Seminar

This seminar explores the practice of urban material experimentation upstream of architectural design. It examines singular approaches that seek to reveal the potential of a territory through the use of material devices on a scale of 1. How can we create new perceptions of the elements present, and generate potential interpretations of a territory’s future vocation?

Following the S7 and S8 seminars in Master 1, a critical analysis will be carried out to enable students to finalize the production of their Master’s dissertation.
The project (architectural and urban) situation will be addressed in the light of environmental quality requirements and performance issues.
This questioning, based on the idea of the “ecological imperative”, should enable us to assess the extent to which designers, decision-makers and users are taking action around the notion of ecological transition. Are we witnessing a paradigm shift, or are we witnessing a recycling of the debate?

Attendance and active participation in debates; progress of dissertation; group session to present plan; …
Continuous assessment 40%, final dissertation 60%.

Presentations and discussions on the main components of the problem, based on research and methodological work. Methodological support is focused on finalizing the dissertation and preparing the defense. Students will be expected to develop a critical writing style based on the issues and fieldwork carried out in semesters 7 and 8.

This Master’s-level seminar offers a philosophical and critical exploration of political ecology and ecosophy, focusing on their implications for the understanding of the contemporary city and architecture. At the crossroads of philosophy, critical theory and urban studies, the aim is to examine how ecological thinking transforms our representations of living, our relationship with nature and collective forms of life.

The S9 seminar is devoted to writing the final paper and preparing the defence.

Individual and group presentation and discussion of each student’s research progress

Félix Guattari, Les Trois Écologies, Galilée, 1989.
Félix Guattari, Chaosmose, Galilée, 1992.
Bruno Latour, Politiques de la nature, La Découverte, 1999.
Bruno Latour, Where to land, La Découverte, 2017.
Philippe Descola, Beyond Nature and Culture, Gallimard, 2005.
Isabelle Stengers, Au temps des catastrophes, La Découverte, 2009.
Donna Haraway, Vivre avec le trouble, Les empêcheurs de penser en rond/La Découverte, 2020.
Donna Haraway, Cyborg Manifesto and other essays, Exils, 2007.
Timothy Morton, Ecological thinking, Zulma, 2019.
Timothy Morton, Being Ecological, Zulma, 2018.
Anna Tsing, Le champignon de la fin du monde, La Découverte, 2017.
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Métaphysiques cannibales, PUF, 2009.
Arturo Escobar, Thinking with the Earth. Une écologie au-delà de l’Occident, Seuil, 2018.
Achille Mbembe, Brutalisme, La Découverte, 2020.
Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Épistémologies du Sud, Desclée de Brouwer, 2016.
Donna Haraway and Cary Wolfe (dir.), Manifeste des espèces compagnes, Presses du réel, 2021.
Isabelle Stengers and Philippe Pignarre, La sorcellerie capitaliste, La Découverte, 2005.
Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, Routledge, 1993 (selection en français dans anthologies).
Rosi Braidotti, Métamorphoses. Genre et subjectivité à l’époque de la mondialisation, Seuil, 2002.
Paul B. Preciado, Un appartement sur Uranus, Grasset, 2019.
Malcom Ferdinand, Une écologie décoloniale. Penser l’écologie depuis le monde caribéen, Seuil, 2019.

Putting contemporary notions and actions in landscape, architecture and public spaces in tension with the debates linked to socio-ecological and climate change; developing keys to interpreting current issues; exercising the ability to step back from current events and develop a critical mind; training to take a stand and participate in current debates on spatial planning and projects; training in inter-professional languages and issues.

Participation in seminars and debates; critical readings and preparation of debates within the seminar and for the dissertation currently being finalized.

Lecture based on a work chosen by the student or from a suggested list on the theme of the dissertation in progress.

A bibliography of references will be provided during the course.

