École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Nantes / MSH Ange-Guépin
Miléna Koutani, a doctoral student in the ATE laboratory, will take part in the "Écritures alternatives de la recherche en SHS" study days organized by MSH Ange-Guépin and CRENAU (UMR-AAU) on November 13 and 14, 2023.
Miléna Koutani will take part in a round-table discussion during the "Drawing and comics in research" session.
More information on the program HERE.
On-site or videoconference participation - registration required in both cases.
visual: comic strip © Miléna Koutani, 2023
edited by Noura Arab and François Fleury
The book Resources for Ecological Architecture: Volume 1, Building Materials, edited by Noura Arab and François Fleury, professors and researchers at ATE, has been published by Presses des Mines. This collective work is the result of the seminar "Materials, Construction Resources in Architecture, " held in June 2022 atENSA Normandie.
Among the many authors who contributed to this book, several members ofENSA Normandie the ATE laboratory are worth mentioning:
– Adrien Henocq and Cyril Pressacco (teachers atENSA Normandie), "Trajectory – From Matter to Architecture"
– Raphaël Rattier (PhD student at the ATE laboratory), "The culture of cob through state-of-the-art technology: a design tool"
– Carole Lemans (teacher atENSA Normandie, associate researcher at the ATE laboratory), "Experimenting with reeds; from a naive or expert perspective"
The publication of this book was made possible thanks to the participation of the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Normandie, the ATE laboratory and the Natural Renewable Resources, Climate and Architecture chair.
Find all the information (summary, table of contents, orders) on the publications kiosk
visual: cover of Ressources pour l'architecture écologique. Tome 1, building materials, Presses des Mines, 2023
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Project-based research
Milena Koutani, a doctoral student at the ATE laboratory, will be taking part in the Rencontres doctorales nationales en architecture et paysage 2023, to be held at ENSA Toulouse on October 12 and 13, 2023.
For this 7th edition, the theme chosen is to highlight doctoral research through projects that ask questions.
Milena Koutani will present a paper entitled: "L'engagement par le projet comme outil de recherche sur les communs".
More information on the program HERE.
visual: program visual for the Rencontres doctorales nationales en architecture et paysage 2023.
Mediation and its places in a city under permanent construction
Thursday, October 19 - 7pm -
Friday, October 20 - 9am/6pm -
ENSA Paris-La Villette -
To accompany the publication of Chantiers de ville. Échanges, participation et hybridation urbaines , edited by Dominique Lefrançois, a study day will be organized in partnership between the AHTTEP, ATE and Paragraphe laboratories on Friday, October 20, 2023 at ENSA Paris-La Villette.
This day, entitled "City construction sites. Mediation and its places in a city under permanent construction," concludes a European research project (ERANET, ANR) on the subject of living labs and participation in social housing neighborhoods, which brought together the research teams AHTTEP (ENSA La Villette), ATE (ENSA Normandie), Paragraphe (Information and Communication Sciences, Paris 8 University); Cosmopolis (Free University of Brussels), and Polimi (Politecnico di Milano).
It will give the floor to many of the book's authors and is open to everyone, including professionals, students, researchers, and city dwellers.
Prior to the meeting, the film Prova d'orchestra (Federico Fellini) will be screened on Thursday, October 19, 2023, with the participation of Arte Campus.
In November (date to be confirmed), a visit to the Cité internationale de la Langue in Villers-Cotterêts will be organized with Zeev Gourarier (scientific curator of the Cité, scientific director of the MUCEM).
visual: cover of the book Chantiers de ville. Échanges, participation et hybridisation urbaines, éditions recherches, 2023
Training local elected officials in architecture, or architecture as political education
14h00 - Jean Duminy Amphitheatre -
Damien RENAULT will submit his doctoral thesis entitled "La formation des élus locaux à l'architecture ou l'architecture comme éducation politique".
This doctoral thesis was prepared in the ATE laboratory, under the supervision of Caroline MANIAQUE.
