Savoirs habitants" seminar series #5

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