Objectives of Programme's Learning Outcomes

• Understand, thoroughly and critically, the basic theoretical frameworks on social transitions and innovations.
• Analyse social, political and economic change.
• Analyse social experiment processes.
• Analyse a situation by critically selecting the appropriate theoretical frameworks.
• Understand the epistemological postures and the methodological tools human sciences related to issues of social transitions and innovations.
• Understand the epistemological frameworks in human and social sciences in order to change thought patterns.
• Understand the methodological frameworks in human and social sciences in order to change practices.
• Conduct research/projects in the context of social transitions and innovations by selecting appropriate epistemological approaches and methodologies.
• 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.
• Appropriately apply analytical approaches and methodological tools in contexts of social transitions and innovations.
• Understand the changes specific to transitions and social innovations.
• 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.
• In an interdisciplinary framework, analyse social transitions by applying acquired knowledge of social sciences and put them into context.
• In an interdisciplinary framework, analyse social transitions by applying acquired knowledge of human sciences and put them into context.
• Articulate reflection, research and action in order to design and carry out an innovative research project.
• Collect data, analyse it qualitatively and quantitatively, and interpret the results adequately, taking into account the field in which the research has been developed.
• Intervene appropriately in concrete problems regarding transition, among other things, by developing answers and action plans from the creativity of local actors.
• Apply acquired skills in professional contexts of social transitions and innovations.
• Understand the tools of applied social sciences, and respond to social demands of actors concerned by issues of social transitions and innovations.
• Promote research reports in the presence of the actors involved.
• Take a critical and ethical approach regarding the challenges of societal transitions of the 21st century and raise awareness among society and within politics.
• Refer to ethical principles by implementing innovative solutions for social and political actors.
• Communicate (verbally and in writing) with the different audiences concerned by issues of societal transitions.
• Work in an interdisciplinary team and collectively negotiate the stages of action-research from a transitional perspective.
• Communicate data in a precise and non-oriented way.

Learning Outcomes of UE

* Confronting the reality of land.
Many projects of housing environments are mainly dictated by technical standards, what produces unsuitable housing.

* Understanding needs and aspirations of the inhabitants becomes essential in the urbanistic and social initiatives. So the students will be immersed in case studies, representative of the processes of co-construction of urban projects, focused on the scale of the neighborhood (living environment) and the creation/renovation of housing.

* Questioning the housing ownership in social context
Urban planning and development projects (participatory or not) confront the challenges of institutional actors (investors, politicians) to the real needs of the territory (places of daily life, lived by several generations, collective identity). The games of actors that result, impose a pressure often partial to the finality of the projects, to the detriment of the participation and needs of the inhabitants, that it is necessary to apprehend, to defend more equitable projects.

UE Content: description and pedagogical relevance

The course will develop an immersive approach to the several planning projects's history with decisive impact on the population. This progressive immersion will result in an analysis of these operations's product (various working documents : mapping, planning at different stages, meeting minutes, explanatory notes, etc. ), accompanied by theoretical interludes, in the form of conferences, interventions by researchers or resource people.

Course Outline
Introduction to the housing's anthropology : highlighting the links between architecture and humanities
* potentially in support of the internship or the thesis, exploring and analyzing the methods of involving residents/users in the project's process.

Exploring the concepts of housing, living and habitability
* differentiating housing and home, asking habitability and the live's ability
* taking into account the intimate, family and symbolic habitat's dimensions

Understanding the actors's sets in the process's project
* analysing the actor's sets of case studies, reconstituting the skateholders's map of each project, considering alternative scenarios

Intersecting perspectives and investigating the complementarity of the two approaches
* confronting the points of view between students, supported by feedback from resource people
* objectivising the richness of the skills's complementarity, to be translated into the future portage of participatory approaches

Prior Experience

Not applicable