From Thursday 12 November 2026, the seminar ‘Towards an Urbanism of Life: A Dialogue between Anthropology and Urban Studies’ will be held, organised by the Laboratory of Social Anthropology (LAS, Collège de France) and the EHESS.
Seminar overview
How can we rethink the ways in which we design our living environments, at a time when our relationship with the natural world, our understanding of the environment and the conditions for liveability in cities are changing?
This seminar aims to explore contemporary issues in urban contexts by examining developments in planning standards, knowledge and practices. It will bring together researchers in the humanities and social sciences (anthropologists, geographers, philosophers, historians and sociologists), as well as practitioners in urban planning and architecture, to discuss collective representations of our environments, their transformations and the conditions that make them liveable.
Programme
