Urban experimentation is part of a long tradition. We propose that the training opens with the confrontation and the discussion of different modalities of experimentation, historical or contemporary, conducted in different cultural contexts. The entire teaching team is invited to present one or more cases analyzed according to the scientific process specific to each. The aim is to create the groundwork for a common experimental culture and to show a variety of disciplinary approaches to these issues that will be discussed with students. The session will take the form of study days (format of 1 to 2 days) and articulate presentation times with research work and its restitution by the students. It will end with a round table and debate, organized by the participants.

Langue de l'enseignement

FRANÇAIS / FRENCH

The concept of public space is at the crossroads of all social science disciplines. This course aims at the critical appropriation of a plurality of conceptual approaches of the public space and their integration in the contemporary urban fabric, as well in its spatial and political dimensions as social and cultural. Two conceptions will be articulated: the first understand the public space in an interactional way that means a place of meeting between strangers. It engages a reflection on their physical and symbolic accessibility, on the anonymity and the exposure of oneself in public. The second conception sees it as a discursive space of debates and controversies, in which the normativity and rationality of contemporary societies are elaborated. Issues of accessibility and publicity include reflection on political (in)equality and representation, the role of conflict, emotions and non-argumentative forms of speaking.

Langue de l'enseignement

FRANÇAIS / FRENCH

This class examines the relationship between the uses of public space by individuals and groups, on the one side, and particular spatial designs on the other. This relationship is complex and unstable: certain spatial designs for certain social uses may be diverted, privatized, destroyed or enriched by other uses, additionnal or rival to the first ones; some uses could spontaneously produce their own spatial design, and some groups succeed in creating their own spatial organization. Analyzing this relationship leads to unveil the variety of human actirs and the interactions betxeen them and with the urban environment. The class offers a typology of public uses and a methodology for their contextual characterization, using four research methods applied to individual mini-cases studies

Langue de l'enseignement

FRANÇAIS / FRENCH

The course's objective is to give students theoretical and practical tools to:

- Understand and analyse the challenges of the actors systems and the logic of intervention of the different actors (co-)producing public spaces (public actors, private operators, professionals and users);

- construct a reflective posture vis-à-vis the participation of inhabitants and to analyse the various degrees and forms of involvement of inhabitants in a planning process;

- design, implement and facilitate a participatory approach for the development, production and management of a project.

This teaching is structured by case studies presented by different actors involved as professionals, elected or inhabitants. Other interventions are based on theoretical teachings (in particular to reframe participation in a historical perspective) but also on role-playing and observations.

Langue de l'enseignement

FRANÇAIS / FRENCH

The course focuses on emerging and alternative urban planning practices that place people at the heart of decision-making and design processes. The course covers several cases (housing, equipment, public spaces) and types of actors at different scales, giving special importance to rural areas. The course aims to produce an index of practices and organizations (purpose, typologies of practices, methods of financing structures, scope of actions) also utilitarian : career development, job opportunities, network and address book.

Langue de l'enseignement

FRANÇAIS / FRENCH

This module aims to provide cross-curricular knowledge and tools for all course UEs. Economic and environmental issues cross all the alternative and experimental approaches as well as the production of public spaces : as contexts, resources and horizons of invention. Sessions in economics are divided between political economy (macroeconomic analysis, public policies) and economic sciences (project financing, organization of structures). The environmental sessions deal with the legal framework and environmental policies, and consider the place of this dimension in alternative planning practices.

Langue de l'enseignement

FRANÇAIS / FRENCH

We study the city, urbanism and public space through words and languages. The approach is interlinguistic because different languages built space through their lexical systems. It also focuses on certain texts geographically and historically located. Finally, it lays the foundations of the socio-linguistic analysis in the urban context. The problems of translation, the globalization of language and linguistic co-presences in cities are studied.

Langue de l'enseignement

FRANCAIS/FRENCH - ANGLAIS-ENGLISH - AUTRES

Training in methodological tools used in the production of studies and diagnoses. Discovery and use of traditional tools and capacity to develop specific and innovative tools. The course begins by situating the use of methods in a global approach (data production protocols) and then covers classical tools (actors' games, sociogram, interviews, questionnaires, observations, cartographies), mixed tools (commented paths, questionnaires-interviews, field notebooks), experimental (embedded surveys) or collaborative (balluchons). Each session starts with a collective point on the workshop(s) then alternates training time with tools and workshop support.

Langue de l'enseignement

FRANÇAIS / FRENCH

This module aims at facilitating the self-training of students by organizing a system of reciprocal exchange of knowledge and skills, a sort of local exchange système. Students will be asked both to make proposals and requests for additional training to the courses taught in the course. They will participate in the organization of the exchanges under the supervision of one or more members of the team.

