Urban Temporalities

This study day will be the first public meeting of the new Chronotopia international network, which brings together researchers from different countries (in Europe, Africa, Asia and America) who question the relationship between space and time through multidisciplinary approaches: architecture, urban planning, landscape, design, art, history, geography, philosophy, sociology and anthropology. It will also follow on from two Temporalités Urbaines seminars organized by the Laboratório Urbano (PPG-AU/UFBA) in Salvador, Brazil, with the participation of researchers from LAA-LAVUE-CNRS.

Chronotopia proposes to continue the debate on the temporalities that make up the city and the different urban temporalities: from the urban landscape filled with memories (lived or fabricated) that reveal projects or conceptions of futures buried, neglected or crystallised in time, to the intrinsic transience of the present as a process of giving birth to other futures (possible, fabricated and imagined); and, in particular, on the non-linear interweaving of past, present and future, in which time manifests itself and is apprehended through telescoping, ruptures, simultaneities, suspensions, condensations or projections.

To pursue this debate and open up new perspectives within the framework of the new Chronotopia international network, which aims to pool knowledge and experience in understanding and taking account of plural temporalities, the researchers would seek to explain the different contrasting temporal regimes that co-animate the city and inhabited environments. These contrasts and possible tensions raise aesthetic, material, social and environmental issues, and are often interlinked by the inseparability of space and time. The aim of this study day is to discuss polychronic, heterochronic, chronotopic and rhythmological approaches to cities and other inhabited environments.

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