Wednesday, October 11:
For the first day of the second module, the group was warmly welcomed by the Pavillon de l'Arsenal team, represented by Estelle Sabatier – Director of Audiences, Communication, Events and Digital – which presented the missions and challenges of the Pavilion and its role in spreading the metropolitan culture of Greater Paris, with particular emphasis on the need to democratize the concepts of architecture and urbanism to enable the general public to understand the dimension of cultural presence in the public space.
Then it was Dimitri Boutleux – landscaper, urban planner and deputy in charge of culture of the city of Bordeaux, auditor of this fifth session – who spoke on the question of the measures to be put in place to accompany the unfolding of the automobile. By taking the example of the initiatives already carried out by the Bordeaux metropolis to promote soft modes of travel (eg: cycling) and by presenting urban planning practices beyondAtlantic, he showed how much the urban form of the city and the way in which it is practiced gain by gaining a foothold on a utopian ideal fed by the reflections of technicians but also intellectuals and artists. This intervention gave rise to a debate on the place and role of artists alongside urban planners and elected officials, the culture of public space in Western Europe or the need to rethink the multiplicity of urban forms adaptable to needs.
To close the morning, Isabelle de Ponfilly – President and founder of OFISU and Etienne Riot – Doctor of Urban Planning and Director of Research and Innovation at PCA-STREAM presented to the group the major urban study on the Champs-ElyséesÉlysées, led by PCA-STREAM, which took place in three phases: the emergence of a vision to re-enchant the avenue, an exhibition at the Pavillon de l'Arsenal followed by a publication and finally an operational urban study with concrete visions for 2030. After having evoked the history of the Champs and their central character in Parisian daily life – both a place of leisure and a place of distribution of the regal power – the two speakers insisted on the necessary arrangements to make the avenue sustainable, inclusive and desirable.
In the early afternoon, Laurent Roturier – Regional Director of Cultural AffairsDe-France and Pierre-Emmanuel Bécherand – Head of Architecture and Culture for the Société du Grand Paris discussed the challenges of the Grand Paris Express and in particular the creation of 68 new stations in the peripheral territories of Greater Paris, highlighting their role in the emergence of new cultural centralities. Laurent Roturier recalled the desire to place culture as a marker of the redevelopment project of the urban territory and to think the city of tomorrow with art at its center in the heart of public space. Pierre-Emmanuel Bécherand then presented the various cultural initiatives and events that accompany the construction sites as well as the operation in tandem artist/ architect to design the works that will be present in the new stations.
The day ended with the intervention of Maud Le Floc'h – founder and director of POLAU (Pôle Art et Urbanisme, based in Tours) – on the potential of cultural urbanism. Maud Le Floc'h insisted on the existence of long-standing links between art and urbanism that co-exist notably through cultural urbanism where artists and elected officials are consulted in the development of public space. The missions of the POLAU are precisely in this line since it accompanies the cultural operators and works with the masters of works to invite artistic and cultural modalities in the tools of territorial development projects. According to her, to break down the existing barriers between the two worlds, it is about emphasizing training and showing how artistic and cultural methodologies are beneficial to urban project design.
Thursday, October 12
To begin this second day at the Medici Workshops of Clichy-sous-Bois, the group was welcomed by the director of the establishment, Cathy Bouvard, who recalled the missions of the place that revolve around three poles: the renewal of the trajectories of artists from working-class neighbourhoods by hosting residencies, training and support for professionalization in the world of culture for young people from working-class neighborhoods and finally the porosity of the place making the Workshops a place of daily life of the inhabitants of the territory.
Noël Corbin – General Delegate for Transmission, Territories and Cultural Democracy of the Ministry of Culture – then intervened to resituate the missions of the Medici Workshops with the concept of art as an activator of cultural democracy in the public space. The Delegate General recalled that every human being carries in him a universal parcel and constitutes a being of culture. In line with cultural rights, Noël Corbin invited the audience to think about the notions of participation, territorialized work in touch with the inhabitants of the public space where it is located and user appropriation of a work by the public.
