From May 21 to 23, 2025, teacher Nikolas Fouré will meet with a team of second-year students in Dieppe for the workshop "Faire volerENSA Normandie (Making ENSA Normandy Fly), an intensive course combining architecture, history, and artistic creation. Playing with the presumed heaviness of architecture and heritage, this workshop aims to connect historical and imaginary realities, atmospheric realities and fabrications. Students are invited to deconstruct an architectural work in order to make a fragment of it fly. The flight will take place on the Normandy coast with the support of the city of Dieppe.

Visual: Intensive 2024 "MakingENSA Normandie flyENSA Normandie ©all rights reserved

The commune of Ressons-le-long, the École nationale supérieure d'architecture Paris-la Villette, the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Normandie and the association didattica, in partnership with the Petites Cités de Caractère association, organized a student residency to work with local residents to draw up a program of actions and imagine the future of the commune. A blog was also created for the occasion.

Click HERE for a presentation of the project, its organization, teaching and student teams, and partners.

Une fabrique ruralité S08 du DE Architecture de la Ville et des territoires

Visual: Graphic translation of the story shared by the people of Ressonnais and Ressonais ©Harold Buffeteau

May 13 and 14, 2025 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm - Salle Renzo Piano or in the school grounds.

Wondering what life is like after school? How to find an internship or your first job? What paths did those in your position a few years ago take? Don't miss our friendly get-togethers between students and alumni ofENSA Normandie.

On the program:

- Informal exchanges with alumni from a wide range of backgrounds
- Networking opportunities and advice for your future
- A friendly drink / snack for informal discussion

We look forward to seeing you there!

In partnership with ANA – Alumni Normandie Architecture, the association of former students ofENSA Normandie

Thursday, April 24, 2025 at 3:30 p.m. - Amphi Jean Duminy

Skin of Glass follows director Denise Zmekhol's journey after discovering that her father's most famous work as an architect, a modernist glass skyscraper in the heart of São Paulo known as Pele de Vidro ("Skin of Glass"), had been occupied by hundreds of unhoused people. Roger Zmekhol had designed the building for corporate offices, but in 1964, just as it was nearing completion, a military coup allowed the government to seize the building. The Pele de Vidro was used as a federal police station before being abandoned in 2003. Zmekhol traces the shape of Brazil's recent history through these changing forms of use. The film delicately blends the personal and the political in a meditation on displacement, inequality and loss.

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Vernissage on May 16, 2025 at 7pm during the graduation ceremony - Registration required.

From May 19 to 23, 2025,ENSA Normandie invitesENSA Normandie to discover a selection of the best final projects defended in June 2024 and February 2025 in three fields of study: Urban and Regional Architecture, Experimentation, and Trans-Form, Building with Existing Structures.

REGISTRATION CLOSED

Visual: VIÊT NAM - KHU TAP THÉ processing © S. Lerebours and M. Micaut

From 21 to 24.05.25 at ENSAP Bordeaux

The RSPA EnsaÉco, "network of teaching and research on ecology in the ENSAPs" aims to create active ecosystems between all the ENSA-Ps for ecology and synergies and innovative and alternative actions.

The EnsaÉco network stands out for its holistic and forward-looking approach to the ecological transition, and is constantly seeking to actively contribute to the evolution of the debate on the very definition of the notion, by putting it into perspective in implementation, teaching and research, and in a multiscalar way (from the scale of the territory to the scale of the material, in architecture as well as in landscape and urban planning).

More information

April 24, 2025 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. - Petit Amphi.

At this conference, Arnaud Crétot will explain how he came to create Europe's first solar bakery and roasting business in 2019, here in Normandy (NeoLoco.fr). With a background as a craftsman-engineer that starts with an energy study trip to 20 countries and goes through participation in the design of concentrated solar power ovens for craftsmen in developing countries, Arnaud Crétot recently co-created a methodology (Teled.fr) for transforming craft, industrial and public organizations to make them compatible with variable access to energy and resources. Renewable energies can power the economy if we learn to consume when we know how to produce. To what extent is this approach transforming our spaces?

A conference organized by the Experimentation field of study.

Visual ©Charlotte KREBS

On May 20 and 21, 2025, elections will be held to renew the staff and student representatives on the board of directors and academic council of Normandy University by electronic vote. In order to form these councils, staff and students from the universities of Caen Normandie, Le Havre Normandie, and Rouen Normandie, ENSICAEN, INSA Rouen Normandie, andENSA Normandie the six members of Normandie Université) will be called upon to vote.

Electronic voting will be open from Tuesday May 20 at 9:00 am to Wednesday May 21 at 5:00 pm.

Find out more HERE

May 7, 2025 from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm - Jean Duminy Amphitheatre.

As Gaston Bachelard put it, astonishment leads us to question normative frameworks and their criteria, and invites us to reinterrogate the everyday, to take a critical distance from contemporary issues. In short, to hypothesize that what is - easy, quick, reproducible - is fading away in favor of what will be - hospitable, enduring and sometimes imperfect.

Viewing link HERE

As part of the "Master Class" project workshop - S06 exploratory semester / Coordinating teacher : Valéry Didelon

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April 2, 2025 from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm - Amphi Jean Duminy.

"In this lecture I will share several projects from my own teaching and my work as Projects Director at Sou Fujiomoto Atelier Paris. Ranging from completed buildings to competitions in the last 5 years in Europe", Andy Yu.

Conference in English

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As part of the "Master Class" project workshop - S06 exploratory semester / Coordinating teacher : Valéry Didelon

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