WORKSHOP

April 17 - 19, 2024

Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture Paris-Val de Seine

ENSAPVS In-Person 

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Experiment at University of Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle

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Urban Specialist: Maria Garcia Rincon; Anthropologist: Antonella Di Trani

ENSAPVS - Unversité Paris Cité: Dana Joulin and Marie Degos

Professors and Architects from Dis_Local: Ricardo Sanz and Joao de Freitas

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Objective: Observing, analyzing and identifying transformations at a historic institution of knowledge at la Sorbonne Nouvelle 3.

 

The workshop will study the case of a building in the making with the University of Paris 3, Sorbonne Nouvelle at 5th arrondissement of Paris. At this site, students will apply sociology and anthropology as a precursor to architecture applied as response to a social issue and as a tool to offer structural changes to solve inequalities and understand alternative appropriations.

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Workshop Agenda 

 

In-Person: Paris in front of the former tanners' market, where many tanners settled on the border of the Bièvre, a tributary of the Seine.

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Wednesday, April 17th

 

 9h00-13h00: Introduction and presentation of the site and course on inequality, M. Sc.Maria Garcia Rincon and Dr. Antonella Di Trani

13h00-14h00: Lunch

14h00-18h00: Ethnographic Fieldwork on site.

*Video Homework with Architect Ricardo Sanz and Architect Joao de Freitas on case studies in Latin America

 

Thursday, April 18th

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9h00-13h00: Ethnographic Fieldwork on site

 

Friday, April 19th

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9h00-13h00: Student presentation about the analysis and discussion

13h00-14h00: Lunch

14h00- 16h00: Discussion and conclusion

 

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The case study was set-up by Universite Val-de-Seine Paris through three female architects. The site is under occupation by an organization CESURE. The former Campus of the University of Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle is run by Plateau Urbain and their partner YES, WE CAMP. The building promotes knowledge & learning, and in the process of being rehabilitated by the EPAURIF which is Ile- de- France’s public institution for university development.

 

Who occupies the place? "Plateau Urbain", an organization that is a temporary and transitional urban planning cooperative offering affordable workspaces for dealing with social concerns in a former place of knowledge, known as University of Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle.

 

In this large space of 25,000 square meters, 200 institutional actors, associations, artist, artisans, who are all sharing knowledge and competences. The building is therefore a field of experimentation for the social economy, a space of solidarity that brings new actors, activities, and perceptions to the area. The place is shared with 2,000 students every day and excels at developing an exciting space for transfer of knowledge.

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This example of transitory urbanism with the several associations that occupy the place, aims to develop social actions and projects for equality and local social needs, social and a solidarity-based economy.

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