The PAR(C)IMAGE project has been selected for a two-year grant by MSH Paris Nord 2026.
It is led by Raphaële Bertho, University of Tours – INTRU, Sonia Keravel from the École Nationale Supérieure de Paysage de Versailles-Marseille (ENSP) – LAREP, Frédéric Pousin, Emeritus Research Director at CNRS – UMR AAU, and Nathalie Roseau from the École nationale des ponts et chaussées (ENPC) – UMR LATTS.
Taking the Grand Chemin Metropolitan Park project as its field of investigation, the research studies the evolution of representations of eastern Greater Paris through the prism of weak infrastructure, understood as the foundation for the functioning of communities and territories whose ecological footprint would allow coexistence with living organisms. The historical and visual perspective offers a reverse history of the park's territory, focusing on representations of past projects, the unthought, the erased, but also the surviving and the lingering. The visual is privileged in order to analyze the production and circulation of representations. The aim is to build up a documentary and historical depth of the territory that can be mobilized in the operational project. The three components of the research project are the identification of archival collections, the organization of student workshops, and the planning of study days from a local and international perspective.
