Séminaire

Two significant facts underpin and explain the proposed teaching: the Covid-19 pandemic that recently took hold at the beginning of 2020 has affected us all to a greater or lesser degree, and the climate/ecological emergency that requires us to genuinely re-identify and redefine the challenges facing project management over the long term. They are the indisputable harbingers of the profound ecological and societal changes that have been taking place over the last thirty years.

NB: This seminar, which takes place every Thursday afternoon, is open to all sandwich students (+ the EHESS lectures ‘D'une thérapeutque architecturale des Ecoumènes humains’ (in person or by videoconference)).

Head professors :

Dr Boris WELIACHEW (Head of S7), PR. Dr. Patrice CECCARINI (Responsible for S8)

Although responsibilities are shared over two semesters, the two teachers mentioned above collaborate throughout the year, both teach in both semesters and both, like others in the teaching team, are qualified to supervise Architecture dissertations.

Teachers and main contributors:

B. WELIACHEW, J. ROTBART, S. KASRI, J. FAYE, D. THELOS, H. KOMATSU, N. FUKUWA, P. CECCARINI, L. RASOLONIAINA, H. AIT-HADDOU, G. Bignier, S. GRIFO, H. LICHIHEB, C. CLEMENT, S. BULLE, C. GOUPIL, F. BOUTEAU, P. CHAMTIMPIROS, E. GRESILLON, J. ALLOY, P. LAURENTI, M. HENDEL,

The seminar proposes a different approach to architectural practice in terms of ecological transition: making the nature, functioning and organisation of buildings, towns and territories intelligible by considering them as living phenomena, whose processes of emergence and mutation/change need to be modelled.

The morphological question of architecture is understood in its dynamic (morphogenesis), complex (systems theory) and ‘transitory’ (or ecological transition) dimensions. Through both its anthropological and linguistic dimensions (structural approach, schematisation, grammatology, semantic and spatial devices) and its phenomenological dimensions (dynamic interaction between buildings, human behaviour and the natural environment, [cf. Ambient Intelligence]), architectural form is merely the fruit of dynamic interactions that need to be deconstructed in order to be reconstructed ‘differently’.

The teaching aims to give students an introduction to the issues that interest them, while at the same time introducing them to the theoretical skills of the DE 2 ‘Ecologies’.

A number of subjects are covered, including

- I. Projective ecologies :

a) They provide access to a better understanding of the links and interactions between ecologies and human ecogenes; by having a coherent categorical approach making it possible to describe the dysfunctions of a territory by establishing diagnoses and repairing and healing strategies for the future of the latter, they provide the means for a precise biogeographical and anthropological reading of territories from the instruments of observation and manipulation of the architectural, urban and territorial form,

b) They provide the means to understand the transdisciplinary issues involved in a logical and formal methodology for ‘decoding/deconstructing/reconstructing’ architectural, urban and large-scale territorial artefacts.

c) They raise awareness of the fact that architectural practice, combined with related disciplines, has a diagnostic, therapeutic and healing function: before being mechanical and constructed forms. Architectural forms are first and foremost the site of physical and psychosomatic phenomena that need to be controlled by human beings.

d) They explain the theory of affordances, which gives designers/architecturists control over architectural forms understood as the seats of human physical and psychosomatic phenomena; Introduce some further developments in architectural biomimicry.

- Systemic Design and Complexity Theory :

a) Provide access to the teaching necessary for learning architectural systemics and complexity theory (taxonomic and systematic classification, construction of semamaps (or semantic maps), and morphological networks, etc.).

b) Provide an understanding of the systemic and dynamic procedures involved in architectural formalisation (morphogenesis and architectural device theory) - in other words, the heuristic process of constituting architectural / architectonic and urban form.

c) Explain the entire process of modelling a building or an area in terms of ecosystemic design.

- The fundamental elements of a science of architecture (semiotics, language sciences, cognitive sciences and environmental psychology). EHESS / ENSA-PVS research seminar: enseignements.ehess.fr/2023-2024/ue/739

- Provides some of the basic and fundamental notions of language sciences, semiotics, and a general introduction to cognitive sciences, general and architectural epistemologies, necessary to ‘translate’ (architectural transduction) information from study contexts, programmes and environments in the form of architectural morphologies.

- Initiate GIS spatial analysis (in collaboration with ESRI), data and territorial properties (disaster potential) and automatic information processing (Big-Data). (H. AIT-HADDOU).

