10thU&U PhD Seminar, Lille, June 28th-30th 2023

Like previous editions, the seminar seeks to bring together students writing their PhD thesis in urbanism, working within very different disciplinary traditions, combining historical research, design research and different forms of urban research.
The community supporting this seminar series over the years shares an interest in work that tries to speak across the divide between urban studies and the city-making disciplines, seeking to combine the interpretation of the process of urbanization with the commitment and care for the urban condition in all its manifold manifestations, and bring together urban theory and the theoretical grounding of urbanism.

The seminar welcomes all PhD students working in this mixed field. The call for papers of each edition foregrounds a set of themes that will be given special attention. We invite students to respond to these thematic lines, however, papers addressing other themes and concerns will also be taken into consideration.

Beyond metropolization – Exploring new hybrids

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Keynotes

• Sabine Barles
  (Re)connection. Which metabolism for which city ?
  Wednesday 28.06.23, 18h30 grand amphithéâtre Bossard, ENSAP de Lille.

Sabine Barles is a professor of urban planning at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and a researcher at UMR Géographie-Cités, where she heads the CRIA team. Her research interests range from the history of urban techniques and the urban environment (eighteenth to twenty-first centuries), to urban metabolism, territorial ecology and socio-ecological foresight.
Her recent publications include : Pour la recherche urbaine, Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2020 (co-dir. Félix Adisson, Nathalie Blanc, Olivier Coutard, Leïla frouillou, Fanny Rassat) ; Métabolisme et métropole. La métropole lilloise, entre mondialisation et interterritorialité, Paris: Autrement, 2021 (co-dir. Marc Dumont) ; Le métabolisme de l’agglomération parisienne, fascicule #20 du PIREN-Seine, Paris: éd. ARCEAU-IdF, 2021 (dir).

• Pierre Caye
  Qu’est-ce qu’un développement vraiment durable ? What’s a truly sustainable development ?
  Thursday 29.06.23, 18h30 grand amphithéâtre Bossard, ENSAP de Lille.
  (conférence en français, with simultaneous translation in English)

Pierre Caye, philosopher, is director of research at the CNRS. He founded the international research group “Savoirs artistiques et traités d’art de la Renaissance aux Lumières”.
Former student of the École Normale Supérieure (Ulm), he has been developing for over 30 years research on the knowledge of architecture, urbanism and regional planning, and through these, on the question of technique, renewing thoroughly the genealogy of it, notably in: Durer. Elements pour la transformation du système productif (Belles Lettres, 2020). Other key publications include: Critique de la destruction créatrice. Humanisme et production, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2015; and Morale et chaos. Principes d’un agir sans fondement, Paris, Le Cerf, 2008.

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