École d’architecture
de la ville & des territoires
Paris-Est

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, Alessandra Marcon, Jennifer Buyck
    Plenary sessionUrbanism 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
    Parallel sessions of the round tables 01 & 02



    14:00
    14:20




    14:20
    14:40




    14:40
    15:00
    Round table 01Operational, 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 02Grassroots 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 03Design and people’s resourcefulness – Session 01
    scientific moderators : Pierre Janin & 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 03Design 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
    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

    practical information
    September 22, 2025
    Ensa Paris-Est
    compulsory registration

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