Vortrag
Fragmentary Temporalities
Vortrag von Adria Daraban
Im Rahmen des Symposiums
A QUESTION OF TIME
IN SEARCH OF TEMPORAL STRATEGIES FOR AN ARCHITECTURE OF TRANSITION
26 & 27. 09. 2024 im Auditorium of the Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine
In architecture, space occupies a central place; sometimes. to the detriment of time, which is too often neglected, even though it is a key factor for thinking about ecological, social and economic transition. Given the urgency of climate change, this symposium puts the question of time at the heart of the debate, as an essential element of architectural, urban, and territorial projects. Reconsidering our discipline through the factor of time will enable us to reconsider architecture in relation to the temporal dynamics in which it is embedded, offering an indispensable condition for modifying its circumstances and mechanisms.
Historian Marvin Trachtenberg has emphasized that temporality is an epistemic condition that silently affects all production and experience of the built environment. In his book Building-in-Time, he outlined the modalities of building with and in time that took place in the Renaissance, in a period before the radical overturn of the human relationship to time. Indeed, mechanized, measurable and quantifiable time is a legacy of this first modernity, and oriented towards progress. German sociologist and political scientist Hartmut Rosa develops precisely this aspect in his book Acceleration: a Social Critique of Time, showing how the question of temporality is becoming increasingly apparent in the subsequent crises of modernity that we are currently experiencing or enduring at an accelerated pace. If the question of time becomes more central in our contemporary debate, how do environmental problems reintroduce temporality into architectural practice?
The exponential depletion of resources and the polluting character of the building industry confront us with the limits of continuous progress. Time is no longer conceivable in its linear progression, but should be addressed in a renewed manner. The dynamics that have hitherto governed the world – ‘the tempest of progress’, to borrow a phrase from Walter Benjamin’s Angel of History – have not stopped dragging us towards a future that risks turning into a catastrophe. Isn’t the introduction of ‘counter-time’ essential if we are to break out of the trajectories we’ve embarked upon? Are these the premises of a future that will – by force of circumstances – be radically different? Refusing to remain passive in the face of this accelerating process, this conference proposes to think from now on about time and temporalities that determine the course of things. It calls for more resilient, more inclusive counter-dynamics, and explores ways of establishing greater resonance with the world.
26 SEPTEMBRE 2024
LONGUE DURÉE/URGENCE
LONGUE DURÉE/EMERGENCY
9:00 accueil/reception
9:15 ouverture par Julien Bargeton président de la Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine et Susanne Stacher/ opening by Julien Bargeton and Susanne Stacher
9:30 introduction de Pierre Caye/introduction by Pierre Caye
10:00 café/coffee
LONGUE DURÉE
Penser et agir avec le temps long, les temporalités qui transcendent l’individu : transgénérationnelles et autre- qu’humaines. Thinking and acting in the long term, with temporalities that transcend the individual: transgenerational and other-than-human.
10:20 Luc Baboulet, L’histoire aux sentiers qui bifurquent. Pour une géohistoire architecturale
10:45 Olivier Gaudin, Hériter contre le temps. Sens critique et culture historique
11:10 Sebastian Carcamo, Can built environment be harmless?
11:35 Xiaojun Zhang & Peter W. Ferretto, Durée: Forms of Time in the Transitioning Resilient Villages in the Megacity of Greater Bay Area in China
12:00 Hélène Marcoz, Paysages changeants (vidéo)
12:25 café/coffee
12:35 table ronde/round table
animation : Susanne Stacher & Cauê Capille
13:15 déjeuner/lunch
URGENCE/EMERGENCY
Réponses à l’inopérativité des agendas politiques. Prises de position dans un horizon temporel conflictuel pour des transitions sociétales et environnementales. Responding to the inoperativeness of political agendas. Taking a stance on societal and environmental transitions in a conflicting timeframe.
14:30 Alain Guez, Quelle plasticité chronotopique pour un monde habitable ?
14:55 Ingrid Taillandier & Emilie Gascon, Intensification du chemin de l’eau
15:20 Mathieu Mercuriali, Les temps de la Méditerranée. Les îles comme prototype de territoires d’anticipation
15:45 Marc Armengaud, Contre toute attente
16:10 Alejandro Campos Uribe, The Density of Time (vidéo)
16:20 café/coffee
16:50 table ronde/round table
animation : Florian Hertweck & Véronique Patteeuw
17:30 Véronique Patteeuw & Léa-Catherine Szacka in conversation with Emmanuelle Chiappone-Piriou Book presentation « It’s About Time »
18:00 pause/break
19:00 conférence d’Antoine Picon/keynote lecture by Antoine Picon
20:00 dîner-cocktail/cocktail dinner
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Susanne Stacher
ensa Versailles, President of the Board
Pedro Alonso
Universidad Católica de Chili
Paolo Amaldi
ensa Paris-Val de Seine, EVCAU
Cauê Capillé
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Florian Hertweck
University of Luxembourg
David Malaud
Director of Research, tvk
Veronique Patteeuw
ensap Lille
Nathalie Simonnot
Director of the ENSA Versailles laboratory
ORGANISATION COMMITTE
Susanne Stacher
ensa Versailles, President of the Board
Paolo Amaldi
ensa Paris-Val de Seine, EVCAU
Tristan Denis
PHD candidate ENSA Versailles /
cy Cergy Paris Université
27 SEPTEMBRE 2024
CYCLES/TRANSITOIRE
CYCLES/TRANSITORY
9:00 accueil/reception
9:30 introduction de Stéphane Bonzani/introduction by Stéphane Bonzani
10:00 café/coffee
CYCLES
Le temps comme ensemble de processus et de rythmes avec lesquels agir. La multiplicité, la répétitivité et les dérèglements temporels comme leviers stratégiques. Time as processes and rhythms to work with. Multiplicity, repetitiveness and temporal disruption as strategic opportunities.
10:20 Marija Maric, Beyond Before and After: Repair as a Habitual Practice
10:45 Matthias Armengaud, Jachère urbaine
11:10 Louis Destombes. Economie circulaire, ou comment tourner de plus en plus vite
11:35 Jean-Pierre Chupin, Du cycle de vie. Analogie biologique, cyclicité et rétroactions
12:05 Philippe Rizzotti, Enjeux contemporains de l’architecture face à la quantification carbone
12:30 café/coffee
12:40 table ronde/round table
animation : Paolo Amaldi & David Malaud
13:20 déjeuner/lunch
TRANSITOIRE/TRANSITORY
Ce qui ne dure pas. Le temps comme motif d’incertitudes et de ruptures. Le temps dans son caractère transitoire, fragmenté et fragmentant. Inachèvements, suspensions, contingences pour et dans l’architecture. What doesn’t last. Time as a source of uncertainty and disruption. Time as transitory, fragmented and fragmenting. Inachievements, suspensions, contingencies for and in architecture.
14:30 Tristan Denis, Architectures hétérochroniques
14:55 Adria Daraban, Fragmentary Temporalities
15:20 Ayesha Safraz, Temporal Territories / Emergent Ecologies
15:45 Carlotta Darò, Le temps suspendu de la salle d’attente
16:10 Marc-Antoine Durand, La critique à contretemps de l’histoire – une leçon banhaminenne
16:25 Mathieu Berteloot, Le temps de construire (vidéo)
16:35 café/coffee
17:00 table ronde/round table
animation : Véronique Patteeuw & Susanne Stacher
17:40 pause/break
18:00 conclusion du colloque/end of the conference
18:25 clôture par Francis Rambert/closing by Francis Rambert
18:40 apéritif
