The desire to create a space in which every doubt, every question, and every sensitivity could become tangible gave rise two years ago to the "Labyrinthe" fanzine project by theENSA Normandie doctoral student collective. The shared desire to share and promote an exploratory approach has expanded, bringing together researchers, teachers, and artists in this dynamic of critical positioning.

This publishing project is once again based on the emblematic figure of the labyrinth, a place for wandering or strolling, hostility or refuge, symbolizing this reflexive process, and inviting us to evolve, to transform ourselves individually and collectively.

This issue invites us to explore a number of themes that all relate in different ways to the transformation of our reality: excess - or dis-measure, mutation and resilience.

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Contents of issue #1 - March 2025: editorial / Labyrinths and video games / Measuring excess / I love you... / Staying a researcher, at what price? / Re-port or the bitter seven of Juvisy / Salle de fêtes / Their joy

Editorial team: Antoine Apruzzese, Lucie Dehame, Alexis Desplats, Miléna Koutani, Léna Tullifer

With contributions from Alexis Desplats, François Fleury, Nikolas Fouré, Miléna Koutani, Kacha Legrand, Léna Tullifer, Alix Turcq

LINK TO THE FANZINE WEBSITE HERE: see #0 online!

The magazine transversale, histoire : architecture, paysage, urbain is publishing its 8th issue on the theme of Chantiers - matières et outils: l'architecture mise en œuvre.
This issue is coordinated by Leonore Dubois-Losserand, researcher at EVCAU (ENSA Paris-Val-de-Seine), Marie GaimardATE researcher, and Gilles-Antoine Langlois, EVCAU researcher (ENSA Paris-Val-de-Seine).

The issue contains 10 articles, 3 HDR presentations and 5 thesis presentations. In particular, you'll find the following contributions:

- "Chantiers - matières et outils. Architecture put to work", by Gilles-Antoine Langlois, Marie Gaimard and Leonore Dubois-Losserand,

- Resistance and experimentation through CobBauge implementation: a study of interactions between the architectural project, craftsmen and craftswomen and materials on the worksite", by Raphaël Rattier, research associate at the ATE laboratory,

- a presentation of the HDR of Valter Balducci Souver les enfants, modeler les âmes. Childhood colonies in Fascist Italy (1922-1943)".
- a presentation of Raphaël Rattier 's thesis: "Conceevoir en bauge aujourd'hui: contribution au renouvellement de l'architecture contemporaine" (Designing with timber today: a contribution to the renewal of contemporary architecture)
- a presentation of Cristina Sanchez-Algarra 's thesis: "Urban recipes for the European Capital of Culture label: from desired city to reinvented territory".

Click HERE to see the magazine contents

visual: cover of issue 8 of transversal magazine , 2024 - © Rozenn Kervella, 2018

March 7, 2025 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. -
ULB Faculty of Architecture - 19 place Flagey, 1050 Ixelles - Local Be1.6

Caroline Maniaque will take part in the study day "Junkopia briocology. It's an Editor's World "organized on March 7, 2025 at the Faculté d'architecture La Cambre-Horta in Brussels. She will give a talk entitled "Stewart Brand's Whole Earth Catalog".

Presentation of the day :
"The aim of this study day is to examine what changes occur in architectural practice when the traditional figure of the architect-author is disrupted in favor of the composite figure of the architect-publisher. The idea is to directly test the hypothesis that this professional repositioning goes hand in hand with experimentation with other modes of operation, and consequently gives rise to other types of architectural production." (excerpt)

More information HERE
Detailed program HERE

poster visual © 2022 Ursula Schulz-Dornburg. Huts, Temples, Castles.

March 5 at 1:30pm - Jean Duminy Amphi.
As part of the Culture de la recherche 13 seminar " Reconstruction. Une actualité planétaire " organized by the ATE laboratory.

with
Slava Stopul digital architect
Kateryna Okhremenko, CSR manager, Balbek agency (Kiyv)

Unfortunately, the world's conflicts are not just a problem of the past. Even today, in Europe too, many areas are facing the same problems as the victims of 1944: temporary buildings, reconstruction plans, the place of the inhabitants... How is the contemporary world coping? Ukrainian architects Balbek Bureau have come up with some answers in a country still reeling from destruction. The first is the use of digital technology to photograph, compile and supply the knowledge, data and plans needed for reconstruction. They have also taken into account the mental and physical health of residents in the design of new residential areas, including communal spaces. Their action underlines the important role of architecture and architects in recreating a dignified and comfortable home, in order to work towards the healing of a people and the recovery of a country.

