Introduction: experiences and ways of running metropolitan projects

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The IBAs
Running innovative projects
Events and culture, the backbone of projects
The High Quality Art and Culture approach –HQAC–

The IBAs

« Initiating metropolitan projects: the IBA, a productive way of developing »

IAU ldF/APUR, Brief note about territories, no. 478, June 2009, 4 p.

The IBA, (International Building Exhibition - Internationale Bauausstellung -), is first and foremost a context in which to disclose developing projects. It deals with envisaging the future of a metropolis on a specific territory, within a limited timeframe. An interesting approach for Paris Metropole.

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IBA meets IBA, a hundred years of international architecture exhibitions.

The aim of this exhibition is to remind us of a heritage enriched by a hundred years of experience, to update it, to develop it and to make it accessible to all those who are looking for models for complex territorial development strategies. The main areas of interest of previous IBAs which took place in 1901, 1927, 1952 – 57, 1987 and 1999 and the projects of those to come in 2010 and 2013 are included.

IBA Hamburg – Publications - Brochures

Emscher Park International exhibition of architecture and urbanism. The projects ten years later

Essen, Klartext Verlag, 2008, 304 p.

The “IBA Emscher Park”international exhibition of architecture and urbanism, which was installed on both sides of the (river) Emscher, in the heart of the largest industrial region in Germany, was the culmination of a project aimed at transforming, within ten years (from 1989 to 1999), an area blighted and stigmatised by history and industrial activity, in order to offer it a new future. Nineteen towns and communes, several initiatives as well as numerous businesses planned and put into practice more than a hundred projects on different scales. This book describes these projects: it traces their evolution since 1999 and describes the present situation.

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Under the Open Sky. Emscher Lanscape Park

Bâle, Birkhauser, 2010, 231 p.

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« Emscher Park : a cultural revolution »

Urban Project no. 21, Sept.2000

Emscher-Park International exhibition of architecture and urbanism. Laboratory for the future of old industrial regions. Memorandum on its content and organisation. French edition.

IAU ldF, 2010

IAU – Emscher-Park International exhibition of architecture and urbanism

Metropolitan strategies

IAU ldF, The Notebooks, no. 151, June 2009

IAU – Metropolitan Strategies

Emscher Landscape Park Masterplan 2010

SCHWARZE-RODRIAN Michael, BAUER Rilka

Klartext Verlag, 2005, 352 p.

Die anderen Städte = The other cities. IBA Stadtumbau 2010

Berlin, Jovis, 2004-2009, 9 vol.

Books: IBA Stadtumbau 2010

In between cities: a lecture about Zwischenstadt

SIEVERTS, Thomas

Marseille, Editions Parenthèses, 2004, 188 p.

This essay is about the collapse of the historically compact European city and how to deal with the new, completely different kind of city which is springing up around the world: urbanised countryside or countrified cities. This kind of urbanisation is refered to using the term Zwischenstadt, a city which spreads into the space between the old historic centres and the open countryside, between inhabited places and the non-places occupied by communications networks, between local economic circuits and networks dependent on world markets. Each of the five chapters making up the essay examines the Zwischenstadt from a different point of view: descriptions, analyses and proposals overlap to bring to light a thought process focused entirely on action.

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Resource sites :

Running innovative projects

The Ivry-sur-Seine urban Campus

Within the context of the Ivry Confluences project, the city of Ivry-sur-Seine outlined an original development concept which made knowledge and creativity the driving force behind its new economy. Instigated and run by both local authorities and private investors, this approach is mobilising and involving all the forces of the territory (the scientific fields and economic, social and artistic ... enhancemen) as well as the inhabitants who are participants and beneficiaries of this social transformation, and should eventually lead to an awareness of sharing a common identity. The urban Campus Council, an original governance structure, is the determining factor behind operations, a mini “think tank” representing the plural nature of the project's activities.

http://campusurbainivry.com/

The city is freestyle -La ville est une figure libre -. Laurent Théry. Urbanism Grand Prix 2010

MASBOUNGI, Ariella (dir.), THERY, Laurent

Marseille, Parenthèses ; DGALN, 2010, 127 p.

“It’s the idea of a city as a place of exchange and a way of living together” which has excited the urban planner (Laurent Théry) for the past thirty years. Here he explains his role and his method for running projects with a wealth of contributiing factors on the Loire estuary, in the metropolitan context of Nantes-Saint-Nazaire and in Lille.

