The book Chantiers de ville: exchanges, participation and urban hybridizationedited by Dominique Lefrançois (teacher-researcher at ATE), with the collaboration of Cécile Barbier and Nadya Rouizem, was published by Editions Recherches.

Inhabitant participation is nowadays carried on the banner of a more just and plural city. But it is constantly criticized, both by residents who desert participation bodies, and by urban professionals and researchers. So how can we change or improve the situation? Can we give participation the political dimension it lacks? Can we ensure that everyone is truly involved, including those who may or may not have deliberately set themselves apart from the norm? How can we also imagine a city that the ecological imperative invites us to look or think differently?
(excerpt from the book presentation)

Among the many authors of this book, Antoine Apruzzese, a doctoral student at the ATE laboratory, offers a contribution entitled "Democratie de façade ou construction du politique. La figure de l'architecte participant".

The publication of this book was made possible thanks to the participation of the ATE laboratory, the AHTTEP-UMR AUSSER CNRS laboratory, the French Ministry of Culture and the ANR.

Discover the contents HERE

Further information and orders on the publisher's website

visual: cover of the book Chantiers de ville. Échanges, participation et hybridisation urbaines, éditions recherches, 2023

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The journal Transversale is calling for articles for its seventh issue on the theme of Political Spaces in Architecture: Commitments, Experiences, Transmission.
This issue is coordinated by Marie Gaimard, lecturer atENSA Normandie researcher at ATE, and Gilles-Antoine Langlois, professor at ENSA Paris-Val-de-Seine and researcher at EVCAU.

This call for papers explores this architecture/politics relationship along three distinct lines of investigation - architecture being, in transversalearchitecture is understood on urban and landscape scales, and in terms of regimes of historicity:

1/ Architects' political commitment and the examination of its expression in public events, broadcast interviews, published works, architectural journals; architects' professional organizations, their conceptions of architecture and their political aims;

2/ The work of architecture itself as an asserted and articulated instrument of a political vision of space, conceived as likely to create the form for a transformation of society;

3/ Architectural education and politics: analysis of the teaching methods used in different periods and places, what they say about the societies that make them up and their visions of the architect's status in the city; analysis of the formation, continuity and contestation of these pedagogies and visions.

Articles must be submitted by October 1, 2023.
More information on thecall for contributions and the editorial charter.

visual: transversale n°6 - december 2022

On Wednesday June 7, 2023, François Fleury was the guest of Baptiste Muckensturm on his program Les Enjeux territoriaux on France Culture.

How can we build low-carbon buildings that are habitable in high temperatures, and how can we adapt existing buildings to meet new environmental requirements? François Fleury, engineer and director of the Architecture, Territories and Environment laboratory, and lecturer at the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Normandie, provides the answer in Rouen, a city where architecture has a strong heritage value.

As part of the "Archi-Adapt" research project with Noura Arab, financed by Métropole Rouen Normandie

To listen to the podcast click HERE

Aachen (Germany)

Caroline Maniaque will take part in the symposium " The architectures of catalogs / The catalogs of architectures "organized by RWTH Aachen University on March 30 and 31.
The colloquium focuses on the legacy of architectural catalogs as an interface between different fields of knowledge, technology and manufacture.

More information on the program HERE.

visual: detail of the program for the symposium " The architectures of catalogs / The catalogs of architectures " © RWTH Aachen University, 2023

Cahiers de la recherche architecturale et urbaine has published its latest online issue entitled "What do environmentalist mobilizations do to architecture, urbanism and landscape?".

This issue was edited by Sandra Fiori, Ralph Ghoche and Caroline Maniaque.

Caroline Maniaque co-wrote the introduction to the special issue: What environmental mobilization does to architecture: international and historical perspectives.

Antoine Apruzzesefor his part, offers an article from his current doctoral research: From activism to urban negotiation. Dynamics of political and environmental engagement at Floating University from Berlin

You can download the magazine (and all its issues) from theOpen Edition websiteby clicking HERE.

visual : CRAUP logo

Paris

The AHTTEP/AUSser-ENSAPLV research team and the Académie d'Architecture organize the Journées d'études " The architect's journeys. From training trips to professional travel in France and Europe." under the direction of Antonio Brucculeri, Marilena Kourniati (AHTTEP/AUSser, ENSAPLV) and Massimiliano Savorra (Università di Pavia).

This symposium, the first in a series of international study days (2023-2026), aims to deconstruct any univocal interpretation of the notion of travel.

Marie Gaimard and Caroline Maniaque were members of the scientific committee for these study days. They will contribute to the closing round table.

Find out more about the program HERE.

event visual: © Charles Rohault de Fleury (1842), Collections de l'Académie d'Architecture, Paris

Milan (Italy) -

Caroline Maniaque will take part in the symposium " Architects in Exile. Stories of New Spatial Experiences " organized by the Politecnico di Milano on May 29 and 30, 2023.
Caroline Maniaque, invited as Keynote Speaker, will give an introductory lecture on " Research perspectives on architects in Exile and migration".

More information on the program HERE.

visual: program details from the " Architects in Exile. Stories of New Spatial Experiences " - Abdula Akhledic et al, Borisovsky Ponds Complex Project, 1996 (photo courtesy of Ruslan Muradov) © Politecnico di Milano, 2023

Within the framework of the doctoral program Research-Creation RADIAN - Competition 2023, you will find below the list of candidates who will be auditioned:

CITROËN Flora
COSSON Zoé
DA COSTA Esmeralda
DELÉAN Hélène
MARTIN Léonard
REVEILLAUD Caroline
ZARKA Raphaël

The auditions will take place on Monday, June 12 from 1:30 pm at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Normandie (27, rue Lucien Fromage, 76160 Darnétal). Candidates will receive a notice shortly with the practical details of the audition.

6pm - Jean Duminy Amphitheatre -
as part of the conference "What architecture does to ecology" organized by the ATE laboratory

*EDIT* to follow the conference live: https://webtv.normandie-univ.fr/lives/colloque-ecologie-et-decloisonnement-disciplinaire/

Aristotle defines economy as the art of managing a household. Ernst Haeckel defines ecology as the interaction of living beings within an environment, seen as a shared household, a co-ownership. One definition of an architect could be one who, through in-depth study - formal or informal - has addressed the question of habitat and inhabitation; the interaction between living beings, and the physical reality of their shared envelope. Does such a "training" prepare one to be more lucid about ecological issues on the scale of a landscape, a country, a planet? This is the question that Lionel Devlieger's conference will address, bringing arguments in favor of, but also against, this postulate.

Lionel Devlieger is an engineer-architect and historian. He is co-founder of Rotor, a Brussels-based organization specialized in the study of current material culture.
Rotor promotes the debate on issues related to resources, waste and obsolescence in the building sector through research projects, exhibitions, conferences and publications. Rotor also coordinates large-scale dismantling operations, collaborates on architectural projects and carries out design projects.
Lionel Devlieger has taught at universities in Europe and the United States (UC Berkeley, TU Delft, Columbia University, AA School, among others). He is co-author of Deconstruction and Reuse, 2018, a textbook on the reuse of building elements. Since September 2021, he is an associate professor at the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning at Ghent University, where he teaches, among other things, the history of circular design and modern building ecologies.

visual: "The veins of the earth", plate extracted from Georgius Agricola, De Re Metallica, 1556.