Conference organized in collaboration with Métropole Rouen Normandie and Club Prisme

visual: RE:Ukraine villages © BalbeK bureau

Bruno ProthBruno Proth, researcher at the ATE laboratory, has published Causeries d'un chauffeur de l'AFD au Cameroun avec un sociologue, with Editions Karthala. The book was produced in collaboration with Jean-Roland Ebassa.

Summary of the book

The proceedings of the Urbanisme et Architecture en Terre symposium held on May 24 and 25, 2024 at the National Museum in Yaoundé (Cameroon) have been published by éditions Menaibuc under the title Manières de terre, matières urbaines. The publication was edited by Salomon Mézépo (lecturer at the Fine Arts Institute of the University of Douala in Nkongsamba and at the Université des Montagnes in Yaoundé) and Bruno Proth (researcher at the ATE laboratory).

The contents of this book include :

• an article by Salomon Mézépo and Bruno Proth: "Savoir, pédagogie, expérimentations : découvertes, connaissances, apprentissages de la terre crue et exigences urbaines" ;
• an article byAlexis Desplats (doctoral student at the ATE laboratory): "L'Architecte à l'école, une fabrique à communs".

Book cover HERE

friday, february 14, 2025
at 2pm - Ancien amphithéâtre
École nationale supérieure de paysage de Versailles (ENSP) - 10 rue du maréchal Joffre à Versailles (Potager du Roi site)

Axelle THIERRYa researcher associated with the ATE laboratory, will present her doctoral thesis entitled "Négocier l'agriculture de l'archipel du Grand Paris. A prospective survey of agro-ecological urbanism and its co-benefits through landscape projects".
This project-based thesis was carried out under the supervision of Sylvie Salles and with the co-supervision of Rémi Janin at the ENSP's LAREP Laboratory, as part of the EUR Humanités, Création, Patrimoine andED n°628 Arts, Humanités et Sciences sociales of CY Cergy Paris Université.

Jury members:
- Claire Aragau, Professor HDR, Paris School of Urban Planning, reporter
- Xavier Guillot, Professor HDR, École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Marseille, examiner
- Rémi Janin, landscape architect, farmer, teacher, École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Clermont-Ferrand, co-supervisor
- Roselyne de Lestrange, Professor, Faculty of Architecture, Architectural Engineering and Urban Planning, Université Catholique de Louvain, reporter
- Sébastien Marot, Professor HDR, École d'architecture de la ville & des territoires Paris-Est, examiner
- Sylvie Salles, Professor HDR, École nationale supérieure de paysage de Versailles, Director

Abstract:
Faced with the current challenges of metropolitan development linked to climate change and the degradation of natural resources, public policies, particularly in France, are called upon to profoundly renew the relationship between urban and agricultural areas. However, Greater Paris, like other metropolises, is struggling to initiate food relocations leading to spatial recompositions between its urban, agricultural, natural and forestry components. Against this backdrop, this doctoral research examines the role of the Paris metropolis' agricultural enclaves, which form an archipelago of food-producing islands within the Green Belt.

It aims to respond to two challenges: to shed light on how agri-landscape projects based on enclaves can be a driving force for the reterritorialization and resilience of urban territories, and to clarify the contributions of designers, particularly landscape architects, to these project processes.

This project-based research draws on the situated capacities of landscape projects to articulate food, agricultural, urban and environmental issues. In partnership with Île-de-France Nature, a key player in regional policy and the Green Belt, nine contrasting areas of enclosed agricultural land were analyzed. This survey, which identified typologies of issues and players, as well as the landscape and project dynamics at work, led to a prospective approach undertaken on the Coteaux de Nézant and Mont de Veine site to spatialize development scenarios on the scale of an agricultural enclave. This process tested and evaluated tools for the collective design of a multifunctional, sustainable land development project.

