Programme

Urbanism meets Agroecology


	*Introductory lecture*
8:45 9:15 9:15 9:30	Welcome and coffee for participants (location to be announced shortly) Welcome introduction by Sébastien Marot & Maria Chiara Tosi
9:30 10:15 10:15 10:45	*Keynote speaker* Michiel Dehaene Professor of Urbanism Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Ghent University ✱ Agroecological urbanism or how to understanding agroecology as a practice of urbanization ? Discussion with Sébastien Marot, Maria Chiara Tosi, Jennifer Buyck


	Plenary session – *Urbanism meets Agroecology*
11:00 11:30 11:30 12:00 12:00 12:30	scientific moderators : Michiel Dehaene & Sébastien Marot *Reading agroecological transformations : lessons and methods for agronomy and landscape architecture crossing* Sophie Bonin Agronomist engineer, doctor & HDR in geography, associate professor to the National School of Landscape Architecture in Versailles, researcher at LAREP *Designing collectively agroecological landscapes. Looking back on an urban prospective experiment in the Greater Paris* Axelle Thierry Architect and landscape architect, associate professor at Ensa Normandie, permanent researcher at ATE laboratory and associate researcher at LAREP (ENSP Versailles) *The Doulon-Gohards Development Zone (ZAC): A Site of Negotiation Between Public Urban Planning and Local Agroecological Resistance, in Service of the Common Good* Charles Rives Architect and urban planner, doctor in architecture, project lead at atelier georges, teacher at Ensa Paris Belleville & associate researcher at OCS (Ensa Paris-Est) Thibault Barbier Landscape architect and urban planner, co-founder of atelier georges, associate professor at Ensa Paris-Est Karim Lahiani Landscape architect, urban planner, geographer, and political activist, founder of Le Vent se lève Discussion with the moderators & question from the audience

Plenary session – Urbanism meets Agroecology

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scientific moderators : Michiel Dehaene & Sébastien Marot

Reading agroecological transformations : lessons and methods for agronomy and landscape architecture crossing
Sophie Bonin
Agronomist engineer, doctor & HDR in geography, associate professor to the National School of Landscape Architecture in Versailles, researcher at LAREP

Designing collectively agroecological landscapes. Looking back on an urban prospective experiment in the Greater Paris
Axelle Thierry
Architect and landscape architect, associate professor at Ensa Normandie, permanent researcher at ATE laboratory and associate researcher at LAREP (ENSP Versailles)

The Doulon-Gohards Development Zone (ZAC): A Site of Negotiation Between Public Urban Planning and Local Agroecological Resistance, in Service of the Common Good
Charles Rives
Architect and urban planner, doctor in architecture, project lead at atelier georges, teacher at Ensa Paris Belleville & associate researcher at OCS (Ensa Paris-Est)
Thibault Barbier
Landscape architect and urban planner, co-founder of atelier georges, associate professor at Ensa Paris-Est
Karim Lahiani
Landscape architect, urban planner, geographer, and political activist, founder of Le Vent se lève

Discussion with the moderators & question from the audience


	Parallel sessions of the round tables 01 & 02
14:00 14:20 14:20 14:40 14:40 15:00	Round table 01 – Operational, pedagogical and research practices scientific moderators : Taneha Kuzniecow Bacchin & Maria Chiara Tosi *Self-Helped Housing: A Project for Six Tiny Houses and a Food Garden for Fabrik à Yoops, Rouen* Daniel Jauslin Landscape architect, doctor, lecturer at Ensp Versailles & Marseille, founding director of DGJ Paysages *Agroecological Infrastructure as Civic Reparation: Grassroots Practices and Design Pedagogies in the U.S. Southwest* Asma Mehan Doctor and assistant Professor at the Huckabee College of Architecture, Texas Tech University, director at the Architectural Humanities and Urbanism Lab (AHU_Lab) *Designing Against Disconnection Research-by-Design Across the Longue Durée for a Resourceful Agroecological Delta Urbanism* Sophia Arbara Architect and urban designer, post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at TU Delft Discussion with the moderators & question from the audience
14:00 14:20 14:20 14:40 14:40 15:00	Round table 02 – Grassroots movements and public action scientific moderators : Alessandra Marcon & Emel Karakaya Ayalp *Agroecology as a participatory act of ecological repair in dense urban areas* Lou Gomez PhD candidate in spatial planning and urban studies at Lab’URBA - UGE *Farmers’ housing: a barrier for setting up farms ? A survey on local innovation processes* Alessandra Miglio PhD candidate in architecture at OCS (UGE) & UMR Innovation, INRAE Montpellier & Coline Perrin Doctor & research professor in geography, Director of research at INRAE Montpellier, UMR Innovation* *Resisting Territorial Control: Commoning Practices and Land Access in Cyprus* Ersia Stylianou Architect-engineer and PhD Candidate at University of Cyprus’s Department of Architecture Discussion with the moderators & question from the audience