Jury members
Véronique BIAU, Architecte-urbaniste en chef de l'État, ENSA de Paris-La-Villette, LET-LAVUE, rapporteur
Pierre CAYE, Director of Research, ENS Ulm, Centre Jean-Pépin, Rapporteur
Jean-Charles CHABANNE, University Professor, ENS Lyon, Institut français de l'éducation, ECP, LIRDEF, examiner
Arnaud DUTHEIL, Architect, examiner
Marc FROCHAUX, Architect, examiner
visual © Damien Renault
In response to political demands for local elected officials to be trained in architecture by existing advisory, mediation and training institutions, and given the anthropological and cultural difficulties raised by these demands, this thesis raises the question of edilitary training opportunities: when, in what situations, on what occasions, in what circumstances, formal and informal, are local elected officials likely to "encounter" architecture, to have a "formative contact" with it?
Two avenues have been pursued: first, based on the model of training engineering, the referentialization of edilitary activities and skills (I); then, based on the analysis of teaching practices, the definition and modeling of a "teaching object" (II). The research is based first on urban planning law and architectural criticism (I), then on a corpus of (hypothetically) formative situations: advisory, mediation and (explicitly) training situations (II). The thesis thus highlights the fundamental capacity (in an edilitary frame of reference) to pay attention to, appreciate and judge construction (I), then shows how consulting architects, mediators and trainers exercise this capacity - their own and that of their audience(s) - through the "architectural reading" of projects and sites (II).
Through this didactic proposal, defined as a set of reflective operations or spiritual exercises contributing to the appropriate judgment of construction, the thesis intends to contribute to research: on the one hand, in the field of architecture, by reintroducing (the relationship to) architecture into "processual" research and initiating an anthropological approach to the profession and the discipline; which, on the other hand, falls within the field of education and training sciences, more precisely within the horizon of ergo-didactics, seeking in teachers' "professional gestures" the foundation of taught knowledge.
The proposal also responds to the initial political demand, presenting itself as a tool for improving (or didactizing) current architectural advisory and mediation practices, and for professionalizing advisors and mediators.
Finally, going beyond this demand, the survey makes it possible to consider architectural advice, mediation and training as a means of political education for elected representatives.
École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Lyon
Antoine Apruzzese, doctoral student at the ATE laboratory, will take part in the international colloquium " Chercher hors les mots. La recherche à l'épreuve du dessin en architecture " organized by ENSA Lyon and the EVS-LAURE UMR 5600 laboratory on November 30 and December 1, 2023.
Antoine Apruzzese will present a paper entitled: " En quête d'une recherche-récit. Le dessin comme espace d'émergence d'une pratique architecturale de la collaboration".
More information on the program HERE.
Registration deadline: November 13 HERE
visual: program visual for the "Searching beyond words" symposium
Presentation at ENSA Nancy
The ENSA in Nancy is now hosting the exhibition "May 68! Architecture Too," curated by Caroline Maniaque (ENSA Normandie), Eléonore Marantz (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University), and Jean-Louis Violeau (ENSA Nantes).
The exhibition "May 68. Architecture too!" invites us to revisit this fifteen years (1962-1977) which saw the renewal of teaching along with that of architecture, urbanism.
Watch the exhibition video HERE
More information about the exhibition at ENSA Nancy: HERE
Visual of the exhibition
By Gilles Novarina
Cycle architecture à lire -
00 – Jean Duminy Amphitheater –
During the Renaissance, architecture emerged as an autonomous discipline whose principles were laid down in treatises and then transferred to the organization of public spaces. In the mid-19th century, Haussmann in Paris and Cerdà in Barcelona defined the respective fields of urban planning and architecture. In the 1930s, Le Corbusier, by giving priority to housing, challenged this separation. But modern architecture was also criticized, and there were many attempts to hybridize the tradition of the regular city with the contributions of the Modern Movement.
