Call for papers - Languages, things, practices: architecture as an in-discipline
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?”
The program
- Individual papers, round tables, workshops and posters
- An exceptional lecture by Christopher Dell, urban theorist and musician-composer
How to participate
This call for entries is open to students on research master’s and post-master’s degrees, doctoral and post-doctoral students, as well as teachers and researchers at ENSA Paris-la Villette and other schools of architecture in France, Switzerland and Belgium.
Details of how to take part are given in the call for papers, which can be downloaded below. They are specific to the nature of your contribution: participation in the round table, workshop or poster.
Three themes are proposed:
- Create a language
- Getting closer to things
- Producing practices
Submissions must be sent no later than March 12, 2026 to the following address: journeedelarecherche@paris-lavillette.archi.fr
Organizing committee
- Alexandre Gaiser Fernandes, AMP doctoral student
- Diana Di Matteo, ATTHEP doctoral student
- Anna Keitemeier, AMP doctoral student
- Zelal Koç, LAA doctoral student
- Quentin Montes, doctoral student GERPHAU
- Emilie Pillon, LAA doctoral student
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Call for papers - Literary spaces. Architecture and literature
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:
- Inhabiting, narrating, “designing” space-time
- Reinventing space, thinking literature: literary theories and habitable heterotopias
- Landscape poetics
Call for papers - Towards new alliances: ecological struggles and territorial projects in contemporary rural areas
The Rencontres 2026 du réseau pédagogique et scientifique en architecture “Perspectives rurales” will be held from April 27 to 29, 2026 in the Haut-Rhin region of France.
Deadline for paper proposals: January 6, 2026 at midnight
Submission details:
The PERS network meetings are designed to appeal to a wide range of audiences: researchers from different disciplines, as well as local and civil society players. They will be organized in sequences. This call for papers is open to individuals as well as institutions, associations and collectives sharing the same concerns.
Three types of submissions are possible: sequences, papers and posters.
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