“Dream cities, sustainable cities?” in Toulouse

by: Robert Grimm - March 22nd, 2011  

A JOINT EDF DIVERSITERRE FOUNDATION/CITY ON THE MOVE INSTITUTE EXHIBITION

What are the major challenges facing urbanism today? What new compromises does it need to make? How can individual desires – for space, urban intensity and nature, access to all the resources of the city – be reconciled with the demands of sustainability? Going to the heart of the public debate and of our concerns as citizens, this exhibition was first presented at the EDF Diversiterre Foundation in Paris in October 2009/March 2010, then in Mulhouse in October 2010/February 2011 and will be at Espace Bazacle in Toulouse from March 30 to June 12, 2011.■ Exhibition curators:
Eric Charmes, urbanist, Director of Lyon University’s “City, Space, Society” interdisciplinary research centre, also content curator of IVM’s exhibition “The street belongs to all of us!”;
Taoufik Souami, architect and urbanist, lecturer in urbanism and development at the French Institute of Urban Planning – IFU, member of the French Scientific Research Council’s “Urban Transformation Theory” laboratory and scientific coordinator of the IVM programme “Climate change, Urban Mobility and Cleantech”.

ESPACE BAZACLE
11, quai Saint-Pierre. 31 000 Toulouse
Free entry every day from 11 am to 7 pm except Mondays and public holidays
Exhibition catalogue published by éditions Gallimard “Découvertes Hors-série” – October 2010

Find out more: www.ville-en-mouvement.com/uk/villes-revees-ville-durables-uk.htm; fondation.edf.com
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About: Robert Grimm

All over Europe, cities are faced with the challenge of using cultural resources to re-position their city in an increasingly culturally and economically diversified European space. Related to this is a clear recognition of the growing importance of cultural resources for economic and community development. This produces new opportunities and challenges for local cultural planning and management. In order to fully exploit the innovative and supportive role of culture in European urban development, it will be necessary to develop a new socially and culturally sensitive professionalism, able to cross the boundaries between the arts, design, urban and spatial planning, public policy and the market, artistic creativity and cultural management. The MA in European Urban Cultures offers a specialist programme aimed at graduate students from Europe and elsewhere with undergraduate degrees in subject areas such as the social sciences; cultural and leisure studies; art, design and architecture; urban theory and planning; cultural marketing and management. The course is also targeted at professionals and administrators eager for the latest experiences, ideas and insights in urban cultural policy.