4.3 - Program of Forum

The organization of Forums in France since ten years has allowed the World-Wide Federation of Young Architects (FMJA) and the French Section of the International Architects’Union to be registered by the United Nations Center on Human Establishments (CNUEH-Habitat) and at the European Community Development Organization (OCDE) as Non Governmental active Organizations (ONG).

The chosen item for the VII^th Forum « The City Boundaries » on the example of Perpignan and the bordering municipalities, follows from the last Forums organized in our department : The City and Social Housing, Social Housing in Rural Environment, the University and the City, the Evolution of a Mountain Village, the Cross-Border Cooperation., The Sustainable Development of the Tet Valley .

The City Boundaries set up a zoom of the last Forum where was advanced among other things the concept : the river , vital lead of urban development, in a sustainable mind .

We hope that all the actors of the City, the Elected representatives, the State, the Region, the County but also the Public Corporations, the Consular Chambers, Manufacturers, local Firms, the concerned Associations, the Population will know how to help us, to make this VII^th International Forum of Young Architects to be a great success.

Zygmund Knyszewski

Manager of the VII^th Forum

The first two days of the Forum will be given to an International Colloquy with topic «Do the City Boundaries exist ? »  .

The debates of the Colloquy will stress on the making of the city, on the city development stategies, on the solidarity « town-country », on the harmonious development of the urban area .

This Colloquy will gather experts and specialists from different concerned Administrations, both French and International (U.N.O., U.N.E.S.C.O., the European Community etc…) .The results of these two days’work will contribute to provide the reflection on the sustainable development of the cities and will elaborate new appropriate scenario for the future . Reliable answers must emerge from the Colloquy, to the often contradictory questions that urbanity and rural society meet .

Because the XX^th century saw the failure of the city and the multiple tools produced and proposed to the Elected representatives haven’t been effective :

• the land use regulations (P.O.S.) only organize a policy for standard constructions .
• the procedure of housing development has only been used to make the «non city» .
• the mixed – housing development (Z.A.C.) often be instrumental to create urban ghettos, although they were used to fund some public facilities .

The Colloquy must bring out new tracks of the development of the city and the villages and will help the participants of the Forum to work on the City Boundaries .

The Colloquy will be coupled with different exhibitions :

• the french savoir-faire on town planning development and city planning .
• Perpignan : Architecture and City .
• Bioclimatic Architecture in Languedoc-Roussillon .

At the beginning of the century the walls disappeared and Perpignan anarchically developped along the main roads, in a remarkable site between sea and mountains, unaware of theTet crossing, the main river of Roussillon in the middle of a fertile plain .

The intensive development of the means of communication make the city to lose one of its main functions: the place of trade exchange . This one, space eater developped outside (the business park often eroding gradually the agricultural spaces) .

The city expands like the « fingers of a hand » (along the main roads) and this anarchical development generated vacant spaces . At the same time the means of communication have made « dormitory surbubs » with their problems .

It’s necessary to think about non only the city boundaries of Perpignan, but also on the development limits of the villages of the outer surbubs .

It’s in this context that the VII^th Forum wants to think on the district identity and the urban unity, on the surrounding villages identity and the built up area, that is the city boudaries .

The result of the Forum should contribute to enrich the reflection of the Municipality on an urban project of the City .

From the diagnostics of the city and of the surrounding villages, and the lessons drawn from the International Colloquy, the teams will receive a document about the sites on which they will have to work .

This document will include the main information about the sites : town planning documents, graphics documents of the site, approach indications, etc …

The sites and their items will be defined with the local elected representatives during the preliminary phase of the Forum .

The propositions will be given on the evening of Thursday 26^th July 2001.

The oral presentation will take place in front of the Jury on Friday 27^th July 2001 at 9 A.M.

The results and the commentaries of the Jury will be announced on the same day at 6 P.M.

Perpignan – Pyrénées Orientales (France)

Young Architects or Landscape Architects from all over the world and trained by international animators, will work on the site.

From 16^th to 27^th July 2001, including the International Colloquy on 16^th and 17^th July 2001.

Participants will be welcomed on Monday July 16^th until 10 A.M.

Official opening of the Forum at 11 A.M., the International Colloquy will start the same day at 2 P.M. and will continue all the following day.

