Scientific programs
The members of Géographie-cité are involved in a number of scientific programs that are broadly open to external partnerships, both in France and abroad.
DISEE – Spatial Dimension of Engagement with Exiles
Dates : 2026-2027
The DISEE project studies how spatial configurations – peripheral relegation of makeshift camps, distance from urban centers, fragmentation of intervention sites – affect the trajectories of voluntary engagement with exiled people. The project focuses more specifically on two borderland field sites (Calais and Briançon).
PALACE — Research project on housing access for civil servants
Dates : 2026-2030
This research project analyses the strategies of public employers in the Paris region that aim to improve housing access for their staff, in a context of recruitment difficulties and adaptation to climate change.
ALTERMAP
Dates: 2021-2024
The ALTERMAP project aims to foster pedagogical innovation in the study of geographical imaginaries and representations of spatial otherness. More specifically, it focuses on the role of mental maps in undergraduate geography teaching and in research training at the master’s level.
Vilmouv
Dates : 2022 - 2026
This project explores the connection between mobility and urban transformations in the Mediterranean, within a context of major political and socio-economic changes. At the intersection of urban studies and mobility studies, it draws on a multidisciplinary and international team of specialists in urban issues, mobility, and migration.
Sustainability of renewable energies
Dates: 2023 - 2025
The project aims at assessing the sustainability of electric renewable energy along the value chains, the concept of sustainability being understood in its social and environmental sense.
OCEANLINKS
Dates: 2022 - 2025
The aim of the OCEANLINKS project is to trace back the origins of scientific marine stations and the ties that have developed between them over time, helping to link oceans and ocean knowledge on a global scale.
LAPTER
Dates: 2022 - 2025
The research project LAPTER (Heritage and Tourism Labels in the Centre Val de Loire Region: a TERrritorial resource?) aims to answer the following question: what is the purpose of labels for heritage and tourism development? More precisely, it will look at whether - and to what extent - these labels are tools for territorial planning and local development.
LimSpaces – Living with uncertainty. Strategies of adaptation and horizons of expectations in Ukraine and Moldova
Dates: 2021 - 2024
The project offers a new interpretation of the societies of Ukraine and Moldova. The originality of the project lies in looking at the microsocial effects of the "in-between" position of these populations, caught between Western and Russian spheres of intervention. It analyzes them from an actor-centered, grounded and relational perspective.
DESIGNSHS. Graphic Design, Research, and Social Science Heritage
Dates: 2021 - 2025
The program aims to study and valorize the archives of the laboratory of cartography, then of graphics, directed by Jacques Bertin from 1954 to 1985 (EPHE then EHESS). The aim is to explore, from this major source, the relationships that were established between graphic creation and research in the human and social sciences in the second half of the 20th century.
MobiTIC
Dates: 2020 - 2024
MobiTIC is a collaborative research program that gathers public research institutions (CNRS, IFSTTAR), the national statistics bureau (INSEE) and the main mobile network operator in France (Orange). We aim to develop a reproductible methodology to produce representative indicators of people presence and mobility, frequently updated and at very fine spatial and temporal scales.
