The Shanghai Connection

The 2018 IMM interdisciplinary planning and design workshop invites students to imagine future mobility in its relation to urban development in Shanghai’s South East metropolitan outskirts, according to Shanghai 2040 Explorative Scenario and Shanghai Master Plan 2017-2035. This plan seeks to transform Shanghai in a global metropolis and is focusing on several areas: people centred urbanism, urban decentralization, sustainable high density development, information systems and smart city, sustainable urban mobility, urban ecology. 

The relationship these peripheral metropolitan territories entertain with the infrastructural threads of mobility, and the natural ecosystems of "green" areas and water networks, is at the core of the design exploration.

Initiated by ENSA Strasbourg and hosted within the College of Architecture and Urban Planning in Tongji University (Shanghai, China), the workshop gathered students and supervisors  from three different continents (Europe, Asia and Australia), as well as from different disciplinary fields such as architecture, urban planning, geography and landscape architecture.

The themes and the project site of this 2018 edition of the IMM workshop were established with the support of the Xuanqiao Zhen local stakeholders, in particular representatives from the Planning and Construction Office as well as the Office of Urban investment who also took part in the final jury.

The workshop's final jury also welcomed academics from the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences working on prospective metropolitan strategies.

A certificate of participation was delivered to all students that took part in this workshop.

Students : Anna CHAMFRAULT, Jiahao CHEN, Muny-Roth CHEV, Clémence COTTEREAU, Grace DIBY, Fang FENG, Marie FRUIQUIERE, Yiyao GUAN, Guillaume HERGAT, Milan LABAN, Iris VALDREZ, Maxime VAUDRON, Anais WALCH, Yang YANG, Hanyurou ZOU.