P. CECCARINI:

- For a therapeutic architecture and an architectural science': www.linkedin.com/pulse/pour-une-architecture-th%25C3%25A9rapeutique-et-science-louisette-rasoloniaina/

- D'une science architecturale': ehess.academia.edu/patricepatrizioceccarini/Conference-Presentations

- An architectural therapy for human ecumene. Affordances as a means of caring for and balancing environments: enseignements.ehess.fr/2023-2024/ue/739

- Bibliography of P. Ceccarini's research:

www.youtube.com/@user-yh6mr8rq3c/videos

ehess.academia.edu/patricepatrizioceccarini

- CMAu dossier: parisvaldeseinearchifr-my.sharepoint.com/:f:/g/personal/patrice_ceccarini_paris-valdeseine_archi_fr/ElVLWMXi-2pArDIshqlCfzMBFhcMbtELs56IIdc3HZ98Lg

A summary dissertation.

Below are some bibliographical references:

. BERGER, A., BROWN, C., P-REX/MIT, Systemic Bundling, 2009, in REED, C., LISTER, N.M., Projective Ecologies, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, N.Y., Actar Publishers, 2016, p.356; S. Lally, Climatic Wash, 2007, in Op. cit., p. 217.

. BIGNIER, G., « Architecture et écologie ; Comment partager le monde habité ? », 2015, seconde édition augmentée, éditions Eyrolles, essai, 214 pages, première édition 2012, 160 pages.

. BIGNIER, G., 'Architecture et économie ; Ce que l'économie circulaire fait à l'architecture', mai 2018, éditions Eyrolles, essai, 155 pages

. GIBSON, J.J., The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception. Boston,,Houghton Mifflin. 1979. IApproche écologique de la perception visuelle

(1979), James J. Gibson, tr. fr. Olivier Putois, Bellevaux, Éditions Dehors, 2014.

. BONNET F., Atout Risques / Des territoires exposés se réinventent, Ed. Parenthèses, 2016

. CECCARINI, P., Catastrophisme architectural, L’harmattan, Paris, 2004.

. CECCARINI, P., Fluides, affordances et profilage architectural, in Impressions et fluidités, Acte du colloque L’Impressionnisme et la subtile

fluidité contemporaine, Rouen, Presses Universitaires de Rouen, 2012. (CL)

. CECCARINI, P., Le système architectural gothique. Théologie, sciences et architecture au XIIIe siècle à Saint-Denis. Morphogenèse et

modélisation de la basilique de Saint-Denis (tome II), Techniques et conservation des arts, l’Harmattan, Paris, 2014. (O)

. DIAMOND J., Effondrement, Ed. Folio, 2006

. GOUT J.P., Prévention et gestion des risques majeurs, Ed. de l’environnement, 1993

. JONES, P., Systemic design principles for complex social systems. In G. Metcalf (ed.), Social Systems and Design, Volume 1 of the Translational

Systems Science Series, pp 91-128. Springer Japan, 2014.

. JONES, P., Design research methods for systemic design: Perspectives from design education and practice. Proceedings of ISSS 2014, July 28 –

Aug1, 2014, Washington, D.C.;

. NELSON, H.G., STOLTERMAN, E., The design way: Intentional change in an unpredictable world. Second edition. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press,

2012;

. PESNEL M. et MARCO O., Aspect socio-économique de la gestion des risques naturels, Ed. Cemagref, 1992

. Risques Majeurs : Le Guide Général, Ed. DPPR-SDPRM., 2004

. REED, C., LISTER, N.M., Projective Ecologies, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, N.Y., Actar Publishers, 2016.

. SEVALDSON, B., “Gigamapping: Visualization for complexity and systems thinking in design”, in Proceedings of the Nordic Design Research

Conference. Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland, 2011.

. TAKEZAWA S., The aftermath of the 2011 East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami / Living among the rubble, Ed. Lexington Books, 2016

. VIE LE SAGE R., La Terre en otage : gérer les risques naturels ? Ed. du Seuil, 1989

. WALDHEIM, C., Ecologies, Plural and Projective, in REED, C., LISTER, N.M., Projective Ecologies, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, N.Y., Actar Publishers, 2016, p. 8-9

. WELIACHEW B., Culture du Risque et Pratiques Architecturales et Urbaines, Éléments de comparaison Japon / France, Ed. ENANPARQ – Rio de Janeiro, 2010

. WELIACHEW B., Quand l’Algérie tremble, Ed. TheBookEdition, 2004

. ZACEK M., Les constructions parasismiques, Ed. Parenthèses.

A compendium of theoretical elements and an exhaustive bibliography will be provided as part of the seminar.