For their 30th anniversary, the Ateliers Cergy-Pontoise Workshops for Project Supervisors have chosen the theme “Revealing and Staging the Metropolitan Landscape”. For 5 weeks, 30 participants from all over the world, bringing together professions from diverse fields, are invited to consider cities, and more specifically the Parisian metropolis, from a visual point of view. A series of conferences and visits of the Parisian metropolis will give them the opportunity to explore the extensive landscape which is lived in, day in day out, by its inhabitants.
In preparation for the workshops Apur with the expertise of Bertrand Warnier, one of the founder members of Ateliers Cergy, produced the study “The Metropolitan Landscape Factory”. It consists of a series of map-making tools specifically designed to explore the metropolitan landscape and help in identifying and being aware of it. It makes it possible to read about and visualise landscapes via the infrastructures which run through them. It is intended to help one take landscapes into consideration and to master their transformation by projects.
This study can already be accessed by all workshop participants and will be one of the documents given to them for their consideration and proposals.
Christiane Blancot, Director of Studies at Apur, will speak at the workshops on Tuesday 28th August 2012 on the Landscape of Paris and the Inner Ring of Suburbs -La Petite Couronne-.
At the end of the 5 weeks of studying, the teams will be invited to formulate their propositions and thoughts on the following subjects: Where is the geography, the physical reality of the territory and the seasons? How can these be linked to the urban fabric, its structure and large green areas? What are the emblems of a metropolis in the 21st century which are expressed over and above its historical core and what role should the great monuments have in times to come?
Dominique Alba, Director of Apur, will be one of the International Jury which will meet on 26th September 2012 to pick out the best analytical elements and project proposals and to name the winning team. These elements will be presented to a panel of Grand Paris developers and decision makers at the Controverse Métropolitaine, which takes place on 28th September 2012.