Gilles Novarina is an urban planner and professor emeritus at Grenoble Alpes University. He was visiting professor at the Politecnico di Torino. Author of "Histoire de l'urbanisme : de la Renaissance à nos jours", published in April 2023 by Éditions Le Moniteur, he is currently a researcher at the Architecture Environnement & Cultures Constructives laboratory.
Discussant: Gabriella Trotta-Brambilla
Scientific directors of the "Architecture à lire" lecture series: Caroline Maniaque and Gabriella Trotta-Brambilla, architects, teachers, and researchers at ENSA Normandie and the ATE (Architecture, Territory, Environment) Research Laboratory / ENSA Normandie Normandie Université.
No live
Visual: SPA/SPCA © Pierre Machard/ECPAD/Défense
by Meriem CHABANI
5:30 pm - Jean Duminy Amphitheatre - France
as part of the " Territoire en transition. Habitat, vieillissement et espaces de vie " organized by the ATE laboratory, in partnership with the Fondation Fil Seine and the Union sociale pour l'habitat en Normandie.
Retirement marks a major turning point. Time management, finances and social integration are all impacted, with degrees of anticipation varying according to the individual, but invariably leading to the question: where and how to grow old? In France, the vast majority want to remain at home. Rooted in the survey work carried out as part of the "Le Printemps de L'Hiver" study (Maison de l'Architecture IDF, 2019-2021), this talk examines the trends underlying aging in France, between desires for autonomy and community living - whether chosen or subjugated.
How can our cities support these desires for autonomy, and turn the spatial practices of the elderly into an opportunity for invention for all?
Meriem Chabani is an architect and urban planner, founder of the New South agency. She is also an associate lecturer at ENSA Paris Malaquais. Her aim is to "put the margin at the center". She questions the social, political and economic dynamics that shape territories and shape architecture. Her work has been exhibited at the Istanbul Design Biennial (2018), CIVA (2022) and the Lagos Biennial (2023). She is a winner of FAIRE (2021), the Europe 40 under 40 prize awarded by the European Center for Architecture and the Chicago Athenaeum (2020), Europan (2017) and the Holcim Awards for Sustainable Development (2014). Topics: South/North relations, Inclusive cities, Architecture of the Sacred, Productive cities.
visual: Chez Ginette © Olivier Leclerq - Etude le Printemps de l'Hiver
Housing, ageing and living spaces
The ATE laboratory, in partnership with the FilSeine Foundation and the Union pour l’Habitat Social de Normandie (Normandy Social Housing Union), is organizing an international conference on September 14 and 15, 2023, atENSA Normandie "Territories in transition. Housing, aging, and living spaces."
The symposium focuses on the evolution of architectural and urban forms, as well as spatial design practices, in the face of the challenges of demographic ageing. The increase in the proportion of people over 60 or in old age, as well as the unprecedented ageing of the working-age population, lead us to question the effects of the baby boom and the generational tensions running through the production of housing and public policies in the field of urban and regional planning. We need to take into account the renewal of actor systems, norms and the different ways in which residents appropriate space. What major changes is the demographic transition bringing about in the quality of life of urban and rural populations, with what implications for the built and developed environment, its design and uses?
The colloquium will contribute to scientific and public debate through 13 original papers and 2 round tables grouped into 4 thematic sessions.
The round tables will bring together elected representatives, social landlords and associations.
A public lecture entitled "Du chez-soi au chez-nous : des villes à l'épreuve de l'âge " will be given on Thursday September 14 by Meriem CHABANI, Architecte-Urbaniste, agence New South, Associate Lecturer, ENSA Paris Malaquais and RCA London I Guest Lecturer, HEAD Geneva .
The conference is open to all, free of charge, without registration. No remote transmission is planned.
visual: Euralille, Îlot Saint-Maurice, 2003 (designers: Agence Laloux-Lebecq - architects: Xaveer De Geyter, Fabienne Fendrich) - photo © Milena Guest, 2022