This international symposium proposes to draw on both the insights of the "Inventing Greater Paris" research program and the renewal of historiography. The single object of study, or one placed in a comparative perspective, has been replaced by a pluralistic reading of Greater Paris, which the symposium will explore through a range of research questions. The rise in political and media discourse, as well as in academic disciplines, of environmental concerns, heritage awareness, attention to residents and actors whose role has hitherto been downplayed, and interest in situated history, are all invitations to shift our perspective in order to grasp the metropolitan reality. The word "reverse" associated with "invent" therefore explores the potential for research renewal in the dual sense of "reversing perspective" and "changing order and value."
Organized by the Inventing Greater Paris Cross-Disciplinary Group (LabEx Futurs Urbains), this conference will take place on Thursday, March 14, and Friday, March 15, at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville, in the Bernard Huet amphitheater.
Detailed program available at this link.
