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MAS.968:
Cannes Reloaded
Professor
WJ Mitchell, D Frenchman, C Ratti
Course coordinator: Susanne Settinger
Fall
2003
Workshop brief:
CANNES today functions mostly as a tourist, festival, and retirement
destination. But it has the potential to play a new, far more dynamic
role. Its climate and lifestyle attractions, its connections to the
film and media world, and its proximity to the Sophia Antipolis technopole,
position it to become a leading center of the creative industries.
The focus of this workshop is on innovative development, urban design,
and technological infrastructure strategies to achieve that goal. The
recent Nation Academies report "Beyond Productivity" will provide a
starting point. Cannes has partnered with MIT to develop an approach
for a new high-technology neighborhood on one of the last available
waterfront sites (more than 30 ha) near the downtown. The workshop will
challenge students to develop specific architectural, urban, and technological
interventions that will initiate beneficial urban change.
The course will focus on three themes:
- Planning sustainable large-scale urban transformation
- Understanding the repercussions of technology on the spatial configuration
of our cities
- Working with emerging wireless technology to transform our cities.
Contributions
to the workshop:
- Preliminary city data analysis,
Newbury precedent study
- Some photos from the site
visit
- Midterm: user profiles, initial design
concepts (with Yannis Zavoleas)
- MIPIM competition (Lira in the role of class desktop publisher)
- Final project 1: Media Juke box
interaction diagrams (with Tristan Jehan and Yannis Zavoleas)
- Final project 2: Moving
audience
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