A call for papers has been launched for Research Day, an initiative of ENSA Paris-la Villette doctoral students, to be held on Thursday, May 28, 2026 at the school – site des Ardennes.

This day proposes to open the debate: “How can we think of architecture as an in-discipline, not to free ourselves from all rigor, but to experiment with our other ways of doing science?”

Application deadline: April 28, 2026

Created in 2019, the Student COAL Prize aims to support students from Schools in the artistic and cultural field who are experimenting with and proposing concrete, creative solutions to the ecological transition.

The theme of the 2026 edition is “Night”.

Two prizes are on offer this year: the winning student receives a two-month residency worth 5,000 euros in one of France’s 350 nature reserves. The three nominated students also receive an invitation to take part in the Regenerative Academy. This unique masterclass, created and piloted for the new MAIF Métamorphoses Prize, is dedicated to transformative artistic practices in and with nature, biodiversity and public engagement.

The call for applications is open to all students who have completed 2 years of higher education, whatever their practice and field of study (design and applied arts, architecture and landscape, visual arts, music, dance, theater, circus, puppetry, cinema, audiovisual, multimedia) and up to one year after graduation.

Deadline for receipt of applications: April 2, 2026
The call for applications is open to students enrolled in 2025-2026 in a national school of architecture, from L2 to Master’s level.

The aim of this grant, organized by the Cité de l’architecture in partnership with the ENSAÉCO network, is to support a personal research-creation process carried out exclusively through hand-drawing, seen as a critical, sensitive and exploratory tool, focusing on contemporary ecological issues.

Each year, a different theme is proposed. The four winners will produce their own sketchbook, each receiving a lump-sum grant of €4,000 gross, paid as royalties in return for the transfer of rights to the works produced as part of the project, under the conditions defined in the contract.

This year’s theme is “Inhabiting the living”: towards an architecture in dialogue with the animal and plant world.

In partnership with the Fondation Culture & Diversité, the school is hosting its first “Equal opportunities at the school of architecture” course, from February 9 to 13.

Students taking part in this program benefit from courses, visits to cultural institutions, building sites and/or agencies, and meetings with teachers and professionals. Together, they produce an architectural project.

The aim is to inform them about architectural studies and career opportunities, and to prepare them for the Parcoursup and selection procedures for the Écoles nationales supérieures d’architecture (ENSA). Admitted students are then supported throughout their university studies.

On Saturday February 7, ENSA Paris-la Villette welcomed a large number of visitors who came to find out more about studying architecture and the specific features of ENSA Paris-la Villette: the range of initial and specialized courses on offer, admissions procedures, the course of studies, international mobility, careers in architecture and professional integration, student life…

Alone, with friends or family, visitors wandered around the school premises to discover the student work on display (architectural projects, performing arts and techniques, plastic arts, etc.) and to meet students, teachers and administrative staff, who were on hand to answer any questions.

Couldn’t make it?
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A call for papers has been launched for two study days to be held on Wednesday May 20 and Thursday May 21, 2026 at ENSA Paris-la Villette – site des Ardennes.

These study days will focus on spaces as a point of decompartmentalization between the literary and architectural domains, and aim to bring together the ideas and knowledge of researchers and teachers, as well as professionals, artisans of space and language.

Three thematic orientations (not exhaustive) are proposed to future contributors:

1. Inhabiting, narrating, “designing” space-time
2. Reinventing space, thinking literature: literary theories and habitable heterotopias
3. Landscape poetics