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Matières Premières. Pour une archéologie de la persistance des sols

Nys, Philippe — 2026-09-28T12:30:40Z

Résumé

Il s'agit ici de suivre, tracer, traquer, les pistes d'une anthropologie poïétique dans la perspective du pouvoir des mots et des images à travers le « retour du sol » à l'oeuvre dans l'esprit du temps, dans ce que l'on appelle aussi les « biens communs » dont le bien ultime est ou serait la planète Terre. Celle-ci est dans une telle croissance du danger que plus rien ne pourrait la sauver, pas même un dieu. Il faut la quitter. Le conditionnel n'est même plus de mise pour certains courants technophiles et affairistes. La perspective de quitter la Terre n'est plus seulement de l'ordre de la science-fiction ou de la bande dessinée, elle acquiert de plus en plus une forme plausible, avec sa préfiguration sous l'aspect du tourisme spatial ainsi que les explorations de plus en plus fines et précises d'autres planètes. Que l'on pense, par exemple, aux images extraordinaires d'érosion de la planète Mars. Et ce n'est presque certainement qu'un début. Les implications d'un tel horizon conduisent à constituer et développer le champ élargi d'une géo-logie selon une série de points, de stations dans une « séquence » composée notamment de géo-centrisme, géo-statisme, géo-logie, géo-sophie, géo-poïétique, de géo-graphies, de géo-stories… Qu'en est-il en effet de la planète Terre avec une occupation et un usage des surfaces et couches géologiques qui les épuisent et créent le désert ? Sans être un fantôme, le sol est (re)venu au premier plan de reprises et nouvelles diagnoses du corps de la Terre et de ses éléments constitutifs dans leurs rapports aux actions des sociétés humaines. Depuis une trentaine d'années environ, de nombreuses publications témoignent de ce que l'on peut appeler des herméneutiques de l'architecture, renvoyant à de multiples projets qui ont remis sur le tapis le sol, impliquant le sous-sol et le hors-sol, ces couches mythiques (muthos), philosophiques (logos), technologiques (technè). C'est dans ces perspectives qu'il faut, aujourd'hui, entendre « matières premières ».

https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/im/2026-n47-im010974/

Amazonian Gateway : Maritime River Ports and Territorial Conflict in Medium-Size Amazonian Cities

Gaiser Fernandes, Alexandre — 2026-07-22T10:34:30Z

This paper examines the territorial transformations and conflicts associated with the expansion of maritime river ports in the Brazilian Amazon, focusing on two medium-size cities : Barcarena and Itacoatiara. Situated within the "Amazonian Arc", these cities have become strategic nodes in the export of bulk commodities, particularly soybeans, minerals and oil, reflecting Brazil's growing integration into global supply chains.

The study combines a municipal-scale time-space analysis of land cover and land use (LCLU) data from MapBiomas (1985-2024) with a multi-scalar spatial analysis of port infrastructures and their urban environments. This approach is complemented by documentary research on port concessions and planning frameworks.

Results reveal a significant expansion of urban and industrial land in both cases, accompanied by increasing pressure on forested and hydrologically sensitive areas. While Barcarena exhibits a highly integrated industrial-port configuration, Itacoatiara reflects a more enclave-based logistical model. In both contexts, port development is associated with emerging socio-environmental conflicts and growing exposure to environmental risks. Interpreting these dynamics through the lens of planetary urbanisation, the paper shows that Amazonian river ports operate as key infrastructures of global commodity circulation, reshaping urbanisation patterns beyond metropolitan centres and contributing to new forms of territorial reconfiguration in tropical fluvial environments.

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Pluriverse Civil Societies

Mannisi, Alban — 2026-07-14T12:58:07Z

Art & Communication
AccScience Publishing
Singapore

Submission timeline :
Abstract : 31 August 2026
Full paper : 31 January 2027
Publication : 31 May 2027

This special issue emerges from the Ottoman Parallax gathering (11–13 June 2026, Ankara, Türkiye), which brought together artists, scholars, cultural practitioners, activists, designers, and community organizers to examine how artistic and communicative practices contribute to more just, plural, and sustainable futures amid ecological, political, and epistemic transformations.

At a time when dominant institutional narratives and political imaginaries appear increasingly exhausted, the issue explores how art, visual culture, media, and creative practice can help reimagine collective life, foster dialogue and community engagement, and more plural futures.

The collection foregrounds situated cultural expressions, Indigenous and vernacular artistic practices, visual storytelling traditions, and community-based knowledge production. It examines how artistic, visual, and communicative practices represent, negotiate, and transmit alternative cosmologies, relational ways of being, and local understandings of governance, ecology, and coexistence. Across diverse contexts, communities are generating new ways of representing, preserving, and transforming collective experience in response to homogenizing structures of power.

