La Villette Étudiante (LVE) is ENSAPLV’s student association. An association under the law of 1901, it is made up of a number of distinct divisions that work together on the same model: voluntary associative commitment.
LVE animates student life through a cafeteria, a cooperative, festive evenings, sports, conferences, cultural outings… The association and its hubs unite students around shared interests and common causes, and encourage them to get involved in a variety of activities. It fosters social cohesion by creating links between members of the school – students, teachers and administrative staff alike.
The association’s activities are open to all ENSAPLV students.
The LVE Board legally represents the association and its divisions. It is the link between the school’s administration and the divisions it coordinates.
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La Villette Étudiante (LVE) hubs
La K’fet
Self-managed by the students, the K’fet offers hot and cold drinks and pastries to all school users in a convivial setting.
La Coco
The school’s cooperative offers competitively priced graphic materials, stationery and cardboard for models and other creative projects. Its premises, open several times a week, are located in Salle 100.
L’Asso6
Asso6 organizes a variety of events to promote cohesion between the different classes, including a monthly party at the school, as well as the integration weekend and the sponsorship evening for L1 students at the start of the academic year.
La Villette Sportive (LVS)
La Villette Sportive offers students the chance to take part in a weekly sporting activity. There is currently a choice of nine sports: basketball, soccer, volleyball, handball, rugby, running, climbing, crossfit and cheerleading. Friendly matches are regularly organized between architecture schools in the Île-de-France region, and once a year, two major sporting events bring together teams from all architecture schools in France: Archiglisse and Archipiades.
La Villette Danse (LVD)
Beginners and advanced dancers alike can take part in the weekly dance classes run by this center. The aim is to enable everyone to discover different dance styles and create a space for sharing a common passion.
L’Archivoile
The members of this cluster meet up throughout the year to sail together. They take part in gatherings and regattas such as the EDHEC Boat Race and the Grand Surprise Trophy.
Le Bureau des Arts (BDA)
The BDA promotes culture in a variety of formats among students. The center regularly distributes useful tips, shares suggestions, organizes cultural outings to museums and theaters, and offers practical art workshops.
La Focale
La Focale is the school’s audiovisual production collective, which includes many students who practice photography or videography independently. La Focale encourages the creation of projects linking photography, videography and architecture.
Bellette Brass Band (BBB)
The Bellette Brass Band is made up of brass players from ENSA Paris-la Villette and ENSA Paris-Belleville. The diversity of its members is matched only by the richness of its repertoire, which adapts to the varied audiences it encounters.
L’Assonance
This DJ collective performs both inside and outside the school on festive evenings.
Rock’n Villette
This department organizes concerts to liven up various aspects of school life. It welcomes all musicians, whatever their level, to prepare for concerts or simply for the pleasure of playing together.
Topo
The Topo collective student newspaper chronicles life at the school. By covering topics of interest to students and introducing teachers, Topo aims to create a link between the three communities.
La Villette Queer (LVQ)
The LGBTQIA+ pole at La Villette Queer has set itself the mission of making the school a “safe” space for all, but also a place of expression and exchange. It invites everyone to discuss the LGBTQIA+ cause and the convergence of struggles, while respecting others, and provides assistance wherever possible.
La Vill’Verte (LVV)
The aim of this cluster is to create a cleaner, greener and more environmentally-friendly school. It shares information on sustainable development and helps to implement better waste management and an anti-waste policy within the school.
Les Blettes Villette
The student members of this AMAP organize the delivery of vegetable baskets to the school on Wednesday evenings.
A school for Guayas
Made up of students from the Licence 2 program, this humanitarian association was set up in 2001 to raise funds to build a school in Ecuador every year.
Since 2001, it has completed thirteen school projects (eleven new buildings and two renovations).
Partner associations
National Union of Architecture and Landscape Students (UNEAP)
Created in 2011 by and for students in these fields, this national association works to ensure their representation, cohesion, training, and the improvement of teaching and student life. To this end, UNEAP offers students services, national events and a wide range of projects in line with their expectations and the specificities of their fields of study.
Chœur d’hommes de La Villette
Created in 2014, the ENSAPLV men’s vocal ensemble offers motivated students the opportunity to come and practice vocal practice. Rehearsals take place once a week at the school. The program is determined by the choir director and is performed in Paris and the surrounding region.
Collectif La Rue
ENSAPLV student association: collective design and production
The La Rue collective is an architectural and artistic association that gathers around the issues of reuse, transitional urbanism and collective rehabilitation. The association was founded in 2016 with the aim of providing a framework for reflection, experimentation and learning. From the outset, its members have defended the idea that the rehabilitation and appropriation of a place depends primarily on user participation.Through events, the creation of frescoes and the construction of furniture, the La Rue collective experiments with processes of user inclusion from conception to completion. After four years working with ENSAPLV students on the rehabilitation of the school’s common spaces, it has built up a solid base, ready to share its knowledge in collective and experimental construction.
Passerelle V
Passerelle V is an educational and economic association under the French law of 1901. The organization has been active at ENSAPLV since 2003. Its aim is to facilitate access to professional experience for ENSAPLV students during their studies. Through the agreements it publishes, Passerelle V administers a system of punctual, professionalizing, educational and remunerated contracts, enabling ENSAPLV students to put into practice in the professional world the theoretical knowledge they have acquired through their studies at the school.