3.3. THE INTERNATIONAL CO-ORDINATION COMMITEE :

- O. AL KOUWATLI, Doctor in Architecture and Urbanism, Professor at the School of

Architecture of Damas, World-Wide Federation of Young Architects, Middle East Section,

- J. DINIZ, Urbanist Architect, World-Wide Federation of Young Architects, Latin

American Section,

- F. DIOP, Urbanist Architect, World-Wide Federation of Young Architects, African

Section, Senegal

- J. GONZALES CLAVERAN, Urbanist Architect, Professor at the National Polytechnic

Institute of Guadalajara - Mexico,

- B. KADINOV, Urbanist Architect, Professor at the School of Architecture of Sofia -

Bulgaria,

- Z. KNYSZEWSKI, Urbanist Architect , Manager of the Forums of Young Architects in France,

Treasurer of the S.F.U.I.A. - France,

- A. KOWALEWSKI, Doctor of Economy, U.N.O. Expert for Human Establishments

(UNCHS – Habitat), Poland,

- M. LEGER, Architect, Chief Inspector of the Ministry of Infrastructure Regulatory, Professor

at the School of Architecture of Rouen - France,

- F. ROBLIN, Urbanist Architect, President of the World-Wide Federation of Young

Architects - France,

- H. UDA, Urbanist Architect - Japan,

- G. WURSTEISEN, Urbanist Architect, Delegate at the Working Group Environment,

Architecture and Energy of the UIA - France.

- J.P. ALDUY, Mayor of Perpignan- President of the Interdepartmental Committee for the

Quality of Public Constructions - France

- O. AL KOUWATLI, Doctor in Architecture and Urbanism, Professor at the School of

Architecture of Damas, General Secretary of FMJA – Syria

- C. ALLET, Civil Engineer (ICPC), Departmental Head of Public Engineering, the Ministry of

Infrastructure Regulatory - France

- I. ATANASSOVA, Architect, National Union of Bulgarian Architects – Bulgaria

- C. CERVELLO, Urbanist Architect, Professor at the Art College of Perpignan – France

- J.F. CHARPENTIER, Urbanist Architect, Architecture Academy, Vice President of the

International Architects' Union – French Section - France

- J. DINIZ, Urbanist Architect, Vice President of the World-Wide Federation of Young

Architects, Latin American Section – Brazil

- F. DIOP, Urbanist Architect, Vice President of the World-Wide Federation of Young

Architects, African Section – Senegal

- J.P. DUVAL, Architect Adviser of the County of P.O. – France

- C. ENJOLRAS, Architect Adviser of the Ministry of Arts and Communication – France

- FENG XIAOJIAN, Architect, Vice President of the World-Wide Federation of Young

Architects, Asian Section – China

- J. GONZALES CLAVERAN, Urbanist Architect, Professor at the National Polytechnic

Institute of Guadalajara - Mexico,

- S. GRUET, Architect, Philosopher, Editor of Poïesis review – France

- J. HAMELIN, Architect, Manager of Urban Planning Development of the city of Perpignan -

France

- Z. KNYSZEWSKI, Urbanist Architect, Manager of the VII^th Forum of Young Architects,

Treasurer of the International Architects' Union French Section - France,

- A. KOWALEWSKI, Urbanist Architect, Doctor of Economy, U.N.O. Expert for Human

Establishments (UNCHS – Habitat), Poland,

- S. KURYLOWICZ, Architect, Professor at the Faculty of Architecture of Warsaw - Poland

- M. LAROCHE, Landscape Adviser for the Department of P.O. - France

- M. LEGER, Architect, Chief Inspector, the Ministry of Infrastructure Regulatory, Professor at

the School of Architecture of Rouen - France,

- S. MITRO, Urbanist Architect, Vice President of FMJA Eastern Europe – Slovakia,

- F. ROBLIN, Urbanist Architect, President of the World-Wide Federation of Young

Architects - France,

- J.F. SUSINI, Urbanist Architect, President of National Council of the Architects' Association

France,

- G. WURSTEISEN, Urbanist Architect, Delegate at the Working Group Environment,

Architecture and Energy of the UIA - France.

