Territorial transition
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Should we imagine the future on the scale of a transnational territory?
Towards Territorial Transition is a plea for large-scale decarbonisation. It presents new spatial strategies, concepts and approaches for shaping large-scale and transnational developments in architecture and urban planning with a view to decarbonisation and ecological transition. The contributions examine interactions between ecological and resource-related systems and landscapes. They also explore possible solutions to address and cope with the dramatic threats of climate change and the emerging social crisis. The book introduces six basic concepts of territorial transition – territory, scale, transition, resources, platform and uncertainty – and visualises them with spatial strategies developed at the Ecole nationale supérieure d’architecture Versailles, the international master’s programme ‘Invisible metropolis’ and the Graz University of Technology, Institut für Städtebau. In addition, it presents a selection of transnational territorial transition projects, such as Luxembourg in Transition (Luxembourg/France), Greater Geneva (Switzerland/France) and T.OP Noordrand (Belgium/Netherlands).
Matthias Armengaud (F)
Matthias Armengaud is one of the founders and directors of Atelier Wunderschön Peplum (AWP), an interdisciplinary collective dedicated to landscape explorations that are translated into soundscapes, performances, exhibitions and publications. The collective eventually evolved into a design studio, which he has been running since 2003. Matthias has led architectural projects and planning strategies of increasing scale in France and Europe, such as the Insect Museum near Paris, the Lantern area in Sandnes (NO), the master plan for Paris La Défense and the western expansion of the city of Lausanne. He is active in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture and urban planning/design with projects in France and abroad (Scandinavia, Italy, Switzerland, China, etc.), teaches (ENSA Versailles) and leads international research projects.
Aglaée Degros
Degros studied at the Sint-Lukas Campus Brussels of the LUCA School of Arts. Together with Stefan Bendiks, she founded the research and design agency Artgineering in 2001. She has also been a guest lecturer at TU Delft, Amsterdam University of the Arts, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space (SKuOR) at the University of Vienna, and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, among others. Since 2016, she has been a professor and head of the urban planning department at Graz University of Technology in Austria.