Dans la très longue grande série “Diaspora”, je tente avec les moyens du bord (Internet et ChatGPT) de retrouver les communautés des “Lost People” à travers le monde depuis le 10è siècle à nos jours. Au fil des découvertes, je me rends compte que j’ai encore tant à apprendre de notre Histoire mais que je…

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This story is widely known …abroad and very few in Madagascar are aware of what had happen to the “lost people”. Kidnapped or sold Malagasy that were taken abroad as for as Americas. Tromelin’s forgotten people were stranded for years on a sand bank in the Indian Ocean when the French sailors and merchants who…

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Retracer les exils forcées malgaches depuis le 10è siècle m’a permise d’en lire plus sur l’Histoire à travers les histoires. Il y a encore tant à découvrir vue l’absence de supports vulgarisés, faciles d’accès, disponibles à tous. Un élément qui a marqué dans ces écrits étant la grande difficulté lors des voyages. Il y a,…

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Si maintenant nous avons retrouvé la trace par ADN des ancêtres austronésiens des malgaches, les Banjar du  Kalimantan arrivés vers le 8è siècle durant l’ère proto-islamique bien influencés par l’Hindouisme et le Sanskrit après avoir colonisé les Comores, l’Histoire a démontré aussi que des africains ont été déplacés vers l’archipel indonésien durant la domination islamique…

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The first colour I thought of for Madagascar was a pinkish tone. The pink hue of a collection of houses in a particular village I remember seeing. But I hesitated… something about that pink felt too artificial to truly represent what Madagascar is to me. I began my hunt for the true colour of my…

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septembre 2019, durant le lohataona bien sûr, nous passions beaucoup de temps à sensibiliser sur des thématiques #architalks comme la transition énergétique, la construction durable, la préservation du Betsimitatatra et des amis venaient s’arrêter à Mahamasina le temps d’un bref échange et des nems et des THB. C’est là dans cette ambiance que débute le…

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I am Malagasy. Architect Member of the Order of Malagasy Architects and Graduate Member of the Royal Institute of Architecture of Canada. I am very proud to have joined these 2 institutions and I always make it a priority to encourage good practices, sharing and ethics. https://linktr.ee/jogany I have 4 children and I have been…

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There is no school of architecture accredited by the International Union of Architects in Madagascar (pop. 27,690,000). There has not been enough lobbying with teachers, institutions and authorities to rigorously resolve this deficiency in a definitive way. Education recognized by the UNESCO-UIA Charter is a body of trainings (including lectures and workshops) that will have…

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“Normal Science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend almost all of their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific community knows what the world is like. Much of the success of the enterprise derives from the community’s willingness to defend that assumption, if necessary at considerable cost. Normal Science, for example,…

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