Sabine Barles, Dilip da Cunha, and Emanuele Coccia | Chasing the Seine and the Permeable City скачать в хорошем качестве

Sabine Barles, Dilip da Cunha, and Emanuele Coccia | Chasing the Seine and the Permeable City

The Seine and Paris: A Hybrid History, Late 17th–21st Century Sabine Barles (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) The links between Paris and the Seine have long been mentioned by historians, to the point that one could say that Paris owes part of its prosperity to the Seine. Furthermore, Paris transformed the Seine, its tributaries and its watershed upstream and downstream, making the watershed an urban one even far from the city. This shaped a particular waterscape made of infrastructures, reservoirs, but also art pieces owned, managed and/or devoted to the French capital, showing that a city is much more than an urban area, and that remote urban impacts are sometimes far more important than local ones. Sabine Barles is professor of urbanism at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and researcher at UMR Géographie-cités. Trained as a civil engineer, she holds a Master’s degree in history of technology and a PhD in urban planning. Her work focuses on the materiality of human societies: she is interested in urban environmental history and history of urban technology (18th-21st century), in urban metabolism and territorial ecology. She also developed with an interdisciplinary group of colleagues some prospective socio-ecological scenarios (2050) for the Seine river basin. — Where is the Seine? Dilip da Cunha (Columbia University) There is not one, but three Seines—a terrestrial Seine, hydrologic Seine and oceanic Seine. Consequently, there is not one, but three Parises—an urban Paris, a fairweather Paris and an emergent Paris. Each furthers an imagination with significant consequences for the language of place and habitation, particularly in the face of climate change and a colonization that refuses to go away. Dilip da Cunha is an architect and planner based in Philadelphia and Bangalore, and Adjunct Professor at the Columbia GSAPP. He is author with Anuradha Mathur of Mississippi Floods: Designing a Shifting Landscape (2001); Deccan Traverses: The Making of Bangalore’s Terrain (2006); Soak: Mumbai in an Estuary (2009); and editor of Design in the Terrain of Water (2014). His most recent book, The Invention of Rivers: Alexander’s Eye and Ganga’s Descent, was published by University of Pennsylvania Press in 2019. The book has received the 2020 ASLA Honor award and the J.B. Jackson Book Prize. In 2017, Mathur and Da Cunha initiated a design platform called Ocean of Wetness directed to imaging and imagining habitation in ubiquitous wetness rather than on a land-water surface. In 2017, da Cunha was a joint recipient of a Pew Fellowship Grant, and in 2020 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. — Hosted by Jennifer Scappettone (The University of Chicago), Olivier Brossard (Université Gustave Eiffel), and Sabina Shaikh (The University of Chicago). Co-sponsored by CEGU, the International Institute of Research in Paris, the Université Gustave Eiffel, and UChicago Global. — Recorded June 12, 2025 at The University of Chicago John W. Boyer Center in Paris.