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Every year for the past twenty years, 40,000 delegates from 195 countries have met for the United Nations conference on climate change in order to address questions concerning the future of our planet. Inspired by the local festivals called "Moussems," large public gatherings of the region, often post-harvest, that hold cultural, social, economic, and religious significance for the community, the design of the exhibition grounds is based upon a temporary urbanism created by the installation of a series of reusable wooden structures and a village of canopies, entirely demountable and reusable. The tent is a primitive and universal form of architecture that speaks to the common needs of man on this planet
