The CORON project associates the University of Artois (Laboratory of Civil Engineering and Geo-Environment), the CNRS via the UMR “Architecture Urbanisme Société: Savoir Enseignement Recherche” (AUSser) and the Mission Bassin Minier Nord - Pas de Calais. Its purpose is to demonstrate the effectiveness of innovative and traditional materials based on bioresources and georesources for use in the light renovation of ancient houses. The study is both technical and socio-cultural, combining laboratory research and collective fieldwork in the heart of the Nord and Pas-de-Calais mining basin, classified as UNESCO World Heritage. The originality of the project lies in the study of thermal comfort from the laboratory scale to the real scale associated with the implementation of a User Control Assistance which will make it possible to cross the expertise of use, held by the residents, and the technical expertise, held by the actors of the design in order to have a social and participative dimension. This role guarantees a real co-construction of knowledge and the place given to the residents in the project. The mining house renovated in this way will be considered as a Living Lab, a place for the exchange of knowledge. The project will benefit from the mobilization of local actors (the social landlord Maisons & Cités which finances the renovation of the house, the Chair 'Acclimatizing post-mining territories' and Master's students from the Lille National School of Architecture and Landscape, the association "Les Corons d'Orient" with residents of the district, the Post-Mining Network association with 45 French and foreign partners), as well as a scientific research environment based on multidisciplinary researchers (architecture, civil engineering, thermal, human and social sciences) including two post-docs requested for the project and appropriate scientific equipment including a state-of-the-art equipment (instrumentation, CT-scanner).

The PATRIMONDI project explores how the dynamics of the heritagization interferes with tourism motilities and global circulation (of people, ideas, capital. The analysis is underpinned by the assumption of a new regime of heritagization characterized by a co-production of heritage by tourism in the context of globalization. The project aims at going beyond the classical analysis of the continuous enlargement of the heritage field, in order to define and analyze the contemporary and new ways of heritage production. The neologism of patrimondialisalion (worldheritagization) , by his assonance between heritage(patrimoine) and globalization (mondialisation),proposes a critical reexamination of the historical interference between heritage and national construction in favor of the globalization trough heritage. The project innovates by addressing together, and in their mutual co-construction the dynamics of globalization heritage and tourism which are traditionally conceptualized by The aim is to deconstruct the traditional positions between heritage and tourism on the one hand; heritage and globalization on the other hand, too often reduced to an opposition territorialisation-singularity versus deterritorialisation-homogenization, and to move the issue to the construction of a global heritage. Such an approach based on heritage and tourist concepts, notions, norms and practices that circulate (and sometimes hybridize) in a global scale, relativizes the usual heritage conceptions North-South. The proposed methodology is comparative. The selection of 5 emblematic sites of globalization of heritage and through heritage [3 sites inscribed on the list of World heritage of UNESCO (Angkor, Old Quebec, Marrakech), 1exemple inscribed on the list of intangible World heritage of UNESCO (Tango), a national heritage produced by internationalization (the international concessions of Tianjin, in China)] aims at exploring the complex relationship between the different scales (including local, national and global) that both produce heritage and is produced by heritage. These 5 examples will be analyzed according to a cross-in order to identify the 'nodes', the ‘gateways' or the 'limits’ of how they fit in the context of globalization. While anchoring in the contemporaneity, the proposed approach will also address the dynamic constitution of globalization ('worlding" according to Cochrane and Passmore, 2001) of heritage assets, in the past (analysis of the heritage ‘Genealogy' the through a geohistorical approach) and in the future (prospective approach). The generalization of fieldwork research (carried out following a qualitative methodology: interviews observation written sources, archives) done on the 5 selected heritage examples will be facilitated by the quantitative analysis of all the 1007 sites (in 2014) of the world heritage of UNÉSCO via the social networks (analysis of several thousands of photographs and comments posted by tourists and visitors).This analysis aims at capturing the circulation of representations and practices of heritage visions. In a context where tourism becomes a "common phenomenon' according to Lussault ( 2007),and where heritage i s structured as global network ( a 'heritagescape’ according to DiGiovine, 2009) - also through tourism practices and representations the parallel analysis of heritage and tourism in and by globalization represents a major political, geopolitical, economic identity and cultural issues which need to be explored at both the local and the global scales. This is the aim of this project whose implications are both theoretical (exploration and analysis of the concept of patrimondialisation (worldheritagization) and operational (management of heritage properties which are more an ore globalized and globalizing).

