The ENSA in Nancy is now hosting the exhibition "May 68! Architecture Too," curated by Caroline Maniaque (ENSA Normandie), Eléonore Marantz (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University), and Jean-Louis Violeau (ENSA Nantes).

The exhibition "May 68. Architecture too!" invites us to revisit this fifteen years (1962-1977) which saw the renewal of teaching along with that of architecture, urbanism.

Watch the exhibition video HERE

More information about the exhibition at ENSA Nancy: HERE

Visual of the exhibition

5:30 pm - Jean Duminy Amphitheatre - France
as part of the " Territoire en transition. Habitat, vieillissement et espaces de vie " organized by the ATE laboratory, in partnership with the Fondation Fil Seine and the Union sociale pour l'habitat en Normandie.

Retirement marks a major turning point. Time management, finances and social integration are all impacted, with degrees of anticipation varying according to the individual, but invariably leading to the question: where and how to grow old? In France, the vast majority want to remain at home. Rooted in the survey work carried out as part of the "Le Printemps de L'Hiver" study (Maison de l'Architecture IDF, 2019-2021), this talk examines the trends underlying aging in France, between desires for autonomy and community living - whether chosen or subjugated.
How can our cities support these desires for autonomy, and turn the spatial practices of the elderly into an opportunity for invention for all?

Meriem Chabani is an architect and urban planner, founder of the New South agency. She is also an associate lecturer at ENSA Paris Malaquais. Her aim is to "put the margin at the center". She questions the social, political and economic dynamics that shape territories and shape architecture. Her work has been exhibited at the Istanbul Design Biennial (2018), CIVA (2022) and the Lagos Biennial (2023). She is a winner of FAIRE (2021), the Europe 40 under 40 prize awarded by the European Center for Architecture and the Chicago Athenaeum (2020), Europan (2017) and the Holcim Awards for Sustainable Development (2014). Topics: South/North relations, Inclusive cities, Architecture of the Sacred, Productive cities.

visual: Chez Ginette © Olivier Leclerq - Etude le Printemps de l'Hiver

The ATE laboratory, in partnership with the FilSeine Foundation and the Union pour l’Habitat Social de Normandie (Normandy Social Housing Union), is organizing an international conference on September 14 and 15, 2023, atENSA Normandie "Territories in transition. Housing, aging, and living spaces."

The symposium focuses on the evolution of architectural and urban forms, as well as spatial design practices, in the face of the challenges of demographic ageing. The increase in the proportion of people over 60 or in old age, as well as the unprecedented ageing of the working-age population, lead us to question the effects of the baby boom and the generational tensions running through the production of housing and public policies in the field of urban and regional planning. We need to take into account the renewal of actor systems, norms and the different ways in which residents appropriate space. What major changes is the demographic transition bringing about in the quality of life of urban and rural populations, with what implications for the built and developed environment, its design and uses?

The colloquium will contribute to scientific and public debate through 13 original papers and 2 round tables grouped into 4 thematic sessions.
The round tables will bring together elected representatives, social landlords and associations.
A public lecture entitled "Du chez-soi au chez-nous : des villes à l'épreuve de l'âge " will be given on Thursday September 14 by Meriem CHABANI, Architecte-Urbaniste, agence New South, Associate Lecturer, ENSA Paris Malaquais and RCA London I Guest Lecturer, HEAD Geneva .

The conference is open to all, free of charge, without registration. No remote transmission is planned.

Download the program program.

visual: Euralille, Îlot Saint-Maurice, 2003 (designers: Agence Laloux-Lebecq - architects: Xaveer De Geyter, Fabienne Fendrich) - photo © Milena Guest, 2022

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, was published by Editions Recherches.

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 or think differently?
(excerpt from the book presentation)

Among the many authors of this book, Antoine Apruzzese, a doctoral student at the ATE laboratory, offers a contribution entitled "Democratie de façade ou construction du politique. La figure de l'architecte participant".

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.

Discover the contents HERE

Further information and orders on the publisher's website

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

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The journal Transversale is calling for articles for its seventh issue on the theme of Political Spaces in Architecture: Commitments, Experiences, Transmission.
This issue is coordinated by Marie Gaimard, lecturer atENSA Normandie researcher at ATE, and Gilles-Antoine Langlois, professor at ENSA Paris-Val-de-Seine and researcher at EVCAU.

This call for papers explores this architecture/politics relationship along three distinct lines of investigation - architecture being, in transversalearchitecture is understood on urban and landscape scales, and in terms of regimes of historicity:

1/ Architects' political commitment and the examination of its expression in public events, broadcast interviews, published works, architectural journals; architects' professional organizations, their conceptions of architecture and their political aims;

2/ The work of architecture itself as an asserted and articulated instrument of a political vision of space, conceived as likely to create the form for a transformation of society;

3/ Architectural education and politics: analysis of the teaching methods used in different periods and places, what they say about the societies that make them up and their visions of the architect's status in the city; analysis of the formation, continuity and contestation of these pedagogies and visions.

Articles must be submitted by October 1, 2023.
More information on thecall for contributions and the editorial charter.

visual: transversale n°6 - december 2022

Aachen (Germany)

Caroline Maniaque will take part in the symposium " The architectures of catalogs / The catalogs of architectures "organized by RWTH Aachen University on March 30 and 31.
The colloquium focuses on the legacy of architectural catalogs as an interface between different fields of knowledge, technology and manufacture.

More information on the program HERE.

visual: detail of the program for the symposium " The architectures of catalogs / The catalogs of architectures " © RWTH Aachen University, 2023

Cahiers de la recherche architecturale et urbaine has published its latest online issue entitled "What do environmentalist mobilizations do to architecture, urbanism and landscape?".

This issue was edited by Sandra Fiori, Ralph Ghoche and Caroline Maniaque.

Caroline Maniaque co-wrote the introduction to the special issue: What environmental mobilization does to architecture: international and historical perspectives.

Antoine Apruzzesefor his part, offers an article from his current doctoral research: From activism to urban negotiation. Dynamics of political and environmental engagement at Floating University from Berlin

You can download the magazine (and all its issues) from theOpen Edition websiteby clicking HERE.

visual : CRAUP logo

Paris

The AHTTEP/AUSser-ENSAPLV research team and the Académie d'Architecture organize the Journées d'études " The architect's journeys. From training trips to professional travel in France and Europe." under the direction of Antonio Brucculeri, Marilena Kourniati (AHTTEP/AUSser, ENSAPLV) and Massimiliano Savorra (Università di Pavia).

This symposium, the first in a series of international study days (2023-2026), aims to deconstruct any univocal interpretation of the notion of travel.

Marie Gaimard and Caroline Maniaque were members of the scientific committee for these study days. They will contribute to the closing round table.

Find out more about the program HERE.

event visual: © Charles Rohault de Fleury (1842), Collections de l'Académie d'Architecture, Paris

Milan (Italy) -

Caroline Maniaque will take part in the symposium " Architects in Exile. Stories of New Spatial Experiences " organized by the Politecnico di Milano on May 29 and 30, 2023.
Caroline Maniaque, invited as Keynote Speaker, will give an introductory lecture on " Research perspectives on architects in Exile and migration".

More information on the program HERE.

visual: program details from the " Architects in Exile. Stories of New Spatial Experiences " - Abdula Akhledic et al, Borisovsky Ponds Complex Project, 1996 (photo courtesy of Ruslan Muradov) © Politecnico di Milano, 2023