Habiterra

For fair and sustainable inter-species habitability of territories

The Habiterra project will explore the conditions for territorial habitability that is fair, sustainable, and truly shared between humans and non-humans. In the context of climate change, it questions the many adaptation solutions that have been implemented over several decades—eco-neighborhoods, ecological corridors, urban agriculture, eco-designed buildings, cooling islands, soft mobility—and analyzes their concrete effects, their limitations, and sometimes their contradictions.

Habitability is understood as the set of material, social, and symbolic conditions that enable all living beings to inhabit a place, from the scale of the home to that of the territory. However, certain adaptation policies, although guided by good intentions, generate tensions : conflicts of use between species, green gentrification, rebound effects from high-performance buildings, reduction in available land, and the creation of new socio-environmental and health inequalities.

Habiterra will aim to understand these areas of friction and the pitfalls encountered in applying the principle of “ecological solidarity.”