Incentive research policy

Incentive research differs from institutional research, not by the nature of its productions, but rather by the conditions in which the scientific community is mobilized. Indeed, this is a dynamic that is more circumscribed in time and conditioned by the irregular pace of calls for thematic projects launched by a given institution on a given research theme.

In the field of architectural, urban and landscape research, numerous and frequent incentive programmes are the subject of a call for research proposals. In parallel or in addition to other research activities, the laboratories of the National Institutes of Architecture respond to these calls for proposals for research in a different way: for some of them, this type of scientific production is the majority, while for others it is still marginal. But for all the units, these research projects provide the means for a renewal of objects, problems, methods and scientific practices.

The Architectural, Urban and Landscape Research Bureau launched:

a/ in collaboration with the Ministries of Equipment and Ecology, the interdisciplinary programme Art, architecture and landscapes » (PAA) from 2002 to 2005;

b/ in collaboration with the Ministry of Equipment (DGUHC), the interdepartmental program of history and evaluation of French New Cities » (VNF) - 2003 and 2005;

c/ with the Ministry of Equipment (PUCA), the interdisciplinary program on The architecture of the large scale » (AGE) from 2006 to 2010;

d/ with the Ministry of the Environment (DRI), the International Workshop of Greater Paris (AiGP), Véolia Environnement (VERI) and the VEDECOM institute, the interdisciplinary programme Ignis mutat res: architecture, the city and the landscapes in the prism of energy ” (IMR) from 2012 to 2016.

e/ in partnership with the Ministry of Ecological and Solidarity Transition and the Ministry of Territorial Cohesion and Relations with Local and Regional Authorities, in connection with the Plan urbanisme construction architecture, the National Agency for Urban Renewal, the Caisse des dépôts et consignations and the Social Union for Housing, the Architecture of the twentieth century, project material for the sustainable city of the twenty-first century », for the period 2016-2020.

Linked to the programme theme, an international issue ofIn Situ. Heritage Review was released in April 2022 (#47) “Heritage Values of 20th Century Architecture. Values, Doctrines and Public Recognition Policies.” It will be followed by a second issue on operational issues in the fall.