The New Nature of Stations

Nacima Baron is a professor at Université Gustave Eiffel, a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France and of the Ville Mobilité Transports Research Department. She is a member of the European consortium of universities working on movement (EElisa on the Move) and has been a guest researcher at several international research centres (Delft, Rabat, Madrid). Her work focuses on the way in which urban transport policies pursue urban, energy and environmental transitions and set urban planning in motion, revealing the links between the situated emergence of innovation and the collective appropriation of change. She is the author of the book Réseaux ferrés et territoires, La géographie du chemin de fer with P. Messulam (2017) as well as numerous research articles and outreach texts.

Nils Le Bot is a graduate of the École d’Art (Caen), a licensed practising architect (HMONP), Senior Lecturer at Paris Val-de-Seine school of architecture and a lecturer at the École des Ponts civil engineering school. He is also responsible for coordinating research at the Architecture Recherche Engagement Post-Carbone agency (AREP). He wrote a PHD under the joint co-supervision of the LISST laboratory at the University of Toulouse and Potsdam University, in Berlin, on the history of railway planning in German and French cities and worked on the systemic dynamics of urban forms associated with mobility hubs. More recently, under the aegis of the French Ministry for Ecological Transition and with the support of the Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle and PUCA (Plan Urbain Construction Architecture), he co-headed the Frugacité (2020-2024) research programme.

* HMONP: Habilitation à la Maîtrise d’Œuvre en son Nom Propre (professional licence to act in one's own name)

Pauline Detavernier is a licensed practising architect (HMONP), holds a doctorate in architecture (LIAT, ENSA Paris-Malaquais) and is a Senior Lecturer at Paris Val-de-Seine school of architecture. Her thesis, completed under a CIFRE contract at AREP, focused on the design of pedestrian walkways in stations, and more broadly on the practice of walking in places of mobility. Working extensively with geographers, urban planners, engineers and sociologists, from 2016 to 2022 she was a research architect at AREP and now works as R&D Director at PCA-STREAM.

* AREP: Architecture, Recherche, Post-carbone Engagement
* ENSA: École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture (National School of Architecture)
* HMONP: Habilitation à la Maîtrise d’Œuvre en son Nom Propre (professional licence to act in one's own name)

Manuela Triggianese is Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture at TU Delft Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment and member of the vision team ‘Mobility’ at TU Delft Transport & Mobility Institute. Her teaching and research emphasize co-creation in Architecture, integrating diverse stakeholders, disciplines, and data. Her work centers on the ‘Architecture of Mobility’ - particularly stations - as testbeds for design aligned with sustainability, digital transformation, and social innovation. An architect with an international PhD Villard d’Honnecourt (TU Delft, IUAV, ETSAM, ENSA Paris-Belleville), she was a Marie Curie research fellow at Beijing Technical University and a Postdoc at AMS Institute. She leads the NWO project Walk-In on the role of sub-urban stations and collaborative architectural design methods.

* TU Delft: Delft University of Technology