Shanghai on the Move

The workshop is part of a comparative European/Asian perspective of project issues related to the place of water & mobility in the contemporary metropolis. It benefits from the research partnership between ENSAS and the Urban Planning & Architecture Department of Tongji University (CAUP), which is part of the program of the Franco-Chinese Chair of Metropolitan Mobilities (ENSAS-Tongji-SYSTRA).
This workshop aims to question the relationships between the city, water and mobility, current topics for Shanghai, for which these two elements represent an essential part of its origin and identity. The changing links that can exist between built-up areas and hydrological and mobility systems have been and still are an important factor in the evolution of the metropolitan landscape and urban fabric. And this correlation between the city and its "waters" - whether natural rivers or man-made canals and harbors, drinking water or polluted water, floods or droughts, etc. - is in constant evolution. How does the relationship of the city to water allow the anchoring of the Shanghai metropolis to a forgotten territorial matrix? How can water in the city support new and innovative forms of mobility? What could be the role of architects and planners in a prospective of this relationship?
The final restitution privileges the exploratory dimension as a basis for the definition of project scenarios. 

Students : Cyrielle BEAUMONT, Marie BILLA, Cécile BOUCHET, Clémentine DUFAUT, Mickaël GIRAUD,  Candice GROJEAN, Caroline HEITZ, Aleksandar LAZAROV, Lauriane LERCH, Christophe MAIGNIEN, Victoria NUYAKSHEVA, Chara NIKOLAOU, Noël PICAPER, Maria PINHEIRO, Léopold PRUDON, Guillaume SANSEIGNE, Sarah TA NGUY.