A Knowledge- and Innovation- Based City in Western Greater Paris
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SESSION BOOK A KNOWLEDGE- AND INNOVATION- BASED CITY IN WESTERN GREATER PARIS 2015 Paris-Ile-de-France Region workshop Septembre 7th – Septembre 25th 2015 SESSION BOOK A KNOWLEDGE- AND INNOVATION- BASED CITY IN WESTERN GREATER PARIS 2015 Paris-Ile-de-France Region workshop Septembre 7th – Septembre 25th 2015 LES ATELIERS A non profit- organization since 1982, Year after year, Les Atelier international disciplines that take part in city planning INTERNATIONAUX Les Ateliers – International workshops network has been growing: it includes more its interfaces. Therefore, each atelier is a DE MAITRISE D’OEUVRE of planning and urban design – aims to than two thousand former participants who place of freedom of proposal, where the URBAINE develop the collective creation of ideas are now professionnals, academics, and aspirations of collective and voluntary that tackle the challenges and processes decision-makers in the urban field. work enable the development of new Le Verger, rue de la Gare of everyday city planning and design. by ideas, innovative projects and proposals BP 90047 promoting a process of collective and OUR CONVICTIONS for the future of urban areas which are in 95020 Cergy-Pontoise Cedex multidisciplinary work that produces perpetual transition. innovative and illustrative proposals Creating cities is by its very nature a [email protected] relating to urban design and spatial collective process. As true as architecture www.ateliers.org development. enables an individual and identifiable creation of masterpieces, developing cities LEPOITTEVIN CHRISTINE Whether it involves students or cannot be ascribed to a single person who Director professionals, each “atelier” brings would dominate all the aspects of urban [email protected] together people of diverse nationalities creation: this process is collective in its and disciplines: architecture and urban essence. planning, but also geography, economy, landscape architecture, sociology, art, Managing urban development should engineering, environment... integrate in a ‘laboratory logic’ the different Les Ateliers thanks all the partners of this yearr’s session. SESSION BOOK A KNOWLEDGE- 2015 Paris-Ile-de-France Region workshop ATELIER INTERNATIONAL DE MAÎTRISE D’ŒUVRE URBAINE AND INNOVATION- SeptembRE 7TH – SeptembRE 25TH 2015 BASED CITY IN WESTERN GREATER PARIS FOREWORD In the whole world strategies are historical, political and territorial contexts, agglomeration of Cergy-Pontoise, higher of innovation and diffusion of knowledge, implemented in order to attract on one tries to create virtuous synergies education establishments and local of economic activities, but also more territories (at different scales: from between university education, public and enterprises already make up an eco-system operational actions and initiatives of all the building to the agglomeration and private research and local economic system for knowledge and innovation. While kinds, including citizen’s initiatives. beyond) innovative and creative Research by mixing urban life and amenities. These aiming at a better visibility and a greater and Development activities based on territorial strategies have to take into legibility as much as a more efficient the exchange of knowledge issued from account the globalization of the economy, organization, this territory located at different disciplines. Those places are the impact of the accelerating innovations the eastern part of the Greater Paris is an essential source of inspiration for the in and thanks to digital technology such as confronted to 3 majors issues : development of clusters of high-tech MOOC (Massive Online Open Courses), Becoming more competitive on an companies that create added value and the internationalization of networks of international level Pilotes of the Paris-Ile-de-France jobs. (Source : Odile Soulard et Laurent researchers, of enterprises, of universities workshop 2015, Perrin). and of course the evolutions of society and Facing regional competition lifestyle. Michel JAOUEN Getting a deeper local anchorage Patrice BERTHÉ For the sake of this objective of attractiveness, many concepts are At the time of the Greater Paris, higher This is the context in which the participants developed: university and enterprises education in Ile-de-France tends to be of this urban project management campuses, technopoles, competitiveness structured around 8 communities of workshop received the “order” to elaborate hubs, clusters, sciences cities, learning universities and research establishments. proposals of strategies and construction cities, smart cities, urban cognitive ... In On the Seine axis, within the Seine- operations even proposals of spatial very diverse