Until March 15, 2025, join us for the 7th edition of Chantiers communs, the cultural event that lets you see and experience the living, supportive and creative territories being invented in Normandy today. With over 40 events open to all, let's take the time together to discover and explore the places we live in, imagine new ways of living there, and invent the architecture of the world to come!

This year, we'll be focusing on struggles and imaginary worlds, enriching and questioning the three major themes launched in previous editions: inhabiting environments, building with the land, and preparing for the world to come.

Find out more here

Until June 2, 2025 - For its 12th edition of Temps des Collections, Métropole Rouen Normandie explores the theme of Reconstruction, echoing the commemorations of the Second World War and the post-war challenges that have profoundly marked the territory and the Norman imagination, in terms of both heritage renewal and resilience.

Presented between November 30, 2024 and June 2, 2025, this highlight will take place at museums throughout the Metropolis.

For more information, download the program HERE

January 17, 2025, 9:00 a.m. at the Pavillon des Transitions in Rouen.

How can we reconcile the urgency of climate change with the preparation of a fairer future for us all? How will we live in 2050? How can we reduce our footprint and achieve carbon neutrality? How can we adapt to climate change?

These issues are at the heart of the reflections undertaken by the Rouen Normandy Metropolis as it draws up its Schéma de Cohérence Territoriale - Air Energie Climat (SCOT-AEC).

To continue and amplify the momentum of territorial mobilization initiated at COP21, the Metropole is launching COP Rouen 2030 and setting up a Climate Action Network to help prepare the Air Energy Climate action plan.

On the morning program:

- Climate change: Challenges for our region

- COP Rouen 2030: what is it? How can I contribute?

- Ecological transition, societal transformations and respect for human rights: what recommendations for the SCOT-AEC? Workshops on 5 cross-cutting themes (sobriety, sustainable prosperity, resilience through the prism of social cohesion, environmental justice and paradigm shift)

For those who wish, 2-ton workshops will be held in the afternoon (registration required).

Unsfa's magazine, "Passion architecture", devotes its latest issue (2024, October, No.90) to women in architecture. It features a dossier containing statistics, personal accounts, portraits, background articles and more...

In issue 461 of "L'architecture d'aujourd'hui", teacher and architectural historian Alma Smoluch publishes a portrait of Sri Lankan architect Minnette de Silva, and in the following issue she introduces us to Adrienne Gorska, a Polish architect of the 1920s.

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Wednesday, December 18, 2024, at the MOHO HQ in Caen.

For its third edition, the Deeptech Tour returns to Normandy to put the spotlight on deeptech.

This tour is part of the French government's deeptech plan, operated by Bpifrance, which aims to help 500 startups emerge from research laboratories each year and become the technology leaders of tomorrow. The tour showcases the driving forces of deeptech within academic clusters, where the adventure begins to create high-impact, disruptive technologies.

Entrepreneurs, students, researchers, PhD students, coaches and other innovation players: deeptech is all about you!

It's you who are shaping these high-tech startups that are innovating to change our society, our lifestyles, our consumption, our food, and thus transform our daily lives, our industries and our environmental impact.

Registrations

Until January 4, 2025 -

The exhibition "Paysages de la Seine normande. A photographic observatory" presents almost a hundred photographic viewpoints over the Seine valley, created between 2019 and 2021 by Maxence Rifflet and Claire Tenu in collaboration with landscape architects and naturalists as part of the Observatoire photographique des paysages. Expected to be repeated in the coming years to monitor landscape evolution and influence public policy, these photographs are presented here in dialogue with a selection of old and recent works and documents that open up historical and critical perspectives on the sites represented.
The Observatoire photographique des paysages de la vallée de la Seine normande is supported by the Parc naturel régional des Boucles de la Seine normande, CAUE 76, CAUE 27 and the Conservatoire d'espaces naturels de Normandie.

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Wednesday, November 6 and Thursday, November 7, 2024 -

The École d'architecture de la Réunion organizes the 3rd International Biennial of Tropical Architecture: a professional meeting point for innovation and excellence in tropical architecture.

More information and registration here

Tuesday, October 8, 2024 at 6pm -
Is a school "with lots of windows and almost no walls" possible? Is there such a thing as a school that promises "joy, freedom, laughter and nirvana"? Between aspirations and regulations... between fantasies and contingencies... how do we invent the school of tomorrow?

Presentation of "Imagine your school" models, created by children aged 6 to 10 as part of a workshop led by Alain PENZES, visual artist and architect.

With the participation of Laurent JEANNIN, lecturer in educational sciences, holder of the research chair "From spaces in transition to the transition of educational spaces", and Stéphane RIOLAND, architect, lecturer at the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Normandie.

Please register on 02 35 63 60 68 or assistante.dga@sotteville-les-rouen.fr

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Friday, October 11, 2024 - From 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. -

Do you use or want to use geo and bio-sourced materials? Discover concrete projects during a morning of exchanges, designed as a time to seize opportunities to expand your network and identify constructive solutions from local eco-materials sectors.

More information and registration HERE

September 28 to October 13, 2024 -

Since 2019, the Maison de l'architecture de Normandie - le Forum has been coordinating Zigzag - a festival of architecture and the spatial arts conducted in a creative and participatory approach. It recorded over 1850 visitors in 2022.

Explore and survey the familiar landscapes, natural or built, known or unknown, of the Seine Axis, questioning, confronting, discovering, understanding and participating in the transformations of a territory in movement. But above all, be astonished, impressed and amazed by the natural and human riches of our region.

The Zigzag Festival creates encounters of all kinds, improbable encounters, plant encounters, geological encounters, human and social encounters with those who live, with those who build, with those who design and those who dream.

More information HERE