The research project ETC (Energy Transitions and Cities) aims to shed light on the long-term stakes, the contents and the social, spatial and environmental consequences of energy transition strategies implemented in a major urban region, as well as the potential for the involvement of actors in these strategies. The project will focus in particular on the interdependent transformations of the built environment, urban infrastructures and social practices called for within these energy transition strategies. Taking the Ile-de-France as a test bed, and based on the long-term energy policy orientations defined in regional strategic planning, the project ETC aims to explore the direct and indirect, intentional and non-intentional, favourable and unfavourable effects of the proposed strategies in terms of: resource, energy and pollutant flows; financial flows; the quality (nature, affordability) of the energy provided. The project will be focused on the study of some of the main instruments, which local authorities can use within their energy transition strategies: - new infrastructures for the supply of energy; - new infrastructures and organization for the transport of people and goods; - major urban projects (cf. the “Grand Paris” project that has recently been launched) - energy renovation of buildings A limited number of contrasted energy futures scenarios will be elaborated, in order to simulate the effects of the use of specific instruments within energy transition strategies. These simulations will be achieved by a model chain combining three models (land use, transport, air quality) which have already been validated for the study on the Ile-de-France region. The sociospatial and environmental effects of the scenarios will be disaggregated in two complementary ways: - according to different social groups (characterized by their income), in order to assess the socially-differentiated effects of scenarios in terms of energy expenditure, exposure to nuisances and energy poverty; - according to different spatial contexts, in order to assess the spatially-differentiated effects of scenarios in terms of energy provision (price, diversity, reliability...), exposure to nuisances and the energy vulnerability of specific spaces. This will also allow to examine local tensions emerging in relation to the implementation of a given energy strategy; the extent to which energy-related practices are questioned or destabilized; emerging forms of sociospatial inequalities or splintering in relation to energy; possible (and possibly desirable) forms of sociospatial differentiation of regional energy strategies. The implementation of the project ETC will rest upon continuous and adequately designed interactions between qualitative and quantitative/modelling approaches as well as with frequent interactions with local governmental actors and bodies with whom long-lasting relationships have already been established. These interactions with local actors will ensure both the relevance of the energy scenarios studied in the project and the societal dissemination of the results of the research project.

The aim of the "Aluminium, Architecture & Heritage, 20th – 21st Century" program (ARCHIPAL) is to identify the history of aluminium in architecture, to understand its heritage processes and to inventory the presence and the state of conservation of this material in the built heritage of France. It will contribute to the history of contemporary architecture and its technical innovations and to defining strategies for the conservation and restoration of this industrial heritage, in an approach marked by the values of sustainable development. It is part of a multidisciplinary approach to materials, substance and materiality. Lightweight, durable, resistant and malleable, infinitely recyclable, thanks to its technical characteristics aluminium emerged during the 20th and 21st century as material that was emblematic of modernity, . It inspired architects because it offers a range of possibilities for artistic experimentation that is particularly stimulating in terms of the variety of forms that can be achieved and of the colors and appearances - unfinished, matt, brushed or glossy - and available. This multiplicity is investigated from the point of view of the history and the sociology of technology: how did such a material, by its appearance, impose itself and how was it perceived by contemporaries? Who were the players involved in this technical change that saw wood give way to metal in architecture? How hasthe aluminium processing sector evolved, in the context of European construction, the politics of promoting “national champions”, then in that of successive economic crises and, finally, of sustainable development issues? Aluminium is a key element of the cultural and technical heritage of the 20th and 21st centuries, at the heart of very contemporary tensions related to current issues of sustainable development: its recycling to produce new products, or its conservation and adaptation to environmental requirements. The ARCHIPAL project also proposes, based on the identification of the French architectural heritage of aluminium, to