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
How to submit :
Proposals for contributions, accompanied by a short bibliographical note of around 5 lines, should be written in French in a maximum of 350 words in .pdf format.
They must be sent no later than March 15, 2026 to the following addresses with the subject line “Proposal – Les espaces littéraires” :
- Yanis Amenkar (ENSAPLV – LAA/LAVUE UMR 7218) – y.amenkar@orange.fr
- Manola Antonioli (ENSAPLV – LAA/LAVUE UMR 7218) – manola.antonioli@paris-lavillette.archi.fr
- Florian Bulou Fezard (HAR EA 4414 – Université Paris Nanterre) – bfz.florian@gmail.com
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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.
Call for papers - Project practices and citizen mobilizations: living, resisting, experimenting
Study days to be held at ENSA Paris-La Villette and ENSA Versailles on Thursday, February 12 and Friday, February 13, 2026
Theme:
The aim of these two days of study is to examine the forms that planning conflicts take today, and the ways in which architecture and designers are involved in them. The aim of these study days is to create a pluralistic forum for discussion between researchers, designers, activists, teachers, artists, public officials and members of associations, in order to combine theoretical analysis, feedback from experience, stories from the field and alternative approaches to spatial production. Through these situations, we hope to highlight the complex relationships between the various actors in the urban fabric and their tools.
Three themes are proposed:
- Legacy and mutations of ecological mobilizations
- Reconfiguring professional roles and forms of expertise
- The project and its audiences: tools, narratives, imaginary worlds
Consult the AAC (English version)
Calendar :
- October 31, 2025: deadline for submitting proposals.
- November 30, 2025:notification of selected contributions
Organizing committee :
- Pierre Bouilhol, Associate Professor, ENSA Paris-la Villette, member of the GERPHAU research team
- Eliza Culéa-Hong, Associate Professor, ENSA Versailles, member of the LéaV research team
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