During UN-HABITAT’s 5th World Urban Forum (WUF5) held from March 22 to 26, 2010, CUPUM presented student projects conducted during WAT_UNESCO events. Hosted in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the WUF5 event was held under the theme "The Right to the City - Bridging the Urban Divide.” The exhibition was selected to represent UNESCO as part of the Urban Forum of the United Nations. It compiled results from 6 years of reflection (Workshop_atelier/terrain - WAT) conducted in 6 cities throughout the Maghreb, the Middle East, and Asia. Held in close collaboration with local governments in selected cities, the UNESCO Chair’s annual WATs offer viable design solutions to meet the challenges of urban development in the 21st century.

Under the WUF5, the UNESCO Chair was represented by Philippe Poullaouec-Gonidec and Lyndsay Daudier. They communicated the Chair’s work via a conference conducted during the session "How to prepare education for mutating urban environment." Throughout the forum, they answered questions from visitors on projects developed within the annual WATs. The event was also an opportunity to form relationships and develop new collaborations.

The exhibition was carried out in partnership with UNESCO’s MOST Programme, the International Relations Department at the University of Montreal, Quebec’s Ministère des Relations internationales, de la Francophonie et du Commerce extérieur and the Canadian Commission for UNESCO.

Participants

• Philippe Poullaouec-Gonidec
  Professor Emeritus École d’urbanisme et d’architecture de paysage / Associate Researcher UNESCO Chair in Urban Landscape (CUPUM) / Membre fondateur UNESCO Chair in Urban Landscape (CUPUM) / Chair of Landscape and Environment (CPEUM)
• Brigitte Colin
  Expert, City and Architecture – Urban Migration UNESCO Chair in Urban Landscape (CUPUM) / Expert, City and Architecture – Social Sciences, Research, and Politics on Social and Human Sciences Sector Division UNESCO Chair in Urban Landscape (CUPUM) / Représentante Siège de l’UNESCO à Paris – Programme MOST (Management of Social Transformation) / Spécialiste Siège de l’UNESCO à Paris – Programme MOST (Management of Social Transformation)
• Bernard Combes
  Spécialiste du programme Éducation au développement durable, Division des sciences sociales, de la recherche et des politiques UNESCO Chair in Urban Landscape (CUPUM) / Secteur de l’Éducation, décennie des Nations Unies pour l’Éducation au développement Durable
• Lyndsay Daudier
  Coordination, production and logistics committee UNESCO Chair in Urban Landscape (CUPUM) / Communications UNESCO Chair in Urban Landscape (CUPUM) / Coordonatrice – WAT_UNESCO – MTL 2011 UNESCO Chair in Urban Landscape (CUPUM) / Project Assistant UNESCO Chair in Urban Landscape (CUPUM)

• Processus concerté et paysage

• Communiqué de presse
• FUM3 – Vancouver 2006
• FUM4 – Nanjing 2008
• Forum urbain mondial (FUM) de ONU-Habitat
• Montage
• Programme

Other partners

• University of Montreal
• Commission canadienne pour l’UNSECO (Ottawa)
• Ministère des relations internationales du Québec
• Siège de l’UNESCO à Paris – Programme MOST (Management of Social Transformation)
• UNESCO, programme MAB (Man and Biosphere)
• UNESCO, programme WHC (World Heritage Center / Centre du patrimoine mondial)