare each place together.

    What the rural area gains

    Empty or little-used homes come back to life. Every place we open becomes a place for encounters, creation and transmission, and one more link with the territory.

Changing scale

From the hill to the whole territory

ANISOTROPIE

It meets its needs: encounters, tools that run, talent, places.

The rural area

Le Vauclin and the neighbouring towns gain life, activity, lived-in homes and young people who stay.

Martinique

The residencies highlight the island’s resources, its industries, its gestures and its memories, and build lasting bridges with the Caribbean and the world. The island becomes a territory of experimentation, sharing and international reach.

The same gesture serves all three scales: when the residency moves forward, the territory moves forward with it.

Proof through the residencies

What is being built this winter

Building the territory together

Join the movement

Elected officials, local authorities, home owners, producers, businesses, schools: every residency needs the territory, and every residency gives back to it. Let’s talk about what we can build together.

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