urban, economical, societal, Oise confluence and at the scale of the constructions for new places of exchange, TaBLE OF CONTENTS 01 PRESENTATION OF THE TOPIC 06 02 WORKSHOP PROGRESS 14 First week progress 16 Teams during work 26 Exchange Mini Forum 1 28 Exchange Forum 2 29 The contribution of the artist 30 03 TEAMS PROPOSALS 32 Team A : Co-campus 34 Team B : Oise Up! 44 Team C : Axe 109 54 04 LE JURY 64 The Jury Day 66 Closing ceremony 67 Members of the jury 68 05 PARTICIPANTS OF THE WORKSHOP 70 Facebook of the participants 72 Facebook of the organising team 78 06 WORKSHOP PHOTOS 82 01 PRESENTATION OF THE TOPIC PRESENTATION OF THE TOPIC This workshop is interested in analyzing The proposed study area is that of the knowledge and innovation-based territories Greater West of the Paris Metropolis, and the virtuous relationships that can be from Cergy-Pontoise to Versailles. Cergy- created between economic development, Pontoise and the “Confluence” area will academic and research activities and be used as the gravitational center and regional development. application site. Located along the Seine- Aval axis, it extends from the financial district of La Défense to Mantois (the What role do these first two play in the region south of the city of Mante-La-Jolie). development of a territory? How can a The density of the economic fabric, the virtuous equilibrium be achieved? Based multitude of university stakeholders and on the existence of such a triptych, how can leaders of numerous development projects we take advantage of local opportunities present in the region, and the strategic to build a regional project focused on placement between Paris and western knowledge and innovation? What new Île-de-France (along the axis of Paris’ Seine methods of studying, teaching, working, River to Le Havre) come together to make producing, and living can we invent in a this a prime territory for the expression of territory? What spatial and architectural creativity and innovation. translations can create these new practices? 8 33rd session of the Paris-Ile-de-France Region workshop SESSION BOOK | 2015 Higher Learning and Innovation: Between Territorial Rooting, Openness to the World, and Virtualization Topic Île-de-France and western Grand Paris, in Cergy-Pontoise, and unites a dozen institutions. The Université Paris Seine sets as its objective a cooperation between academic and knowledge-based territories research institutions with the socio-economic milieu, promoting “rupture” innovations Source: Ateliers de Cergy in both technology and service. Consequently, it prioritizes three key points: innovation, entrepreneurship, and creativity. The Université Paris Seine also heads the project of creating a new international campus near Cergy-Pontoise. It is conceived as a residential area for students and researchers The Île-de-France region, a conglomeration which would also provide new services. The role this project can play in the territory’s innovation and attractiveness will be one of the of close to 12 million inhabitants over essential elements of consideration for the 2015 workshop. The “Grand Paris” project, planned for 2016 and that aims to create a Grand 12,000km² representing 30% of the nation’s Paris metropolis through regrouping Paris with three departments in the Inner Ring, the Île-de-France region integrates into its territorial GDP, constitutes the main concentration development strategies the dimension of knowledge and innovation by relying on concepts of “clusters” and competitiveness centers, on of higher learning and research institutions public and private institutions of higher learning and research, and on the strong relationships that can be developed between different in France. It hosts more than 650,000 stakeholders, such as local communities and businesses. The significant presence of university stakeholders in the territory is a solid students, amassing a quarter of all students, advantage in encouraging a strong territorial development dynamic. progress Workshop a third of all research professors and 40% of all research laboratories in the country. Today, a redefining of the role of higher learning and research has been placed at the heart of local and regional politics, aligned with the restructuring of the university system around eight research and higher education clusters (called COMUEs). This new universities map means a stronger specialization between high education establishments : The Plateau de Saclay becomes a center of scientific proposals Teams excellence ; the Cité Descartes in Marne-la- Vallée define themselves as a cluster about the “sustainable city”, while Évry Centre Essonne links its image to the “Génopôle”. There is also a Human Sciences hub in Aubervilliers, and the four last COMUE are Jury The located in Paris center. In this