Content of Learning Activity

STUDIO PHILOSOPHY
The transition toward "transformative" change in our society, as defined by the IPBES intergovernmental panel (O'Brien, Garibaldi, and Agrawal 2024), challenges our ways of designing and building. Yet, the disciplines of architecture and urban planning carry within their DNA certain logics of order, even domination.
Faced with this heritage, rethinking practices while taking the utmost care with common goods opens the way to more diverse developments and architectures, capable of revisiting vernacular models to transform them into bioregional references. These approaches thus outline the contours of a sensitive and situated rehabitation.
A first stance is based on a way of constructing the project within a clear philosophy of economy of means, as understood by Philippe Madec (Madec 2022), for example, attentive to local resource chains (raw materials, know-how, rich environments, etc.). We aim to encourage students to focus on social innovation in order to reconcile ethics and aesthetic pleasure or, more politically, on resistance scenarios that create a connection with the living rather than the monumental.
To achieve this, our pedagogical approaches deliberately focus on adaptation scenarios that project a "non-cynical" architectural approach that could free itself from the cogs of neoliberal production. The ATSP+MENAGEMENT workshop thus advances urban planning and architecture as fields specific to spatial cultures, assuming the premise that no projection onto the territory today can be reduced to a purely personal stylistic vision. Starting from a geographical vision on a regional and/or interregional scale, the ATSP+MENAGEMENT workshop focuses mainly on the sensitive qualification and the valorization of territories of low densities, in search of meaning or under pressure, such as industrial wastelands, complexes from the 60s-70s, natural parks, waterways, slow roads, agro-urban areas.
The studio thus proposes an inductive methodology, mindful of economy of resources, prompting a diagnosis before formally producing a project outline.
The choice of study projects regularly focuses on supra-municipal strategic partnerships, city projects, and PCDRs (Communal Rural Development Plans). 
This approach also allows us to explore with students the notion of the multifunctionality of space. This notion, which underpins the provision of a plurality of services (ecological, productive, social, recreational), may represent an innovation in the planning paradigm in that the coexistence of multiple activities in the same space is no longer seen as a failure of planning action, but as an opportunity (Yengué and Robert 2021).
A second approach seeks to (re)think the program as a preliminary action, essential even if modest, and foundational to the project.
This ability to exploit fault lines and ambiguities neglected by the prevailing order constitutes, in a way, a counter-project modus operandi, closely inherited from an approach like that of Patrick Bouchain. However, the state of protest is not the end in itself. It is the openness to the act of building, involving local networks of actors as much as possible, that remains the truly liberating and emancipatory dimension, the triggering of constructive actions that can fuel a provocation-emotion-participation chain.
It is in these types of approaches that the ATSP+MENAGEMENT workshop progresses, namely in the idea that the project, if it avoids being restricted to a set of servile forms, shows that it can define itself as a cultural act in a shared space and retain, even if it cannot change it, a capacity for critical interpretation of contemporary society.

STUDIO PROCESS
The studio is divided into three main stages:
- Diagnosis and definition of issues, based on a territorial division chosen by the students, which varies depending on the group;
- Selection of a topic defined within this division, after placing localized territorial issues in the context of more generalized socioecological problems, through a multi-scale approach;
- Definition of an action strategy through programming, with regard to objectives addressing the previously identified territorial issues.

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Mode of delivery

• Face-to-face

Type of Teaching Activity/Activities

• Ateliers et projets encadrés au sein de l'établissement

Evaluations

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