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.

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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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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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Monday, December 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM - Échelle Inconnue, Rouen - France

The Netherlands, a logistics empire at the heart of Europe
Investigating the flexibilization of migrant workers
The presentation will draw on collective ethnographic research conducted since 2017 around the Port of Rotterdam, focusing on intra-EU migrant workers (flexworkers) employed in the giant warehouses of globalized logistics. The research examines these migrations, which depend on a real-time job offer managed by artificial intelligence (an algorithm named Isabel). It uncovers the regime of vulnerability that governs the lives of these migrant workers, the harshness of their daily toil, their living conditions, their waiting times in collective accommodation, and their exposure to racism. Finally, the research aims to reveal the intersecting effects of the free movement of workers and the control of migrant flexworkers' lives by algorithms, by analyzing the specific sufferings and subjectivities that emerge from this situation.

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November 19, 20 and November 21, 2025, Maison de l'Université, Mont Saint Aignan Campus - France

The risks associated with climate change do not follow on from one another: they interweave within complex systems. Flooding, heat islands, pollution, health crises... It's time to think together about risk and multirisk. These meetings lay the foundations for a shared culture of risk management in the Seine Valley.

This first edition, which will take place from November 19 to 21, 2025, will focus on the Seine Valley, with presentations by teacher-researchers from the 5 partner institutions in the TRANSITION project and socio-economic players.

The aim will be to enable teams from the project's partner establishments (URN, CHU, INSA, ENSAN and CNRS) to become acculturated to the risks and multi-hazards associated with climate change, key concepts of TRANSITION, and to exchange ideas. These encounters between different academic and socio-economic circles will also federate the players involved and encourage the meetings necessary for the emergence of multi-disciplinary research.

This first edition will ultimately enable us to build a recurring training course on the theme on a national or international scale.

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Until October 12, 2025 - 7th edition of this festival supported by the Maison de l'architecture de Normandie - le Forum, to discover architecture in a different way, through visits, itineraries, installations... offering immersive experiences. Zigzag - festival d'architecture et des arts de l'espace is an invitation to discover, understand and participate in the transformations of the Seine Valley.
Zigzag offers a sensitive approach to natural and built spaces, with the human being at the heart of its questions. Let us surprise you! It's an invitation to step aside and take a closer look.

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In 1990, Florence Lipsky co-founded Lipsky+Rollet with Pascal Rollet. Conceived as an architectural laboratory, the firm develops projects that combine innovation with environmental standards. Committed to teaching, Florence Lipsky also shares with us her experience as a professor and researcher in architecture.

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A series of podcasts from arSHEtectes about the place of women in architecture

Wednesday, November 5, 2025, Maison de la Chimie, Paris -

Housing concerns us all, and is closely linked to the evolution of society and its energy, climate, economic and social problems. Chemistry has played, and continues to play, an important role in adapting to these new challenges. All sectors of the habitat are concerned: architecture, urban planning, building materials, lighting, insulation, interior decoration... Chemistry is a key element in the development of new products.
Chemistry is an important tool for innovation in all these fields, and university and industry experts will be presenting the answers to these challenges, the outlook for the future, and the role of chemists, particularly young chemists. The multi-disciplinary field of Habitat is evolving and developing.
It needs new skills, and a well-trained workforce. Our high schools and vocational training schools are the best places to choose a career in these promising sectors.
Danièle OLIVIER, Vice-President of the Fondation internationale de la Maison de la Chimie

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