The MOFOSIG research program, federating the CITERES, CEDETE and LEO laboratories in the Centre-Val de Loire Region, is scheduling a study day devoted to the theme of “Inhabiting the Orléans region”, on October 10, 2018.
The aim of this study day is to combine a reflection on modes of inhabitation and the construction of our territories, applied to the singular context of the Orléans region.
The concept of inhabiting questions the processes of appropriation and projection of individuals in their living space, through, at the very least, a double set of interrogations. First, that of the articulation between functional dimensions, such as housing and mobility, and the symbolic nature of territorial identities and representations. Secondly, the degree of freedom allowed by our individual practices and social organization, in the tension between the possibilities of the individual, an actor endowed with skills and resources, and the determinism of the all-encompassing collective structure, such as the economy and politics. The examples of land market structuring and housing construction illustrate this second question.
From a more geographical perspective, our ways of living reveal a diversity of forms, ranging from the bounded territory (mesh) to that of the network. Long frozen in a unity of place and time, this geography is adapting as best it can to social changes in our lifestyles (segmentation of living spaces, nomadic behavior, inter-territoriality) and technological mutations (differentiated transport speeds, network connectivity, Big Data). As a relationship between the individual and space, this renewed spatiality questions the adaptation of inherited territorial structures, such as those of politics, to social territories.
This study day devoted to the Orléans region aims to address this double set of questions in the nature of the process and in the resulting geography: what transformations is this geographical area currently undergoing? Does it form a territory, both socially and politically? What geographical forms are the result of social evolutions, both in spatial practices and in their physical construction (housing)? What political, economic and social links are there today between the central urban area of the “small metropolis” of Orléans, the “suburbs”, small towns (Châteauneuf, Beaugency...), peri-urban and rural areas? How does this geographical area respond to the challenges of sustainable development, in terms of urban-rural solidarity, mobility and the densification of built-up areas?
The structure of the study day is based on two half-days of work. The morning will be devoted to the production of space (in the sense of public policies, political and legal modes of governance). In other words, the political territory. The afternoon will deal with ways of living, in the sense of the practices of individuals and inhabitants, that of the social territory.
Course of the day
Morning
9:30 a.m. - Welcoming speech. Ms Geneviève Pierre, University of Orléans, CEDETE
9:45 a.m. - Round table. The Orléans region: building a territory?
Participants
Pierre Allorant, University of Orléans, CRJ Pothiers - Orléans Métropole, what changes?
Mr Christophe Demazière, University of Tours, CITERES - Urban governance of a conurbation
Ms Paule Quilichini, University of Orléans, CRJ Pothier
Mr Fouad Eddazi, University of Orléans, CRJ Pothier
Mr Jean-Marc Zaninetti, University of Orléans, LEO
Mr Jean-Pierre Wolff. University of Toulouse Public transport and urban governance.
Moderator: Mr Franck Guérit, University of Orléans, CEDETE
Afternoon
1:45 p.m. - Round table: ways of living
Participants
Ms Isabelle Thauvel
Mr Laurent Fouillé, Hervé Ollivier, Orléans Urban Planning Agency. The metropolis of proximity
Ms Christine Roméro, University of Orléans, CEDETE.
Ms Nathalie Martin, University of Orléans, CEDETE
Ms Annabelle Morel-Brochet, University of Angers, ESO. Living in the suburbs
Mr Kamal Serrhini, University of Tours, CITERES. Modeling urban mobility
Moderator: Mr. Bertrand Sajaloli, University of Orléans, CEDETE