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Abstract Philippe Clergeau will present the concept of regenerative urbanism, after recalling the definitions of biodiversity and ecosystems, which are essential to a liveable, sustainable city. Nature-based solutions already permeate architecture, but we …

Abstract Cities are particularly exposed to hydro-climatic hazards, now exacerbated by anthropogenic global warming. As both major sources of greenhouse gas emissions and vulnerable territories, cities are called upon to be drivers of mitigation and …

Abstract This paper examines the future of cities by shifting the focus to the African continent. The aim is to consider African cities as places for exploring new imaginaries and new ways of inhabiting the world. This reflection comes at a crucial time …

Abstract When it comes to building, as with energy, the new doesn't make the old disappear. The extraordinary rise of concrete between 1950 and 2000, far from eradicating other building materials, allowed them to grow : glass of course, steel, wood, but …

Abstract Biodiversity is known as the diversity of the different levels of organization of living organisms (genetic diversity, species diversity, ecosystem diversity), but it is also characterized by the diversity of interactions between living beings : …

Abstract New York, the city of exile for the Surrealists and ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, is the capital of the modern, but also the refuge of the archaic. " Ali Baba's cave ", it provides backdoor exits and an escape from the time of …

Abstract Before Facebook, there was the social network formed by members of the same community or village. How does information circulate in the  social network? How do village members help each other ? Or sometimes constrain each …

Abstract Challenges are proposed by public services, companies or scientific laboratories, and are based on real-life problems. Participants submit the results of their classification or prediction algorithms, which are then put into competition via the …

The year was marked by the impressive performance of large-scale language models and generative artificial intelligence. These involve large-scale neural networks, which are having a considerable impact in science, industry and services, as well as in …

Abstract In 11th-century Andalusia   , and in the face of the collapse of the empire, Ibn Hazm thinks at the same time about political division and dissension in love. For love is a fitna, and a "secret   " lies in the words that say it, or fail to say …

Abstract Based on the notion of potential space developed by psychoanalyst Winnicot, and in the wake of his reflections on culture as sophisticated play practices,   Hélène Merlin-Kajman proposes to consider reading as a transitional space, where the …

Documents and media Download support Abstract Is it still possible to read ? In France, Europe and beyond, the most recent surveys reveal a decline in the number of readers and reading time in the general population, and particularly among young people, …

Abstract Stars play an essential role in the history of our Universe. Stars synthesize heavy elements such as oxygen and carbon, which are essential for life. Stars also inject energy into galaxies in the form of radiation and motion. Finally, stars orbit …

Abstract Stars with masses of less than 8 solar masses do not have sufficient temperature to ignite carbon fusion , and end their lives as white dwarfs, compact cores after ejection from their envelopes in planetary nebulae. The core is stabilized against …