This research aims to equip designers, decision-makers, farmers and citizens to take a systemic approach to urban agricultural relocation projects. The prospective approach leads to a collaborative method of territorialized transition scenarios, as well as tools and methods for agro-ecological urban planning. It concludes by showing how negotiated agriculture, resulting from a new distribution of roles and land uses, leads to territorial co-benefits,based on the archipelago of enclaves seen as a network of shared resource locations. This approach addresses food as an essential territorial issue, dealing with the interdependence between the urban, its resources and its landscapes.

more information on the presentation HERE
and to access the venue HERE

image: "Des jardins maraîchers de Grenelle", 1902, lithograph by Henri Rivière, from the series "Trente-six vues de la tour Eiffel", Musée d'Orsay

March 5, 2025 from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. -
Amphi Jean Duminy.

The ATE laboratory is organizing the 13th edition of its Research Culture seminar on the theme of "Rebuilding. Une actualité planétaire".

On this occasion, three speakers will present the progress of their work and reflections:

– Antoine Apruzzese, PhD student, ATE laboratory, ENSA Normandie,
– Łukasz Musiaka, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Geographical Sciences, University of Łódź, Poland,
– Rita Khalaf, PhD student in architecture, ENSA Paris Val-de-Seine – Université de Paris Cité

The day will be introduced by Patrice Gourbin, senior lecturer, ATE laboratory, ENSA Normandie.
A round table discussion will conclude the morning, moderated by Sébastien Cherruet, senior lecturer, ATE laboratory, ENSA Normandie, and Christel Palant, senior lecturer, EVCAU laboratory, ENSA Paris-Val-de-Seine.

In the afternoon, we welcome two architects from theUkrainian agency Balbek for a conference entitled "The Reconstruction of Ukraine".

The seminar and conference will take place in the Jean-Duminy amphitheater from 9:30 am to 3:30 pm.

This event echoes the Club Prisme professional days held in Rouen on March 5-6-7, and the following events "Le Temps des collections. Reconstruction" events organized by Métropole Rouen Normandie.

Program HERE

Live webcast HERE

This 13th edition of the "Culture of Research" seminar is organized by Antoine Apruzzese and Patrice Gourbin, ATE laboratory, ENSA Normandie by Christel Palant, EVCAU laboratory, ENSA Paris-Val-de-Seine.

We would like to announce the publication of Smart French. La résilience de la ville moderne, 1945-1975, edited by Raphaël Labrunye, published by éditions des méandres.

Summary of the book

The Smart French research project is based on the premise that the built in France between 1945 and 1975 possess under-appreciated architectural qualities, conducive to à environmental transition. It offers an alternative to global approaches, which are often disparaging, and to monographic studies, which are necessary but difficult to generalize. Given the the lack of statistical data on this architecture, the study focuses on à develop relevant indicators, à based on a corpus of nearly 300 operations, to describe criteria such as the daylighting and ventilation.

The analysis is based on data taken from contemporary architectural reviews of these and designers' speeches. Thanks à statistical methods, the aim is to identify architectural recurrences, in order to inform public intervention policies targeting these that take into account their specific architectural and environmental features.

Authors
Shahram Abadie
Gauthier Bolle
Karim El Alami
Margherita Ferrucci
Élise Guillerm
Amir Mahamoud Issa
Raphaël Labrunye
Ignacio Requena
Daniel Siret
Yannick Sutter

The publication of this book was made possible thanks to the support of the Ministry of Culture, PUCA, the Normandy Region, the ATE laboratory (ENSA Normandie), the Arts, Civilization, and History of Europe laboratory – Arche – UMR 3400 (ENSA Strasbourg), ENSA Clermont-Ferrant, and ENSA Brittany.

More information on the book HERE

visual: cover of Smart French, éditions des méandres, 2024

ENSA de Versailles is organizing the ^8th Rencontres doctorales nationales en architecture et paysage (RDN2025) on October 16 and 17, 2025, in partnership with the Ministry of Culture's Education and Research Office.
This call is open to all doctoral students.

This year's theme: Terrains, territoires.Doctoral research in the light of the diversity of practices, methods and issues.

Several themes are proposed:

Focus 1: The terrains and territories of making. From the hand to artificial intelligence
Focus 2: The terrains and territories of drawing. Representation as a mode of analysis and design
Focus 3: The terrains and territories of the déjà-là. Evolutions and transformations of the existing: what are the challenges for tomorrow?
Axis 4: The terrains and territories of disorder. Knowledge and theories in times of crisis: models to be reinterpreted
Focus 5: Lands and territories of living. Practices, uses and representations of space

Deadline for submission of paper and/or poster proposals: February 16, 2025
Further information on the call for papers: https://rdn2025.sciencesconf.org/

visual: extract from the program