By: Nathalie Roseau

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By: Arnaud Passalacqua

Discussant: Claire le Renard

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By: Margot Pellegrino

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By: Paul Landauer

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Global disruptions, their speed and intensity, are forcing us to take action. Technological innovation alone and the idea of decoupling the intensity of human activities from their impact on the Earth will not be enough to make life compatible with planetary boundaries. Based on this observation, the researchers who contributed to issue 4 of Transitions believe that a major shift in production and consumption systems is unavoidable. It is even necessary in the very short term, given the alarming nature of the situation.

Climate, biodiversity, chemical contaminants, water resources: with their backs against the wall, the world of research and higher education is analyzing, examining, and communicating possible paths for socio-ecological futures. At the crossroads of the humanities, social sciences, and environmental sciences, this day is an opportunity to examine the relationship between technology and politics and possible avenues for public action, as well as to consider the implications for society of putting these transitions into practice.

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This session will take place in the boardroom (Banham space) at the École nationale supérieure d'architecture Paris-Est.

The session will open with a presentation by Rocio Calzado Lopez: "While the housing crisis is the starting point for this research, the alarming context of social housing demolitions is the subject to be examined. To discuss this crisis and examine these demolitions, this research addresses the relationship between the three dimensions of politics (politics, policy, and polity) and architecture, and questions not whether architecture is political, but rather how architecture is political. What are the material resources of a building that influence governance processes? Perhaps if we trace the political role of buildings in the decision-making behind a demolition, we could learn something new about the role of architects in the current housing crisis.

To explore this idea, I develop the biography of two housing complexes, one in Rome and the other in Paris, which were about to be demolished but instead ended up undergoing a long process of transformation. "Beyond Demolition, Caring for Architecture" is not a finished work, but an ongoing research project, tested both through a doctoral project currently underway at the LATTS laboratory at the École des Ponts et Chaussées and a documentary film produced by the film collective "docar," with the support of the Pavillon de l'Arsenal. The session will begin with the screening of several excerpts from the documentary.

It will continue with a presentation by Manon Espinasse: "The highway is an infrastructure considered essential to the functioning of our current societies and economies.

Since its inception, it has been the subject of a series of actions (repair, adaptation, regeneration, transformation) to ensure its permanence. Because it both contributes to exceeding planetary limits and is exposed to the consequences of these exceedances, it has been included in public policies for "ecological transition." The highway (as a socio-technical system) of the 21st century is increasingly "multi-functional ": a support for plural mobility (from automobility to shared mobility), a habitat for biodiversity and carbon sinks (in its dependencies and edges), a vector for renewable energy (from the highway hosting urban networks to the highway producing urban solar energy). This diversified highway is being built in the Bordeaux metropolitan area, based on the one that originated in the late 1960s. It is the result of adjustments and reconfigurations between highway planning and land-use planning (and their imaginaries) since 1967, which gave rise to specific architectural, urban, landscape, and infrastructural forms. This paper proposes to look at the early stages of the Bordeaux motorway, the genesis of the co-construction of the motorway and the metropolis, and to question the "infrastructural permanence."

In the 1960s, the highway was a local and national project, a tool for establishing Bordeaux as a balanced metropolis (DATAR) and a city with over a million inhabitants (Jacques Chaban Delmas). This highway of metropolitanization was both a means of large-scale development in the creation of Bordeaux as a metropolis (as seen in the development plans) and a means of economic development (as seen in the aerial photographs)."

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By: François-Mathieu Poupeau, researcher at LATTS

Discussant: Virginie Boutueil, researcher at LVMT

Session based on the book:

"The State in Search of an Energy-Climate Strategy"
Presses des Mines, 2023

Energy and climate have become major concerns in France, challenging the State in its role as strategist. How is the State approaching this new role? How is it building its vision for the future? How is it setting the broad guidelines intended to respond to the challenges of combating climate change and energy transition? These questions are at the heart of this book, which examines the drafting, from 2017 to 2020, of the National Low-Carbon Strategy (SNBC) and the Multi-Year Energy Program (PPE). Based on an in-depth survey of the actors who participated in their development, it offers a unique contribution to the sociology of public administration and decision-making in a field that has yet to be thoroughly studied. It also identifies a little-known facet of the state's inaction on climate change: the powerlessness of the administration in charge of this issue in France. Relegated to a peripheral position in the bureaucratic hierarchy, with limited staff and resources, lacking real leverage for action, and receiving little support from politicians, this administration is struggling to generate the momentum for change needed to achieve the goal of carbon neutrality by 2050.

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Hugo Cordier, Charlotte Marcilliere, and François-Mathieu Poupeau are organizing a study day entitled "The rebirth of the figure of the planning state in France: Knowledge, actors, processes" on July 3 and 4, 2025, at the École nationale des ponts et chaussées.

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For your information, proposals must be submitted by January 15, 2025, according to the terms specified in this document.

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" organized by the "City and Energy" working group will take place on Friday, March 20, 2020 (Bienvenüe Building, rooms B017-B020).

Political authorities and markets are implementing a variety of solutions to encourage the deployment of decentralized energy production systems using renewable sources. Net metering systems appear to be an effective way to encourage investment in renewable energies, as they allow energy that is not consumed to be fed back into the public grid at attractive rates.
While the first applications of net metering date back to the 1980s in the United States, according to the professional association REN21, more than 50 countries had implemented programs to develop this system in 2014, and today that number exceeds 60. However, this proliferation has been accompanied by controversy over electricity consumption volumes and the effects on grid maintenance.
During the seminar, three guest speakers will offer different perspectives on the socio-economic and political issues surrounding net metering in Europe and North America.

Scientific coordination: Sylvy Jaglin and Margot Pellegrino
Group assistant: Marika Rupeka

The program

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The article Cancellation: Seminar of the Transversal Group "City and Energy" Labex Futurs Urbains (UPE) first appeared on LATTS - Laboratory for Territorial and Societal Techniques.

The article Seminar of the cross-disciplinary group "Inventing Greater Paris" Labex Futurs Urbains (UPE) first appeared on LATTS - Laboratory for Territorial and Societal Techniques.

The UrbaRiskLab Conference will take place on November 26, 2019, in the auditorium of the Georges Perec Library and on November 27, 2019, at ESIEE, room 3005 (see program):

November 26, 2019:

November 27, 2019:

– Presentations by researchers from outside the consortium on the theme: "From risks to crisis: reconciling heritage and anticipation."

URL Symposium Program – November 26 and 27, 2019

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The seminar aims to discuss public-private relations in metropolitan governance based on several comparative studies involving teams from Paris-Est, Milan (Bocconi University), Rome (La Sapienza), London (UCL Bartlett School) and New York (Hunter College, CUNY).

METROPAL Seminar Program – November 21 and 22, 2019

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