Research Day: Architecture as an in-discipline - languages, things, practices
Initiated and organized by doctoral students at ENSA Paris-la Villette, this day-long event aims to open up the debate: “How can we think of architecture as an in-discipline, not in order to free ourselves from all rigor, but to experiment with our other ways of doing science?”.
An exceptional lecture by Christopher Dell, urban planner, musician and composer, will round off the varied program of this research day, which includes round tables, a collective workshop and poster presentations.
Program for the day
Morning
- 10:30 – 11:00: Coffee and welcome address
- 11:00 – 12:00: Round Table 1 – Creating synthesis through objects / Getting closer to things
Raphaël BOURDIER – Architecture as a “drawer cabinet” or the art of beating around the bush
Basma JEADI, Luca MARICCHIOLO and Ons HAMDAOUI – Concevoir by variation. Parametric modeling as a synthesis practice in contemporary architectural design
Moderator: Émilie PILLON (ENSAPLV-LAA) - 11h00 – 12h00: Round table 2 – Entering into friction through and with language / Creating a language
Gilles MALZAC – Pour une théorie frictionnelle
Boris WELIACHEW – Living with uncertainty. For an architectural grammar of resilience
Moderator: Diana DI MATTEO (ENSAPLV-AHTTEP) - 11h00 – 12h00: Round table 3 – Questioning the legitimacy of knowledge / Producing practices
Marcos COLINA – Making and transforming “public spaces” in the barrios of Caracas. Conflicts and hybridizations between architectural and self-production knowledge
Maxime GENY – Pour une disciplinarité critique, ou comment accueillir des concepts itinérants
Moderator: Anna KEITEMEIER (ENSAPLV-AMP)
Afternoon
- 2.15pm – 4.15pm: Collective lexicography workshop – Savoir-Défaire, an interdisciplinary survey of subtractive behaviours
Xavier BUCCHIANERI and Siméon GONNET - 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm: Round table 4 – Moving through methodological indiscipline
Manon ANNE – The river as a geographical thing
Baptiste HAOUR – Indisciplinary wandering through drawing. Subverting the anthropocentric vision of the inhabited
Carole LANOIX – Maps of urbanity. The emergence of a chôrographic language to see urban space differently
Moderator: Quentin MONTES (ENSAPLV-GERPHAU) - 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm: Special lecture – The improvisation of space
Christopher DELL, urban theorist and musician-composer
Discussant: Alexandre GAISER FERNANDES (ENSAPLV-AMP)
Find out more about the lecture
All day long
Scientific posters
- Carolina ALVAREZ – A practice of shadow framing. Unveiling the technical and tectonic processes of the architectural image
- Mathilde BERNARD – Self-managed social spaces. A methodology adapted to the circumstances
- Baptiste HAOUR – Methodical wandering between philosophy and the field. Generating an architect’s conceptual world through drawing
- Fleur RICHARD – Compose a chronology of architects’ work. Placing the work of Braillard architects and their employees in the Geneva context (1936-1975)
- Boris WELIACHEW – From wall to floor. Two cosmologies of living and the question of architectural language
- Boris WELIACHEW and Salah EL-DINN SADECK – Mapping resilience. Architectures, territories and cultures of risk
Moderator: Zelal KOÇ (ENSAPLV-LAA)
Organization team
Alexandre Gaiser Fernandes, doctoral student AMP, Diana Di Matteo, doctoral student ATTHEP, Anna Keitemeier, doctoral student AMP, Zelal Koç, doctoral student LAA, Quentin Montes, doctoral student GERPHAU, and Émilie Pillon, doctoral student LAA
