Chantiers de ville. Urban exchange, participation and hybridization

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 (associate member of AHTTEP/AUSser) has been published by Editions Recherches.

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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 and think differently?
At a time when debate requires bringing together people who are strangers to each other, when neighborly relations need to be thought through not only between people but also with animals, when the boundaries between public and private, or between the city and nature, need to be reconsidered, we wanted to bring together the words of people from different backgrounds and professions: architects, urban planners, landscape architects, ethnologists, philosophers, designers, entomologists, film producers...
The book is conceived as a melting pot of experiences and stories in various forms, from discussed to more impromptu analyses. Conceived as a forum, it is nourished by the idea that the intersection of points of view can give rise to other perspectives for building a city made up of exchanges and urban hybridizations, forced to rebuild on itself, in essence a permanent work in progress.

Chantiers de ville includes contributions by Cécile Barbier, Nadya Rouizem, Nele Aernouts, Antoine Apruzzese (doctoral student at ATE), Patrick Bouchain, Anne-Laure Chambaz, Thomas Decreus, Goliath Dyèvre, Lucie Faure, Romain Gallart, Patrick Godeau, Nicolas Guillon, Pascale Joffroy, Clotilde Joly, Stéphane Juguet, Claire Lemarchand, Houcine Messous, Francis Navarre, Mélusine Pagnier, Thierry Paquot, Coriandre Prudhomme, Mina Saidi Sharouz, Eddie Soulier, Juliette Spire.

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.

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