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Indigenous Communities, Climate Change and Cooperation : Perspectives from Global Experiences

Lopez, Luis — 2026-10-05T14:30:28Z

WEBINAIRE

Organized as part of the Bangladesh Sundarbans FEF (Fonds Équipe France) programme.

The aim of this online seminar is to create a space for exchange between university students, activists, and architects on questions related to experiences of architectural co-production in contexts of vulnerability. It takes place within the framework of cooperative work between residents of the Satkhira region in Bangladesh, members of civil society, academic institutions, and architectural professionals. The project's proposals aim to develop modes of public-social intervention in the co-production of adaptive architectures in response to climate change.

This project pursues three objectives :
Document the ways of life of native populations living in areas highly exposed to climate change and its consequences.
Support populations in producing local responses to the effects of climate change.
Propose co-construction initiatives and models of cooperation between universities, local actors, and development aid organizations.

The seminar is an opportunity to share proposals from different parts of the world. Focusing on community efforts to address the consequences of climate change on their ways of subsistence, the presentations will highlight various aspects of the co-building process. The main themes are as follows :

1. Practices
Practices concern all stages of a co-construction process : the way the community becomes involved in a project, the urban or rural environment, the chosen materials, the construction techniques, and the participatory design process. This is also an opportunity to analyse and encourage the mobilization of “vernacular” solutions and their further improvement.

2. Ecosystems
The social conditions of the populations, the geographical context of the project, the climatic impact, and the historical development of the communities and territories are significant as material and cultural resources. The political engagement of communities in the process is an important element, as it reflects the project's capacity to continue after the initial interventions by outside actors.

3. Realization
Every co-construction process presents a social and technical challenge for both communities and the professionals involved. The difficulties that emerge during the process are equally instructive for students. The roles played by different actors and the organization of activities are central to understanding the practical and economic aspects of these interventions. The realization process concerns : community organization, participatory design methods, funding, and the consolidation of partnerships.

4. Learning Process
Finally, every co-construction project is also an encounter between local knowledge and the knowledge of outside professionals. This dialogue of know-how is central to the success of the realization process. How this dialogue is structured, and what difficulties or controversies emerge within the co-construction process, are essential aspects, as they help situate these projects within a long-term perspective.

The webinar is an extracurricular activity for architecture students at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), BRAC University (Bangladesh), ENSA Paris-La Villette (Paris), and Bharati Vidyapeeth's College of Architecture (BVCOA, Navi Mumbai, India).

The seminar will be held online every Friday in October and November, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm (UTC+6, Dhaka time). Registration with this link : https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xomCbN6bTFC-2rArytSYSg#/registration

PROGRAM

Chaque semaine le Vendredi de 14H à 16H (heures françaises)

9 oct. 2026 : Khondaker Hasibul Kabir, BRACU Bangladesh - Co-creation Process in Bangladesh

16 oct. 2026 : Udit Mittal (QX Design), India - Resilient Anti-cyclonic housing in coastal Sundarbans

23 oct. 2026 : David Barragan (Al Borde), Ecuador - Matter Matters

30 oct. 2026 : Elisa Silva, Venezuela - La Palomera : activism, works, funding, governance

6 Nov. 2026 : Bianca Moro da Carvalho, University of Amapa, Brazil - Invisible cities, unbelievable people - “Cidades invisíveis, pessoas incríveis”

13 Nov. 2026 : Laurent Fournier, Kolkata, India - Building with local materials

20 Nov. 2026 : Marcos Colina, UMR LAVUE, France/Venezuela - Catuche : Improving urban public space with Communities

27 Nov. 2026 : Joana Torres, Brazil/Portugal - From Ideas to Building : Working with Communities

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The ethical landscape : What if sustainability is just colonialism wearing green ?

Mannisi, Alban — 2026-10-04T22:07:45Z

The ethical landscape : What if sustainability is just colonialism wearing green ?