We are particularly interested in the transmission and representation of cultural practices, values, and relationships—human and more-than-human—that have evolved over generations. How are these worlds expressed through art and culture ? Why are aesthetics and creative practices central to community identity, celebration, resilience, and continuity ? We also welcome contributions that examine how artistic and communicative practices enable these forms of knowledge to be shared, interpreted, and sustained across communities.

Contributions are invited that explore how art, design, media, and cultural production challenge colonial epistemologies, technocratic rationalities, while creating new possibilities for communication, representation, public dialogue, and collective imagination. Topics may include Indigenous arts, vernacular visual cultures, creative resistance, community arts, participatory communication, cultural memory, decolonial aesthetics, ecological imagination, and creative approaches to environmental and social justice.

By creating a platform for voices, images, stories, and practices often marginalized within mainstream institutions, this issue seeks to advance debates on decolonial aesthetics, artistic activism, cultural resilience, ecological imagination, visual culture, participatory communication, and the transformative potential of art-based community engagement.
The issue welcomes theoretical, empirical, interdisciplinary, and practice-based contributions from scholars, artists, activists, designers, practitioners, and community organizers worldwide.

Themes and Potential Topics

Pluriversal epistemologies & post-Western futures
Epistemological anarchism & knowledge pluralism
Indigenous governance, commons, & alternative civil societies
Decolonial aesthetics & art as knowledge production
Participatory communication & community media
Visual culture, oral traditions, & cultural memory
Ecological imagination & more-than-human worlds
Indigenous, vernacular, & community arts
Design justice, participatory design, & social transformation
Digital sovereignty, arts-based research, & decolonial futures

Voir en ligne : Pluriverse Civil Societies : Epistemological Anarchism, Indigenous Governance, Art, Communication, and Post-Western Future

Necropolitical Zones in the Jungle : Commodity Flows, Logistic Infrastructures, and Spatial Justice in the Amazon

Gaiser Fernandes, Alexandre; Zourgane, Philippe — 2026-06-26T11:39:54Z

Abstract

This article examines how the planetary circulation of commodities produces new regimes of spatial injustice and disposability, focusing on the Amazonian port city of Barcarena, Brazil. Situating its analysis within critical urban studies, it introduces the concept of necropolitical zones - territories where exposure to death is not accidental but structurally organised through infrastructures, regulations, and economic imperatives. Drawing on Achille Mbembe's notion of necropolitics, as well as frameworks from environmental humanities and logistics urbanism, the article traces the conceptual evolution of the “zone” from technological and critical to sacrifice and necropolitical forms. This genealogy reveals how global supply chains transform landscapes into operational infrastructures of extraction and exposure. Through a combined methodology of theoretical analysis and critical cartography, the study maps the spatial evolution of Barcarena over three decades, correlating industrial expansion, residential sprawl, and environmental degradation. Recurrent industrial accidents - chemical leaks, tailings spills, and toxic contamination - illustrate the systemic nature of risk and the institutionalised indifference that sustains extractivist urbanisation. The mapping approach highlights how these transformations materialise the logic of necropolitical planning, where economic imperatives outweigh the protection of life and environment. In its final section, the article explores how architecture and territorial practice can act as forms of ethical and political repair. By reinterpreting mapping as a tool of visibility and care, it proposes an architectural approach attentive to vulnerability, coexistence, and the relational ecologies of the Amazon. Ultimately, it argues for the recognition of Amazonian urban-diversity as a non-hierarchical framework for reimagining coexistence and spatial justice within the damaged landscapes of the Capitalocene.

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L'impensé de la nature. Vers une architecture du vivant

Zourgane, Philippe — 2026-04-28T14:23:00Z

Dans ce livre, l'auteur confronte le rôle de l'architecte face à la nature aujourd'hui. L'ouvrage tisse des liens entre les plantes et la terre, le travail, le corps : tout en les ancrant dans un contexte historique (mondialisations, passés de colonialisation…), il étudie les rapports de l'humain avec la nature, entre investissement et exploitation de celle-ci, à l'échelle mondiale.

L'industrialisation croissante de la société, ces 150 dernières années, rend cette logique d'autant plus prégnante, en accélérant le processus de transformation de la nature en produits financiers. L'Impensé de la nature propose de renouveler notre conception des pratiques spatiales en nous appuyant davantage sur l'existant et le vivant, et surtout en prenant leur pleine mesure.

Il est urgent aujourd'hui de déconstruire nos rapports de domination sur la nature, pour en établir de nouveaux, plus sains. C'est cette voie que doit choisir l'architecture, pour entretenir un lien plus sincère et complice avec le vivant, un lien qui considère enfin la complexité de la terre.