Nicola Delon – agency Encore Heureux, prime contractor of the new architectural building - in dialogue with Renan Benyamina, Deputy Director of the Medici Workshops, closed the morning by discussing the architectural project stakes of the new building of the Medici Workshops. It is for the architect to conceptualize his architectural project in direct connection with the population of the territory to avoid making it an exogenous place. This intervention made it possible to reveal the paradigm changes that cross the profession of architect/ urban planner today in relation to the expectations of the population but also ecological conditions that transforms an architecture of the result into architecture of the process.
Lunch was an opportunity to discover the dishes prepared by the Cuisine Mode d'Emploi workshop, a cooking school for people on a reintegration path founded by Thierry Marx and located in Clichy-sous-Bois.
Eleftherios Kechagioglou, listener of the session and director of the Smallest Circus of the World, in Bagneux then presented the adventure of this singular place which became the first Cultural Meeting Center dedicated to the suburbs and its heritage. He presented the main missions structured around training, artistic and cultural education and support for artists from the neighborhoods of the territory. He highlighted the difficulties in overcoming the enclave of a territory like Bagneux, stressed the importance of the symbol of the existence of a building like the World’s Smallest Circus on this site, and also presented the CCR governance model, which provides for and promotes the inclusion and participation of neighbourhood residents.
The afternoon was then marked by the double intervention of Mame-Fatou Niang, artist and lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University (Pennsylvania, USA), and Sébastien Kheroufi, actor, director, both in residence at the Ateliers Médicis. Both returned both to their singular life course, to what led them to artistic expression, and to their artistic production carried out within the framework of their residence and the construction of it in connection with the inhabitants of the territory.
Friday 13 october
For this last day, the group went to the construction site of the Olympic site of the athletes' village in the territory of Saint-Ouen and was welcomed by the teams of the SOLIDEO (Société de livraison des ouvrages olympiques). Marion Le Paul, deputy director of SOLIDEO introduced the day by presenting the 68 Olympic works throughout the territory, then the design of the athletes' village, and the artistic approach with the 16 works that will be installed, by creating a dialogue between expectations for the smooth running of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and the notion of sustainability and heritage of the site that will become the property of the inhabitants of the territory following the Games.
The group then had the chance to visit part of the construction site of the Athletes' Village.
The morning was closed by Brigitte Guigueno, assistant to the Deputy Director of Management, Communication and Archives Development, Inter-ministerial Service of Archives of France and Arthur Gallois, researcher in the Culture & Olympism department of the French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF). The two speakers presented the methods of piloting the Grande Collecte des archives du sport, conducted in the framework of the Olympic Games Paris 2024, an initiative labeled Cultural Olympiad. Based on a voluntary mobilization of private archives, the goal is to collect, identify and enhance the archives related to the practice of sport throughout the national territory.
Sébastien Zonghero, Municipal Councillor of Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, Delegate for Municipal Heritage and Institutional Relations, Territorial Advisor in charge of the valorisation of the Seine presented the development strategy of the territory of Saint-Ouen-sur-SeineOuen, in which the presence of the Athletes' Village will take all its part.
The module ended with a round table with Dominique Hervieu, Director of Culture of Paris 2024 and Sophie-Justine Lieber, Director General of the Public Establishment of the Park and the Grande Halle de la Villette, moderated by François Laurent, ministerial delegate for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. François Laurent first recalled how culture was fully embedded in the practice of Olympism since Pierre de Coubertin by showing that artistic and cultural practice is part of the ideal and philosophy of the Games. Dominique Hervieu then evoked the modalities of conception of the Cultural Olympiads on the whole national territory, structured around the central theme «Culture and sport». Sophie-Justine Lieber presented the initiatives carried out by La Villette as part of the Olympic Games and in particular the welcome of Club France and Archi'Folies (construction of pavilions for foreign national federations in partnership with the 20 national schools of architecture).
These two interventions made it possible to highlight the complexity of the management of major cultural projects in relation to a multiplicity of actors both in a given territory and with all the strata of the national territory. The combination of actors must be done while respecting the expectations of the Games while designing projects, often carried out in public space, resonating with the realities of the territories and thoughts in terms of heritage and appropriation by the public following the event.
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