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A brief summary of the “Gamble of developing Greater Paris - Grand Pari(s) de l’agglomération parisienne -”

Apur

Paris Project, no. 39, March 2009, 136 p.

The contribution of Apur to the debate is a concise interpretation of the work coming out of the international consultation on the “Gamble of developing Greater Paris -Grand Pari(s) de l’agglomération parisienne-”. It highlights five central ideas which allow the reader to compare the work of the ten multi-disciplinary teams which were consulted and analyses fourteen significant proposals with regard to issues currently affecting the metropolis.

Paris Project – Number 39

Berlin, participatory urbanism. Proceedings of the meeting organised on May 3rd, 2007, in Saint-Denis Town Hall.

Saint-Denis, Suburb Profession -Profession Banlieue-, May 2007, 158 p.

In September 2006, eleven professionals from Seine-St-Denis visited Berlin to comprehend the urban redevelopment policies and their link to inhabitant participation. Through the “Social city” programme in 2000 and the programme of urban redevelopment of the East in 2002, Berlin has developed an integrated approach to urban renewal labelled “district management”. This blueprint for innovative urban and social management is based on the inhabitants’ projects aimed at bringing local communities back to life.

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Taking action in large territories

MASBOUNGI, Ariella, MANGIN, David

Paris, Le Moniteur, 2009, 160 p.

This work identifies a number of experiences concerning the development of peripheral towns and large territories in France and Europe. It analyses approaches to innovative projects, in particular the way the IBA operates in the Ruhr.

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Transversal perspectives. European metropolises, Berlin, London, Madrid, Paris, the Randstad

APUR

Paris Project, no. 38, December 2008

An overview of big European metropolises looking at how they adapt their methods of governance to the demands of metropolitan development. New approaches have been adopted to underpin both the consistency and the scope of projects: housing in Greater London, social and environmental action in Berlin, public transport in Madrid, economic development in Milan, reinvestment in the major regions of the Randstad.

Paris Project – Number 38

Building cities. Tools and methods: What the developers have to say

MASBOUNGI, Ariella

Paris, French documentation, 2001, 230 p.

This book benefits from two years of work carried out by the Town Development Club on how, in France, the ways to get urban projects, which comply to local authority policies, from idea to reality have evolved. The writer examines development concepts and practices and puts forward suggestions for changes – sometimes radical – in attitudes, methods, tools and relationships between participating bodies, using numerous examples, from the IBA in Lyon, Glasgow and Bilbao.

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«The citizens are coming! Towards a society actively involved in its living environment»

D’ Architectures, no. 198, March 2011, pp. 41-59

The increase in power of non-professional project managers, self-build, actively rethinking working practices, collaborative urban transformation: the citizen seems to be more and more actively involved in managing their living environment, whether alone or with the helping hand from conventional organizations. This article covers a wide range of innovative experiences on the subject of citizen involvement.

Participatory urban projects. Learning how to build cities in collaboration with the inhabitants

VERDIER, Philippe

Paris, Editions Adels; Editions Yves Michel, 2009, 262 p.

In this book, which was conceived as a guide to participatory urban projects, the author first looks at the change in the way inhabitants perceive their urban environment and at the origins of participatory processes. He then sets out a methodological model which could be used to put into practice spatial and social urban projects involving the inhabitants.

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« Build differently with Patrick Bouchain »

SIMAY, Philippe and BOUCHAIN, Patrick

Métropolitiques, 26th January, 2011.

Build differently and together, listen to the demands of the inhabitants and enlist their skills: such is the militant approach which has driven Patrick Bouchain for more than 30 years. Here he looks back at his vision of architecture which he considers a political act in the public interest.

Build differently with Patrick Bouchain - Métropolitiques

How can we build differently?

BOUCHAIN, Patrick

Edition Actes Sud, 2006, 190 p.

To clarify his original and economical approach to architecture and landscaping, open to artistic collaboration.

Building the -Grand Ensemble- together

A site dedicated to this approach, looking in particular at the example of the renovation of the Stéphenson neighbourhood in Tourcoing.

The Grand Ensemble

Events and culture, the backbone of projects

Cultural projects and citizen participation. Questioning the roles of mediation and project animation

LIOT, Françoise (coord.)

Paris, l'Harmattan, 2010, 221 p.