Les Paysages intérieurs de Toyo Ito

Jacquet, Benoît ; Nussaume, Yann — 2026-04-28T14:10:00Z

Résumé

Sept entretiens avec Toyo Ito pour découvrir son œuvre.

Je veux créer une architecture qui soit comme un jardin, où l'on puisse à un moment passer de l'intérieur vers le monde extérieur sans que l'on s'en rende compte.
- Toyō Itō

Architecte de renommée internationale et lauréat du prix Pritzker en 2013, Toyō Itō livre à travers sept entretiens ses inspirations les plus intimes.
Le lac Suwa jouxtant la maison de son enfance, le bruit des vagues au réveil ou la vapeur blanche s'échappant de la source chaude du jardin en hiver sont autant d'éléments qui, avant même qu'il ne débute sa carrière, ont alimenté sa réflexion sur la perméabilité entre les espaces intérieurs et extérieurs, au cœur de son travail.
Ainsi a-t-il imaginé la médiathèque de Sendai comme une forêt, traversée d'étranges arbres (des colonnes d'acier) ; la Maison à Nakano, en forme de U et épousant les contours d'une lumineuse cour intérieure ; ou l'Opéra national de Taichung, dont le chemin relie l'espace de concert à l'extérieur.
À travers son œuvre, il nous invite à nous déplacer, à voir et à ressentir autrement.

Rethinking Networks in Times of Transition Ecological, Energy and Social Issues

Docarragal Montero, Hector — 2026-03-08T15:47:00Z

The contemporary world is characterized by the interweaving of various networks, including biological, ecological, social, technological and energy-related networks. We are constantly engaged in interactions with these networks. In the context of energy and ecological and social transitions, it is essential to examine the positive or negative effects of these interactions. Additionally, it is crucial to explore the influence of the growing role that networks will play and the open or closed futures they will shape.

To address these issues, a multidisciplinary approach is essential, particularly between the technological sciences, humanities and life sciences. Rethinking Networks in Times of Transition analyzes and discusses four major themes : ecological networks in biodiversity and ecological transition ; socio-technical changes related to energy networks ; how social and controversy networks are transforming lifestyles, representations and modes of action ; and finally, how academic networks can play a leading role in the transition.

Chapter 15 : Towards an Ecology of Architectural Experimentation Beyond Environmental Regulatory Standards

by Hector Docarragal Montero

In 2021, the European Commission launched the “Fit for 55” package as part of its broader strategy to combat climate change. This legislative initiative sets a legally binding goal for the EU to cut net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030. Achieving these EU-wide targets raises important questions about how local governments can reconcile top-down climate directives with bottom-up, context-specific and experimental approaches. In France's construction sector, the gradual of thermal and environmental regulations (RT 2012 and RE 2020) has led to a proliferation of performance certification protocols in the building sector. These protocols aim to promote an exemplary model of environmental efficiency, integrated into the various stages of project design.

In response to this increasing dominance of environmental standards, a new local architectural trend is emerging – one that explores innovative, frugal, transgressive and often “out-of-standard” ecological practices. Initiatives such as La Preuve par 7, Bellastock, Le Grand 8, Méandre Etc, Plateau Urbain and Le Hangar Zéro exemplify emerging creative possibilities within experimental frameworks. Drawing on what Michel de Certeau termed “tactics of resistance,” these practices challenge the prevailing model of “green” standards in favor of alternative approaches to designing environmentally efficient buildings. However, in the absence of a suitable regulatory framework, these projects often evolve intuitively, operating on “trickery”2 and inventive margins of normative structures in order to accelerate implementation.

The growing interest of the French State in such experimental strategies is reflected in the institutionalization of new protocols allowing exemptions from standard building regulations, thus encouraging innovation. These can already be observed in laws such as Law on the Freedom of Creation, Architecture and Heritage (LCAP)3 and Law for a State at the Service of a Trusted Society (ESSOC)4, which aim to “simplify construction rules” to “facilitate project realization and foster innovation5”. This experimental framework lends legitimacy to the ongoing debate about the need for a legal system that can rethink environmental performance beyond the prescriptive boundaries of the Code de la construction eut de l'habitation, the foundation of French building regulation. But what are the implications when the law itself legitimizes exemption – effectively turning deviation from established norms into a new standard practice ?

In light of the urgent demands of the ecological transition, there is a growing need to adapt existing regulatory frameworks – such as RE 2020 – and institutional mechanisms for experimentation, including the ESSOC and LCAP laws, to better support innovative and experimental approaches in architecture. This shift calls for a deeper transformation in perspective : moving beyond the creation of ecological frameworks for individual projects towards cultivating an ecology of the project itself. In other words, can we begin to imagine a politically grounded, experimental ecological framework – one that acknowledges the complex interplay of human and non-human actors that bring a project into being ? Such a framework would create space for diverse ecological imaginaries to take shape, spanning from the hyperlocal to the global. This is the core ambition of this chapter. By proposing a broader structure for knowledge exchange, the research expands the representational scope of the CAST cartography of ecological imaginaries. It is grounded in the “out-ofstandard” experimental practices that define the architectural projects examined here. Ultimately, the ethnographic approach seeks to establish a shared platform for dialogue and critical reflection – one attuned to the evolving, everyday environmental challenges highlighted in recent IPCC reports.

