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The planning of a city is both a social and a technical endeavour. Next to (public) administrations, cities are increasingly planned by (private) corporations. The latent absence of architects in the process risks leading towards technocratic responses in city planning. To reverse this situation, architects need to start understanding the tools, parameters and languages of the contemporary modus operandi. The course ‘Density & Metropolis’ at the National School of Architecture of Versailles (ENSAV) is both working on densification and de-densification. Besides learning to define, measure and control these parameters, the students also become acquainted with ‘the languages’ of city makers, such as ecologists, traffic planners, economists, politicians, waste managers, virologists, activists,… To encourage the students to reach out to them, an interview/podcast series with city planners was introduced in 2021. The course ‘Density and Metropolis’ is part of the dual master program ‘Ecological Urbanism’. Associated teachers: Andreas Kofler, Klaas de Rycke Institutional partners: Tongji University Thanks to Jérôme Massela for the professional advice on the production of these podcasts.
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Florian Hertweck is Professor of Architecture and Director of the Master's programme Architecture, European Urbanisation, Globalisation at the University of Luxembourg. Prior to this position, he was full professor at École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Versailles and visiting professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg.After studying architecture at ENSA Paris-Malaquais and contemporary history of architecture, he received his doctorate in 2006 on the Berlin architectural controversy (Der Berliner Architekturstreit) at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Universität Paderborn.He has been working as an independent architect since 2005, from 2010 to 2015 in partnership with the French architect Pierre Alexandre Devernois, and since 2016 as part of Studio Hertweck in Luxembourg.His research and planning activities include design strategies for metropolitan regions, such as Berlin, Paris, Shanghai, Casablanca, Istanbul, the Greater Region and more recently Geneva, together with Milica Topalovic from ETH Zurich, in the context of the Consultation du Grand Genève.
Mohammed Zanna is a community organizer, activist, and a leader of the Nigerian Slum / Informal Settlement Federation. He is the founding father of the Federation's Media 4 Change initiative before the coming of KYC.TV, a youth-led effort to support the Federation's goals through media advocacy. Mohammed also coordinates a grassroots network of homeless and urban poor persons living with disabilities (PLWDs) in Lagos, many who are of northern Nigerian descent, and face multiple forms of exclusion and marginalization. He is Kanuri by tribe, and originally from Borno State.
Jens von Bergmann holds undergraduate degrees in Physics and Computer Sciences and a PhD in Mathematics. He taught for several years at the University of Calgary, University of Notre Dame and Michigan State University before founding MountainMath to work on his passion of data analysis and visualization.
Tomas Diez is a Venezuela born Urbanist specialised in digital fabrication and its implications in the future of cities and society. He is the founder of the Fab City Research Laboratory at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia where he also is a tutor in design for digital fabrication. Tomas is tutor in Design Products at the Royal College of Arts, where he co-leads the Exploring Emergent Futures platform.
Gehl is an urban research and design consulting firm based in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was founded in 2000 by Professor Jan Gehl and urban designer Helle Søholt as a continuation of Gehl's research within the area over the past four decades. The firm specialises in improving the quality of urban life by re-orienting city design towards pedestrians and cyclists.
Marco Maretto is Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Parma and I.S.U.F. member since 1999. He focuses his research on the interpretation of the urban form as a basis for urban design: urban morphology, sustainability and urban design can be considered the keywords of his work.
Autumn Visconti is a Senior Landscape Architect at BIG leading the design and implementation of the East Side Coastal Resiliency (ESCR) and the Brooklyn-Queens Park (BQP), two of BIG’s largest infrastructure and planning efforts in New York City. Since joining BIG in 2017, her approach has been devoted to public realm projects in better preparing cities and communities for climate adaptation and promoting social justice through environmental equity.
Quentin Rihoux is architect at MVRDV, founded in 1993 by Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries. Based in Rotterdam, the office has a global scope, providing solutions to contemporary architectural and urban issues in all regions of the world. Their highly collaborative, research-based design method involves clients, stakeholders, and experts from a wide range of fields from early on in the creative process. The results are exemplary, outspoken projects aiming to enable our cities and landscapes to develop towards a better future.
Since 2000, Carla Juaçaba developed her independent practise of architecture and research-based in Rio de Janeiro. Her office is currently engaged in both cultural programs and private projects. She is now living in London, teaching at Mendrisio Accademia in Switzerland, and is currently a PhD student at ETSAM-UPM-Madrid.
Architect Jeanne Gang, FAIA, is the founding principal and partner of Studio Gang. Her inquisitive, forward-looking approach to design—unique in its pursuit of new technical and material possibilities as well as in its expansion of the active role of designers in society—has distinguished her as a leading architect of her generation. Drawing insight from ecological systems, she creates striking places that connect people with each other, their communities, and the environment.
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