What is it that drives public action on urban mobility issues?

26th-27th March 2012 - Paris

26 March 2012

The City Factory and the City on the Move Institute are organizing, in partnership, a colloquium about public action issues regarding mobility.

The event will take place on March 26th and 27th at La Bellevilloise in Paris.

This two-day conference will bring together all the teams from around the world who contributed to the research and interchanges. Academics, experts, public figures, decision-makers will debate the multiple processes that mould mobility policies: controversies, perceptions of the city, interests, values, human networks… .

The international conference, with simultaneous French/English translation, is aimed equally at academics and professionals, decision-makers and citizens involved in implementing city projects.

Online registration is free but required. Registration is open on www.movemaking.com.

 

List of speakers

21 CITIES, 14 INTERDISCIPLINARY TEAMS

This event is the outcome of an international research collaboration conducted in 21 cities: Beijing, Shanghai, Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Lima, Mexico, Santiago de Chile, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Paris Île-de-France, Barcelona, Eindhoven, Manchester, Cali, Jakarta, Ahmedabad, Brussels, Athens, Dakar, Guangzhou, Daegu…with an entirely new, collaborative research method: 14 interdisciplinary academic teams have analysed iconic transport projects in different cities, identifying the gaps between political intentions, social needs and actual outcomes.

WHAT IS IT THAT DRIVES PUBLIC ACTION ON URBAN MOBILITY ISSUES?

The tyranny of crisis? Catastrophe avoidance? Environmental protection? The competition between cities in a global world? Urban quality of life? The constant need for modernisation? The entrenched power of the protagonists? But also, what is it that impedes public action? Why is it that some problems, albeit serious, never reach the top of the agenda? Why do innovations continue to be ignored? … The aim of this international research effort is to help us understand the history and conditions of decision-making on a mobility solution within a specific context.

AND ALSO :

▪ A survey of 700 students around the world on their dreams for the city of tomorrow

▪ Specific analyses of controversial urban projects by young academics

▪ Personal contributions by politicians and experts; multimedia productions and films shown for the first time at the conference to cast a different light on the dynamics of mobility policies and to reflect their complexity;

▪ A collaborative platform www.movemaking.com to collect data and focus debate…

The international research programme and conference are headed by the City on the Move Institute with its China and Latin America chairs, and by La Fabrique de la Cité, in partnership with Paris-East University and with the support of the Île-de- France Institute of Urban Planning and the Caisse des dépôts et Consignations Institute, with the participation of FNAU (National Federation of Planning Agencies). Initiative funded by the Ile-de-France Region.

 

SPEAKERS

 

- Pascal Feillard, Secretary-General of The City on the Move

- Remi Dorval, president of La Fabrique de la Cité / The City Factory

- Jean-Pierre Orfeuil, president of the City on the Move scientific committee, member of The City Factory scientific committee

- Jean-Marc Offner, Head of Agence d'urbanisme Bordeaux métropole Aquitaine

- Wolfgang Schuster, Mayor of Stuttgart

- Pan Haixiao, transport planning expert and engineer, professor at University of Tongji, and director of City on the Move-China

- Andres Borthagaray, manager of City on the Move-Latin America

- Mathieu Flonneau, historian, lecturer at Université Paris I

- Rosanna Forray, architect, professor at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, member of City on the Move-Latin America

- Pierre Lannoy, sociologist, professor at Laboratoire METICES/Centre de recherche urbaine at Université libre de Bruxelles

- Gaëlle Rony, PhD. in Social Sciences of Université catholique de Louvain

- Eduardo Vasconcellos, engineer and sociologist, director of Instituto Movimento and project manager of the National Association of Public Transport, Brazil

- LIU Jian, architect and city planner, professor at the School of Architecture of University of Tsinghua, Beijing, member of City on the Move-China

- Hananto Prakoso, Center of Transport Training, Ministry of Transport, Indonesia, PhD. candidate at Institut d’urbanisme de Paris, Université Paris-Est Créteil

- Bernardo Navarro Benítez, professor and research fellow in territorial planning at Metropolitan Autonomous University Xochimilco

- Alicia Ziccardi, sociologist, professor and research fellow at the Institute of Social Research at National Autonomous University of Mexico

- Zhuo Jian, architect and city planner, professor at University of Tongji

- Mariana Alegre Escorza, Research fellow at PUCP-Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and coordinator of the City Observatory of Lima

- Martin Tironi, PhD. candidate at the Center of innovation sociology, Ecole des mines de Paris

- Juan Carlos Dextre, engineer, President of the Mobility Comittee of Pontifical Catholic University of Peru

- Mélanie Jaraj Gheiman, PhD. candidate in city planning at Université de Strasbourg, ENSA/AMUP

- Oscar Figueroa, Chile, transportation expert, Institute of Urban and Territorial Studies, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

- Juan Pablo Bocarejo, engineer, professor at University of the Andes, Bogotá, member of City on the Move-Latin America

- Aimé Kantoussan, PhD. candidate at Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne

- Sophie Leblanc-Van Neste, PhD. candidate at University INRS UCS of Montreal

- Laurence Damay, PhD. at Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis, Brussels

- Matias Garreton, PhD. candidate of Université Paris Est

- Carles Llop, architect, professor and Director of the Departement of City Planning of Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona

- Isabel Arteaga, architect, professor at University of the Andes, Bogotá

- Sophie Rousseau, architect, professor at Eindhoven University of Technology

- Margareth da Silva Pereira, professor at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

- Cristian Figueroa, PhD. candidate in architecture at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

- Laurent Fouillé, PhD. at Ecole des mines de Nantes

- Clémence Montagne, PhD. candidate in urban geography at Ecole doctorale de géographie de la Sorbonne

- Zoi Christoforou, Research Associate, Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens

- Chaofu Yeh, Senior Specialist at the Transportation Department of the city of Taichung

- Marcel Smets, architect, city planner, professor at University of Leuven, Head Architect of Flamand Gouvernement flamand from 2005 to 2010