Savoirs habitants" seminar series #4

Pedagogical café of the SAPHIR research program – © SAPHIR program
FOURTH SESSION :
“Renovation and management of social housing. The cases of SAPHIR and AMU (assistance à maîtrise d’usage) in housing renovation”, with
- Yaneira Wilson, senior lecturer at ENSA Paris-Val de Seine, researcher at the Centre de Recherche sur l’Habitat (CRH LAVUE 7218 CNRS), in charge of research for the SAPHIR project (Santé Paris Habitat Histoire-s Immeuble Résidentiel), and Yankel Fijalkow, professor at ENSA Paris-Val de Seine, co-director of the Centre de Recherche sur l’Habitat (CRH LAVUE 7218 CNRS) and co-director of the Le logement demain partnership chair.
- Mariana Cyrino, doctoral student at LET LAVUE 7218 CNRS and École des Ponts ParisTech – LATTS
Cycle “Savoirs habitants” :
Numerous studies of citizen participation and mobilization schemes question the place and legitimacy of “inhabitant knowledge” in the making of the city. However, this knowledge is often reduced to skills related to daily life or to mobilization within organizations. Yves Sintomer and Héloïse Nez thus conceptualize the categories of user, activist and professional knowledge diffused in participatory urbanism (Nez, 2015). In the urban project arena, other types of knowledge are mobilized: constructive, environmental or project practice knowledge, resulting from the increased skills of residents (Gardesse and Morland, 2022).
Based on these categories, this project, organized by doctoral students from the LAVUE UMR 7218 laboratory, seeks to go beyond the understanding of “inhabitant knowledge” in the context of participatory mechanisms alone. It proposes to examine the nature of knowledge mobilized outside projects, through less structured forms of production and transformation of public or private spaces. The project also explores the opposite direction: the impact of local knowledge on the very reconfiguration of these development, transformation or urban and architectural renovation schemes. Finally, it looks at the way in which this knowledge is recognized by “experts”, and its impact on the transformation of professional practices and the ways in which spaces are created (new forms of organization, cooperation, transformation of project methods).
Organizing contacts:
- Marcos Colina, doctoral student at LET LAVUE 7218 CNRS – FAU UCV
- Mariana Cyrino, doctoral student at LET LAVUE 7218 CNRS and École des Ponts ParisTech – LATTS
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