Urban Ecosophy Seminar / Session #2: Gilles Deleuze: city and architecture
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This cycle is organized by Manola Antonioli and Joffrey Paillard in collaboration with the Collège International de Philosophie (CIPH). It is linked to the 1st year Master S815 thematic seminar, “Territoires de l’écologie politique”, part of the Habiter les Mondes Urbains (HMU) field of study.
Presentation
This seminar – at the intersection of philosophy, space design, architecture and urban theory – examines urban ecosophy as a critical theoretical framework for articulating the environmental, social and mental dimensions of the contemporary city from a transdisciplinary perspective. Inherited from the work of Félix Guattari, ecosophy is mobilized here to think of the urban as a milieu of subjectivation, political conflictuality and collective invention, rather than as a mere object of technocratic planning.
The city is at once a material space, a symbolic device and a field of forces traversed by economic, aesthetic and emotional logics.
The seminar will analyze the transformations of the neoliberal metropolis, the production of its spatial forms, the mechanisms of segregation and control, but also the practices of detour, appropriation and resistance that are redrawing its uses.
The aim is to examine contemporary ways of living, the place of the living in urban space, and new forms of vulnerability and exclusion. The focus will be as much on urban policies as on the ordinary experiences, imaginaries and sensibilities that shape territories.
The aim is to identify the theoretical and practical conditions for an emancipatory urban ecology, capable of renewing the categories of commonality, law and urban democracy.
Session dates :
Sessions take place exclusively in person on the following dates (same times):
Session 1 – May 7: Félix Guattari and the “subjective city”
Session 2 – May 21: Gilles Deleuze: city and architecture
Session 3 – June 4: Critique of the metropolis
Session 4 – June 11: The right to the city today
Session 5 – June 25: No entry: the hostile city
Seminar under the direction of :
- Manola Antonioli, philosopher, doctor in philosophy and social sciences, qualified to direct research, professor in SHS (philosophy) at ENSAPLV. Member of the LAA research unit – UMR LAVUE 7218 CNRS / ENSAPLV.
- Joffrey Paillard, designer and Doctor of Architecture. Member of the LAA research unit – UMR LAVUE 7218 CNRS / ENSAPLV.
