Fanny Lopez

Born in Montpellier in 1982, Fanny Lopez is an architectural and technical historian (PhD from Panthéon-Sorbonne University) and senior lecturer at Ensa Paris-Est, Gustave Eiffel University. She is a researcher and co-director of the LIAT Laboratory (Laboratory for Infrastructure, Architecture and Territory) at ENSA Paris-Malaquais and an associate researcher at the OCS (Observatory of Suburban Conditions at ENSA Paris-Est). Her research and teaching activities focus on the spatial, territorial, and environmental impact of energy and digital infrastructure, as well as the associated technical imaginaries.

Her thesis on energy autonomy, defended in 2010, was published in 2014 under the title: Le rêve d'une déconnexion. De la maison autonome à la cité auto-énergétique (The Dream of Disconnection: From the Autonomous House to the Self-Sufficient City). The book was translated by Manchester University Press in 2021. In 2019, Fanny Lopez published a collective work: Les territoires de l'autonomie énergétique, projets, territoires (The Territories of Energy Autonomy, Projects, Territories), published by Iste and translated into English by Wiley. Also in 2019, she published L'ordre électrique, infrastructures énergétiques et territoires (The Electric Order, Energy Infrastructures and Territories) (Métis Presses). In 2022, she published À bout de flux (At the End of the Flow) with Divergences.

Since 2007, Fanny Lopez has taught at ENSA Paris-Malaquais, collaborated with architecture and urban planning agencies (Canal architecture and Urban act), and served as a project manager at the Ministry of Culture for the Office of Architectural, Urban, and Landscape Research (consulting for Grand Paris and lgnis mutat res).

Tenured in 2011, Fanny Lopez was first a lecturer at ENSA Strasbourg in 2011 before joining ENSA Paris-Est in 2015, where she led the Master's seminar in the Transformation program. She also teaches courses in the history and theory of architecture and urban planning focused on the relationship between energy and the environment at the Master's level and in the post-Master's program DPEA Architecture Post-Carbone.

Fanny Lopez has led numerous funded research projects, including: The Energy and Spatial Impact of Digital Infrastructure, Ademe 2017; Decentralisation and grassroots initiative in energy transition: Paris/London/Berlin?, (2016); Energy autonomy projects in Europe (2015). She has published in collective works and journals in France and abroad, where she is regularly invited.

Since defending her HDR thesis on Architecture and urban planning of electricity, crises and transformation of a modern infrastructure, she has been supervising doctoral theses.