mOst map

The mOst map shows the places where we have worked and the ties built between them. It is not a collection of destinations. Each dot stands for a relationship with a local organization, residents, artists, and a project history. The lines between cities make the correspondences, the returns, and the crossed perspectives visible.

Our main base is in Île-de-France, the Paris region, where our projects unfold in Argenteuil (Champagne, Val Nord, downtown), Bagnolet (La Noue, La Capsulerie, Les Malassis), Nanterre (Petit Nanterre, Chemin de l’Île, Cité Pablo Picasso), and Montreuil (La Noue-Clos Français, Bel Air, Grands-Pêchers), as well as in Saint-Denis, Aubervilliers, La Courneuve, Drancy, Pantin, and Melun, and in middle schools in Romainville, Noisy-le-Grand, and Gagny.

In Marseille, our presence has grown in the 13th arrondissement, in Les Ruches, Les Olives, La Marie, and La Maurelle. This continuity lets us work on the memory of urban change, links between generations, and correspondences with other peripheries.

The method has also been tried out in Les Valmeux, in Vernon, Normandy, and in Îles de Mars, in Le Pont-de-Claix, near Grenoble. These places take our geography beyond the Paris region and Marseille, and confirm how important local partners are.

In Brazil, projects have moved between Rocinha, Júlio Otoni, and Maré in Rio de Janeiro, the Comunidade do Bode in Recife, and Ladeira da Preguiça in Salvador de Bahia. Partnerships with neighborhood organizations and the work of locally rooted artists make it possible to produce stories that push back against simplistic outside views.

In Colombia, mOst has worked in Medellín, in Comuna 8 (notably in Golondrinas and 13 de Noviembre) and in Bello Oriente, in Comuna 3, as well as in Siloé, in Cali. In Mexico, projects have been developed in Valle de Chalco with the Museo Comunitario del Valle de Xico, in Cruz Blanca, in Ciudad Guzmán, and in Cherán, in Michoacán. In Algeria, long-term work has begun in Algiers, in the Rampe Vallée housing estate.

Some places are directly linked: La Capsulerie, Valle de Chalco, and Ciudad Guzmán; Bel Air and Grands-Pêchers, in Montreuil, with Rocinha and Júlio Otoni; La Noue-Clos Français and Rocinha; Les Ruches and the T.L., in Rocinha; Llanaditas, in Medellín, with Rocinha and Maré. These crossed perspectives form a translocal geography where peripheries connect with one another without going through a single central narrative.

The map keeps evolving. It distinguishes completed projects, established partnerships, and new relationships in the making. It shows that the mOst network is not built on abstract expansion, but on time, reciprocity, and the capacity of local partners to carry projects with residents.