6pm - Jean Duminy Amphitheatre -
as part of the conference "What architecture does to ecology" organized by the ATE laboratory

*EDIT* to follow the conference live: https://webtv.normandie-univ.fr/lives/colloque-ecologie-et-decloisonnement-disciplinaire/

Aristotle defines economy as the art of managing a household. Ernst Haeckel defines ecology as the interaction of living beings within an environment, seen as a shared household, a co-ownership. One definition of an architect could be one who, through in-depth study - formal or informal - has addressed the question of habitat and inhabitation; the interaction between living beings, and the physical reality of their shared envelope. Does such a "training" prepare one to be more lucid about ecological issues on the scale of a landscape, a country, a planet? This is the question that Lionel Devlieger's conference will address, bringing arguments in favor of, but also against, this postulate.

Lionel Devlieger is an engineer-architect and historian. He is co-founder of Rotor, a Brussels-based organization specialized in the study of current material culture.
Rotor promotes the debate on issues related to resources, waste and obsolescence in the building sector through research projects, exhibitions, conferences and publications. Rotor also coordinates large-scale dismantling operations, collaborates on architectural projects and carries out design projects.
Lionel Devlieger has taught at universities in Europe and the United States (UC Berkeley, TU Delft, Columbia University, AA School, among others). He is co-author of Deconstruction and Reuse, 2018, a textbook on the reuse of building elements. Since September 2021, he is an associate professor at the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning at Ghent University, where he teaches, among other things, the history of circular design and modern building ecologies.

visual: "The veins of the earth", plate extracted from Georgius Agricola, De Re Metallica, 1556.

The ATE laboratory is organizing an international symposium on April 20 and 21, 2023, atENSA Normandie "What architecture does for ecology."

This colloquium aims to question the possible feedback effects: if ecology - understood here as science, but above all as ethics of action - undoubtedly changes architecture, to what extent does architecture also change ecology? This question arises in relation to the concrete achievements in which architects and assimilated (engineers, urban planners, landscape architects, etc.) engage, but also in relation to the doctrines and theories they formulate.

The symposium will contribute to the scientific and public debate through 14 original papers gathered in 4 thematic sessions, one of which is in English.

6:00-7:00 p.m. - April 20, 2023: public lecture by Lionel Devlieger
Jean-Duminy Amphitheater

A public lecture entitled "Ecology and Disciplinary Decompartmentalization" will be given on Thursday, April 20 by Lionel Devlieger, professor at the Universiteit Gent (Belgium), member of the scientific committee of the conference.

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

Download the conference program.
Download the abstracts of the presentations.

visual: Solid stone apartment building, Plan-les-Ouates (Switzerland) - Architects: Atelier Archiplein and Perraudin Architecte © Hélène Maria photographe - Archiplein

From March 10 to April 10, 2023, ENSA Toulouse will host 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.

A guided tour of the exhibition by Caroline Maniaque will take place on March 14, 2023 at 2pm, as part of the research week at ENSA Toulouse organized by the LRA (Laboratoire de Recherche en Architecture).

More information about the exhibition at ENSA Toulouse : HERE

Visual of the exhibition

Normandy's three cultural colleges - the Le Havre-Rouen College of Art and Design, the Caen/Cherbourg College of Arts & Media, and the Normandy National College of Architecture - members of the Normandie Université Community of Universities and Institutions, and the Doctoral School 558 "Normandie Humanités" have created in 2018 RADIAN, a doctorate in artistic research and creation open to the fields of art, design, architecture and creative writing(more information HERE).

The call for applications for the RADIAN 2023 competition is open until March 15, 2023, 23:00.

More information on the call and the application process HERE.

visual : Worker's campground in the Cotentin © Misia Forlen

9:00 a.m. - 6:30 p.m. on February 23, 2023
9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on February 24, 2023
Jean-Duminy Amphitheatre

Noura Arab and François Fleury are launching a series of seminars entitled: "Between resources and ecology, architecture in question. Methods, implementation, forms produced." This series will run over two years and is supported byENSA Normandie, the ATE laboratory, and the "Renewable Natural Resources, Climate, and Architecture" chair .

