A call for participation to gather personal experiences from a wide range of Besançon residents on how they live and adapt to summer heat is open. It is part of the CAPBIOMET research project, led by Manon Kohler, CNRS researcher and member of the ThéMA laboratory, financed by the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region and supported by the Greater Besançon Metropolis.   Experiences will help us to better understand local practices for adapting to summer heat. Registration form:...

  Bahija Hani has begun a doctoral research under the co-supervision of Prof. Thomas Buhler. The title of her research is: Discursive strategies and spatial development in Fès (Morocco): critical and textual data analysis of planning documents related to the emerging local centres of Ouled Tayeb and Ain Bida.   Bahija Hani is architect and urban designer. Her PhD thesis at ThéMA laboratory is under the joint administrative supervision of the University Ibn Tofail (Kénitra,...

  This one-day workshop is dedicated to the analysis of documents of territorial planning. It will give the opportunity to analyse planning politics at several scales. Participants will explore several interpretative frameworks that were previously applied to different types of planning documents. Participants will also think about benefits and limits of qualitative and quantitative approaches. In the morning, a round-table discussion will enable researchers to share their...

  After a Ph.D. in population biology and ecology in the ThéMA laboratory (2017-2021), Paul Savary has been a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Biology of Concordia University in Montreal (Canada) from 2022 to 2024, under two different fellowships. He is starting a new position as an Assistant professor (Chaire de Professeur Junior) in ecology and spatial modelling at ThéMA. His research mainly focuses on species movements within spatial ecological networks. Lately, he has been...

  Louis Kalisky is taken on at ThéMA for seven months in the frame of the research project « rétroplanning » supervised by Thomas Buhler. Louis has received a master degree ADAUR in 2024 at the University of Franche-Comté.           Hugo Dalle also holds a master degree ADAUR. He is taken on for eight months in the frame of the research project FOREST’ADN funded by the regional council Bourgogne Franche-Comté and the Graduate School Transbio...

Julie Gravier studies long-term settlement dynamics. Two questions drive her research: why and how do settlement systems persist in the same places for extremely long periods of time? What is the political role of individuals and groups in perpetuating the social functioning and spatial organization of settlement systems? Her aim is to understand the ways in which societies inhabit the world, taking into account very long-term dynamics and the temporal shifts in certain decisions on other...

Manon Kohler organizes this workshop with two invited speakers: Mathias Jehling and Casper Kleiner from the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (Dresden, Germany). The workshop will take place at 10:00 am in the Geography Department of Strasbourg. Broadcasting: https://bbb.unistra.fr/b/cor-p72-tnk-avx Mathias Jehling is senior researcher at Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER) in Dresden, Germany, where he leads the research...

  He will be assisted by Cécile Tannier and Thomas Thévenin, appointed as deputy directors.Having joined the laboratory in 2019, Samuel Carpentier-Postel is Professor. He succeeds Jean-Christophe Foltête, who held this position for 12 years.    

Cécile Tannier presents the Fractal model and its impact on how urban forms and spatial organisation are approached in urban studies and planning. Reflecting critically on scale invariance and optimality, she shows how and why fractal models enable us to better understand how space is organised through scales and how urban planning can modify this spatial organisation in a fractal manner, accounting for the effects of distance and scale dependence. See the video on the YouTube channel:...

When new lifestyles disrupt daily mobility in England   By exploring data relating to England from the UK National Travel Survey between 2002 and 2017, this research led by Benjamin Motte-Baumvol was able to refine the analysis of daily mobility usually carried out in France (where surveys are based on one “typical day”) by considering the variability of travel over a whole week, which reflects our increasingly fragmented lives more authentically. Thanks to new “remote” practices...