In conversation with Dr Alban Mannisi.

Cities of Tomorrow Podcast

What if sustainability is just colonialism wearing green ?

In Episode 08 of Cities of Tomorrow, Dr Hamed Tavakoli joins Dr Alban Mannisi for a thought-provoking conversation about ethical landscape design, sustainable urban planning, and the political forces shaping our cities. When ideas developed in one cultural context are presented as universal solutions, can sustainable development reproduce the inequalities it promises to address ?

Drawing on his international experience in landscape architecture, teaching, and research, Alban explores how local cultures, histories, and relationships with the environment challenge conventional approaches to urban design. Together, Hamed and Alban discuss what it means to design with communities, respect Indigenous knowledge, and question assumptions about progress, development, and environmental responsibility.

Topics include :

• Sustainability and colonialism : How externally imposed models of sustainable cities can overlook local priorities, cultural values, and existing environmental practices.
• The political philosophy of landscape : Why landscape architecture involves more than physical spaces, encompassing memory, identity, power, and the ways people live together.
• Cultural diversity in urban design : How experiences across Europe and Asia challenge the idea that one planning model can work everywhere.
• Ethical landscape design : The importance of listening, understanding local contexts, and recognising communities' existing expertise before proposing solutions.
• Community participation : Why consultation must offer people a meaningful opportunity to influence—and fundamentally change—a project.
• Indigenous knowledge and coastal resilience : What designers can learn from custodianship, relationships between land and water, and established approaches to environmental management.
• Green capitalism and regenerative design : Whether greener projects transform underlying systems, and why regeneration requires understanding how places became degraded.
• Artificial intelligence in architecture and design : The ethical risks of AI-generated imagery that misrepresents real places, communities, and environmental conditions.
• Advice for emerging landscape architects : Practising humility, embracing cultural differences, and adapting design as communities and ecosystems change.

For listeners interested in sustainable cities, landscape architecture, environmental justice, community-led planning, and the future of urban design, this episode asks a central question : whose vision of sustainability are we building—and who gets to decide ?

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Port Nord Chalon Journées du patrimoine 2026

Jeudy, Olivier, co-directeur — 2026-09-28T13:40:23Z

A l'occasion des Journées du Patrimoine 2026

Ouverture du site https://portnord.fr/

"Le Port Nord est un site extraordinaire, qui conserve tout l'outillage industriel du port d'autrefois — grues, trémies, silos, passerelles — à seulement dix minutes à pied du centre-ville de Chalon. Depuis 2003, ce n'est pas un simple site industriel désaffecté au bord de la Saône : c'est un lieu où se croisent la création artistique, la réflexion architecturale et l'engagement citoyen. Année après année, occupation après occupation, il est devenu un patrimoine et un matrimoine communs, à la fois bâti et humain, que peu de villes peuvent revendiquer. Aujourd'hui, cet équilibre est menacé : la gestion du site doit changer de mains au 31 décembre 2026, les acteurs institutionnels restent muets sur l'avenir du site, seule la destruction systématique est régulièrement évoquée et a déjà eu lieu pour une bonne partie des entrepôts."

Pour plus d'infos
Voir aussi dans la rubrique terrains Port Nord de Chalon sur Saône

m e m o r i a : une bibliothèque vivante

Guzman, Laura ; Nys, Philippe — 2026-09-28T12:57:02Z

Présentation

memoria est associée à l'écriture, aux traces, aux bibliothèques, aux
livres, aux images. Elle est aussi sensorielle, connectée aux sens et au
sensible, et à l'expérience de l'espace.

Les livres dorment et vivent dans un demi-sommeil si les mots et les
images déposés et contenus dans cet objet, avec ses matérialités, ne sont
pas activés par l'acte de la lecture, la pluralité des lectures et leurs
transmissions, multiples.

memoria est une bibliothèque privée d'environ 15 000 ouvrages que nous
souhaitons rendre progressivement accessible et qui est vouée à se déployer avec de
nouvelles acquisitions.

