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Normandy House of Architecture - The Forum
June 19 to December 31, 2026 – In Normandy, climate change is already having an impact on our regions. Landscapes are changing as a result of several now-observable shifts: rising temperatures, changes in rainfall patterns, an increase in extreme weather events, and coastal erosion.
These changes are affecting our cities, rural areas, and coastlines, and directly challenge the ways we live, produce, and develop our communities.
The exhibition “Territories and Climate: Understand, Discuss, Act” explores these changes on a regional scale in Normandy. Drawing on scientific research from the Normandy branch of the IPCC*, it sheds light on current climate trends and highlights initiatives already underway in the field.
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Biennial - Beaux Détours
Since 2006, the Bellastock festival has brought together hundreds of students each year to design, build, and live in a life-size temporary city. Twenty editions. Nearly 10,000 participants. An architectural cooperative born out of this movement, and recognized expertise in reuse and bio-based construction.
In 2025, the festival takes a new step forward. Bellastock and Les Grands Ateliers are transforming it into a biennial: Beaux Détours—a biennial of architectural and urban experimentation. Two years in one region. One theme. Stops along the way—workshops, conferences, exhibitions, construction sites—that mark the journey. And a pop-up city as the grand finale.
What’s changing: the format, the location, the partnership. What remains: we arrive, we build on a real-world scale, we sleep on-site, we cook together, we debate in the evening, we party, we take it down. We return home transformed.
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"Practical Guide to Reuse" - AMC, April 2026, No. 340
In the fall of 2025, first-year master’s students atENSA Normandie, under the guidance of Soraya Haffaf and Julien Choppin, explored a novel approach to architecture: ecological construction through the lens of reuse. Part of the Experimentation program, this workshop during the S7-25 semester offered an immersive learning experience, where materiality and engagement with the real world replaced traditional design approaches.
With support from the Ministry of Culture and the Quartus Endowment Fund ( Les Expérimentales program), the workshop was able to draw on local partnerships—notably with the Les Bâtines recycling center and the design firm Espace Disponible—to provide students with hands-on experience.
The results of this work were featured in an exhibition at the Maison de l’architecture de Normandie in April 2026, titled“Passé recomposé.”
Building on this experience, Julien Choppin will lead the DPEA Rebond program starting in the 2026 academic year —the first post-master’s program in France focused on reusing materials in the construction industry.
Quartus Endowment Fund for Architecture
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July 13–26, 2026, at the Avenir Radieux Association, 13 rue des Châteaux, 70140 Pesmes –
How can high-quality architectural interventions help sustain village life? Each edition of the seminar seeks to answer this question by exploring avenues for the transformation of the historic center of the village of Pesmes. The unique character of this village, built on a promontory along the banks of the Ognon River, as well as the distinctiveness of its stone, wood, and tile structures, require a thoughtful transformation of the built environment grounded in an attention to context and materiality.
By Nikolas Fouré at ENSACF
Nikolas Fouré, a professor atENSA Normandie, will give a presentation at the École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Clermont-Ferrand as part of Research Week, organized by the Ressources Joint Research Unit.
Exhibition – “On Our Changes: Clouds—Sources, Cycles, and Resources”
Clouds are forms of water. We live alongside them, and our perceptions of them are shaped as much by art as by science. The exhibition “On Our Transformations. Clouds: Sources, Cycles, and Resources” is part of a research-creation project blending ecology, the arts, and the humanities. Through this central motif—the cloud—I explore our relationships with water and the land. Examining the representation of clouds also means delving into our imaginations.
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P.U.I. Normandy
Tuesday, March 24, 2026, starting at 9:00 a.m., at the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Rouen Normandy on the Madrillet campus –
Dedicated to partnership-based research, the focus of this day will be on "Impact Meetings," pre-arranged innovation meetings between companies or local authorities and laboratories to foster high-potential collaborations around CSR issues.
Identify technological solutions or expertise tailored to business challenges, learn about financing conditions and collaboration methods, access higher education and research resources in terms of R&D... In short, a day to make contacts, promote exchanges, and develop new projects.
Deadline for receipt of projects: March 15, 2026
The BSP collective is launching its first national architecture and urban planning competition focusing on three stops on the Limoges rail network as part of the Périgord-Limousin regional express rail project.
Around twenty sites have been identified in the Limoges area to accommodate new railway stops, in addition to the fifty existing stations in the region. Ten of these sites have been deemed a priority by local stakeholders based on: population density, employment opportunities, access to services, educational institutions and strategic sites, complementarity with other modes of transport, and the urban renewal strategy for adjacent neighborhoods.
1st prize: €3,000 / 2nd prize: €1,000 / Audience prize: €1,000
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Read – The 2025 Annual Day of the Observatory of the Architecture Economy reviews the main challenges facing the sector: the economic health of agencies, key figures, ecological and digital transitions, bio-based and geo-sourced materials, agency research, and artificial intelligence. A summary article to better understand the current dynamics and prospects of the profession.
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By Keller Easterling
Monday, December 8, 2025, at 7:00 p.m. at Échelle Inconnue, Rouen –
From free zones to global cities, a reflection on the spatial forms that organize contemporary power.
Architect, theorist and Yale professor Keller Easterling explores the invisible logics that shape our contemporary territories. Through her research on free trade zones, economic enclaves and global spatial infrastructures, she reveals how standardized urban forms, often dictated by finance and international governance, redefine the city beyond national frameworks. In this talk, she will offer a critical reading of these models of development and capital circulation - and invite us to rethink the tools of urban planning on a planetary scale.
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