Strangers Need Strange Moments Together – Designing interaction for public spaces — daily tous les jours

“We” in this book refers both to all of us as citizens of Earth, and to Mouna Andraos and Melissa Mongiat, along with their team at the Montreal-based art and design studio Daily tous les jours, as they explore new ways of living together. It is an invitation into their journal. For over fifteen years, the studio has created interactive public art around the world, using music, movement, and storytelling to spark connection, joy, and care among strangers. Through this book, an evolving practice is shared that blends technology, design, and performance to ask deeper questions and imagine new forms of collective life, beyond the urban masterplan and towards infrastructure for the human spirit.