Croiser les disciplines, se croiser dans l’indiscipline.

Dialogue autour de la notion de rythme.

As polysemous and intangible as the notion of "rhythm" might be, one must note its capacity to make diverse disciplines (such as geography, literature, biology, dance, sociology or economy) work and speak together. Wishing to pursue this dialogue, can the specific conditions to build a common reflection and the production of an "undisciplined knowledge" be identified ? In light of the seminar "Urban Rhythms" – that took place in Lausanne from 8 to 10 November 2017 –, our reflection [...]

Petite géographie de la co-présence.

Une première approche comparée des pratiques spatiales de consommation des touristes et habitants à partir des réseaux sociaux numériques sur l’île de Xiamen (Chine).

Conventional statistical data rarely provide information on the different "present populations" that coexist in cities and in regions so as to be able to separate, for example, tourists from permanent residents. It is difficult to analyse the spatio-temporal behaviour of these different populations, to identify potential conflicts and to imagine possible futures. The research proposes to overcome these limits by using the data provided by the Chinese social network SINA Micro-blog. A new geography of co-presence emerges and allows [...]

L’interdisciplinarité : doit-elle choisir entre produire un savoir et cultiver une pratique ?

This paper offers a comparative analysis of two interdisciplinary projects built on the same principle. The first experience lasted four years (from 2009 to 2013), the second started a year ago (January 2015). The comparison we propose focuses on the methodological difficulties we encountered in each project specifically, and the aim is to describe how they have been responded to. More precisely : the challenge we would like to emphasize in multidisciplinary research regards the constitution of a positive yet [...]

Le Monde, comme si vous y étiez.

Les nourritures terrestres de l’Expo 2015 à Milan.

The topic of Milan’s World Expo 2015, “Feed the Planet” appears simultaneously mediocre, disputable, and complacent. Beyond this mixture of commerce, ecology and geopolitics, couldn’t we find there an indication that the very raison d’être of this kind of event has been exhausted? In the current context, Expos are not necessary, and even not useful anymore to discover the World, and lazy travellers only seem to keep good reasons to go there. However, this “floppy zone of the middle [...]

Imintanout, lieu de pensée.

Interview.

The series of pedagogical films Thinking Places/Lieux pensants, directed by Jacques Lévy, is structured around ten questions. The interviewer was Jacques Lévy, the interviewee Augustin Berque, and the place Imintanout, at the foot of the western High Atlas, on the route from Marrakech to Agadir. The filming took place on 19th April 2014. The present text reproduces Augustin Berque’s answers in a more elaborate form. [...]

Eidolon.

3e édition du Symposium international Eidolon. Cartographier l’intelligence urbaine, Université Laval (Québec), 3-4 juillet 2014.

The texts of this Traversal are position papers. They have been written in the prospect of a conference that will take place in July 2014, organised at Laval University, Quebec, by the Eidolon cartographic research network. The title of the conference will be Mapping Urban Intelligence. The principle of these pre-communications is to prompt a [...]

Quelle place pour les vieilles cartes au pays des nouvelles technologies?

In the streets of their cities, Koreans are replacing their old maps with a new digital representation of urban space, revealing the massive societal changes underway in the land of new technology. These moves, including the promotion of the “smart city”, provide a convenient angle from which to consider the switch from the old industrial cities in decline to the new information cities on the rise. A new system is being born, drawing in the major part of the [...]

Virtualités.

Régimes d’historicité et individus contemporains.

Among the interviews conducted in Geneva, general and abstract speeches on the future are rare. This does not prove that the future is absent from discourses and imaginations ; it could mean that the tools we use do not enable us to detect it. The “No future !” motto only informs us that historicist myths have collapsed. Meanwhile, projects have taken place. By and large, this can be explained by the increase of lifespan time scale degrees of freedom [...]

Concevoir l’urbain en figures.

Urban space is sometimes said to be irrepresentable. However, many representations and images make it comprehensible. These forms and images are spreading in our daily lives and in scientific practices through various technological tools. Trying to understand these fragmentary or reductive and totalizing representations challenges the definition of urban space. Beyond traditional representations and metaphors that deny the plurality of urban actors and objects, this article offers an intuitive survey of the representation of urban cities, of urban space [...]

Aménager les rythmes : politiques temporelles et urbanisme.

What do time-oriented policies and time offices bring to urban planning ? Introduced in France in the late 1990s, the originality and interest of their actions lie on their choice to integrate the plurality of urban rhythms in planning. The consideration of this plurality takes three directions : the multiplicity of social time, the polychrony of the places and the sequential versatility of spaces. However, time-oriented policies lack resources and recognition. In this way, their actions lack global scopes. [...]