Urban Prospective Lab - Inventing, and experimenting with the future of intermediate cities - With Ateliers de Cergy and Institut des Futurs Souhaitables

SUPPORTING REGIONAL, ECOLOGICAL, AND ENERGY TRANSITIONS

URBAN PROSPECTIVE LAB

EXPLORING, INVENTING, AND EXPERIMENTING WITH THE FUTURE OF INTERMEDIATE CITIES IN PARTNERSHIP WITH LES ATELIERS DE CERGY AND THE INSTITUT DES FUTURS SOUHAITABLES

Formats: hybrid Languages: French

OVERALL THEME/BACKGROUND

Intermediate (secondary) cities are factors in the reshaping and rebalancing of territories. Their potential is a decisive element in developing the African continent. They serve an important role as an interface with their rural hinterlands and play a major economic role at the regional level. Yet these cities often suffer from a lack of services and facilities. They are facing intense changes.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Assisting stakeholders in an overall, systemic reading of their region. Incorporating the issue of time in building the city, based on the techniques of future literacy. Creating new ideas about intermediate cities in Africa by combining urban planning, innovation, artistic creation, and a sensitive approach. Developing, planning, and experimenting/prototyping solutions with impacts in an interdisciplinary fashion, by promoting networking through developing a community of practice.

TEACHING METHODS & ACTIVITIES

Educational trip to a school city (sensitive approach, exploration...) Learning expedition on your own (investigative work, benchmarking), Workshop in Marseille (design fiction, backcasting, prototyping...) Mentoring, coaching

WHAT WILL YOU GET OUT OF THIS TRAINING COURSE?

At the end of this training course, you will have the tools to understand and assess regions, to understand and compare challenges at different scales, to measure complexity and vulnerabilities, but above all to identify potential. You will be able to develop new visions for your intermediary cities, to invent impactful solutions, and to integrate into your respective practices a renewed relationship with space and urban areas.

FIND OUT MORE:

https://mooc-campus.afd.fr/ An intermediate city in Africa (to be determined) Marseille Digital platform

5 months (including 2 weeks of inperson sessions)

Transitions stakeholders in intermediate cities (elected officials, executives, architects, entrepreneurs, artists, etc.)

PARTNERSHIP

Ateliers de Cergy Institut des Futurs Souhaitables