The second seminar , "Climate, Environmental Resources in Architecture," will take place on February 23 and 24, 2023, atENSA Normandie. Over the course of two days, some twenty speakers will come together to share their research on issues raised by new ecological material resources in architecture.

Download the program of the seminar 2

To attend the presentations and debates in videoconference HERE

Visual : Photomontage © Noura Arab

We announce the publication of a special issue of the magazine Études normandes which presents the collective reflections resulting from an experimental pedagogical and research partnership involving the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Normandie, the UniLaSalle Polytechnic Institute (Rouen campus) and several actors in the Normandy region.

This analysis presents the results of a "Workshop outside the walls", a five-day immersion with S-07 students from both schools in the new commune of Rives-en-Seine (Seine-Maritime), which is participating in the national program "Small Cities of Tomorrow". The work was supervised by teacher-researchers from the M1 DE Architecture de la Ville et des Territoires urban and territorial project workshop.

The publication was coordinated by Gabriella TROTTA-BRAMBILLA forENSA Normandie features contributions from teachers, researchers, and local stakeholders (Boucles de la Seine Normande Regional Nature Park, Seine-Maritime Departmental Directorate for Territories and the Sea, local elected officials, etc.).

You can download the special issue on theÉtudes Normandes websiteby clicking HERE

visual: ©Étudesnormandes, 2022 - view of downtown Caudebec-en-Caux. coll. PNR BSN / JF Drone N'Caux

January 26 at the Institut Mémoires de l'édition contemporaine (IMEC)
January 27 at the University of Caen-Normandy

Marie Gaimard will intervene in the colloquium "Nico Papatakis une politique de la fiction" organized on January 26 and 27, 2023 at the IMEC and the University of Caen.

This colloquium aims to make known the work of the filmmaker Nico Papatakis (1918-2010) and to question the so-called cinema of modernity. Marie Gaimard will present a paper entitled " La Photo: de l'image désincarnée à la dématérialisation de l'architecture".

More information and program HERE

visual : detail of the program of the conference " Nico Papataki a politics of fiction " © IMEC/University of Caen

Faculty of Law, Economics, Management and AES - Thierry-Sellin Amphitheatre
BREST

An international symposium "Reconstructed Cities, Reconstructing Cities" is organized from January 19 to 21, 2023 in Brest, within the framework of the European project Res Urbanae - Regards sur les villes en reconstruction bringing together the Institute of Geoarchitecture of the University of Western Brittany, the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Dresden, the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Technologies in Brno and the Maison de l'Allemagne in Brest.

On this occasion, Patrice Gourbin will present a talk entitled: "Encountering reality: the modernist turn of the French Reconstruction".

More information on the Res Urbanae project HERE.
More information on the program HERE.

visual : detail of the program of the conference "Reconstructed Cities, Cities in reconstruction" © Res Urbanae

Since January 1, 2023, the ATE laboratory has changed management.

François FLEURY, HDR professor, was elected director of the laboratory for a two-year term at an extraordinary General Assembly of the laboratory in December 2022.

François FLEURY succeeds Caroline MANIAQUE who has been in charge of the laboratory for 3 mandates. These terms were particularly decisive for the structuring and development of the laboratory and of the scientific activity of ATE. Caroline MANIAQUE has in particular led the "Research Culture" and "Outside the walls" seminars, which have allowed the laboratory and the school to have convivial as well as scientific moments. Caroline MANIAQUE has also coordinated the HCERES 2016-2020 evaluation campaign of ATE for which the scientific dynamism of this young research unit has been underlined.

François FLEURY, by taking over the direction of ATE, wishes to continue the dynamics set up by Caroline MANIAQUE by helping to valorize the commitments and the work of the researchers and by working on the improvement of the conditions of research to represent the laboratory at various levels, from the school to the ministry, via the university or other regional, national or even international authorities.