Doctoral seminar #1 - "The text

Friday, January 24, 2025 –
From 2:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at theENSA Normandie documentation center.

TheENSA Normandie Research CommissionENSA Normandie voted to organize a new doctoral seminar.
Organized by the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Normandie (ENSA Normandie) starting in January 2025, this doctoral seminar aims to contribute to critical and engaged reflection on methods and tools specific to architectural research, while promoting a strong transdisciplinary approach at the crossroads of the humanities and social sciences, science and technology, and research-creation. It is organized around the presentation, analysis, and discussion of documents relating to the practices and theories of architecture, urban planning, and landscape design, which in each session are drawn from the corpus of a doctoral student and an experienced teacher-researcher.

TheENSA Normandie doctoral seminarENSA Normandie held once per semester at its premises in Darnétal. It is open to all members of Doctoral School 556 Man, Societies, Risks, Territory and Beyond, but its primary purpose is to support doctoral students in positioning themselves with regard to contemporary epistemological issues.

The first session will be held on Friday, January 24, atENSA Normandie, documentation center, from 2:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. It will focus on methodological questions raised by architects' discourse in the form of published or transcribed texts. How should such documents be critically examined? What status should be given to them? How can they be mobilized? This will be discussed on the basis of ongoing researchby Antoine Apruzzese (doctoral student) and Marie Gaimard (lecturer).

image : Bowl Chair, Lina Bo Bardi, 1951