From Wednesday June 29th to Friday July 1st

on-site registration is not possible

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Conference theme:

Internationalizing Education for the Ecological Transition Challenge: 

New Stakes for Sharing Knowledge and Acting in a Changing World

The IFOU 2022 committee is closely monitoring the situation with respect to health safety and travel. We will adapt the conference according to the latest pandemic evolution and recommendations.  IFOU can take the form of a hybrid event depending on the health situation in June 2022

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Introduction

As societies all over the world face the challenges of global change, the paradigms for spatial intervention are evolving.In the realm of urban and architectural design, rampant productivism appears outdated and is progressively being replaced by an attitude that is more attentive to local environments and cultures. Different methods for space design at all scales are emerging locally, adopting new postulates in order to address global challenges.

In this context, the internationalization of higher education stands out as a powerful tool for helping our societies address current questions about the evolution of territories all over the planet in a spirit of complementarity and solidarity. As the internationalization of education has garnered widespread approval through its promotion of sharing knowledge between a wide diversity of countries, today it is a priceless vector for fostering the exchange of ideas and experiences about the ecological transition.

Broadly addressing these matters by studying what is done in different contexts would seem to be a fundamental task for higher education in architecture, urban design, planning, and spatial work in general carried out at all scales.

 

The 15th Conference of the International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU), to be held at the Bordeaux National School of Architecture and Landscape in 2022, aims to present different approaches, methods, and experiments in teaching and research implemented in higher education institutions for architecture, urban design, planning and landscape architecture all over the world, with a focus on how internationalization contributes to meeting the challenge of the ecological transition.

Five

Different themes

1 / New InterdisCiplinary and interCultural apprOaChes fOr faCing glObal Changes and their lOCal impaCt.

The environmental and social consequences of global changes involve aspects as diverse as the climate, migration, food resources and health. The knowledge necessary to address resulting problems is evolving, favoring transdisciplinary work and promoting situated action for best results. The socio-ecological approaches that are emerging alongside more established knowledge and professional practices are an example of this. The aim here is to gather examples of experiences, pedagogical methods or new doctrines that reflect such phenomena, in a broad sense and in a global perspective while also grounded in concrete territorial situations.

2 / ElabOrating and teaChing new paradigms prOmOting lOCalness in light Of the Crisis Of glObaliZed mOdels fOr aCtiOn

The environmental crisis caused by productivism questions the models of action promoted in the name of modernity, focused as they are on perpetually increased performance and universal reproducibility in any context. By the same token, the crisis also favors the emergence of a new attitude of frugality attentive to the use of resources in a given milieu, in spatial terms as much as in cultural, social or economic terms. In a hyperconnected world, widely circulating singular approaches supplant models with purported universal validity, suggesting a new complexity in the relation between the local and the global. This theme aims to seize a panorama of pedagogies invested in this new way of imaging situated development, as well as to identify their possible contribution to new figures of internationalization, and cooperation in particular.

3 / New ideas abOut “NOrth-SOuth” relatiOns fOr studying plaCes in transitiOn.

Although global changes may affect all parts of the planet in similar ways, the way to address them differs depending on each country’s state of development. But this state may vary widely depending on geopolitical relations between different regions, themselves constantly evolving.

Moreover, the criteria used to measure a country’s relative level of development are subject to ongoing debate. Regions considered less developed from the perspective of productivismmay therefore provide knowledge that is helpful for crisis-stricken regions that are facing global changes in other latitudes.

This theme seeks to present research and teaching that exemplifies new « North-South » relations.

4 / New apprOaChes tO teChniCal dimensiOns fOr the benefit Of lOCalities.

Long regarded as tools for growth while disregarding their negative effects on the planet, technical approaches today appear as key components for promoting new forms of development that are sensitive to environmental quality.

This theme therefore considers evolutions in sector-specific approaches to cities and regions, such as infrastructure, mobility, natural resources, energy or digital technology, with an emphasis on how such approaches contribute to more sustainable forms of action.

5 / internatiOnal eduCatiOn pOliCies and the eCOlOgiCal transitiOn Challenge.