16 B rue de la Machine - 54300 Moncel les Lunéville - FRANCE

Tel : (33) (0) 3.83.77.72.72 Fax : (33) (0) 3.83.77.72.73

Tel : (33). (0) 1.56.58.67.00 Fax : (33). (0)1.56.58.67.01

. The Ministry of Infrastructure Regulatory, Transports and Housing

. The Ministry for the Arts

. The Ministry for Territory Planning and Environment

. The Regional Council of Languedoc Roussillon

. The City of Perpignan

. The National and Regional Council of the Architects' Association

. The Departemental Architecture Service of P.O.

. The Departemental Infrastructure Regulatory Agency of P.O.

. The County Authority for Agriculture and Foresty of P.O.

. Private sponsors

. The European Parliament

. The Interministerial City Delegation

. The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of P.O.

. The Chamber of Trade

. The Regional Infrastructure Regulatory Agency of Languedoc Roussillon

. The Agency for the Environment and Energy Ccontrol

. The County Committee for Economic Development of P.O.

. The CNRS (National Scientific Research Center) – City Program

It allows architects from all over the world and from different cultures to meet and exchange working methods and give a new vision on the proposed item, through a great diversity of origins and cultures.

- the preparation and general functioning of meetings (lodging, intendance, local transport, supplying) ;

- the preparation and the diffusion of the final report (brochures, exhibitions of the works in France and abroad).

As in previous years, during two weeks, the participants are architects, economists, landscape architects who are under forty years old, as well the animators and lecturers who will exchange ideas, information and methodologies about the Sustainable City and its boundaries.

The greatest specialists will supply the participants with information during the Colloquy which will precede the Forum. An international jury will judge and will reward the different proposals.

The projects, which are the architects’ teams work, will be presented in an exhibition and in the publication of a bilingual brochure. It will present the different propositions accompanied by the jury’s comments.

The logistics will be supplied by :

- Zygmund KNYSZEWSKI, Manager of the Forum and Treasurer of the SFUIA

3; rue des Variétés – 66000 PERPIGNAN - France

Tel : (33) (0)4.68.35.31.46 Fax : (33) (0)4.68.34.34.08

- Patricia BLANC, Photographer, Coordinator of the Forum

6 Impasse des Sauterelles – 30650 – ROCHEFORT DU GARD – France -

Tel : (33) (0)4.90.31.86.42 - (33) (0) 6.03.46.84.63.

Fax : (33) 4.90.31.85.24

- The number of participants is limited to 50 architects.

- The selection will be based on the curriculum vitae : join to the registration form a

concise document illustrating the candidate’s experience relating to the theme of

the competition.

- Reception before 30/04/2001, 12 p.m.

- According to UNESCO norms, the participants will be architects, urbanists, economists,

landscape architects under forty years old.

- The candidatures are opened to young graduate professionals or future graduate

students.

- The teams will be composed of five architects, urbanists, landscape architects or

economists from different nationalities, one of them will be French at least.

- The teams will be chosen by drawing of lots.

- The final program will be given to the participants after their arrival on the site.

- A two days International Colloquy animated by Sustainable City specialists will complete

these information.

- The projects will be conceived during the Forum.

- The international jury will be composed by Architects and acknowledged experts,

members of the International Architects’ Union and local important persons

straightly involved in the selected theme.

- The rewards will have a symbolic nature.

- The results will be presented to local personalities administrators and politicians.

They will be exhibited at the International Union Congress of Architects in Berlin in 2002.

- The official languages are French and English.

- Lodging, meals and local transport will be supplied by the organizers.

- Transport expenses and visa to go to the site of the Forum will be chargeable to participants.

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LAST NAME FIRST NAME

DATE ET LIEU DE NAISSANCE

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CITIZENSHIP SPOKEN LANGUAGES

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ADRESSE PROFESSIONNELLE

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TITRES ET DIPLOMES

ACTIVITES PROFESSIONNELLES

Réception avant le 30 mai 2001 à minuit, Curriculum Vitae inclus.

La sélection sera faite d'après le Curriculum Vitae : envoyer un document concis illustrant votre expérience en regard du thème de la compétition (1 à 3 pages de texte, une page illustrée).