Architecture and landscapes for democratic living
Seminar cycles
To live in a democracy is to live as a democrat, to practice “self-government”. It is by situating ourselves and interacting with our environment that we participate in the creation of our conditions of existence, and it is by virtue of the qualities of certain places that we have the opportunity to do so. This cycle of seminars offers a multi-disciplinary reflection on the ways in which contemporary landscapes are constructed and inhabited, with a particular view to questioning the possible forms of realizing the common good.
In partnership with Aix-Marseille Université, École nationale supérieure du paysage, EHESS, Centre Norbert Elias and Géographie-cités
Edited by Jean-Marc Besse, Eugénie Denarnaud and Joëlle Zask
January 18 What seats in a democracy?
In this first session, we will define the political stakes of public places and consider the conditions under which they would be consistent with democratic ideals and practices.
– General introduction
– Joëlle Zask (AMU): La place publique, point aveugle de la démocratie
– Jean-Marc Besse (EHESS): L’espace: du public au commun
– Romain Cazaux (Doctorant à l’EHESS): Faire d’un champ une place publique: écologie d’un rassemblement à Sainte-Soline
– Eugénie Denarnaud (École du Paysage) : From urban square to traffic circle: a renewal of 21st-century citizen spaces
February 8 Building and manufacturing hospitality
In the second session, we’ll reflect on what it means to “welcome”. Distinct from hospitality, welcoming implies gestures and spatial organization, the characteristics of which we’ll be investigating.
– General introduction (J. Zask, AMU)
– Eugénie Denarnaud (Ecole du Paysage): The threshold from one world to another
– Célia De Pietro (UNIL, lab. THEMA): Welcoming disagreement in a democratic public space
– Aude Fanlo (MUCEM): Psychodemia. How the museum welcomes a collection
March 14 Nurturing landscapes
Eugénie Denarnaud
Teacher-researcher, Associate MCF ENSP LAREP
Intro Agriculture and unruly margins: the case of San Rafael Veracruz, Mexico
Émilie Laystary
Journalist, Food Studies company, Science Po Lille, Nanterre University
Food sovereignty: in Mouans-Sartoux, market gardening against a housing development project
Geremia Cometti
Anthropologist, Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Strasbourg, researcher at LinCS (Laboratoire interdisciplinaire en études culturelles / Lab for interdisciplinary cultural studies, UMR 7367, CNRS-Université de Strasbourg).
The Yagan of Navarino Island (Chilean Tierra del Fuego) face industrial salmon farming
Joëlle Zask
Doctor of Philosophy MCF, AMU, IUF
As long as there are chestnuts, we’ll be a free people
Video link
March 28 The right to landscape
Jean-Marc Besse
Philosopher, geographer, CNRS EHESS professor
The right to landscape and human rights
Olivier Gaudin
Doctor of philosophy, lecturer at the École de la nature et du paysage de Blois (Insa Centre Val de Loire), attached to the Citeres laboratory (University of Tours), associate of the Cmes (EHESS)
Landscape rights. Cahiers de Blois n°19
Francis Talin
Francis Talin is a civil engineer. He is currently head of the expertise and living environment division of the urban ecology and resilience department of the city of Marseille. He was head of the education, culture and social section of the Parc national des Calanques. He played an active role in its creation in 2012 as charter project manager. Prior to this, he worked in coastal development consultancies, obtained a PhD in biogeochemical process modelling at the Centre d’Océanologie de Marseille and set up an environmental education center for the CCO, a federation of social centers.
Video link
April 11 Urban village
Joëlle Zask and Jean-Marc Besse
The village scale: a political claim
Jean-Noël Conzalès
Geographer Professor IUAR, AMU
A geohistory of the city-countryside of Marseilles
Antonella Tufano
Professor, Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Director of the Sorbonne School of the Arts
Inventing a concept of “urban domestic” for a more human city
Biographical notes
Émilie Laystary is a social journalist. She writes for the newspaper Libération and hosts the podcast Bouffons (Nouvelles Écoutes studio), which examines our way of life through the prism of food. She recently published her first book, Petit Traité de la bouffe (ed. Marabout / Hachette), conceived as an introduction to food studies. She also teaches a writing course as part of a master’s degree in language sciences at the University of Nanterre, and a seminar on social issues as part of a master’s degree in “Boire, Manger, Vivre” at Sciences po Lille.
Geremia Cometti is University Professor and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Strasbourg, and a researcher at LinCS (Laboratoire interdisciplinaire en études culturelles / Lab for interdisciplinary cultural studies, UMR 7367, CNRS-Université de Strasbourg). His work focuses on the consequences of climate change, the extractive industry, intensive agriculture and livestock farming on human societies.
Olivier Gaudin holds a doctorate in philosophy and is a lecturer at the École de la Nature et du Paysage de Blois (Insa Centre Val de Loire), attached to the Citeres laboratory (University of Tours) and an associate member of Cems (EHESS). Editorial director of Cahiers de l’École de Blois, member of the editorial boards of the online journals Métropolitiques and Pragmata. Revue d’études pragmatistes.
