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.
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.
RECORDS
Dates: 2020 - 2024
Through this project we aim to better understand the diversity of individuals musical taste, listening practices and effective music consumptions on streaming platforms. We develop indicators measuring the effects of recommendation (human and machine) on the listening history of users. To fulfill these objectives we combine traditional survey methods with big data analysis. The program is based upon a partnership between social scientists, computer scientists and one of the major music streaming platforms in France.
ANR-DFG Imageun – In the Mirror of the European Neighbourhood (Policy). Mapping Macro-Regional Imaginations (2020-2024)
Dates: 2020 - 2024
The aim of this Franco-German research project is to analyse the specifically geographical dimension of the imaginaries that animate regional integration in this part of the world, by crossing the analysis of textual and iconographic corpuses, in order to identify and study the regions of the world to which the populations of five countries occupying different situations in the region feel they belong: Germany and France, Turkey, Tunisia and the United Kingdom.
Encyclopedia of Sciences Geography-Demography field
Dates: 2018 - 2025
Conception and writing of about 80 books presenting the knowledge and know-how of geography and demography for students and researchers (master and doctorate level) as well as for the general public. The books will be published in French by ISTE and in English by Wiley.
Mobiliscope – Cities around the clock
Dates: 2017 - 2025
Places are not the same at night and during the day : people move daily and make changes in neighbourhoods densities and their social structures. Mobiliscope is a geovisualization platform to explore how areas and segregation change over a 24 hour period.
