The morning session will take place in person at the Cité Descartes site in Champs-sur-Marne (Room A202) from 9.00 am to 12.30 pm.  To enrich our discussions, we will be joined by guest speakers representing the public sector, academic research and the private sector, with a view to sharing experiences and exploring common challenges. We hope this morning session will provide a valuable opportunity to gain a shared understanding of the challenges and the efforts already underway in various projects, with a view to enhancing our collective knowledge on these issues. You will find a more detailed programme of the topics and speakers below.

Detailed programme for the morning: 

• Introduction
• Round-table discussion 
• Theme 1: The accessibility of data on electrification from a user and open-data perspective
• Topic 2: Electricity data production 
• Topic 3: Data privacy issues relating to electricity
• The future of the TRAMES project (discussion continued over lunch)

Guest speakers providing feedback and insights:

• Seun Osonuga, electrical engineer, G2ELab, Grenoble
• Blanche Lormeteau, energy law and environmental law, CNRS UMR 6262 IODE, Rennes 
• Marie Ruellan, energy systems / OTE experience on the FlexTASE project, Senior Lecturer at Supélec, Rennes 
• Olivier Jaray and Vivien Forgeau, Agence Oré 
• Pierre Schmidt and Amanda Nogué, Graphite – Power Network Modelling, UK
• Gabriel Kasmi, DeepVmapper tool, École des Mines, Paris 
• Emmanuel Dion and Meriem Basti, Nantes Métropole, energy procurement/OSER project, Nantes

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This international research seminar will take place on 13 October 2026 at the Maison des Sciences Humaines et sociales Paris-Nord, organised by Raphaële Bertho (University of Tours, InTRu), Sonia Keravel (National School of Landscape Architecture, Versailles-Marseille, LAREP), Frédéric Pousin (CNRS, CRESSON) and Nathalie Roseau (École nationale des ponts et chaussées, LATTS). It forms part of the Par(c)Image. Developing the concept of the metropolitan park research project.

See the programme for the study day

The concept of nature is inextricably linked to that of the city, with visits to ‘natural’ living spaces serving as a counterpoint to the artificialisation of urban spaces. This ‘city-nature’ pairing is itself changing, depending on the configurations and representations of inhabited territories. Green loop, metropolitan trail, greenway, linear park, urban forest: as well as reflecting a desire for nature, these terms refer to indeterminate entities that develop through fragments, infiltrations, interstices and hybridisations. The co-evolving functions they embody outline a large-scale dialectic that is both rooted in local contexts and embedded in regional and metropolitan interdependencies. The aim is to integrate living organisms into urban dynamics (the ecology of green networks), to structure regional planning (park systems), to connect agriculture to the city (urban farms), to promote walking (hiking trails), and to create vantage points (panoramas, viewpoints). This profusion of emerging forms invites us to revisit their genealogies and representations — photography and cartography in particular. What are the antecedents of these forms and practices? How do they engage with the political and vernacular structures of the large city undergoing transformation? How do they redefine the permeability between the urban and the non-urban? What shift in urban and landscape paradigms — in planning and design — is emerging in the contemporary era, driven by the need for cities to adapt to the ‘new climate regime’? How can research engage with this, at the intersection of knowledge and practice?

This international and interdisciplinary study day forms part of the Par(c)Image research project (“Deploying the idea of the metropolitan park. A visual history in the service of territorial transformation”), supported by the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Paris-Nord (2026–2027), in collaboration with the ‘Inventing Grand Paris: Entangled history of metropolitan areas’ programme. At the intersection of urban, landscape and visual history, this programme focuses on representations of the eastern Greater Paris region and its Grand Chemin project — a 55-kilometre green loop currently in the planning and construction stages that builds upon existing infrastructure, incorporating continuities, crossings, parks and gardens. Rooted in the environmental and urban challenges of the Anthropocene, this programme explores a reverse chronology of the soils, land uses, projects and morphologies that have shaped this territory from Paris to Romainville, prioritising a visual approach — and more specifically, photography.

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Entitled “Land for Sale: Transactions, Inequalities, Mobilisations. Dialogues from the Outskirts of African Cities”, this conference will present the main findings of four years of research conducted on the outskirts of Nairobi, Dakar and Bamako, in dialogue with researchers in the humanities, social sciences and spatial analysis who are addressing these issues, both on the African continent and beyond. 

The outskirts of African cities are one of the main fronts in global urbanisation. These study days will provide a forum for collective discussion on contemporary urbanisation dynamics in sub-Saharan Africa: land markets and value chains, the sociology of property, socio-spatial inequalities, conflicts and mobilisations over land, and the liveability of these territories in transition. 

Bilingual round-table discussions (with simultaneous English-French interpretation), an exhibition of field photographs, satellite images and previously unseen visualisations will inform the discussions.

Find out more

The Metroland project: www.metrolandproject.org

The detailed programme in French and the registration link: https://www.metrolandproject.org/workshop/programme-fr.pdf

The detailed programme in English and the registration link: https://www.metrolandproject.org/workshop/programme-en.pdf

Illustration by Njung’e Wanjiru

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