The hypothesis of a world that entered the Anthropocene, where human activity modifies the biosphere, is being studied everywhere. Like a wave, this question crosses all fields: human sciences, political economy, technical cultures, aesthetics... Bruno Latour sees it as a new concept: "with this indefinitely extended role of the human, humanism is perhaps back, but it must be acknowledged that it has a strange head since it mixes morality with geology and that it confuses in the same term the so-called social sciences and the so-called natural sciences".
The Ecologies program aims to activate exchanges between ecology, the science that studies living beings in their environment, with their interactions, and architecture, the art of creating living conditions. It is a question of reopening the doors between architecture and the contemporary multidisciplinary debate on the evolution of "inhabited environments": experimental sciences and human sciences, global history, geography, development economics...
Coming events
Évènements passés
Learning from the desert
In the face of global water scarcity and the increasing aridification of many regions around the world, this symposium seeks to question the productivist and short-term logics that dominate current water-management practices.
A question of time
In partnership with the Laboratoire de recherche de l’École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Versailles - LéaV
Symposium Global Award for Sustainable Architecture 2022
Prize-giving ceremony and lectures by the 5 winners.
Past Events
Three winners of the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture, from Mexico, Jordan and Thailand, have designed three life-size pavilions as a means of answering the crucial question of our time: how to reinvent our habitat in the face of the climate emergency and the depletion of our resources?
