Audrey Brantonne

Audrey Brantonne is an architect and doctoral student in architecture at the OCS/AUSser (Paris-Est School of Urban and Regional Architecture). Since 2020, she has been involved in research into small towns in Lorraine that are experiencing decline, in partnership with the Meurthe-et-Moselle CAUE, where she is an architect-advisor in charge of forward planning.

Her research is an extension of a mission to support local authorities with central functions in rural areas, which began in 2018. By examining the role of territorial, urban and architectural forms in the process of devitalisation, she offers a transcalar reading of the issues specific to the countryside in decline (territorial balances, public policies, economic history, perceptions and representations of decline, etc.).

She is also an Associate Lecturer at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Nancy, where she teaches the history of urban theories and forms and runs a seminar on urban decline. She is also an associate member of the Laboratoire Histoire Humanités Architecture et Contemporanéité (LHAC) at ENSA Nancy.