Domaines de spécialisation

De l'art de la mémoire à la mémoire de l'art et ses territoires, memoria relie histoire, esthétique, anthropologie et poïétique, avec une attention particulière portée à l'Amérique latine et aux enjeux de notre temps, avec une attention Europe-Amérique latine.

La bibliothèque rassemble et assemble des repères en anthropologie de l'espace, histoire de l'art et de l'image, les objets de l'art et arts contemporains, patrimoine et
le vivant.

Plus spécifiquement : architectures, histoire et théories de l'architecture et de l'urbanisme, paysages, jardins, territoires, géographies, bords, cartes, récits,
imaginaires, symboles et représentations, nouvelles spatialités, écologies politiques, le monde vivant.

Histoires et théories de l'art et de l'esthétique, anthropologie de l'art et de ses objets, sémiotique, théorie de l'image, iconographie et iconologie, culture visuelle et photographie.

Histoire et théories de l'art contemporain visuel, matériaux, métiers d'art, textile, sculpture, land art et interventions in situ, art politique et société.

Théorie et histoire du design et du dessin, design graphique, typographie, histoire et techniques du livre et du livre d'architecture. Plus largement : philosophie et littérature en lien avec les thématiques mentionnées ainsi que des
éclairages sur des territoires spécifiques.

Souveraineté environnementale. Écosophies florissantes en Asie

Mannisi, Alban — 2026-09-22T20:55:09Z

Asian Cities
Professeure Pijika Pumketkao-Lecourt
École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville

20 novembre 2026 | 14h00–16h00 (UTC+1)
En ligne | En français

Souveraineté environnementale. Écosophies florissantes en Asie

Les crises ontologiques mondiales ont renouvelé l'observation et l'intérêt pour les régions où les écologies sociales sont relativement épargnées par les impérialismes environnementaux occidentaux. Ces modes d'existence, ancrés dans une autre compréhension de leur biosphère, remettent en question la colonialité des savoirs écologiques. À travers plusieurs situations en matière d'aménagement du territoire et de communautés humaines/non humaines, comme le renouvellement des éthiques environnementales au Japon, le désaveu de disciplines corporatives en Corée du Sud, la revitalisation des pratiques maritimes indigènes à Singapour et la persistance de la spiritualité écologique à Bali en Indonésie, nous explorerons l'existence, la résistance et la transmission de ces humanités et ingénieries environnementales indigènes qui nous aident à mieux comprendre les fondements de nos bouleversements écosophiques.

KOREAN WORLDLINESS natural peninsula intelligence

Mannisi, Alban — 2026-07-21T02:40:52Z

Program

Sharing 1-3 pm
Walking 3-6 pm
Dinning 7-9 pm

Contributors

Kyung-sook Yoon & Ju-hyup Cha. Architects. Korea
Kyung Jin Zoh. Academic.Landscape Architect, Korea
Alban Mannisi. Academic. Landscape Urbanist, France
Mina Chu.Designer. Korea
Sem Vermeersch. Academic. Religious Studies. Belgium
Youngai Seo. Academic.Landscape Architect, Korea
Hyeyoung Choi. Academic.Landscape Architect, Korea

What would we like to hear about South Korea's built environment achievements today ? What can we learn from its ability to absorb Global North models and customs, integrating Western soft power into new energies that demonstrate alternative approaches ? Do we expect Korea to continue to ‘cope with Western mechanisms' or to revitalise its indigenous humanities and engineering ? And is there something unexpected that only Koreans can explain to us ? Its current maturity enables us to think beyond more intimate and singular constructs.

Within the grounded community Dosigsgga, in Anyang, we will explore various ways of advocating for innovative and sometimes, uneasy to grasp, ways of existing in present-day Korea.