The new stakes presented by the ecological transition have already been integrated into higher education in a structured way. This theme therefore aims to take stock of the strategy and policy tools that governments and various entities at the national scale use to align education with the matter of the ecological transition, with regard to similar actions carried out by intergovernmental agencies and supranational organizations at the international scale. The range of topics here include the multiple forms of internationalization in training programs, including student and teacher mobility, international curricula, study travel, recruiting, and the diversity of actors taking part in financing, organizing and executing these activities.

Scientific committee

IFoU Scientific Committee

  • Prof. Jürgen ROSEMANN
  • Prof. Jin BAEK
  • Prof. Henco BEKKERING
  • Prof. Stephen CAIRNS
  • Prof. Hsueh-Sheng CHANG
  • Prof. Liang-Chih CHEN
  • Prof. Eui Young CHUN
  • Prof. Jian DAI
  • Prof. Wowo DING
  • Prof. Carlos GOTLIEB
  • Prof. Chye Kiang HENG
  • Prof. Puay-peng HO
  • Prof. Chu-Joe HSIA
  • Prof. Flavio JANCHES
  • Prof. Astrid LEY
  • Prof. Qizhi MAO
  • Prof. Yukio NISHIMURA
  • Prof. Joaquin SABATE BEL
  • Prof. Jo SANTOSO
  • Prof. Thorsten SCHUETZE
  • Prof. Hendrik TIEBEN
  • Prof. Jinyeu TSOU
  • Prof. Machiel VAN DORST
  • Prof. Paola VIGANO
  • Prof. Jiang WU
  • Prof. Uoosang YOO
  • Prof. Wenyi ZHU
  • Prof. Weimin ZHUANG
  • Dr. Martina BARCELLONI
  • Dr. Gerhardes BRUYNS
  • Dr. Lorenzo CHELLERI
  • Dr. Yongming CHEN
  • Mr. Peter HASDELL
  • Dr. Tanja HERDT
  • Dr. Karin HOFERT
  • Dr. Huaqing HUANG
  • Dr. Xiaoxi HUI
  • Dr. Min-Jay KANG
  • Dr. Aya KUBOTA
  • Dr. Jian LIU
  • Dr. Carmen MENDOZA ARROYO
  • Dr. Manfredo MANFREDINI
  • Dr. Lei QU
  • Dr. Diego SEPULVEDA
  • Ms. Wita SIMATUPANG
  • Dr. Adolf SOTOCA
  • Mr. Jeroen VAN AMEIJDE
  • Dr. Chiu-Yuan WANG
  • Dr. Ye ZHANG
  • Dr. Minghao ZHOU

ENSAP Bordeaux Scientific Orientation Committee

UMR PASSAGES 5319 CNRS

  • Carlos Gotlieb (chairman of the IFoU Bordeaux Conference)
  • Hocine Aliouane – Shaw

LABORATOIRE PAVE

  • Juan Kent Fitzsimons
  • Patrice Godier

LABORATOIRE GRECCAU

  • Aline Barlet
  • Régis Le Normand

PROGRAM AND SPEAKERS

Speaker

Paola Viganò

Speaker

Tatjana Schneider

Speaker

Jana Revedin

Speaker

Jin Yeu Tsou

Speaker

Dominique Gauzin-Müller

APERAU international conference

Speaker

Bernard Blanc

APERAU international conference

Schools of excellence international forum

This part of the 15th IFoU conference is devoted to the presentation by representatives of the highest ranked universities in QS Worlds University Ranking, how these universities approach the pedagogy related to the question of the issues of ecological transition in an international perspective.

These presentations will be followed by a debate with representatives with the other schools present who are members of the IFoU as well as exchanges with the participants.

It will be divided into two sessions in which the representatives of universities from various continents will intervene:

forum 1: Wednesday 29 June 11h30-13h00

forum 2: Thursday  30 June 11h30-13h00

Speaker

Machiel Van Dorst

Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)

Speaker

Chye Kiang Heng

National University of Singapore (NUS)

Speaker

Zhang Li

Tsinghua University
(THU)

Speaker

Christophe Girot

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich)

forum 2: Thursday  30 June 11h30-13h00

Speaker

Zhang Li

Tsinghua University
(THU)

Speaker

Christophe Girot

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich)

july 1st, 2022

FIELD TRIPs

City and innovative activities
“The Pola artistic and cultural factory and Darwin ecosystem”

Visit in English, organized by IFoU and open to participants of APERAU meetings.

