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Design Workshop: Cannes Reloaded
William J. Mitchell, Carlo Ratti, Dennis Frenchman, Guy Perry
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
- Some preliminary data analysis of the city
- Concept ideas for the new design of Cannes
- Recordings of sounds on the site (6 min mp3 - 7Mb)