Territorial Intelligence

The Territorial Intelligence team brings together a set of complementary experts: geographers, urban planners, economists, specialists in geographic information sciences and technologies.

Coordinator : Thomas Buhler

The originality of the team’s research is based on :

analysis and understanding of the interactions between the various components of territories, the information and representations produced and the decisions taken by actors.
diversity of the methodologies used
permanence and the relevance of the use of the concepts of Territorial Intelligence and collective intelligence
mobilisation of geographical concepts, methods and tools in a transdisciplinary framework
reflections on the scope of data in decision-making and as a corollary the question of knowledge, informational counterpart of transdisciplinarity
consideration of the articulation between modelling and observation, between model and observatory

Production of knowledge about territories

Territorial strategies, actions and decisions

Socio-spatial systems, territorial components and processes

Aims and objectives

Since its creation, the team has focused its efforts on the understanding and formalisation of the processes at the origin of strategies, decisions and actions carried out within territorial systems. This research is structured around three key areas and their interfaces:

socio-spatial systems, territorial components and processes
territorial strategies, actions and decisions
production of knowledge about territories

The team draws on the complementary skills of its members, whose research is carried out by combining action research, support for the creation of new tools, and critically distanced "socio-technical" analysis. The special access to certain operational knowledge production systems enriches the research and provides access to their data and information. At a thematic level, the work envisaged is particularly interested in environmental and energy issues, mobility, densification and social action. The body of knowledge produced regarding the components and processes, the representations, the actions, the strategies and the decisions of the individual and collective actors and their territorial effects position the researchers of the team in a reflexive posture (critical approach to our own methods, aimed at understanding what are, in this context, the drivers of territorial action).

Partnerships