Langue de l'enseignement

FRANÇAIS / FRENCH

The professional design and management of public space requires a complex stakeholders’ system and various skills: local politicians, architects, landscape architects, urban planners, working for the local authorities, private consultancies, development corporations, social landlords or the community sector... The objective of this seminar is to enable students to identify the different fields and professional practices involved in the production of public space. The first part of the seminar focuses on the concrete organisation of the actors' systems involved in the design and management of public space. The second part examines the interactions between different professions based on case studies, with the support of presentations by professionals.

Langue de l'enseignement

FRANÇAIS / FRENCH

This course place students in a professional situation and role-play by simulating a jury of an architectural design competition. It presents the competitive procedure for urban projects, gives students the tools needed to criticise, discuss and evaluate land uses proposal, and specifically target conception and management of urban public spaces. It discuss public procurment procedures and offers quality evaluation criterias to objectify the choices. This exercise develops an awareness of difficulties in assessing projects at the planning stage.

Langue de l'enseignement

FRANÇAIS / FRENCH

The objective of this course is to give students an overview of technical and technological dimensions of the production of public spaces and networks. Several points will be discussed:

- technical dimensions of roads and various networks (dimensioning of roads and underground technical networks, operation and management of networks, presentation of alternative techniques to the existing network, etc.)

- knowledges of Urban Engineering in the production of public spaces and underground networks.

- role of technical actors in the production of public spaces, and problem of coordinating technical expertise

- articulation between urban development projects, public spaces and networks.

- issues of technological innovation in public spaces

Langue de l'enseignement

FRANÇAIS / FRENCH

Training in methodological tools used in the production of studies and diagnoses. The course accompanies the second phase of the workshop around methods to produce data and analyzes that are useful for project development or consultation mechanisms. The course then proposes training sequences for tools that were not mobilized during the year in the workshops but that the students are likely to meet in the future exercise of their profession. Lastly, it discusses tools developed in specific cases and opens up approaches implemented in research. Finally, the course aims to stimulate debate on the use of these different methods and to draw a critical reflection a posteriori. One must have followed the ECUE 3-2 in the first semester in order to follow this course.

Langue de l'enseignement

FRANÇAIS / FRENCH

The aim of this course is to get students acquainted with photographic and filming practices, in order to enable them to use existing images or to produce images according to their needs in a critical and reflexive manner. This course is considered as an introduction to visual methodologies that complements other courses on methodologies and, more broadly, to the “visual cultures” in the fields of urban planning and architecture.

Langue de l'enseignement

FRANÇAIS / FRENCH

Fiction plays an important role in transforming and consolidating urban imaginaries. It reveals common practices and representations of urban places but also enables to imagine their futures, so that it is commonly used in urban planning and design to simulate new development concepts. This session investigates therefore the affinities between planning practices and fiction in the field of urban planning and design, architecture and the arts (literature, cinema). It’s teaching methodology is based on different devices: conferences, workshops, film projections, exhibitions.

Langue de l'enseignement

FRANÇAIS / FRENCH

The session starts with the observations made on the increase of costs, both on the side of urban production and on the scale of uses and consuming of city dwellers. Credit takes an important place in these processes. The Auto-construction session addresses the actions, devices and modes of organization that promote solutions to produce housing, equipment or public spaces without borrowing. The session allows to discover a field in the process of structuring, the skills, modes of action and professions that develop there. The activity is co-organized with professionals of the sector, the national network of social and solidarity economy Crefad and several partners in Ile-de-France.

Langue de l'enseignement

FRANÇAIS / FRENCH

This session is focuses on the study of the interweaving between formal and informal processes in the management of public places (including streets, parks, buildings or transport facilities, among others) . The purpose is analyzing how social actors and particularly public agents mobilize tolerance and impravisation in front of more or less intentional transgressions of the formal order. Students will work in small groups on actual cases during the session

Langue de l'enseignement

FRANÇAIS / FRENCH

The objective of the workshop is to put into perspective the achievements of training in the comparative and international dimensions. It therefore requires to have followed the entire curriculum of the M2 AUDE-EP during the year. The principle of travel is part of the general philosophy of the curriculum : it is based on practice, action and experimentation rather than a program of visits and conferences. The program is built on the basis of a local problem (public spaces, urban requalification, resident projects) and proposes analysis devices that are experimented on the spot (interactions, immersions, projects with local actors). It involves taking part in preparation sessions between February and March, and takes place during a week at the end of March.

Langue de l'enseignement

FRANCAIS/FRENCH - ANGLAIS-ENGLISH - AUTRES