collect by means of a dedicated database all the general and technical information, the details of composition and implementation, and at the same time to establish the condition of these buildings, ornaments, and sculptures in aluminium. One of the anticipated results of the project, the "Aluminium & built heritage" database is a new tool for managing aluminium heritage and will be hosted on the platform of the TGRI. Based on an assessment of the state of weathering, associated environmental and societal conditions, it will identify appropriate research, conservation and restoration strategies. By gathering technical, historical and cultural information on the heritage elements concerned, this database will provide a working tool for all stakeholders in the research field of built heritage: historians, French heritage architects, , heritage inventory researchers, restorers, etc. Based on an assessment of the state of deterioration and associated environmental and social conditions, it will help to define strategies for research, conservation and appropriate restoration. By gathering technical, historical and cultural information on the heritage elements concerned, this database will provide a working tool for all stakeholders in the research field interested in the problem of built heritage: historians, heritage architects in France , inventory researchers, restorers, etc. The corpus to be analyzed- databases and cartography - will orient the research in three main directions: 1. The role of architectural creation in the spread of aluminium throughout the building sector, in particular by the use of surface finishing 2. The role of technical innovations, markets and companies in the choice of materials in buildings and public works 3. The heritage of aluminium building and its challenges for the architecture of today and tomorrow.

Over the course of the XXth century, urban projects, the modern Movement, the emergence of social programs and new techniques, contributed to profound changes in the teaching of architecture, which similarly experienced the effects of the democratization and feminization of higher education. In Germany and the United States, scholars have analyzed the consequences of these evolutions. In France, however, historians of education have studied changes in higher education, but architecture has for the most part remained outside their purview, despite current reforms and changes in the status of architecture teachers. Existing studies focus on the main Parisian school, ignoring the many others that existed; fascinated by the 19th century, studies have paid little heed to the which remain issues of concern today, as the current reforms indicate; interested primarily in theory, scholars have focused on the study of treatises, neglecting that of pedagogical transformations and their effects. This research project responds in two-fold fashion to this situation. To begin with, it explores the history of the teaching of architecture in France in the 20th and 21st centuries in relation to questions about the professionalization of architectural work, contributing thus to the renewal of existing historiography while offering as well a comparative perspective. Secondly, it seeks to preserve existing traces of this history through the collection and cataloguing of rapidly vanishing local archives, through the constitution of an oral history library, and the digitalization of vanishing printed sources. The architectural section of the Ecole des beaux-arts experienced significant changes and moments of crisis at three moments over the course of the 20th century, following a long period of development and continuity in the preceding century. Its hegemony was initially challenged in 1903 with the emergence of the first regional schools. In 1940 the creation of the order of architects and the ensuing reorganization of the profession meant,that the diploma delivered by the Beaux-arts became the condition sine qua non to acquire the title of architect. Finally, in May 1968, the “architecture” section of the Beaux-arts literally exploded, provoking the creation of new “pedagogical units of architecture” in Paris and the disappearance of regional schools in the provinces replaced by these units. These constituted the basis of the existing national superior schools of architecture. These successive changes challenged the centralization of architectural teaching, its relationship to the profession, its pedagogical methods and the “scientifization” of its content. The project explores these issues, which remain issues of concern today as the current reforms indicate, in relation to the process of democratization and feminization that simultaneously affected the institution’s teaching and study body. The research team assembles historians and sociologists to addresses these questions; scholars who work within architectural schools as well as universities, in the Paris region, as well as the provinces, in order to engage a methodical inventory of archives and oral sources. This aspect of the project is an essential condition for the production of new knowledge and the opening of new perspectives.