	Parallel sessions of the round table 03 session 1 & 2
15:45 16:05 16:05 16:25	Round table 03 – Design and people’s resourcefulness – Session 01 scientific moderators : Maria Chiara Tosi & Sébastien Marot *New skills, new knowledge for urban agroecosystems* Claire Schorter Architect-urban planner and founder of the Laq agency & Loïe Jacotey landscape designer, project manager at Laq agency *Could a world where urbanism meet agroecology exist ? Insights from the an action-research project in France* Benoît Dugua Doctor in urban planning and spatial development, associate professor in urban planning at the research unit Habiter (EA 2076), Reims Champagne-Ardenne University (URCA) & Myrtille Schlur Researcher on the Âge2SCoT project, at unit Habiter (EA2076), Reims Champagne-Ardenne University (URCA), future PhD candidate Discussion with the moderators & question from the audience
15:45 16:05 16:05 16:25	Round table 03 – Design and people’s resourcefulness – Session 02 scientific moderators : Raphaël Bach & Michiel Dehaene *Agroecological practices as design intelligence: toward co-designed urban futures in the Peruvian Amazon* Paola Peláez Rodríguez Urbanist & architect *The Kichwa Chakra: A Micropolitics of Care* Fernanda Luzuriaga Torres Architect, Doctor in urbanism, lecturer and researcher at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, FPI-UPC Discussion with the moderators & question from the audience


	Discussions around scientific poster presentations
17:00 17:30	*Thinking the City Through Rural Knowledge: In Search of a Participatory Dialogue Between Agroecology and Urban Space* Arca Atay Agronomist, ecological activist, founding member of the Association for Ecological Living (EKODER) and general manager of Gazi Agricultural Inc. (municipality of Osmangazi) *From smallholder farming to a new agricultural paradigm: what role for the territories of Italy’s agrarian reform ?* Gloria Maria Crisogianni Architect and urban planner, PhD candidate in urban planning at IUAV University of Venice *Reassembling neighbourhoods and agroecology through Zurich’s SoLaWis* Amin El Didi Architect, urban designer at Buro Sant en Co (Netherlands) & Nima Tabrizi Urban researcher and designer, PhD candidate at TU Delft *Agroecological Transformation at Büyükdere Atatürk nursery* Elif Köklü Landscape architect, urban designer, Productive Department of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality & Armagan Selin Köksal Türkkan Landscape architect, Productive Department of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality *Architecture and agriculture from a “subsistence perspective”: relationships, knowledge, and practices of an alternative modernity* Nora Itri Architect, PhD candidate in architecture at OCS (Ensa Paris-Est) *Common Roots, Fertile Stories: An Ecopoetics of Agrarian Territories* Juliette Taymont Architect at ACMH Pierre-Antoine Gatier & Marie Vendier Architect at AREP

Discussions around scientific poster presentations

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17:30

Thinking the City Through Rural Knowledge: In Search of a Participatory Dialogue Between Agroecology and Urban Space
Arca Atay
Agronomist, ecological activist, founding member of the Association for Ecological Living (EKODER) and general manager of Gazi Agricultural Inc. (municipality of Osmangazi)

From smallholder farming to a new agricultural paradigm: what role for the territories of Italy’s agrarian reform ?
Gloria Maria Crisogianni
Architect and urban planner, PhD candidate in urban planning at IUAV University of Venice

Reassembling neighbourhoods and agroecology through Zurich’s SoLaWis
Amin El Didi
Architect, urban designer at Buro Sant en Co (Netherlands)
& Nima Tabrizi
Urban researcher and designer, PhD candidate at TU Delft

Agroecological Transformation at Büyükdere Atatürk nursery
Elif Köklü
Landscape architect, urban designer, Productive Department of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality
& Armagan Selin Köksal Türkkan
Landscape architect, Productive Department of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality

Architecture and agriculture from a “subsistence perspective”: relationships, knowledge, and practices of an alternative modernity
Nora Itri
Architect, PhD candidate in architecture at OCS (Ensa Paris-Est)

Common Roots, Fertile Stories: An Ecopoetics of Agrarian Territories
Juliette Taymont
Architect at ACMH Pierre-Antoine Gatier
& Marie Vendier
Architect at AREP


	*Summary session*
17:45 18:15	Amphithéâtre 130 Discussion with the scientific moderators of each round table


	*Closing lecture*
18:15 19:00	Amphithéâtre 130 *Keynote speaker* Eric Alonzo Architect, doctor and full professor at Ensa Paris-Est, director of the research laboratory OCS ✱ Studying rural morphology: Geography and architecture (1895–1948) Discussion with Michiel Dehaene, Sébastien Marot, Alessandra Marcon, Maria Chiara Tosi
19:00	Conclusion & cocktail

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September 22, 2025
Ensa Paris-Est
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