This four days studio will discuss the scientific positioning and operational objectives of the TOD-IS-RUR network, focusing on the Greater Paris Situation as both a case study and a learning experience for the whole research-training program (approaches, subjects, contexts, methods). This four-day event is dedicated to both build the TOD-IS-RUR network and work on ESR’s projects. It aims to specify, discuss and understand the research questions in their context. Central themes addressed in this studio are:
What is RUR? Insights from history, transport geography, modelling.
How to analyse the relationships between transport network and places/territories?
How to characterise the diversity of places and equity issues in relation to mass-transit access? Beyond transport aspects, how to assess the socio-spatial impacts of other public policies, such as housing or local development?
Organizers: Université Gustave Eiffel, LVMT & Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, LATTS
Non-academic partners: APUR / AREP / IPR
From 19-22 April 2022 our ESRs and co/supervisors met in Paris for the first out of three TOD Studios for an intensive, hands-on training week on a specific rural-urban contexts and socio-ecological concerns to the local community.
During the Studio Paris, ESR participated in workshops devoted to a collective and reflective work concerning the Greater Paris, and their individual research projects, as well as discussed approaches, methods, data and materials, and cross-research topics, issues, fields and singularities. In addition to workshops and brainstorming sessions, ESRs also participated in seminars organised by our partner organizations IPR, AREP and APUR, and visited the Northern Greater Paris on two occasions. These two field visits, also combined with the unconventional methods - photography and fictional writing - provided an opportunity to discover, observe and grasp different aspects of the Greater Paris Region and bring to light its dimensions that are not often addressed by more normative and formal planning approaches: atmospheres, uses of space, bodies, living environments.
Our big thanks go to organisers Prof. Caroline Gallez and Prof. Nathalie Roseau, Mariana Reis Santos and Maya El Khawand, as well as our partner organizations IPR, APUR and AREP, and our Scientific Advisory Board member Prof. Hans Jeekel from Eindhoven University of Technology.