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NARCISSUSCAPE Biopolitics Narratives Survey

Mannisi, Alban — 2026-07-20T05:50:57Z

60 Years of Design Survey” International Workshop

Organised by Yoshiro and Yoshio Taniguchi Memorial Kanazawa Architecture Museum
In cooperation with ARCHI-DEPOT Corporation

September 16 (Wed) and 17 (Thu), 2026

Kanazawa Future City Creation Center
3-11-1 Nomachi, Kanazawa City, 921-8031

From the mid-1960s to the 1970s, comprehensive surveys were conducted by architecture and urban planning experts to re-evaluate traditional Japanese villages and cities. It all began with the 1965 Kanazawa survey by the University of Oregon, which, backed by detailed measured drawings and thorough data on how people lived, came to be known as the “Design Survey.” This movement was widely shared with the public through architectural journalism and later influenced the conservation of historic districts by the national and local governments. The Museum of Architecture, Kanazawa, has inaugurated an exhibition titled “60 Years of Design Survey – Where the Vernacular became Architecture” from June 20, and plans to hold lectures and forums this summer. As part of this, on September 16 and 17, experts from different countries will gather for discussions that cross architecture, cultural landscapes, and cultural anthropology.

with
Riichi Miyake (director, Yoshiro and Yoshio Taniguchi Museum of Architecture, Kanazawa)
Naofumi Yamada (curator, Yoshiro and Yoshio Taniguchi Museum of Architecture, Kanazawa)
Anri Ito (auditor, NPO Regional Support Network)
Benoit Jacquet (faculty, Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient)
Kiwa Matsushita (professor, Shibaura Institute of Technology)
Alban Mannisi (Associate Researcher ENSAPLV, Paris, France)
Tomoki Takada (associate professor, University of Hyogo)
Yukiko Katagiri (associate Professor, Kanazawa Institute of Technology)
Ichiro Mizuno (professor Emeritus, Kanazawa Institute of Technology)
Jin Myong-Suk (associate Professor, Jeonbuk National University)

Alban Mannisi : NARCISSUSCAPE. Biopolitics Narratives Survey

Design Survey, a philosophy of attention that examines the economy of relations between present reality and the historicity of its past. It reflects both the technical conditions and political ambitions embedded in a territory, operating as a continuous dialogue between what a society chooses to preserve and what it projects into its future—often revealing less a stable reality than contested horizons of possibility. Through the study of diverse regions and biospheres, we will investigates how vernacular cultural landscapes and social ecologies express the decisions and preferences of past societies and seeks to understand the 20th-century mutation of these references and their evolving transformations today.
Beyond a critical theorisation of these temporal mechanisms, what we consider essential is the support of impartial strategies that prevent surveys from being shaped by the biases of their historical moment. Without resorting to universal claims, which are widely critiqued today, how might we ensure that the spatial curriculum is understood in its full complexity, encompassing its tangible, intangible, and spiritual dimensions, so that it may continue to flourish ?

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DISSIDENCE world ecosophy shift

Mannisi, Alban — 2026-06-27T04:50:13Z

The relationship between human beings and their environment has become an increasingly critical subject of reflection as this connection has progressively weakened over the past centuries. Since the Western Enlightenment of the eighteenth century, societies have undergone a process of gradual disengagement from their natural, social, and urban environments—whose impacts are now deeply felt in everyday life.
Thus, numerous studies have emerged since the early twentieth century, a period marked by the flourishing of the social sciences such as anthropology, ethnography, and psychology. In the twenty-first century, Environmental Humanities have further advanced this body of knowledge by deepening and critically reassessing disciplines that were too often developed within privileged, educated Western societies—nowadays referred to as the Global North.
This pedagogy seeks to deepen understanding of the diverse movements in cognitive knowledge and contemporary epistemologies worldwide that address relationships between humans and their human / non-human environments across the multiple disciplines of the Built Environment. It draws on recent studies while also engaging with the revitalization of ancient and generic knowledge systems, demonstrating their continued relevance despite their historical marginalization by dominant modes of thought. Through this lens, the course examines how distinct environments and milieus give rise to different cultural landscapes and pluriverse cognitive(s), while also revealing shared foundational principles through which these perspectives intersect.

