Forms of action for biodiversity
“ By making biodiversity perceptible, the tools concretely influence, each in their own way, the modalities by which it becomes an object of intervention in the urban project. ”
- Publish On 13 February 2026
- Léone-Alix Mazaud
- 29 minutes
In this third episode, Léone analyzes how the integration of biodiversity considerations, mediated by tools, is concretely translated into the project process. The aim is to understand how these instruments frame urban and architectural production practices. By following the development of certain tools, particularly within the Biodiversity Impulse Group and the urban study of the Champs-Élysées conducted by PCA-STREAM, she highlights different modes of action: evaluation and justification; planning and guiding action; support and monitoring. While primarily based on a linear and predictive relationship to time, these tools nevertheless open up a speculative reflection on other ways of acting, allowing us to consider time in its pluralistic sense and to embrace the diversity of rhythms inherent to living systems within projects.
Working with diversity: Operators sensitive to non-human life in urban and architectural projects
In this series of four podcasts, we invite you to delve into the work of Léone, a researcher at the agency, who recently defended her CIFRE PhD thesis in Science and Technology Studies, supervised by Jérôme Denis at the Centre for the Sociology of Innovation (École des Mines, Université PSL).
A series presented by Léone-Alix Mazaud and Jasmine Léonardon. Editing: Théa Lingrand and Louise André.
