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The 2009 Passive and Low Energy Architecture Conference (PLEA), held in Quebec City, Canada, was themed 'Architecture, Energy and the Occupant's Perspective', with the ambition of positioning building inhabitants as key 'active' determinants of energy performance in 'passive' design through adaptive opportunities. Conference delegates committed to a Manifesto that embodied both the key longstanding priorities of PLEA and explicitly conveyed the priorities of the conference hosts. The Manifesto is examined in terms of how it captures and represents a shift in thinking that has occurred over the past few years, away from technological and technocratic solutions to comfort provisioning and towards reframing building energy consumption as a social and ethical challenge in which comfort plays a key role. La Conference 2009 sur l'Architecture Passive et Basse Energie (PLEA), qui s'est tenue a Quebec, au Canada, avait pour theme « Architecture, Energie et la Perspective de l'Occupant », avec pour ambition de positionner les habitants d'immeubles comme principaux determinants « actifs » de la performance energetique dans un design « passif » par des opportunites d'adaptation. Les delegues de la conference se sont engages en faveur d'un Manifeste qui, tout a la fois, incarne les principales priorites qui sont depuis longtemps celles des Conferences PLEA et traduit explicitement les priorites des hotes de la conference. Cet article examine le Manifeste quant a la maniere dont il apprehende et reflete le changement intervenu au cours de ces dernieres annees dans la maniere de voir les choses, consistant a se detourner d'un confort fourni par des solutions technologiques et technocratiques et a aller dans le sens d'un recadrage de la consommation energetique des immeubles consideree comme un defi social et ethique dans lequel le confort joue un role cle. Mots cles: comportement adaptatif, agence, confort, fourniture du confort, qualite environnementale interieure, habitants, manifeste, Conference sur l'Architecture Passive et Basse Energie (PLEA) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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