'Living Cities' Lecture Series: ‘Metamorphoses of Urban Metabolism. The Challenges of a New Urban Paradigm’

Sabine Barles, Professor at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. 2023 CNRS Silver Medal
Discussant: Dr. Juliet Carpenter, Research Fellow, Global Centre on Healthcare and Urbanisation, Kellogg College
The ‘Living Cities’ Lecture Series is convened by Martine Drozdz and Perig Pitrou (MFO)

About the ‘Living Cities’ Lecture Series:
Considering the ecological challenges of urban planning projects, contemporary societies must invent new ways of coexisting with non-human life forms and improving the living conditions of humans, while integrating them more harmoniously into natural environments. While establishing a dialogue with the medical sciences, natural sciences and engineering sciences, the humanities and social sciences provide fundamental insights into the technical and social dynamics at work in the way cities are built and inhabited.
By inviting researchers engaged in a reflection on the multiple scales of relations between Life and Cities, the “Living Cities” Lecture Series aims to identify the main problems which need to be solved to learn how to better inhabit our planet.