Since its creation in 2009, the ERPS network has drawn on the diverse scientific and educational activities of its members to connect its research with the challenges related to the training of architects, landscape architects, urban planners, and agronomists. The various meetings have always given significant space to the theoretical and reflective analysis of educational experiences that are being implemented or that question approaches to project development in rural areas.

Within the framework of the Perspectives Rurales network, this network culture is sustained and developed through the following activities, the concrete implementation of which is decided by the network’s scientific and educational council, taking into account the proposals of the general assembly.

Two Key objectives

– To come up with new approaches to education and research in the fields of spatial planning and design, in relation to changing rural territories in the context of metropolisation.
– To report on the remarkable planning initiatives at architectural, territorial and landscape level, as measured through the various forms of transition (both actual and projected) which we are now seeing unfolding.

Four key missions

– To provide education and research (planning workshops, PhD seminars)
– To organise scientific events (conferences, study days)
– To publish works as part of the “Rural Space & Spatial Design” collection
– To disseminate knowledge (website, online resources).