Conference - "Towards a culture of energy variability" by Arnaud Crétot

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.

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Online Voting

Election - Renewal of staff and student representatives on the Normandie University boards

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

 

Master Class - "The value of imperfection or how to cultivate astonishment" by Marlène Leroux from Archiplein workshop

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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Master Class - "Common grounds" by Andy Yu

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

Viewing link HERE

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

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International Women's Rights Day

From March 3 to 8, Crous Normandie is organizing several activities for students to mark International Women's Rights Day. Get out, get moving, get creative: click HERE for the week's full program.

 

Round table - Europan 18 "Re-sourcing

March 19, 2025 from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm - Salle Garnier.

Europan is a European network of architecture, urban planning and landscape ideas competitions for young designers who care for inhabited environments. An evolution of the French architectural competition Plan Architecture Nouvelle (PAN), from its inception in the late 1980s, the Europan approach is unique in that it supports winning designers from their first proposal through to project completion, while engaging in ongoing architectural and societal debate.
The theme of the 18th edition, launched in March 2025, is "Re-sourcing".

Speakers: Julie Fernandez, architect, secretary general of Europan France, and Guillaume Duranel, architect, lecturer ENSA Normandie, former Europan winner.

Facilitator: Gabriella Trotta-Brambilla, architect, lecturer at ENSA Normandie, expert

Open to all

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Master Class - "Nature / Culture" by Lia Kiladis

March 19, 2025 from 5:30pm to 7pm - Amphi Jean Duminy.

The window in the architecture of George Nakashima and Alvaro Siza -

As in an exercise in comparative literature, a presentation on the conception of the window in the works of two architects: George Nakashima (1905-1990), who trained as an architect and worked as a cabinetmaker, and Alvaro Siza, a contemporary architect. Their paths diverge, but we're going to explore their affinities, notably through the element of the window/opening. Implicit in this exercise is the conviction that architecture is a cultural expression in all its nuances and contradictions.

Viewing link HERE

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

Visual: Golconde room © Lia Kiladis

 

Master Class - "The rural project" by Félix Mulle

March 5, 2025 from 5:30pm to 7pm - Amphi Jean Duminy.

Low-density conditions -

On a given territory, low population density calls for a project attitude and specific tools that are not reducible "on a small scale" to conventional urban planning. Drawing on his experience as an architect and urban planner with Atelier de l'Ourcq, Félix Mulle will outline the specific conditions for projects in rural areas, as well as the contours of a planning grammar that would be adapted to them.

Viewing link HERE

As part of the Exploratory Project Workshop - S06 semester / Referring teacher : Valéry Didelon

Visual © Atelier de l'Ourcq 2022

Living Frankfurt" workshop in 9 videos

The Living Frankfurt workshop (Blended Intensive Program) offers students from the four partner countries (Portugal, France, Spain and Germany) the opportunity to take part in a week of intensive work as part of an interdisciplinary, multicultural team.

9 videos were produced last October by the S7 AVT Fabrique Frankfurt student team under the direction of Caroline Maniaque. They will be shown until March 2025 at the Giersch Museum in Frankfurt (near the Museum of Architecture) as part of the OUR HOUSE exhibition, in the section entitled "Living Room".

And also available on our Youtube! channel by clicking HERE.

ENSA Normandie teacher ENSA Normandie Caroline Maniaque

Four partner schools: University Institute of Lisbon, School of Architecture, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Normandie, Madrid Polytechnic.

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Renewal of Raphaël Labrunye as director of the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Normandie

Following the favorable opinion of the Board of Directors on December 6, 2024, La Ministre de la Culture has appointed Raphaël Labrunye as Director of the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Normandie. Mr. Labrunye was first appointed on February 1, 2019, with a renewal in 2022. This new 3-year mandate, in accordance with current decrees, takes effect from February 1, 2025.

Here are the details of our work areas.

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In support of the actions carried out during the last two terms of office, the three areas of focus for the Director ofENSA Normandie be:

  1. Stabilize and increase the reliability of administrative services, so that they can improve their working conditions and tools in support of teaching and research. The ambition is to set up a "learning organization", working collaboratively on identified improvement projects, and reinforcing in-house training to support existing expertise.
  2. A medium-term reflection on the three geographical sites ofENSA Normandie, in Rouen, Le Havre, and Hanoi. The training and research associated with partners at these three metropolitan sites offer numerous opportunities for teaching staff and students. In Rouen, the unprecedented collaboration between the School and the University on transitions and multi-risk management has already enabled the ATE laboratory to initiate major scientific collaborations. In Le Havre, long-standing collaborations with the University (Master 2 DRAQ) and INSA (dual architect-engineer degree) have enabled the deployment of the Grand Chantier center around reuse and the Auguste Perret Chair on the heritage of Reconstruction. In Vietnam, with the support of the bachelor's degree awarded in collaboration with Hanoi Architecture University, the partners plan to further develop this program combining architecture and landscape design and to develop partnership-based research.
  3. A longer-term ambition for all 21 ENSA(p). When I was elected to the presidency of the Collège des directeurs et des directrices, I asserted the need to professionalize collaboration between the ENSA(P), which broadly share the same organizational and forward-looking issues in architectural education and research. Although our supervisory ministries are responsible for strategic policy, and each of our establishments is autonomous in its pedagogical and scientific orientations, I feel it is necessary to strengthen the sharing of expertise within the network, and to pool common management tools and methods.


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