Récits d'habitabilité. Engagés pour la qualité du logement de demain

The Engagés pour la qualité du logement de demain programme is publishing a collection of five books based on the discussions and events it has organised since 2022.

Franck Boutté contributes Récits d’habitabilité, alongside Catherine Sabbah (La qualité c’est politique), Sophie Delhay (La vie plus libre que le plan), François Leclercq (Habiter la ville des possibles) and Simon Teyssou (Habiter les territoires ordinaires).

This opportunity was made possible by the GIP Europe des projets architecturaux et urbains, under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Marie and Lola Davidson.

This work of knowledge-sharing draws on four years of reflection, experimentation and workshops devoted to housing quality, addressing questions of use, architecture, urban planning, landscape and public policy.

In Récits d’habitabilité, Franck Boutté explores the conditions required to create living environments capable of responding simultaneously to today’s climatic, social and territorial challenges. Through a series of narratives combining foresight, environmental analysis and critical reflection, the book questions how we build, inhabit and adapt our territories in the face of future climate change. Summer comfort, quality of use, adaptability, climate justice, adaptation and mitigation are all explored as levers for rethinking tomorrow’s habitability at every scale, “from geography to the intimate”.

“Until now, those involved in shaping cities were expected to be good ‘perspectivists’: to represent future reality as faithfully as possible on the basis of what was known about the past and present. Today, by contrast, we must become good ‘prospectivists’ […]”

Extract from “Le Sud comme horizon”, Franck Boutté, p. 28.