Everyday new relationships with art and culture are being created. The boundaries between cultural action and sociocultural action are being redefined. This new situation puts inhabitant involvement right at the heart of artistic and cultural projects and implies a redefinition of the roles and exchanges between mediators, organizers and artists in the light of citizen participation. An article to take note of is: “Artist residencies and involvement of the local population. The example of the forum of Blanc-Mesnil” by Daniel Urrutiaguer.

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« Culture and urban regeneration: the example of Glasgow »

JEANNIERS, Fabien

At the start of the 80s, Glasgow made the decision to place the arts and culture at the heart of its plans for urban, economic and social renewal. They (the arts) became the City Council's main vehicle by means of which it could kick start economic activity and convert industrial wastelands into areas for commercial, residential and industrial use. This course of action was part of a much wider strategy aimed at re-establishing a bright and positive image of the city and restoring its long-lost appeal in order to attract investors and new residents.

From city to metropolis – Geoconfluences – the example of Glagow

New territories for art, What public authority representatives have to say

RENARD-CHAPIRO, Claude, CASTANY, Laurence

Paris, Editions Sujet/Objet, 2007, 295 p.

This publication by the Institute of Cities –’Institut des Villes- New Territories for Art Mission, contains around thirty accounts given by public authority representatives who have conducted artistic and innovative experiments in their territories. The second half includes transcriptions of the presentations and exchanges of the round table meetings at the conference on 6th February, 2006 entitled “Otherwise, elsewhere. How to re-think the place of culture and art in the city?” which looked at partnerships, the role of cultural commitment in “living together”, the place of cultural activists in the process of social and urban restructuration and development, cultural diversity and artistic creation as factors adding to the appeal of territories.

The place and role of festive events in public spaces. New urban festive events and a new sociability in Europe.

European suburbs - Banlieues d’Europe (dir.)-

Lyon, Certu, 2006, 171 p.

This publication, brought out by CERTU, (Centre of studies of networks, transport, urbanism and construction), follows on from a European meeting of reflection and debates organised in 2004 by Banlieues d’Europe (the workshop researching festive events in public spaces in the city of Lyon and Greater Lyon), and covers various European and French experiences of these new urban festive events, artistic forms involving the participation of the inhabitants and which shape new spaces for citizen sociability through their occupation of the urban environment.

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Organising artistic events in public spaces. Best practice guide.

The street arts working group “Le Temps des Arts de la Rue”, co-ordinated by José Rubio

Paris, HorsLesMurs, 2007, 116 p.

This guide draws up the technical, artistic, legal and financial factors to be taken into account when organising an artistic happening in a public space. It puts forward a way of running a project centered on dialogue and collaboration between all the professional bodies concerned.

The event city. Urban crowds and audiences

PLAN URBANISM CONSTRUCTION ARCHITECTURE. PUCA

BOULLIER Dominique

Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 2010, 145 p.

A sociological exploration of those parts of a city involved when events take place through three field studies (music festival, trade union demonstration, sporting event). During these events, each individual could experience a change in their emotional state (excitement, fear, frustration…) which overtakes individuals but also professionals.

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The High Quality Art and Culture approach –HQAC–

Urban arts hub

In its role as a hub of research into the arts and the city, - pOlau - explores the theme of the place of the artistic in urban projects. This research is based on the working methods of artists who integrate themselves in the very fabric of urban life and who develop a relationship with the city which goes beyond the merely cosmetic or animational function.

Le pOlau - Urban arts hub - Pôle des arts urbains-

Art and the new generation city: HQAC report of a study

POlau, November 2009, 107 p.

A study of the emergence of new dialogues between those active in artistic and cultural spheres, and those active in development, illustrated via a presentation of the HQAC approach.

Le pOlau - {Publication} "Art and the new generation city. The HQAC approach”

« Grand Paris. What room is there for artists? »

LE FLOC’H, Maud

Stradda the magazine of street, circus and other art created -Hors les murs- (Outside the walls), no. 12, April 2009, pp. 12-27

Maud Le Floc’h, urbanist and founder of the pOlau, has co-ordinated this study devoted to the contemporary artist as urban activist. It highlights in particular experimental initiatives such as the HQAC approach, put into practice notably in Ivry-sur-Seine on the building site of the ZAC - Zone d’activités - of the Plateau in June 2007, and developed by the artist Stefan Shankland, and which TRans305 puts forward as a prototype... One of the articles covers Berlin-type experiments where temporarily unoccupied buildings or land are put to provisional use.

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