The Greater Paris report I examines the application of the French Policy for Knowledge Economy and University campus, known under the name of "Plan Campus" in the Greater Paris context. This policy will define the role of French universities within the development and the impact they will have on the construction of a truly global metropolis by ensuring that Knowledge Industries will play a strategic part in promoting growth from within (P. Hall). The trend towards urban developments for contemporary Campuses started in France in the 1960s. Since those first projects the world has changed radically. Over the years the first generation of Campuses have begun to feel the adverse effects of these changes caused by the overly large areas of competence they are expected to deal with and since they were often built some distance from city centres the facilities they offer fail to attract members of their local communities. In the decade from 1990 to the year 2000 the U2000 and U3M state-sponsored development plans attempted to integrate Campuses into a more urban context. However a more ‘global’ approach to the resources offered by universities and their place within the territory in which they are located must now be looked at on a regional basis. Recent reforms of the French university system have seen the introduction of policies that go beyond the traditional “Grandes Écoles” model in which further education was designed to prepare a ruling class of (mainly) technically trained professionals. With the arrival of PRES (pôles de recherche et d’enseignement supérieur) and the introduction of complex evaluation methods and greater competition for funding in 2008 the French Ministry of Research and Further Education launched Plan Campus, a national census designed to find projects for modernizing older Campuses and building new ones. Twelve Campus projects from across the country were eventually chosen to become part of Plan Campus, a necessary step in order to have a concrete idea of the financial commitment involved in their realization. The projects in the Paris area chosen for PC are “Paris-Saclay”, “Condorcet-Paris- Aubervillers”, “Universitées de Paris”. Saclay and Condorcet, these “annex” Campuses are at the heart of the Grand Paris urban development plan proposed by the former undersecretary Blanc and are the starting off point for 10 teams from the Atelier Grand Paris. Saclay is designed to be a hub for high profile cluster universities hosting large technical faculties and is part of the strategic “Cône sud francilienne de l’innovation” (southern cone of innovation) development plan. Condorcet-Aubervillers, a Campus dedicated to humanist studies, is a smaller design that interfaces directly with Paris via the Paris north-east ring road (the “transpériphérique”) the subject of another development project we will be examining in greater detail in our third Grand Paris Dossier. These “extra-peripheral” hubs will house personnel, researchers and students who have traditionally found accommodation in Paris’s old city centre. The overlapping of potential problems and opportunities offers an absolutely new take on the urban development of the capital and its evolution as a metropolis. Condorcet is analysed below in an interview given by architect Florence Lipsky with the collaboration of Fondation Concorcet’s managing director urban development expert David Bérinque.
GRAND PARIS REPORT I - Plan Campus. The role of universities in building a Global City
A. delli Ponti
Primo
;R. Farinella
2011
Abstract
The Greater Paris report I examines the application of the French Policy for Knowledge Economy and University campus, known under the name of "Plan Campus" in the Greater Paris context. This policy will define the role of French universities within the development and the impact they will have on the construction of a truly global metropolis by ensuring that Knowledge Industries will play a strategic part in promoting growth from within (P. Hall). The trend towards urban developments for contemporary Campuses started in France in the 1960s. Since those first projects the world has changed radically. Over the years the first generation of Campuses have begun to feel the adverse effects of these changes caused by the overly large areas of competence they are expected to deal with and since they were often built some distance from city centres the facilities they offer fail to attract members of their local communities. In the decade from 1990 to the year 2000 the U2000 and U3M state-sponsored development plans attempted to integrate Campuses into a more urban context. However a more ‘global’ approach to the resources offered by universities and their place within the territory in which they are located must now be looked at on a regional basis. Recent reforms of the French university system have seen the introduction of policies that go beyond the traditional “Grandes Écoles” model in which further education was designed to prepare a ruling class of (mainly) technically trained professionals. With the arrival of PRES (pôles de recherche et d’enseignement supérieur) and the introduction of complex evaluation methods and greater competition for funding in 2008 the French Ministry of Research and Further Education launched Plan Campus, a national census designed to find projects for modernizing older Campuses and building new ones. Twelve Campus projects from across the country were eventually chosen to become part of Plan Campus, a necessary step in order to have a concrete idea of the financial commitment involved in their realization. The projects in the Paris area chosen for PC are “Paris-Saclay”, “Condorcet-Paris- Aubervillers”, “Universitées de Paris”. Saclay and Condorcet, these “annex” Campuses are at the heart of the Grand Paris urban development plan proposed by the former undersecretary Blanc and are the starting off point for 10 teams from the Atelier Grand Paris. Saclay is designed to be a hub for high profile cluster universities hosting large technical faculties and is part of the strategic “Cône sud francilienne de l’innovation” (southern cone of innovation) development plan. Condorcet-Aubervillers, a Campus dedicated to humanist studies, is a smaller design that interfaces directly with Paris via the Paris north-east ring road (the “transpériphérique”) the subject of another development project we will be examining in greater detail in our third Grand Paris Dossier. These “extra-peripheral” hubs will house personnel, researchers and students who have traditionally found accommodation in Paris’s old city centre. The overlapping of potential problems and opportunities offers an absolutely new take on the urban development of the capital and its evolution as a metropolis. Condorcet is analysed below in an interview given by architect Florence Lipsky with the collaboration of Fondation Concorcet’s managing director urban development expert David Bérinque.I documenti in SFERA sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
