Projet DECADOCS (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Doctoral Networks - Joint Doctorates
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : SIGNED

DECADOCS is a research and training programme which aims to renegotiate common assumptions about decadence that equate it with decay and decline. A more nuanced view of decadence predicated on sustainability, transnationalism, and sensoriality, envisages it as a valuable tool to enrich our understanding of contemporary artistic, media, entertainment, and sociocultural practices. Perceived as ubiquitous in 2025, decadence is linked to a rich and still evolving set of meanings and associations cutting across European societies since the nineteenth century. Its persistent link with crises and their recurrence has a continuing valence today and helps to explain the renewed interest in uncovering its illuminating potential. DECADOCS therefore aims to show how that complex transhistorical, transnational, and trans-linguistic European phenomenon still undergirds arts, media, and sociocultural practices. The examples of architecture, fashion, food and drink, tourism, visual and print cultures, entertainment, and immersive media testify to the presence and positive value of decadence. Firmly anchored in decadence studies as a field of the humanities, DECADOCS' research programme will therefore train a cohort of doctoral fellows, notably by addressing those non-literary, underexplored areas of study, embedding different disciplines in a coherent research programme with clearly defined and linked scientific work packages, bespoke network training activities emphasizing digital dissemination, open access, and outreach to various audiences. Tailored intersectoral training delivered by the most appropriate associated partners (museums, archives, libraries, galleries, and SMBs in fashion conservation and translation) during substantial periods reinforces the research programme's scientific and societal impacts. DECADOCS is the first doctoral network in decadence studies.

Mots clés : decadence studies, sustainability, transnationalism, sensoriality, creative arts and industries, media archaeology, translation, print culture, visual culture

Participants :
- Archivio progetti (Italie) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 0.0 €
- Cuirt international festival of literature (Irlande) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Goldsmiths, University of London (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 464984.16 €
- Volupté (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Société Max-Planck pour le développement des sciences (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Lusófona (Portugal) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 372593.76 €
- Fondazione pistoletto cittadellarte onlus (Italie) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- Synd general des vignerons de champagne (France) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- Università Iuav di Venezia (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 563510.16 €
- Université nationale d'Irlande à Galway (Irlande) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 227391.36 €
- Finnish literature society fili (Finlande) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Johannes-Gutenberg de Mayence (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 387029.76 €
- The brian may stereoscopic archive (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université polytechnique de Madrid (Espagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 188125.44 €
- Zenzie tinker conservation ltd (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Cadenza academic translations ltd (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Fondazione il vittoriale degli italiani (Italie) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- The cinema museum (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université d'Helsinki (Finlande) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 209683.2 €
- Université de Bourgogne (France) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 629338.32 €
- Jerome seydoux  pathe (France) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- Institut memoires edition contemporaine (France) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Institut européen d'histoire et des cultures de l'alimentation (France) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 209779.44 €
- Musée nicéphore niépce (France) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Glasgow (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 464984.16 €