ENTETE HU.10
Re-designing Institutions in the Post-Digital City

Organized by:

Laboratoire Paragraphe - AXE CITU CITU Paragraphe
Université de Paris 8 Paris 8

HyperUrban

HyperUrbain is an interdisciplinary forum dedicated to exploring the transformations of the city in the digital and post-digital age. Through its conferences, publications, and the exchanges it fosters, it examines the territorial changes generated by digital technologies, bringing together perspectives from architecture, urbanism, art, communication, the humanities and social sciences, engineering, and public policy.

The history of the city has always been closely linked to technological change. Today, digital technology is not simply a matter of introducing new tools: it profoundly transforms the ways territories are conceived, represented, organized, and inhabited. It reshapes relations to space and time, renews social, cultural, economic, and political practices, and gives rise to new forms of urbanity.

In this context, HyperUrbain provides a space for dialogue between researchers, practitioners, artists, institutions, and decision-makers. It is intended for all those who think about and experience the contemporary city, and who seek to better understand the effects of digital technology on territorial dynamics, urban imaginaries, forms of mediation, modes of governance, and ways of appropriating space.

The conferences pay particular attention to the relationships between innovation, creativity, and territory. Creativity is understood here in a broad sense, as a collective capacity to imagine new forms of action, cooperation, and territorial development. Digital technologies thus appear both as drivers of transformation and as critical objects that must be examined in their technical, symbolic, social, and political dimensions.

By bringing together diverse and complementary approaches, HyperUrbain helps rethink the city in the making: a city shaped by digital transformations, but also by new challenges of interaction, representation, cohesion, mobility, and governance.

HyperUrban.10

In continuity with the previous editions of HyperUrban, we aim to continue examining the contemporary transformations of the post-digital city, particularly the institutional, territorial, and sociopolitical reconfigurations induced by the massive integration of digital technologies. This new edition thus extends the reflections initiated on the hybridization of spaces, the transformation of urban practices, and the emergence of new forms of social organization in the digital age.

Over the past decade, citizens worldwide have adopted digital infrastructure and public‑sector services—both public and private—with unprecedented speed and breadth. Municipalities and public bodies, in turn, have integrated these technologies into their operations and organisational structures. This convergence has fundamentally reshaped the spatiotemporal relationships that once linked institutions to one another (inter‑, intra‑, and extra‑institutional ties) and that connected citizens to those institutions. Consequently, urban residents now inhabit and “tele‑inhabit” both physical and digital spaces, creating a new paradigm of urban life that transcends traditional geographic constraints.

The 2020 pandemic accelerated institutional hybridisation. The new business models, driven by innovative enterprises, have yet to produce a noticeable transformation in the spatiotemporal conceptions of conventional, especially public, institutions. Integration of digital offerings—including artificial intelligence—has largely been framed as a transition or change‑management policy. However, the erosion of spatial and temporal borders is typically accompanied by a wholesale re‑engineering of the systems that constitute and occupy these institutions. Newly adopted systems have been deterritorialised and largely migrated into the digital realm.

These dynamics open a critical, complex debate: the necessity of re‑designing institutions to align their social and socio‑professional organisation with the post‑digital realities of the city. The goal is to imagine institutional models capable of supporting and guiding emerging forms of interaction, mobility and urbanity.

Scope

We invite scholars, practitioners and artists to submit proposals, research articles, case studies or projects that interrogate this theme. The field is broad and interdisciplinary, encompassing but not limited to the following domains: agriculture, architecture, art, commerce, communication, creation, culture, design, economics, education, energy, higher education, industry, engineering, management, museums, heritage, health, public services, science, civil society, research, hospitality, transport, urban planning, etc.

Objectives

Partners of the 10th edition

DIDA, Florence, Italy
 DIDA
Mons University, Belgium U-MONS
SicLab Laboratoiry
Côte d'Azur University, France 		SicLab
CISDU, Centro Internazionale di Studi sul Disegno Urbano Firenze
Florence, Italy 		CISDU
UMR Prism
Marseille, France 		Prism
LARSH Laboratoiry, DeVisu Départment
Hauts-de-France Polytechnique University, France 		DEVISU

Conference Languages

The official languages are French and English, for papers and presentations.

Schedule and Dates

The schedule for scientific contributions is as follows:

July 15, 2026 deadline for abstract submission. Submission of a 5,000-character abstract (including spaces)
July 31, 2026 notification of abstract acceptance
September 10, 2026 deadline for registration of authors participating in the symposium
September 20, 2026 deadline for payment of participation fees
September 30, 2026 deadline for submission of the full paper (digital version) for registered authors and symposium participants only, for evaluation (selection of the best papers for a collective volume)
October 20–21, 2026 Symposium takes place at Condorcet Campus, Paris-Aubervilliers

Evaluation of Proposals and Publication

All accepted contributions will be compiled into a digital document (digital proceedings) that will be distributed to participants during the symposium.

Following the symposium, the submitted full papers will be reviewed a second time, and will be subject to selection and publication in the form of a collective volume by Europia Editions, Paris, France.

Guidelines for the Submission of Abstracts and Articles

ABSTRACT (for a symposium presentation and proceedings) Authors shall submit an abstract of no more than 5,000 characters, including spaces, in Times font, size 12, single-spaced, including a bibliography. Abstracts must be submitted via the Easychair submission platform.
Abstracts will be evaluated by the scientific committee. A decision will be made regarding oral presentation at the symposium.
Submissions must be sent in .doc and .docx format only to the following address: infohyperurbain.org

The abstracts of accepted presentations will be published in online digital proceedings.

FULL PAPER (for publication in a collective volume) The full paper must be submitted after acceptance of the abstract, according to the indicated schedule, for double-blind review. The scientific committee will select the best papers for publication in a collective volume.
  • The full article (maximum 25,000 characters) must be between 7 and 14 pages in length.
  • The text must be formatted in accordance with the following requirements:
    • First page: Main title of the paper, subtitle (if any), abstract of no more than 300 words, and a list of up to 6 keywords.
    • Second page and following pages: the content of the paper with numbered paragraphs.
    • References: the citation style to be used for HU.9 is APA. Please use the following APA resources: http://www.apastyle.org https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/
    • Please download and apply the style sheet for formatting your article stylesWord-europia.doc
Authors of accepted full papers, at the end of the evaluation phase, will be invited to submit a non-anonymized version.

Registration / Participation Fees

Registration for the symposium, as well as payment of the participation fees, is mandatory upon submission of the revised version of the article. These may be completed from the date of notification of acceptance until September 20. For organizational reasons, no extension of the deadline may be granted.

Registration

Registration is mandatory for at least one author of each accepted presentation; one registration is valid for one participation. The author undertakes to pay the symposium participation fee of 180 euros.

Participation Fees

Fee for one registration Academic / Professional: 180 euros

The participation fees include:

Payment Terms:

Payment details and participation fees will be indicated shortly.

Scientific organizing committee

International Advisory Board

Local organizing committee

Main Contact

infohyperurbain.org