Seminar cycles
To live in a democracy is to live as a democrat, to practice “self-government”. It is by situating ourselves and interacting with our environment that we participate in the creation of our conditions of existence, and it is by virtue of the qualities of certain places that we have the opportunity to do so. This cycle of seminars offers a multi-disciplinary reflection on the ways in which contemporary landscapes are constructed and inhabited, with a particular view to questioning the possible forms of realizing the common good.
In partnership with Aix-Marseille Université, École nationale supérieure du paysage, EHESS, Centre Norbert Elias and Géographie-cités
Edited by Jean-Marc Besse, Eugénie Denarnaud and Joëlle Zask
January 18 What seats in a democracy?
In this first session, we will define the political stakes of public places and consider the conditions under which they would be consistent with democratic ideals and practices.
– General introduction
– Joëlle Zask (AMU): La place publique, point aveugle de la démocratie
– Jean-Marc Besse (EHESS): L’espace: du public au commun
– Romain Cazaux (Doctorant à l’EHESS): Faire d’un champ une place publique: écologie d’un rassemblement à Sainte-Soline
– Eugénie Denarnaud (École du Paysage) : From urban square to traffic circle: a renewal of 21st-century citizen spaces
February 8 Building and manufacturing hospitality
In the second session, we’ll reflect on what it means to “welcome”. Distinct from hospitality, welcoming implies gestures and spatial organization, the characteristics of which we’ll be investigating.
– General introduction (J. Zask, AMU)
– Eugénie Denarnaud (Ecole du Paysage): The threshold from one world to another
– Célia De Pietro (UNIL, lab. THEMA): Welcoming disagreement in a democratic public space
– Aude Fanlo (MUCEM): Psychodemia. How the museum welcomes a collection
March 14 Nurturing landscapes
Eugénie Denarnaud
Teacher-researcher, Associate MCF ENSP LAREP
Intro Agriculture and unruly margins: the case of San Rafael Veracruz, Mexico
Émilie Laystary
Journalist, Food Studies company, Science Po Lille, Nanterre University
Food sovereignty: in Mouans-Sartoux, market gardening against a housing development project
Geremia Cometti
Anthropologist, Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Strasbourg, researcher at LinCS (Laboratoire interdisciplinaire en études culturelles / Lab for interdisciplinary cultural studies, UMR 7367, CNRS-Université de Strasbourg).
The Yagan of Navarino Island (Chilean Tierra del Fuego) face industrial salmon farming
Joëlle Zask
Doctor of Philosophy MCF, AMU, IUF
As long as there are chestnuts, we’ll be a free people
Video link
March 28 The right to landscape
Jean-Marc Besse
Philosopher, geographer, CNRS EHESS professor
The right to landscape and human rights
Olivier Gaudin
Doctor of philosophy, lecturer at the École de la nature et du paysage de Blois (Insa Centre Val de Loire), attached to the Citeres laboratory (University of Tours), associate of the Cmes (EHESS)
Landscape rights. Cahiers de Blois n°19
Francis Talin
Francis Talin is a civil engineer. He is currently head of the expertise and living environment division of the urban ecology and resilience department of the city of Marseille. He was head of the education, culture and social section of the Parc national des Calanques. He played an active role in its creation in 2012 as charter project manager. Prior to this, he worked in coastal development consultancies, obtained a PhD in biogeochemical process modelling at the Centre d’Océanologie de Marseille and set up an environmental education center for the CCO, a federation of social centers.
Video link
April 11 Urban village
Joëlle Zask and Jean-Marc Besse
The village scale: a political claim
Jean-Noël Conzalès
Geographer Professor IUAR, AMU
A geohistory of the city-countryside of Marseilles
Antonella Tufano
Professor, Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Director of the Sorbonne School of the Arts
Inventing a concept of “urban domestic” for a more human city
Biographical notes
Émilie Laystary is a social journalist. She writes for the newspaper Libération and hosts the podcast Bouffons (Nouvelles Écoutes studio), which examines our way of life through the prism of food. She recently published her first book, Petit Traité de la bouffe (ed. Marabout / Hachette), conceived as an introduction to food studies. She also teaches a writing course as part of a master’s degree in language sciences at the University of Nanterre, and a seminar on social issues as part of a master’s degree in “Boire, Manger, Vivre” at Sciences po Lille.
Geremia Cometti is University Professor and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Strasbourg, and a researcher at LinCS (Laboratoire interdisciplinaire en études culturelles / Lab for interdisciplinary cultural studies, UMR 7367, CNRS-Université de Strasbourg). His work focuses on the consequences of climate change, the extractive industry, intensive agriculture and livestock farming on human societies.
Olivier Gaudin holds a doctorate in philosophy and is a lecturer at the École de la Nature et du Paysage de Blois (Insa Centre Val de Loire), attached to the Citeres laboratory (University of Tours) and an associate member of Cems (EHESS). Editorial director of Cahiers de l’École de Blois, member of the editorial boards of the online journals Métropolitiques and Pragmata. Revue d’études pragmatistes.