UQAM’s Centre de design Presents "Toxicité coloniale : Architecture et paysage radioactifs français dans le Sahara"
Centre de design de l'UQAM
Samia Henni
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Benoit Rousseau
UQAM’s Centre de design Presents "Toxicité coloniale : Architecture et paysage radioactifs français dans le Sahara"
Centre de design de l'UQAM
Samia Henni's new publication "Toxicité coloniale : Documenter le paysage radioactif dans le Sahara" (Paris, 2026)
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Benoit Rousseau
UQAM’s Centre de design Presents "Toxicité coloniale : Architecture et paysage radioactifs français dans le Sahara"
Centre de design de l'UQAM
"Blue Gerboise" sand, 2007. Photo credits: Bruno Barrillot. Various metals and materials abandoned in the Sahara around the former Saharan Military Testing Center, Reggane, 2007.
Photo credit:
Bruno Barrillot. With kind permission of the Armaments Observatory (https://www.obsarm.info/).
UQAM’s Centre de design Presents "Toxicité coloniale : Architecture et paysage radioactifs français dans le Sahara"
Centre de design de l'UQAM
"Blue Gerboise" sand, 2007Various metals and materials abandoned in the Sahara around the former Saharan Military Testing Center, Reggane, 2007.
Photo credit:
Bruno Barrillot. With kind permission of the Armaments Observatory (https://www.obsarm.info/).
UQAM’s Centre de design Presents "Toxicité coloniale : Architecture et paysage radioactifs français dans le Sahara"
Centre de design de l'UQAM
Metals “Blue Gerboise”, 2007. Various metals and materials abandoned in the Sahara around the former Saharan Military Testing Center, Reggane, 2007.
Photo credit:
Bruno Barrillot. With kind permission of the Armaments Observatory (https://www.obsarm.info/).
UQAM’s Centre de design Presents "Toxicité coloniale : Architecture et paysage radioactifs français dans le Sahara"
Centre de design de l'UQAM
Metals “Blue Gerboise”, 2007. Various metals and materials abandoned in the Sahara around the former Saharan Military Testing Center, Reggane, 2007.
Photo credit:
Bruno Barrillot. With kind permission of the Armaments Observatory (https://www.obsarm.info/).
UQAM’s Centre de design Presents "Toxicité coloniale : Architecture et paysage radioactifs français dans le Sahara"
Centre de design de l'UQAM
Ruins, 2007. Ruins around the former Saharan Military Experiments Center in Reggane, 2007.
Photo credit:
Bruno Barrillot. With kind permission of the Armaments Observatory (https://www.obsarm.info/).
UQAM’s Centre de design Presents "Toxicité coloniale : Architecture et paysage radioactifs français dans le Sahara"
Centre de design de l'UQAM
Abandoned barrels in the Sahara around the former Reggane Saharan Military Testing Centre, 2007,
Photo credit:
Bruno Barrillot. With kind permission of the Armaments Observatory (https://www.obsarm.info/).
UQAM’s Centre de design Presents "Toxicité coloniale : Architecture et paysage radioactifs français dans le Sahara"
Centre de design de l'UQAM
Radioactive lava flow, 2010. Solidified radioactive lava flow generated by the unconfined underground nuclear explosion of the Beryl bomb in the Taourirt Tan Afella massif, In Ekker, May 1, 1962.
Photo credit:
© 2010 Larbi Benchiha
UQAM’s Centre de design Presents "Toxicité coloniale : Architecture et paysage radioactifs français dans le Sahara"
Centre de design de l'UQAM
Views of the buildings of the former Saharan Military Experimentation Centre, Reggane, 2007.
Photo credit:
Bruno Barrillot. With kind permission of the Armaments Observatory (https://www.obsarm.info/).
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UQAM’s Centre de design Presents "Toxicité coloniale : Architecture et paysage radioactifs français dans le Sahara"
Centre de design de l'UQAM
Excerpts from Samia Henni's book Colonial Toxicity: Rehearsing French Radioactive Architecture and Landscape in the Sahara (Amsterdam: If I Can’t Dance and Framer Framed; Zurich: edition fink, 2024, 2025), pages 116–117.Photographs by an unknown author (a French veteran) provided by MA and MG. The images illustrate the construction of the Reggane plateau, 1959–1960.
Photo credit:
© MA and MG. Courtesy of the Observatoire des armements (https://www.obsarm.info/).
UQAM’s Centre de design Presents "Toxicité coloniale : Architecture et paysage radioactifs français dans le Sahara"
Centre de design de l'UQAM
Excerpts from Samia Henni's book Colonial Toxicity: Rehearsing French Radioactive Architecture and Landscape in the Sahara (Amsterdam: If I Can’t Dance and Framer Framed; Zurich: edition fink, 2024, 2025), pages 120–121.Photographs by an unknown author (a French veteran) provided by MA and MG. The images illustrate the construction of the Reggane plateau, 1959–1960.
Photo credit:
© MA and MG. Courtesy of the Observatoire des armements (https://www.obsarm.info/).
UQAM’s Centre de design Presents "Toxicité coloniale : Architecture et paysage radioactifs français dans le Sahara"
Centre de design de l'UQAM
Excerpts from Samia Henni's book Colonial Toxicity: Rehearsing French Radioactive Architecture and Landscape in the Sahara (Amsterdam: If I Can’t Dance and Framer Framed; Zurich: edition fink, 2024, 2025), pages 124–125.Left page: Photographs by an unknown author (a former French veteran) provided by Mr. A. and Mr. G. The images illustrate the construction of the Reggane plateau, 1959–1960. © Mr. A. and Mr. G. Right page: Photographs by an unknown author (a former French veteran) showing the construction of Hamoudia, 1959.
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Courtesy of the Observatoire des armements (https://www.obsarm.info/).
UQAM’s Centre de design Presents "Toxicité coloniale : Architecture et paysage radioactifs français dans le Sahara"
Centre de design de l'UQAM
Excerpts from Samia Henni's book Colonial Toxicity: Rehearsing French Radioactive Architecture and Landscape in the Sahara (Amsterdam: If I Can’t Dance and Framer Framed; Zurich: edition fink, 2024, 2025), pages 126-127.Photographs by an unknown author (a French veteran) provided by MA and MG. The images illustrate the construction of the Reggane plateau, 1959–1960.
Photo credit:
© MA and MG. Courtesy of the Observatoire des armements (https://www.obsarm.info/).
UQAM’s Centre de design Presents "Toxicité coloniale : Architecture et paysage radioactifs français dans le Sahara"
Centre de design de l'UQAM
Scan of original testimony of Marcel M, collected by the Observatoire des Armements in collaboration with the Association of the Veterans of the French Nuclear Tests and their families. To protect the privacy of the witnesses, identifying information has been redacted.
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Courtesy of the Observatoire des armements (www.obsarm.org).
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Royal Danish Academy – Architecture, Design, and Conservation
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Karina Tengberg
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Royal Danish Academy – Architecture, Design, and Conservation
Photo credit:
Karina Tengberg
Imagining the Future - Through Architecture and Design
Royal Danish Academy – Architecture, Design, and Conservation
Photo credit:
Karina Tengberg
Imagining the Future - Through Architecture and Design
Royal Danish Academy – Architecture, Design, and Conservation
Photo credit:
Karina Tengberg
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Royal Danish Academy – Architecture, Design, and Conservation
Photo credit:
Karina Tengberg
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