EXPOSITION - Habiter le Grand Paris ! Ou? Quand? Comment? . Le CENTQUATRE-Paris (104)

The exhibition "Habiter le Grand Paris" -104, was conceived and coordinated within the Atelier International du Grand Paris (AIGP), a public platform that develops research, experimentation and dissemination on the future of the Paris metropolitan region through a scientific council of fifteen multidisciplinary teams of architects, urban planners and researchers. Hosted at Le CENTQUATRE-Paris (104), a major cultural venue of modern Paris, situated in the 19ᵗʰ arrondissement, the exhibition occupied the entire ground-floor of the cultural center (3.000 sqm) and took place from 1 to 7 July 2013. Structured around the political goal of producing 70,000 new dwellings per year in Île-de-France, the exhibition translated ongoing research on “Habiter le Grand Paris” into a public device combining an animated cartography, fifteen project studies, around fifty short films and photographic itineraries by Magnum Photos across the Grand Paris territories. Its research-oriented objective was to test and communicate metropolitan strategies on housing, mobility, urban form and governance through six thematic axes (adaptability/recycling, living and moving, lifestyles and typologies, metropolitan narratives, compact/dispersed city, geographies and governance), engaging both experts and non-specialists. The inauguration, under the patronage of the French Prime Minister, was attended by national ministers Cécile Duflot and Aurélie Filippetti, the Mayor of Paris, the President of the Île-de-France Region and the presidents of Paris Métropole and the Association des maires d’Île-de-France, representing the institutional partnership between the State, regional and metropolitan authorities that govern the AIGP.