To download the session book in English: LaDefense2050 Session_Book_en

Pour télécharger le cahier de la session en français : LaDefense2050 Session_Book_fr

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Team Life-Line : 1st Prize

Ingrid Boutet – Geographe / Architecte – France

Nikhil Chaudhary – Architecte / Urbaniste – Inde

Francois-Xavier Desprez – Economiste – France

Bence Mikes – Architecte / Ingenieur Structure – Hongrie

Phuong Nguyen Minh – Architecte / Urbaniste – Vietnam

Ikue Tsunemitsu – Architecte – Japon

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Team Beyond Capitalism : 2^nd Prize & Egis Award

Medha Dixit – Architecte / Urbaniste – Inde

Wang Huina – Paysagiste / urbaniste – Chine

Vincent Le Rouzic – Economiste – France

Artem Olshevich – Architecte / Urbaniste – Russie

Nelya Rakhimova – Urbaniste – Russie

Vasiliki Tsioutsiou – Architecte / Urbaniste – Grece

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Team Flex Sense : 3rd Prize

Caroline Brunel – Sciences Politiques / Geographie Urbaine – France

Camille D’Andurain – Economiste – France

Sarah Dolphin – Geographe – France

Jayesh Ganesh – Architecte / Urbaniste – Inde

Deven Jacob Young – Architecte-Paysagiste – Etats-Unis

Pedro Saa – Architecte – Colombia

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Team Taming the Beast : 3rd Prize

Reuben Barker – Architecte – GB

Antoine Fontaine – Artiste – France

Etsuko Hirano – Urban Planner / Material Engineer – Japon

Halima M’Brick – Anthropologue Urbaine – France

Enric Martinez-Sala Ingenieur Transports Urbains – Espagne

Neha Mungekar – Architecte / Urbaniste – Inde

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Team Reverse Paradox : Best team ever

Haruma Akiyama – Architecte / Urbaniste – Japon

Pauline Degrand – Architecte – Belgique

Elena Prislonova – Architecte – Russie

Lina Marcela – Architecte – Colombie

Colette Schauber – Economiste – France

Aditya Vipparti – Architecte / Urbaniste – Inde

LARGE-SCALE URBAN SPACES
Intrusive and disparaged, do large agglomerations have any ambitions in term of IMAGE and LANDSCAPE ?

Let us get rid of the most important elements of URBAN PLANNING: Master Plans, planning schemes, etc.

Let us indeed put aside ; figures, statistics, economical data, regulation, land value, business tax, etc. and all FUNCTIONAL elements and let us decide to simply OBSERVE and WATCH around.

To observe in order to understand why the urban landscape has become so dreadfully ugly and why the only way to escape is to go to the old city or even to the “Historical Centre”

TAKING AN INTEREST in the VISIBLE on a rather uncommon scale (long distances, panoramas, signs and landmarks), knowing what has to be done and being willing to do it

For more information see www.ateliers.org

English Version – first week presentations

Version Française – Présentations de la première semaine

ERRATUM – The presentation by the artists will not take place at Pavillon de l’Arsenal but at La Vitrine of Cergy Art School, located 24, rue Moret
75011 Paris. 

The workshop will begin tomorrow with the arrival of participants. Next week will be dedicated to introductive conferences and visits. You are welcome to join us to the public events.

However, the size of the rooms in sometimes limited so we cannot guarantee that everyone will have a chair to sit on. We recommand you to inform us of your participation by sending an email to contact@ateliers.org.

You can download the schedule here (French version, English one to come).

La Défense, un quartier d'affaires au coeur du pouvoir (Source: www.publicsenat.fr)

On the web site of the television channel of the French Senate you can see a documentary about the La Défense business district (in French) describing the actual situation and presentation the key player.

“A few miles west of Paris, La Défense is the largest European business district. An exceptional concentration of economic power, seat of the largest companies in the CAC 40. Since its inception in 1958, this territory has a status of non-standard, embodied in a public institution, the Epadesa *. Here, the state decides.

Nicolas Sarkozy in 2006 launched a grand plan for renewal of La Defense, which provides for the construction of several towers as high as the Eiffel Tower.

In October 2009, announced the election of his son Jean Sarkozy, 23, as president of what was still called the EPAD * shocked public opinion, ultimately leading President Jean Sarkozy to give up position.

* New name of the EPAD

On this occasion, the whole world has realized the strategic importance of this territory. In the scope of the Epadesa, laws, taxation and urban planning are tailored for large multinational companies.

This film invites you to dive in the heart of this extraordinary universe, in the lives of the most powerful players – top managers, developers, elected officials – the business district. At the heart of power. »

(On behalf of Maria Basile)

To go back in time and literature, the famous book “Le ventre de Paris” (1873) by Emile ZOLA begins with a description of market gardeners leaving in the middle of the night their homes and gardens in Nanterre to follow the historic axe to the former market halls right in the centre of Paris to sell their products. Another perspective on the territory.

Click here to download the first 10 pages of the book of the French version.

You find an English translation of the book with the title « The Fat and the Thin » a the Project Gutenberg under the following link and at your local bookseller. Different translations are available.

“Chapter 1: Amidst the deep silence and solitude prevailing in the avenue several market gardeners’ carts were climbing the slope which led towards Paris, and the fronts of the houses, asleep behind the dim lines of elms on either side of the road, echoed back the rhythmical jolting of the wheels. At the Neuilly bridge a cart full of cabbages and another full of peas had joined the eight waggons of carrots and turnips coming down from Nanterre; and the horses, left to themselves, had continued plodding along with lowered heads, at a regular though lazy pace, which the ascent of the slope now slackened. The sleeping waggoners, wrapped in woollen cloaks, striped black and grey, and grasping the reins slackly in their closed hands, were stretched at full length on their stomachs atop of the piles of vegetables. Every now and then, a gas lamp, following some patch of gloom, would light up the hobnails of a boot, the blue sleeve of a blouse, or the peak of a cap peering out of the huge florescence of vegetables—red bouquets of carrots, white bouquets of turnips, and the overflowing greenery of peas and cabbages…”