Laboratoire international associé (lia)
Laboratoire International Associé (LIA)
As an autonomous body within the Université Côte d’Azur, Villa Arson plays a leading role in this exclusive partnership which has linked the Université Côte d’Azur and Quebec’s Université Laval since 2017. In particular, the school leads the Laboratoire International Associé’s project “Arts, société, mieux-être” (LIA-Asme) which was developed by the two partner institutions, and which will incorporate the future activities of Villa Arson’s research laboratory.
Focused on arts research and its links to the human and social sciences, in 2020 LIA-Asme obtained the full endorsement of the academic and administrative councils of the Université Côte d’Azur. Its main mission is to make artistic creation a tool for social and societal investigation, with particular attention given to topical subjects, transdisciplinary approaches and the new technical and methodological opportunities offered by technology and the applied sciences.
In order to define LIA-Asme’s scientific orientation, the Université Laval, EUR CREATES and the Villa Arson have earmarked four directions of research:
- Environmental humanities
- Displacement, migration and interculturality
- Art, care, (re)mediation
- Ephemeral art, street art, urban writing
Each of these four directions draws on the scientific interests of the various partner institutions, taking into account the research and creative activities each has already produced (for instance the research module Situations post, created at Villa Arson in 2014 by Sophie Orlando and Katrin Ströbel).
In addition, each of these proposed areas of research will necessarily consider the profound changes that affected our societies during the 2020 global health crisis, registering the upheavals and advances the pandemic provoked — particularly the wide-scale use of digital technology, the surge of environmental and societal responsibility, solidarity, and a necessary reflection on the development of society and its make-up through the contribution of art and culture.
LIA-Asme’s inaugural project was “Penser et faire avec les artistes: quels mieux vivre dans la cité en temps de crise?”, presented in November 2020 at the Commission permanente de coopération franco-québécoise (CPCFQ). The project involved organising a Franco-Canadian transdisciplinary research and seminar program whose objective was to investigate how the COVID-19 crisis affected the relationship between communities and the city — particularly ways of living and creating in the urban environment.
Mobilising the fields of art and urban studies, this research project also tackled the question of careand its relationship to artistic creation and perception.