This seminar is a place of twofold elaboration:
-Collective, that of the construction of an analytical and critical thought of the international human spatial productions and their mutations on the long time.
-Individual, that of the workshop, patient and cumulative, of the making of the Master’s thesis, on the basis of the reasoned construction of a subject and a specific problematic, of a referenced corpus, as well as a posture specific to each student.

CPL / JJ / VL

– Course and reading notes.
– A thematic memoir.

Lectures in French.
Languages accepted (individual corrections): Spanish, English, Portuguese, Italian, Vietnamese.

Assignments:
– Individual thematic dissertation

With an international dimension and an open vision of the notion of heritage, this seminar questions the policies and mechanisms of protection and conservation, as well as the logics of consumption or reuse of cultural heritage, whether tangible, intangible or dematerialized, protected or unprotected. It thus stands at the crossroads of the architectural, social, environmental, political and normative issues involved in heritage production. From this perspective, it raises the question of temporal reconfigurations, social productions and appropriations of built heritage, with a particular focus on the expertise, competence and legitimacy of heritage “makers”, with a particular interest in mediation, experimentation and heritage awareness-raising. This seminar aims to become a privileged framework for analyzing the spatial effects of financing mechanisms that complement ministerial policies (such as the Loto du patrimoine or participatory financing), with a particular focus on rural areas or areas in decline. These rural areas, which are often the focus of competitive tourism and revitalization initiatives, as well as cultural and natural landscapes, small and medium-sized towns and urban renewal districts, will all be at the heart of our research. Last but not least, this seminar will examine the growing importance of innovation, from participatory and inclusive approaches to virtual reality.

The teaching team – made up mainly of teacher-researchers from the Espace Transformations Laboratory of the UMR CNRS Lavue – and invited guests, will present case studies from France and abroad: Italy, Romania, China, Japan, Nepal, USA…

Assessment is based on regular monitoring of dissertation work. Attendance and participation are taken into account in grading. Validation of the final dissertation (poster and defense).

Reading exercises and critical analysis of texts suggested by teachers.

BENHAMOU F., Economie du patrimoine culturel, Paris, ed. La Découverte, 2012.
FLICHY P., Le Sacre de l’amateur, Sociologie des passions ordinaires à l’ère numérique, Seuil, coll. “La République des idées”, 2010.
FLON É., Les Mises en scène du patrimoine : Savoir, fiction et médiation, Paris, Hermès Sciences-Lavoisier, 2012.
GRAVARI-BARBAS M. (dir.), Atelier de réflexion prospective ” Nouveaux défis pour le patrimoine culturel “, état de l’art, consortium PA.TER.MONDI, Paris: EIREST, Université Paris 1, Agence nationale de la recherche, 2014a.
GRAVARI-BARBAS M. (dir.), Atelier de réflexion prospective ” Nouveaux défis pour le patrimoine culturel “, rapport final, synthèse des travaux du consortium PA.TER.MONDI, Paris: EIREST, Université Paris 1, Agence nationale de la recherche, 2014b.
GRAVARI-BARBAS M. (dir.), Habiter le patrimoine. Enjeux, approches, vécu, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2005.
HEINICH N., La Fabrique du patrimoine. De la cathédrale à la petite cuillère, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, coll. “Ethnologie de la France”, 2009a.
IOSA I., “Ecueils du patrimoine affranchi du territoire à l’heure du numérique: limites d’une gestion managériale et dématérialisée de châteaux en ruine”, Territoire en Mouvement, 53-54/2002, https://journals.openedition.org/tem/9218
IOSA I., ” Le Patrimoine à l’encan “, Métropolitiques, le 13/09/2018, https://www.metropolitiques.eu/Le-patrimoine-a-l-encan.html
MERCKLE P., Sociologie des réseaux sociaux, La Découverte, coll. ” Sociologie “, 2011.
PINSON G., La Ville néolibérale, PUF, coll. ” Sociologie et Sciences de l’éducation “, 2020.