is organizing study days on March 28 and 29, 2022 (Amphitheater of the Georges Pérec Library, Champs-sur-Marne) on the theme: What interdisciplinary advances have been made in the field of risks and crises? A look back at the UrbaRiskLab experience
The importance of studying risks and crises in urban environments is well established: all crises—whether related to natural, climatic, chemical, or pathogenic hazards, economic or societal, whether planned or unplanned, of exceptional magnitude or low-key, slow or fast-moving—generate significant scientific, technical, organizational, and political uncertainties. Crises raise crucial questions not only in terms of preparedness and emergency response, but also in terms of monitoring (sensors or warning centers), modeling and data processing tools, anticipation of cascading effects, and information flow in degraded situations. The recent pandemic has brought this home to us in a very acute way. The UrbaRiskLab (URL) project is an experimental initiative designed to generate new ideas for research, collaboration, prototypes, tools, etc. To this end, it draws on a consortium of researchers from a variety of research backgrounds (hard sciences, engineering sciences, social sciences) working on a wide range of risks, scales, and methods.
These study days were organized in two parts. The first part was devoted to presenting some of the research results produced during these four years of experimentation. The second part took a broader approach, offering a critical reflection on interdisciplinary practices in the field of risks and crises, in terms of both research and training.