LA NUIT DES IDÉES: A Grand Parisian Night
Event Description
Six months after the success of the Olympic Games, this panel proposes a debate on the joint futures of the Parisian city center and its suburbs. As the city of Paris has just adopted new urban planning rules aimed at adapting the city to climate change (Bioclimatic Land Use Plan), many challenges remain for a metropolis still characterized by fragmentation between the historic city center and its banlieues. Infrastructural and socio-economic challenges will be discussed, from transportation systems to the equitable distribution of housing and health facilities, and the flux of Parisians making their way through these networks. We’ll also debate the democratic issues of a governance model ruled by so many levels and stakeholders, from the city of Paris to neighboring suburban municipalities, a metropolitan political entity, the region and the State. This roundtable will offer a reflection on the specific, and universal, challenges of shaping a metro region like the Grand Paris—and what roles architects, planners, designers and intellectuals/artists can play to shape this fabric, everchanging and bound not to remain frozen in time.
Program
Introduction
6:30 – 7:00pm
Sarah Whiting, Dean and Josep Lluís Sert Professor of Architecture
Pierre-Emmanuel Becherand, Loeb Fellow ’25
Keynotes
Adaptating Paris to the Climate Change
Lamia El Aaraje, Deputy mayor of Paris, In Charge of urban planning, architecture and Greater Paris (10’)
L’asymétrie des Baratins
Nicola Delon, Architect (10’), Encore Heureux
L’art du Grand Paris
Victoire Bourgois, Artist
Roundtable
7:00pm – 8:30pm
Beyond Paris – A Conversation About the Future of Paris
Speakers
Lamia El Aaraje
Deputy Mayor of Paris, In Charge of Urban Planning, Architecture and Greater Paris
Nicola Delon
Architect, Encore Heureux
Pauline Marchetti
Architect, Ferrier-Marchetti Studio
Victoire Bourgois
Artist
Antoine Picon
G. Ware Travelstead Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Magda Maaoui
Assistant Professor of Urban Planning, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Pierre-Emmanuel Becherand
Loeb Fellow ’25, Harvard Graduate School of Design
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