2025 CO-LAB IN PARIS
SAGA research is being conducted in a host of collaborations, co-hosted laboratory style workshops, or co-labs, that bring together different actors in different settings and cities to spark new research and understandings related to sustainability across languages.
In July 2025, SAGA researchers will convene at the , a public, open facility created to host dialogues, workshops, conferences and conversations to advance climate understanding and action. Our host will be SAGA researcher from the City of Paris.
Our Paris co-lab will also include a day at ISIT, the , where we will meet with researchers with expertise in intercultural communications and multilingualism. Our host will be SAGA researcher and . We will learn more about her ongoing work with C茅dissia About regarding the implications and variability in interpretation and translation of key sustainable cities terms, including nature in the city, circular economy and active mobility. We will also be joined in conversation by French scholars and urbanist professionals, including Nathalie Blanc, researcher on social-environmental inequalities based at Universit茅 Paris Cit茅, director of the Centre of Earth Politics. Nathalie Blanc will draw on her experience to discuss the interaction between cities and nature in the context of socio-ecological dynamics and urban habitability. In addition, we will host roundtables with French researchers at the vanguard of critical interpretation and translation work and green colonialism.
Our site visits in Paris will include the , a work-in-progress for innovation in temporary, cooperative reuse and ecological redevelopment, on a former hospital precinct in the 14th arrondissement.
