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Elective course 3: History of architecture

Academic Year 4 - Term 8UEM86 Knowledge
ECTS
2
Lecture hours
22
Tutorial hours
0
Coefficient
0.25
Code
M86HA
Character
Optional
Groups
  • M86HA801 Stories of the event city
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  • M86HA802 NEW COURSE
  • M86HA803 History of technical and thermal equipment
    Manager
  • M86HA804 The house we live in
    Manager
    Learning objectives

    “The House We Live In

    The aim of this course is to establish a critical distance from current discourse on ‘sustainable development’, by looking back at the ideas developed since the 19th century with a view to establishing a more respectful relationship between human beings and their living environment. To this end, we analyze the founding texts as well as projects formulating a different way of inhabiting our common home, the Earth, most often calling for consideration of ecosystems and the potentials held by a territory, the way in which they can support economic and human activities that respect the resources they represent, while promoting the organization of a so-called harmonious community.
    It is also an introduction to environmental history and its issues.

    Language of instruction: French
    Language of communication: French and English

    Assessment method

    Personal work due at the end of the semester.
    Attendance will be taken into account in the final grade.

    bibliography

    A bibliography will be provided during the first class, and further reading will be provided during the various sessions, depending on the topics covered.

    A selection of more general works:
    BONNEUIL Christophe, FRESSOZ Jean-Baptiste, L’événement anthropocène. La Terre, l’histoire et nous, Paris, Seuil, 2013.

    CRONON, William, Nature et récits. Essays in environmental history, Bellevaux, Editions Dehors, 2016.

    FERGUSON Niall, Civilisations. The West and the Rest of the World, Paris, Perrin, 2020, [EO 2011]

    FRESSOZ Jean-Baptiste, GRABER Frédéric, LOCHER Fabien, QUENET Grégory, Introduction à l’histoire environnementale, Paris, Editions La Découverte, 2014.

    FRESSOZ Jean-Baptiste, Sans transition. Une nouvelle histoire de l’énergie, Paris, Seuil, 2024

    GEMMENNE François, RANKOVIC, Aleksandar, Atlas de l’Anthropocène, Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 2019.

    GREVSMÜHL, La terre vue d’en haut. The invention of the global environment, Paris, Seuil, Anthopocene, 2014.

    MCNEILL, John, R., Du nouveau sous le soleil. Une histoire de l’environnement mondial au XXe siècle, Paris, Champ Vallon, Point histoire 2010 [2000].

    PESSIS, Céline, Sezin Topçu, Bonneuil Christophe, Une autre histoire des “Trente Glorieuses”, Paris, La découverte, 2013.

    POMERANZ Kenneth, Une grande divergence. China, Europe and the Construction of the World Economy, Paris, Albin Michel, Maison des sciences de l’homme, 2010 [2002].

    Dictionnaire critique de l’anthropocène, Paris, CNRS Editions, 2020.

    AUDIER, Serge, La Société écologique et ses ennemis. Pour une histoire alternative de l’émancipation, Paris, Editions La Découverte, 2017.

    DEBOURDEAU, Ariane, Les grands textes fondateurs de l’écologie, Paris, Flammarion, Champs classiques, 2013.

    DELEAGE, Jean-Paul, Une histoire de l’écologie, Paris, Editions La Découverte, 1991.

    DESCOLA, Philippe, Par-delà nature et culture, Paris, Gallimard, 2005.

    EMERSON, Ralph Waldo, Nature, Paris, Allia, 2004, [EO Nature, 1840].

    GUATTARI, Felix, Les trois écologies, Paris, Galilée, 1989.

    HACHE Emilie, De l’univers clos au monde fini, Bellevaux, Editions Dehors, 2014

    ILLICH, Ivan, Energie et équité, Paris, Arthaud Poche, Flammarion, 2018 [Seuil 1975].

    JONAS Hans, Pour une éthique du futur, Paris, Payot et Rivages, 2015, [1993]

    JONAS Hans, Une éthique pour la nature, Paris, Arthaud, Poche, Paris, Flammarion, 2017.

    JONAS, Hans, The Principle of Responsibility. Une éthique pour la civilisation technologique, Paris, Flammarion, Champs essais, 2013 [Editions du Cerf 1990].

    LARRERE, Catherine and Raphaël, Du bon usage de la nature. Pour une philosophie de l’environnement, Paris, Flammarion, Champs essais, 2009 [Paris, Aubier, 1997].

    LATOUR Bruno, Où atterrir? Comment s’orienter en politique, Paris, La Découverte, 2017.

    LEOPOLD Aldo, Almanach d’un comté des sables, Paris, Flammarion, 2000 [1949].

    LEOPOLD Aldo, The ecological conscience. The forester as prophet. Wild Project Editions, 2013.

    THOREAU, Henry David, Walden; or Life in the Woods, 1854 [Trad. fr. Walden ou la vie dans les bois, Le Mot et le reste, 2010 and other possible translations by other publishers].

    THOREAU, Henry David, Paradise to be (re)gained, 1843 [Le Paradis à (re)conquérir, Mille et une nuits, 2005].