Dr Pauline Guinard

Dr Pauline Guinard

Director of IFRA-Nigeria

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Pauline Guinard is an urban geographer whose research explores three main areas:

• the interaction between arts and public spaces, with a focus on the cities in the Global South;
• fieldwork practices, especially under constrained or challenging conditions;
• the emotional dimension of individual and collective relationships with space.

To apprehend and share this sensitive, embodied, and affective relation to space, she has been developing a research-creation methodology over the past few years. Through artistic and creative media—including sound and visual mapping, storytelling, and in situ dance—she seeks to move beyond the predominantly visual and verbal methods of geography. In doing so, she offers complementary ways of exploring how inhabitants experience urban transformations in Greater Paris and Lagos.

Latest publications

Books

Guinard P., Guitard E., Maazaz I. (ed.), Forthcoming, Looking For and Learning From Public Spaces in African Cities, Africae.

Carriou C., Guinard P., Olivera M. (dir.), 2023, Pratiques d’émancipation urbaine, Paris, Editions Le Manuscrit.

Articles

Drouin E., Guinard P. et Volvey A., 2025, « Le Lab-DeuxièmeGroupe, analyse d’une méthodologie de création-recherche en situation de transformations urbaines à Malakoff (Grand Paris) », Cybergeo : European Journal of Geography [En ligne], DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/14mba. 

Guinard P., Lanne J.-B., 2021, “Emotions from and beyond the classroom. An experiment in teaching and sharing emotional methodologies.”, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, URL : https://doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2021.1977916.

Guinard P., 2021, "Inhabitant By Sello Pesa and Vaughn Sadie (2011) or how to (re)imagine public spaces in Johannesburg through art", Critical African Studies, vol. 13, n°3, p. 270-285,URL : https://doi.org/10.1080/21681392.2021.1902830