Thursday December 10, 2020

9h30                Registration and reception

9h45-10h00 : Conference opening by the organisation committee

10h-11h30 Keynotes speeches

• Ricardo Rao (Historian, associate professor at the University of Bergamo) : “Urban commons in Italian municipalities during the Middle Ages: environmental marginality and political centrality”
  
  
• Stéphane Tonnelat (Sociologist in urban planning and environment, Chargé de recherche au CNRS, Université Paris Nanterre):  “From public to common through the interstice: the opponents of the EuropaCity shopping-centre struggle to protect agricultural land”.

• Isabelle Backouche (Historian, Directrice d’études à l’EHESS): “The Paris “Zone”: an urban interstice? An issue about point of view” .

11h30-12h00      Discussion

12h00-13h30      Lunch break

13h30-16h00: PARALLEL SESSIONS

SESSION 1 : DEFINING  INTERSTICES: UNCERTAIN PLACES

Chairs: Ulrike Krampl & Bénédicte Florin

• Aurore Léon (Sorbonne Univ.), “Neither neighbourhood, neither suburbs. The interstices in the towns of Nantes and Rennes at the end of the Middle Ages: rethinking the vocabulary of spatial analysis in wartimes.
  
  
• Alex Frondizi (univ. Neuchâtel), “The impossible interstice of the Grand Paris in the beginning 19th century”.
• Christine Dupouy (univ. Tours), “Peripherical Réda”
  
  
• Fabrice Raffin (univ. Picardie Jules Verne), “Unusual Arts and Urban Processes - Entities, Boundaries and Processual Social Structures”
  
  
• Pamela Bianchi (univ. Paris VIII), “Partial place, partial space. The interstice in contemporary exhibition and creation processes”

SESSION 2 :POWER RELATIONSHIPS: A KIND OF EXPRESSION PLACES.

Chair: Romeo CARABELLI & Raphaële BERTHO

• Georges-Henry Laffont (univ. Tours), “Arenas of a (re)found territoriality: reflections and explorations of the interstices of urban commons shaping”
• Sana Benbelli et Imane Arkhis (univ. Hassan II, Casablanca), “Street art in Casablanca between centrality and marginality: the case of graffiti and music shows”
• Paul Lecat (univ. Gustave Eiffel), “Metamorphoses of an urban edge. The long history of the City of Monkeys, from rejected space to urban resource”
• Hélène Nessi (univ. Paris X Nanterre), “From the urban commons in the Roman outskirts to the informality of the state”.
• Laura Monfleur (univ. Tours), “Searching interstices in an authoritarian context: the case of the Cairo city centre”.

SESSION 3 : BACK OF THE NATURE, BACK TO THE NATURE: NATURE IN PLACES

Chairs: José SERRANO & Christophe MORIN

• Aurélien Hucq (UCLouvain), “Legal aspects in communing the neglected spaces and prospects for environmental law”
  
  
• Francesca di Pietro, Marion Brun (univ. Tours, CNRS), “Vegetated urban wastelands: interstices but not common?”
  
  
• Émeline Bailly (Centre Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment), “The quality of fringes: the example of urban borders”
  
  
• Jonas Hanssens (UCLouvain), “Conflicts in the appropriation of urban wastelands”
  
  
• Julie Beauté (ENS Paris), “Super-human interstices: the "fairy-taility" of infrastructures” 

16h30-18h00

SESSION 4 : POSTER PRESENTATION

Chair : Raphaële Bertho

• Chiara Bocchino & Domenico De Rosa (Univ. of Campania), “Losing community. A look into the Lilong: the Shanghainese interstices that challenge the progress”
   
• Claire Bourguignon (univ. Clermont Auvergne), “The implantation of mendicity orders in the urban margins: myths and realities. The example of medieval Auvergne (early 13th century - early 16th century)”
  
  
• Juliette Charron (univ. Paris X Nanterre), “When the project moves, from a square to a building, an actor's story”Fanny Cottet (univ. Panthéon-Sorbonne), “Real estate besieging urban commons. Real estate models as alternatives to market logics”
  
  
• Sonia Dinh (univ. Panthéon-Sorbonne),“Common spaces in private collective housing: are they urban commons?”
  