Facilitation and coordination: Hocine Aliouane-Shaw for IFoU

VISIT PROGRAM :

  • 8:30 a.m. // Departure by tram from the city center from a place to be specified
  • 9:00-10:30 a.m. // Visit of the Pola artistic and cultural factory
  • 10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. // Walk through the Parc des Angéliques
  • 11h00 -12h30 // Visit of Darwin Ecosystem
  • 12:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. // Free time to picnic and stroll until 3:00 p.m. when you have to be at Arc-Rêve for the last session of the IFoU Bordeaux international conference

Download the complete program of the visit

City and heritage
“The city center of Bordeaux, UNESCO World Heritage Site”

Visit in French with translation into English, organized jointly by the meetings of APERAU and IFoU.

Facilitation and coordination: Sylvain Schoonbaert for APERAU and Patrice Gaudier for IFoU

VISIT PROGRAM :

  • 8:30 a.m. // Departure on foot from the city center from a location to be specified
  • 9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. // Visit of the city center classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, led by Sylvain Schoonbaert, architect and historian at Bordeaux City Hall
  • 12:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. // Free time to picnic and stroll until 3:00 p.m. when you have to be at Arc-Rêve for the last session of the IFoU Bordeaux international conference

Download the complete program of the visit

City and Nature
“Nature, city and agriculture: agro-environmental parks to support the ecological transition? »

Visit in French, organized as part of the APERAU meetings, open to IFoU participants

Facilitation and coordination: Catherine André, Emmanuelle Bonneau and Gérard Thomas for APERAU

VISIT PROGRAM :

  • 8:30 // Departure by bus from the city center from a place to be specified
  • 9:30 a.m.-12 p.m. // Visit of the Parc des Jalles
  • 12:30 p.m. // Return to the city center.
  • 12:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. // Free time to picnic and stroll until 3:00 p.m. when you have to be at Arc-Rêve for the last session of the IFoU Bordeaux international conference

Download the complete program of the visit

City and habitat
“Citizen participation and urban renewal: social housing as a vector of innovation”

Visit in French, organized as part of the APERAU meetings, open to IFoU participants

Facilitation and coordination: Agnès Berland-Berthon for APERAU and Aline Barlet for IFoU

VISIT PROGRAM :

  • 8:30 a.m. // Departure by tram from the city center from a place to be specified
  • 9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. // Welcome at the entrance of the GHI in the Cité du Grand Parc by Jean-Luc Gorce, director of Aquitanis, presentation of the context of the project, visit of two apartements  and exchanges with the participants
  • 10:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. // Meeting at Locus Solus common room. Presentation of the urban approach of Aquitanis by Jean-Luc Gorce and Adrien Gros, director of the urban planning division of Aquitanis and exchanges with the participants. Speech by William Le Goff, Associate Professor at the Sorbonne, “Who pays for the energy transition? » and exchanges with the participants
  • 12:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. // Free time to picnic and stroll until 3:00 p.m. when you have to be at Arc-Rêve for the last session of the IFoU Bordeaux international conference

Download the complete program of the visit

Informations and dates

From Wednesday June 29 to Friday July 1, 2022 at the Bordeaux National School of Architecture and Landscape.

Event closing: The closing ceremony is programmed at arc en rêve, the internationally renowned center for raising cultural awareness in the architectural, urban, landscape and design domains.

Here are some accommodations near the B line in Bordeaux

See more information here:
LIST OF HOTELS

Registrations and payment

When you register, you will have the possibility to choose either the on-site participation in Bordeaux (France) or the virtual conference.

Online participation will allow both participation and work presentation.

on-site registration is not possible

The opening of the 15th IFoU conference will be done jointly with the opening of the 23rd international meeting in urban planning of APERAU (Association for the Promotion of Education and Research in Planning and Urban Planning) organized by Institute of Planning, Tourism and Town Planning (IATU) of the University of Bordeaux Montaigne.

A scientific publication will be produced by the « Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux » from the papers resulting from the 15th IFoU conference.