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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
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/).
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.
Photo credit:
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.
Photo credit:
Courtesy of the Observatoire des armements (www.obsarm.org).