Since the start of the school year in September 2025, the ArchiRès portal home page has been enhanced with a new access point. When you are logged in to your account and you are on the local version of ArchiRès (by clicking on the school logo), you can now directly access the digital resources of the document center.

Here you'll find network subscriptions: Ensa-P conferences on replay, Numilog Ebooks, Images de la culture films on VOD, student works, publications supported by the French Ministry of Culture. Two new items: Bêka & Lemoine films. These are 10 films by artist duo Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine. Tënk, the documentary film platform presented to you in the November newsletter.

As for resources accessible only to students from Normandy: Arte Campus, Architecture d'Aujourd'hui, Europresse, Kheox, Compilatio anti-plagiarism software, Materiaux.archi dematerialized material library and Dicobat.

Coming soon: My cow, to work on your English, the encyclopaedia universalis, On architecture, a platform devoted to documentaries on buildings and architecture (700 films).

From December 1 to 5 at Pôle Doc' – Return of the Book and Magazine Exchange. The concept: librarians offer you the opportunity to purchase books and magazines from their collections at an unbeatable price: €1!

The event will be held throughout the week at the Documentary Center, during opening hours.

Come and bargain for books and magazines - we look forward to seeing you!

For information, payment by credit card only.

Our VOD (Video on Demand) offering is expanding: we have Arte Campus, and now we'll also have access to Tënk. Tënk, which in Wolof (a language spoken in Senegal, Gambia, Mali and Mauritania) means "to state a thought clearly and concisely". to state a thought clearly and concisely".was born in 2016 from the will of several collectives united in a cooperative.

What do they have in common? The promotion of documentary cinema and support for film creation.

Tënk is a VOD platform offering documentary films on a wide range of themes: ecology, feminism, social struggles, decolonization, the arts, cinema, science or history... It defines itself by a cinema that is plural, free in its content and form.

The programming of around twenty new films per month is the work of a programming committee that scours festivals, cinemas, archives and film libraries. This monthly selection remains available for 4 months, and a review written by Tënk accompanies each documentary.

This new digital resource, a project run by the ArchiRès network, is funded by the French Ministry of Culture.

Biodiversity and gardening, two practices that the author encourages us to adopt in our daily lives. She invites us to participate in the transformation of our homes, our buildings, our streets, our cities and our entire environment by planting seedlings, cuttings, insect hotels, birdhouses and more. She teaches us the magic gestures for taking care of our plants. It's a four-step strategy in combat mode.

Together, let's plant our neighborhoods, our sidewalks, everything and everywhere! Let's drop seed bombs and give the power back to nature.

Still not convinced? Take a look at her Instagram

We are! The greening ofENSA Normandie in the documentation center...

The October issue of D'Architectures* magazine devotes a special report to "L'intelligence (artificielle) de l'image", written by architect and designer Mehdi Zannad and architect Edouard Ropars. Three articles make up the dossier: "Where AI hurts", "Fresh Touch, interview with Eric de Broche des Combes, founder of the Luxigon agency" and "Olivier Campagne, beyond the real".

In the first article cited, Mehdi Zannad looks back at the digital upheavals that have marked architectural project design, and considers the impact on the profession, particularly on the role of the drawing, which he describes as an extension of the architect's creativity. He questions a possible "dispossession orchestrated by a materially motivated project owner". He also warns against the "infinite variants" proposed by AI, giving the architect "the illusion" of "his authority over forms".

The following articles: an interview and an article by two pioneering figures in the field of architectural design, one a graphic designer and the other an architectural photographer.

*Zannad, M.; Ropars, E. (2025). Dossier: l'intelligence (artificielle) de l'image. D'architectures, no 329, 67-97.

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Tuesday, October 21, 2026 - From 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, Librairie du Belvédère will be selling books on art and architecture.

Thursday, October 16, 2026 - From 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, publisher Citadelles et Mazenod will be offering art and architecture books for sale.

The Pôle doc' team's first favorite book of the year! Inspired by European Sustainable Development Week, which runs from September 18 to October 8, 2025: " Petit manuel de répartie écologique " .

When the subject of ecology is close to our hearts, we often find ourselves at a loss when it comes to broaching the subject, fearing that we'll upset the mood, antagonize the other person or not have the right arguments to convince or at least make the other person think. This guide offers answers to deconstruct anti-environmental arguments. They are held by different types of profile: the new skeptics (Global warming? not in Normandy, given what it rains!), the immobilists (The State does nothing, neither do companies, why should I act? or the famous triangle of inaction), the eco(nomico)-anxious (we've already got more money for education, so the ecological transition...), the candid optimists (we've already made a lot of effort and young people are taking over), the techno-solutionists (long live the green plane, or the future is on Mars!), the cognitive dissonants (I agree that we need to act, but the plane is still faster to travel!).

The book is organized around these profiles, accompanied by their little phrases, and opposite an appropriate response.

Humor is one of the best means of self-defense, and this book is full of it.

You'll find this book on the new releases display among a selection of documents (books and DVDs) celebrating European Sustainable Development Week.

Until October 8, 2025, the Pôle doc' is celebrating European Sustainable Development Week. To mark the occasion, our librarians are offering a selection of books and documentaries from our new acquisitions.

You can also find them on our Instagram #poledocensan76 on ArchiRès.