topics of interest

My primary professional interests and areas of research are set out under a microsite that is presently under construction (timeLine).

The themes are the following (certain overlap with these of proGective, see section EXPERTISE):

• territories

  • urbanization

    • the future of towns and cities

    • the relationship between cities and countryside

  • architecture and architectural innovation related to climat

  • eco-tourism (eco-lodges, ecological footprint, etc.)

  • new forms of territorial innovation (clusters)

• political science

  • governance, democracy

  • types of transition (developping countries)

• resources

  • energy, water, soil, forests...

• society

  • ageing

  • new generations

  • interpersonal relationships

  • education

  • impact of ICT

• macrohistory

  • notion of time

  • evolutionary dynamics

  • history of the Mediterranean and the Arab-Muslim world

  • comparative history of religions

• imagination

  • disruptive innovation (mechanisms, identification)

  • science-fiction (sociological perspective)

  • utopia; uchronia