Building Bridges Between Worlds: Heritage and Perspectives
Stock photos – © Marc Bourdier, Jonathan Bruter, Louis-Pierre Grosbois, Yann Nussaume and Justine Simonot
This round table explores the history of the relationship between ENSA Paris-la Villette and Japan, through the testimonies of those who have played a decisive role in the creation and consolidation of these academic and human links.
Speakers will share their experiences and retrace the founding stages of a network that today brings together fifteen partner institutions, enabling some fifty students to spend a year on exchange each year.
Discussions will help us to better understand the intellectual, pedagogical and human foundations on which this network has been built: what curiosities initiated these links? What opportunities have fostered their development?
If we accept that these experiences profoundly transform those who live them, we will seek to measure together the extent of these transformations and observe how these relationships, too, evolve over time.
Finally, the discussion will open a reflection on the current and future challenges of these partnerships: how can they be sustained, renewed and sustainably inscribed in a changing academic and international context?
Round table moderated by Jonathan BRUTER, Senior Lecturer at ENSAPLV, co-responsible for exchanges with Japanese partners, and Justine SIMONOT, Head of International Relations at ENSAPLV.
Participants :
- Marc BOURDIER, Honorary Professor at ENSAPLV, initiator of partnerships with the Faculty of Human Environment studies at Kyushu University, Ritsumeikan University, the University of Tokyo, Chiba University, Tsukuba University and initiator of the Ausmip network.
- Christian ENJOLRAS, Honorary Professor at ENSA Paris-Belleville, responsible for passing on to ENSAPLV the act of twinning the Albert and Masuda studios when the Ecole de Beaux-Arts closed.
- Danielle HUGUES, Head of International Relations at ENSAPLV from 1995 to 2019
- Yann NUSSAUMEHDR professor at ENSAPLV, initiator of partnerships with Kyoto Institute of Technology, Osaka University, Kyushu University’s Faculty of Design, Institute of Science Tokyo and Waseda University.
- Anne SCHÉOU, lecturer at ENSA Nancy, initiator of the partnership between ENSAPLV and Meiji University
- TAJI Takahiro, Professor at Kyoto University, Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering, responsible for exchanges with ENSAPLV
The round table will be followed at 6:00 pm by the opening of the exhibition “Anatomie des liens. The secrets of an enduring relationship between ENSAPLV and Japan”.
