Since 2020, ENSA Paris-la Villette has been home to three partnership chairs accredited and supported by the French Ministry of Culture.
These three Chairs bring together academics, economic players and local authorities around a program of action, research and innovation in architecture. Private and public players thus have a privileged space in which to exchange ideas and build a program of action and research together.
The EFF&T Chair focuses on experimentation in architecture and urban planning, and is designed as a tool for responding to the many ecological challenges we face. It focuses on experimental approaches in the making of cities and territories, and on the transformations in knowledge and know-how that accompany these practices. Its aim is to develop a form of research based on the link between theory and practice, notably through project and creative approaches. Experimentation is thus an object of transdisciplinary and multi-scalar investigation. Associated partners are La Preuve par 7, ENSA Paris-Belleville, Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne and the French Ministry of Culture.
Co-directors: Antonella Tufano (Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne) and Bendicht Weber (ENSAPLV)
The Chair aims to respond to the need for shared reflection on changes in housing production, management, transformation and practices, which represent a major challenge for the 21st century. Keen to articulate the social and spatial dimensions of architecture, and to bring into play the diversity of actors, territories and scales that make up the ecosystem of housing design and production, the Chair organizes its reflections along three main lines: challenges of inhabited space and programmatic issues; modes of housing production and transformation; trajectories of actors and memories of organizations.
Co-directors: Anne D’Orazio (ENSAPLV) and Yankel Fijalkow (ENSA Paris-Val de Seine)
At a time when environmental uncertainty is taking hold and disasters linked to “natural hazards” are multiplying and intensifying, this Chair aims to highlight the resources and wealth that architecture can bring to bear in deploying the installation skills that such an era requires. The aim of the Chair is to contribute to the emergence of architectural knowledge and know-how specific to this new climatic regime, with its unprecedented turbulence and destructive amplitudes.
Manager: Éric Daniel-Lacombe (ENSAPLV)