Producing scientific knowledge

The research conducted by ENSAPLV’s research units is transdisciplinary. It lies at the intersection of human and social sciences, engineering sciences and information and communication sciences and techniques.
The school mobilizes the scientific skills of numerous researchers from these different disciplines: architects, urban planners, landscape architects, visual artists, engineers, philosophers, historians, geographers, sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists and computer scientists.

The Commission de la Recherche (CR), a governing body, sets research policy guidelines and organizes the school’s research training.

The six research teams rely on the administrative support of the Research Department, which contributes to the development and implementation of ENSAPLV’s research policy, steered by the Research Commission. It works in close collaboration with the school’s other administrative departments to monitor the progress of doctoral students and studies, personnel involved in research activities, and the financial and accounting aspects of research contracts.

 

The school’s research activity is structured around :

• six research teams: 3 report to the Ministry of Culture (AMP, GERPHAU and MAP), 3 belong to CNRS Joint Research Units (LET, AHTTEP, LAA) and are funded by the Ministry of Culture and other contractual resources (other ministries, local authorities, national funding agencies, private operators, etc.);
• a thematic scientific network (RST), RAMAU ;
• three teaching and research partnership chairs, accredited by the French Ministry of Culture and supported or co-supported by ENSAPLV;
• an international post-master’s degree in Research in Architecture , which benefits from the research training offered in Master 1: links between seminars and research team themes, optional research option;
• doctoral students, supervised within the research units by some fifteen HDR teacher-researchers.