«The big city 24h chrono» (2012-2013)
Experimental action research programme
The context
As part of the exhibition Move. When our movements shape cities », its commissioner, Jean-Marie Duthilleul, wanted to integrate the latest advances in architectural and urban research in close collaboration with the Directorate General of Heritage of the Ministry of Culture and Communication (MCC). The project initiated by the MCC and the Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine will take shape in a completely innovative meeting format where research “enters into action”.
The event
Teams of researchers from architecture schools and young teams of architects join forces for a 24-hour public event on pedestrian, mechanized, collective and individual mobility in relation to different sites.
A unit of place (Greater Paris)
One unit of time (24h)
The public will be invited to browse the sites and attend a continuous chain of events for 24 hours. So many teams and places that will be an invitation to the movement, the traffic, the perspective and the knowledge of the sites with the City of Architecture and Heritage as a point of departure and arrival.
The sites selected are: Seine Aval, Saclay, and Seine Amont operations of national interest; Évry, Roissy/Le Bourget, Confluence Seine/Oise, Seine Saint-Denis.
The working method
The «tandems» of researchers-practitioners will have to propose and carry out a short event (maximum 1h30). Each sequence will have an autonomy of format: mini statements/conferences, in situ constructions, artistic actions, etc. This intervention is the action part of the research with the possibility of making tests in situ.
A mini guide will present the event for 24 hours in Greater Paris and will propose routes to make the most of the event according to individual trajectories.
Beyond the event
The benefits of this project are many:
• mobilize young architects and research teams and thus contribute to the dialogue between science and society; communicate on new ways of addressing the issues of Greater Paris;
• invite the general public to look at Greater Paris in its true metropolitan scale in order to break down barriers to this approach to the implementation of the future automatic metro;
• for the sites: leave operational traces, with a test value, which will be taken over by the actors in the territories;
• pooling dynamics and action capabilities in the identified territories.
More information:
Office of Architectural, Urban and Landscape Research
DGPAT / SA / SDESRA / BRAUP
Ministry of Culture and Communication
182, rue Saint-Honoré - F 75 033 Paris Cedex 01
Head of BRAUP
panos.mantziaras@culture.gouv.fr
Tel. +33 (0)1 40 15 32 75
or
Programme officer
corinne.tiry-ono@culture.gouv.fr
Tel. +33 (0)1 40 15 32 84
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