Objectives of Programme's Learning Outcomes

• Understand the epistemological postures and the methodological tools human sciences related to issues of social transitions and innovations.
• Mobilise the relevant analytical approaches and the appropriate methodological tools to analyse, rigorously, thoroughly and comparatively, the problems of social transitions and innovations, including their interactions and their spatial and temporal evolutions.
• Develop an interdisciplinary and multiscale approach that integrates complementary disciplines, such as anthropology, sociology, political science, psychology and education, urban planning and architecture, geography, and history, in order to analyse transitions and put them into context.
• Articulate reflection, research and action in order to design and carry out an innovative research project.
• Intervene appropriately in concrete problems regarding transition, among other things, by developing answers and action plans from the creativity of local actors.
• Take a critical and ethical approach regarding the challenges of societal transitions of the 21st century and raise awareness among society and within politics.
• Work in an interdisciplinary team and collectively negotiate the stages of action-research from a transitional perspective.

Learning Outcomes of UE

Many projects of housing environments are mainly dictated by technical standards, what produces unsuitable housing. To understand needs and aspiration of the inhabitants thus becomes essential in the urbanistic and social initiatives. So the students will be involved in an innovative and participative project. In support of the work of professional partners, around a project of design and renovation of current housing environments on an urban perimeter, they will develop an investigation by dumping to understand better the aspiration of the concerned inhabitants, their representations of an accessible accommodation and a quality.    

- Questioning the housing ownership. Enlighten habitat living and livability concepts .     - Better understand the political, family and intercultural stakes in the housing environment.       - With professionel stakeholders, explore the impact of a conception/renovation, taking into account the experience of the inhabitants.     - Understand political, familial and cultural issues of housing.

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