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DEVPORT 2026 International Conference

Gaiser Fernandes, Alexandre — 2026-05-22T11:16:00Z

La conférence internationale DEVPORT 2026, qui s'est tenue du 27 au 29 mai 2026, a exploré les défis complexes et les opportunités auxquels sont confrontées les villes portuaires et la logistique maritime, en mettant l'accent sur leurs dimensions économiques, géopolitiques, environnementales et sociales.

Cet événement avait pour objectif de stimuler le dialogue interdisciplinaire et de valoriser les recherches innovantes sur les interactions entre les villes portuaires, la gouvernance portuaire, la durabilité et la transformation numérique des industries maritimes.

Alexandre Gaiser y a présenté, le 28 mai, la communication Amazonian Gateway : Maritime River Ports and Territorial Conflict in Medium-Size Amazonian Cities, dans la session Hinterland Connectivity, Inland Waterways & Regional Logistics.

Pour aller plus loin, consulter l'article publié dans le cadre de ce colloque.

OTTOMAN PARALLAX other existence praxis

Mannisi, Alban — 2026-05-18T13:31:46Z

Ottoman Parallax is a three-day international gathering in Ankara that brings together built environment scholars, designers and institutions from Australia, Japan, France and Turkey to explore native ecologies, other modes of existence, and planetary futures in our Anthropocene era. Through conversations on pluriverse environmental ethics and cultural coexistence, the gathering examines how colonial modernity, environmental imperialism, and overlooked knowledge systems continue to shape contemporary life, while opening space for more adaptive, inclusive, and resilient ways of living in a rapidly changing world.

With the signing of the Versailles Treaty in 1921, the 21st century inherited an enclosure of multiple modes of existence that once adapted to constantly shifting environments. The dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and the emergence of new nation-states would come to symbolise what is now called the Global North. Under the guise of universal laws and moralities, Indigenous humanities and engineering were suppressed through an ontological colonialism rooted in imperial warfare. Beneath the appearance of global stability, a political ecology cold war is unfolding : critics of Western imperialism are silenced, and millennia of Indigenous knowledge that sustain planetary biodiversity are being erased—an ongoing genocide, ecocide, and urbicide legitimised as civilisation.

As seen during COP 30 in Brazil, growing recognition of other modes of existence has highlighted the social, environmental, and atmospheric diversity needed for planetary survival. Yet environmental imperialism makes such recognition increasingly difficult. Resistance to its aristocratic and colonial power structures confronts entrenched elites who defend privileges reproduced through institutions and educational systems. The worldwide acknowledgement of Indigenous Ecologies—what Alberto Magnani calls “globalisation from the grassroots”—echoes Article 12 of Nagoya's report The Future of Our Environments from Indigenous Customs and Ethics. Both remind us that Enlightenment universalism, post-war internationalism, and contemporary market-society globalisation reiterate earlier authoritarian forms of Western imperial governance. While some societies that have over-tamed their environments face slow decay, others remain attuned to Gaia's volatile rhythms, where chaos can be both destructive and rejuvenating.

It is within this geopolitical crossroads—the Turkish capital, Ankara—that we aim to examine such movements of thought. As the heir to the Ottoman Empire, whose last sultan anticipated a century of turmoil, Ankara now hosts refugees. Are we living in the twilight Gramsci described, a lingering moment unfolding across multi-scalar crises that multiply like bacteria ? And what does it mean to reflect from within it ?

Bringing together participants from Turkey, Japan, Australia, and France, this gathering invites exploration of the Anthropocene's pedigree through the connections and frictions among diverse contexts. We will consider other existence praxis—forms of knowledge that arise from chaos—not because they are more numerous, but because they resonate at the core of how we understand and reconstruct our built environments.

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