As part of the #Idéesdébats meetings organized in partnership with Le Lieu Unique, Michel Lussault will discuss the impact of urbanization on the ecological crisis and explore new ways of cohabiting.
The widespread urbanization of the world has taken hold since the 1950s, with particularly impressive momentum after 1950. In just a few decades, the "urban revolution" has profoundly transformed the Earth, societies, individuals, and their ways of living, to the point of becoming a vector of climate and ecological upheavals that clearly threaten the human habitability of the planet.
How can we face this unprecedented challenge in human history? Is it possible to invent entirely different ways of cohabiting—between humans and with non-humans—that would allow us to maintain and even repair this habitability? To achieve this, why not seek inspiration from care theories applied to our living spaces?
This is the reflection on which Michel Lussault and Laurent Devisme will focus.
6pm
Lieu Unique, Quai Ferdinand-Favre
Free access, no reservation required
With
Michel Lussault, a geographer and professor at the École normale supérieure in Lyon. A specialist in the analysis of urbanisation and its effects, he has just published Cohabitons, Vers une urbanité terrestre, published by Éditions du Seuil.
Laurent Devisme, professor of urban studies at Ensa Nantes, researcher at UMR Ambiances Architectures Urbanités, and vice-president of Nantes Université Transformations écologiques et médiations scientifiques.
