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Area of convergence
Ecumenes and environments in the Anthropocene era
Evcau is convinced that the crisis of the naturalistic model of representation of the world is part of a shared quest for lucidity about the Anthropocene era in which we are engaged, conscious of the deployment of temporalities and the inter/trans/pluri-disciplinarity in which we are involved.
In the environments – or ecumens – in which cities and architecture are planned, where humans (and non-humans) coexist, Evcau researchers work to recognise the ethical issues associated with taking into account the ‘material’ that already exists, the care given to people, and the question of waste as a resource. This refers to a policy of vulnerability, but is also a guarantee of alternative practices of innovation, in the form of various works dealing with today's ecological, climatic and material issues.
Our research approach covers a broad temporal and spatial spectrum. It invites us to make a diagnosis of the current state of affairs. Such a method does not preclude either examining history to better understand the present or envisaging the future by scenario-building possibilities (virtual and/or augmented realities; digital humanities [and more than humanities]).
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Area of convergence
Epistemologies and methodologies of architectural research
EVCAU researchers share a common interest in exploring what constitutes research activity in architecture schools and/or architectural research.
What matters to us is to think about architectural research together, drawing on appropriate epistemological frameworks and methodological tools.
Within the framework of this architectural research, some Evcau researchers are particularly interested in architectural science, undertaking work that questions both the theory of knowledge and its multiple applications.
The intersection of design and research practices varies, depending on whether they circulate between the retroactive and proactive aims of the project and the retrospective and prospective aims of science. They are translated into research in/on/by/with architecture. The variety of these approaches, their hybridisations and their capacity to generate collaborations are of particular interest to Evcau.
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Area of convergence
The ecologies of design
The Evcau scientific community identifies with the theory, cultures and activities of design that form the basis of architectural, urban and landscape training and practices. These activities are particularly affected by contemporary transformations: climate change, resource constraints, environmental changes, digital, social and political transition, and their impact on the habitability of the world.
We start from the premise that we can no longer design or think about design activity ‘as before’. For us, it is a question of defending ‘an ecology of design’, i.e. a system of interactions between actors, objects and an environment that constitute ecology. This holistic and ecosystemic system takes into account the complexity of environments.
This ecology of design leads EVCAU researchers to focus on, among other things, bioclimatic design, digital eco-twins, bio-digital technology, energy and life cycle analysis. We are therefore investigating engineering tools that enable architects to combine knowledge from different disciplines (parametric development, database exploitation, visualisation and analysis tools, artificial intelligence, mapping, etc.).
EVCAU researchers are also interested in therapeutic environments, promoting a general ecosystem of living, the habitability of environments through architecture, and health in particular.
Finally, we are interested in existing resources, from materials to territories, including the built environment, in order to examine the process of design, construction and transformation.
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