Exploring informed virtual sites through Michel Foucault's heterotopias

International audienceThis papers starts with some mysterious contribution by Michel Foucault (1967) about heterotopias as special epistemological sites. With a recent case-study — an immersive virtual reality art project dealing with some ancient abbey reconstruction and managed by a French engineering school — we analyse the successive attempts to satisfy the system users by extending Foucault's heterotopology, which appears to be useful and creative for the Virtual Reality research communities