Over the past half-century, human societies have successfully conquered Space, turning it into a new territory.
This Chair explores the new cultural, geostrategic and environmental issues revolving around the notion of space as a territory or common good for humanity.
Three objectives
- Develop cutting-edge multidisciplinary research
- Raise public awareness
- Train future researchers and decision-makers
Three main areas of research
- Uses and representations of Space
- Reconciling space as a common good and space as a sovereignty issue
- What sustainable uses of space
News
Space Europe(s) – Conference Cycle – Save the Date!
In the fall of 2026, the Espace Chair of the ENS is organizing a new cycle of conferences: “Space Europe(s)”
A new interactive directory of Space researchers
You want to know who is working on space debris, the New Space or even Space considered as a common
“Ruins, debris, dismantling: the modes of existence of technical remains”, a colloquium co-organized by Fanny Valeyre, post-doc at the Space Chair.
What is a “rest” in the spatial domain, how do we define it, what is it made of? Is it