  
• Joachim Jornet Vea (EHESS), “The transformations of collective gardening shapes. Urban interstices and relationship’s reconfiguration among social classes”
  
  
• Marie Ferey (Inventaire Général, Région Pays de Loire),"The annexation of the over-granted municipalities at the Le Mans neighbourhoods - The case of Saint-Pavin-des-Champs and Saint-Georges-du-Plain”
  
  
• Kawtar Samih (École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de La Villette & univ. Panthéon Sorbonne), “The inhabited interstices in Casablanca: the organisation and variety of spaces”

17h30         End of the first day’s presentations

Friday December 11, 2020

9h15          Welcome of participants

9h30-12h00 : PARALLEL SESSIONS

SESSION 5 : INTERSTITIAL PRACTICES: PRACTICE OF PLACES

Chairs : Gülçin ERDI & Anna PERRAUDIN

• Marie Lécuyer (univ. Montpellier 3), “Entertainment, exchange, moving inside the harbor. The understanding of contemporary harbors’ status vis-à-vis the city. A study based on the interstitial social practices of inhabitants”
  
  
• Mickaël Chelal (univ. Paris X Nanterre), “The socialisation of "young girls and boys of the city" by the neighbourhood in terms of the spatial occupation”
  
  
• Pierre-Édouard Weill (univ. Bretagne Occidentale), “"Fresco artist" and "vandal": a common practice? Appropriations of urban interstices by graffiti writers”
  
  
• Félix Lefebvre (Univ. de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens), “A heterotopia of subaltern speech: tea beans in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)”

SESSION 6 : INTRA-URBAN METAMORPHOSES: PLACES OF URBAN CHANGE

Chairs: Didier BOISSEUIL & Margot RENARD

• Lucie Gaugain (univ. Tours), “Plot of land continuity and discontinuity in the town of Tours at the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance (ca. 1450-ca. 1530)”
  
  
• Adrien Pitor (Sorbonne Univ.),”Between city and palace, the outskirts of a Parisian enclosure in the 18th century”
  
  
• Florence Cornilleau (Service patrimoine et inventaire, Centre-Val de Loire Region), “The heart of a housing block, the interstice of the rebuilt town. The example of the Orleans’ reconstruction after 1945”
  
  
• Nicolas Bataille, Cécile Léonardi, Federica Gatta, Pierre-Olivier Garcia, Théa Manola, Josselin Tallec, Silvère Tribout (univ. Grenoble & ENSA Grenoble), “Between procedure and experimentation: the role of the common in the spaces to grasp of the calls for innovative urban projects”
  
  
• Hugo Rochard, Cécile Gauthier, Marion Brun, Sarah Dubeaux et Cécile Mattoug (collectif inter-friches), “Practising interdisciplinarity on an occupied urban wasteland: the example of a collective workshop on Vive les Groues in Nanterre (92)”

SESSION 7 : LIVING, TOGETHER AND APART: LIVING THE PLACE TOGETHER

Chair: Marie-Pierre LEFEUVRE & Manuel ROYO

• Marianna Volkova, Marianna Shkurko (Higher School of Economics de Moscou), « Collectivity VS Enclosure: Hidden Processes Behind the Commoning in Mass Housing in Russia. »
  
  
• Guénola Inizan (univ. Lumières – Lyon 2), “The indeterminate spaces of co-owned buildings, some interstices in the post-Soviet town scape: the case of the Khrushchevian piatietajki in Moscow”
  
  
• Luc Deregnieaux (univ. Rennes 2 – CNRS), “Living in the outskirts: some strategies of appropriation of interstitial spaces in a large social housing complex in Bogota (Colombia)”
  
  
• Marie Artuphel (ENSA Paris-Malaquais), “Decline of public, survival of commons? Transformations in the use of intermediate spaces in the alternative large-scale social housing experiments of the 1960s in Italy”

12h00-13h30        Lunch break

13h30-15h00      Round-table for concluding remarks

Chair : José Serrano

Contributors:

• Jean-Baptiste Minnaert (Architectural historian, professor, director of the Centre André Chastel).
• Daniela Festa (Lawyer and geographer, Visiting Researcher at the Department of Sociology at Columbia University).
• Sessions’ chairs