Voir en ligne : Towards an Ecology of Architectural Experimentation Beyond Environmental Regulatory Standards

Vers une architecture… jurisprudentielle

Docarragal Montero, Hector — 2026-02-17T20:47:00Z

Architecte et docteur, Hector Docarragal Montero replace la Preuve par 7 et la démarche documentaire de l'Ecole du terrain dans l'histoire longue du rapport des architectes avec la norme – qui jouent avec elle bien plus qu'ils ne se jouent d'elle, produisant ainsi des jurisprudences. Mettant en parallèle, à l'échelle d'un siècle, expérimentations architecturales et évolution des cadres normatifs, il fait droit à l'imagination juridique de projets et de philosophies alternatives qui ont participé d'une redéfinition de la création en architecture

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Die architektonische Umfriedung städtischer Parks in Paris. Überlegungen zum Aufbau eines semiologisch-phänomenologischen Interpretationsrahmens und Vorschlag einer Lektüre des Parc André Citroën

Keitemeier, Anna — 2026-01-28T07:09:00Z

Abstract
This article brings together the knowledge fields of architecture and semiology. Considerations are presented on the construction of an interpretive frame that is able to grasp the particularity of architectural signs in urban context, specifically the enclosure of urban spaces of nature. The semiological model is expanded with an body phenomenology approach, complemented with considerations by Roland Barthes and Françoise Choay and contextualized in the Parisian urban space. A reading of the architectural enclosure of the Parc André Citroën in Paris clarifies the shaping ability of this architectural typology to produce a comprehensible entity based on an inner context. The definition and communicability of this place then participates in the (re-) establishment of the park as an urban element in the city.

Zusammenfassung
In diesem Artikel begegnen sich die Wissensgebiete der Architektur und der Semiologie. Es werden Überlegungen zum Aufbau eines Interpretationsrahmens angestellt, der die partikuläre Zeichenhaftigkeit von Architekturen im städtischen Kontext, konkret die Umfriedung urbaner Naturräume, zu greifen vermag. Das semiologische Zeichenmodell wird leibphänomenologisch erweitert, mit Überlegungen von Roland Barthes und Françoise Choay komplementiert und im Pariser Stadtraum kontextualisiert. Eine Lektüre der architektonischen Umfriedung des Parc André Citroën in Paris klärt die gestaltende Fähigkeit dieser Architekturtypologie, eine auf einem inneren Zusammenhang beruhende vernehmbare Einheit hervorzubringen. Die Definition und Vermittelbarkeit dieses Ortes im städtischen Gefüge partizipiert sodann an der (Re-)Etablierung des Parks als Stadtbaustein.

Voir en ligne : https://link.springer.com/chapter/1...

Ecosophical Alternative Realities

Mannisi, Alban — 2025-12-26T05:05:40Z

ECOSOPHICAL ALTERNATIVE REALITIES

Arts & Communication
AccScience Publishing
Singapore
2025.11

Since Western postmodernism sparked awareness and shaped our governance and lifestyle at the turn of the millennium, Global North ecosophies have attempted to grasp the ecological and ontological crises, creating their own performative narratives in the process. Pervasive throughout all modes of thought about our relationship to the world, environmental consciousness is part of political ecologies and contemporary hermeneutic. From design philosophies to laws and representations, everyone has an opinion on how we should manage our biospheres. This has led to the global south being flooded with Western ethics, which are often hostile to them in the manner of imperialist modes of operation. Even more astonishing is the versatile plasticity of these conceptual changes, which are less disruptive than radical and pursue the same resilient environmental ethics that gave rise to them. Thus, the world of contemporary art is flooded with thinkers of a new ecological aesthetic modelled on the genesis of the Anthropocene era. The era of neoliberal ecological aesthetics in communication design has thus become a soft power advocacy for Western imperialism, much like built environment experts who damage the world they claim to protect. It glorifies a myriad of empowering narratives of the corporate, privileged, wealthy and educated elite, reminiscent of the aristocrats of past Western imperial empires. In an era of mutating environmental aesthetics, we will explore the foundations and issues of these ecosophical alternative realities that perpetuate indifference towards both humans and non-humans. We will also examine how contemporary ecological relativism is leading new generations to disengage from generic communication design and embrace other existence praxis.

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