UNIVERSITE DE LYON
Cluster of university laboratories specializing in urban worlds
- Mobilité Active
This “radical plurality”, supported by all the members of its initial community, is its signature feature in the French urban research landscape.
This positioning is based on a mutual acculturation of the “academic” and “practitioner” spheres, through the symmetrical inter-knowledge of practices, knowledge and know-how, and the joint formulation of issues and problems. It is through this principle of acculturation, albeit gradual, that IMU has chosen, as a Laboratory of Excellence, to take on contemporary urban issues: so that the projects and actions funded, touching on questions of environments, mobility, as well as the uses and practices of places, can produce results whose relevance, distanced and objectified, makes sense, scientifically and politically.