UNESCO Chair

Chaire UNESCO en paysage urbain

Publication

YUL/MTL: Moving Landscapes

1 January 2015

  • Description

    POULLAOUEC-GONIDEC, P., PAQUETTE, S., MARMEN, P. (2015). YUL/MTL Moving Landscapes. Applied Research and Design Publishing, Montreal, 261p.

     

    How do the results from an ideation process stemming from an international ideas competition and a design workshop create that backbone of a collaborative planning project? The present work intends to demonstrate that creative engagement in territorial stakeholders’ viewpoints while allowing visualization and implemention of that vision.

    It is important to stress straightaway that this initiative of the Chai in Landscape and Environment from the University of Montreal (CPEUM) and of the UNESCO Chair (CUPEUM) from the same institution was held with the support and collaboration of the ministère des Transports du Québec. In this respect, this department is a pioneer in Québec, and even in North America, supporting, in the context of a highway project, the key role of ideation through consultation, mobilization, and building awareness amongst territorial stakeholders.  By focusing on inclusive ideation work that is not meant to retain a general idea but an “atlas of possibility”, as suggested by the jury of the y”, as suggested by the jury of the YUL/MTL : Moving Landscapes ideas competition, directed by Édouard François, Architect and Urban Planner, the position of this approach will help to ensure a dialog between everyone.

    An original use of this “atlas of possibility” is put forward in this book to formalize the design principles and criteria, as well as to create sensible and coherent urban planning scenarios with a view toward implementing future projects along an infrastructure corridor.

    This question of the meaning given to the territory is one of the essential challenges of a requalification project for the city entrance highway corridor. Therefore, the YUL/MTL : Moving Landscapes project reminds us of the importance of determining this requalification project on a territorial basis, because mobility carries in itself an experience that involves placing the crossed and lived places onto landscape.

    The initiative presented in this publication thus contributes to shedding new light on current thought about landscape, urban mobility, and the city entrance concept. We hope that the contribution and benefits from this collaborative planning exercise can inspire the implementation of future projects in Montreal and the development of similar processes elsewhere in the world.

    Yet, this approach already fits into the objectives of the Montreal UNESCO City of Design designation. “Neither label nor consecration, (this nomination) is an invitation to develop Montreal around its design creativity.” With this project, our North American metropolis is given the mission to promote structuring actions (competition, public dialogs, etc.) to imagine and “better make the city of the 21th century with more designers.” The YUL/MTL : Moving Landscape project is part of it!

  • Team

    Auteurs
    • 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)
    • Sylvain Paquette
      University of Montreal / Full Professor School of Urbanism and Landscape Architecture / Principal Researcher Chair of Landscape and Environment (CPEUM) / Associate Researcher UNESCO Chair in Urban Landscape (CUPUM)
    Research Agents
    • Marc Chenouda
      Research Agent Chair of Landscape and Environment (CPEUM) / Student School of Architecture
    • Julie Bergeron
      Research Assistant Chair of Landscape and Environment (CPEUM) / Student Faculty of Environmental Design
    External Collaborator
    • Caroline Dubuc
      Design Commissioner Bureau du design de la Ville de Montréal / Student School of Landscape Architecture
    • Marie-Josée Lacroix
      Design Commissioner Bureau du design de la Ville de Montréal / Directrice Bureau du design de la Ville de Montréal
    • Jacques White
      Architect N/A
    • Françoise Lapointe
      Media Relations UNESCO Chair in Urban Landscape (CUPUM) / Consultant UNESCO Chair in Urban Landscape (CUPUM) / Media Relations UNESCO Chair in Urban Landscape (CUPUM) / Media Relations Chair of Landscape and Environment (CPEUM)
    • Pierre Dupont
      Translator N/A
    • Alexandre Renzo
      Graphic Designer Renzo Design
    • Gordon Goff
      Executive Director Applied Research and Design Publishing (ORO Editions)
    • Meghan Martin
      Production Assistance Applied Research and Design Publishing (ORO Editions)
    • Pablo Mandel
      Graphic Design Circular Studio / Art Direction Circular Studio
    • Maureen Höllboll
      Graphic Design Circular Studio
    Monitoring Committee
    • Louis-Philippe Roy
      Research Agent Ministère des Transports du Québec (MTQ) / Project Manager Ministère des Transports du Québec (MTQ)
    • Anne Pelletier
      Assistant Director Ministère des Transports du Québec (MTQ)
    • Marie-Élaine Rochon
      Agente d’information Ministère des Transports du Québec (MTQ)
    • Sylvie Tanguay
      Research Agent Ministère des Transports du Québec (MTQ)
    • Linda Fortin
      Student University of Montreal / Student School of Landscape Architecture
    Jury President
    • Édouard François
      Architect N/A / Urban Planner N/A
    Jury
    • Pierre Bélanger
      Adjunct Professor of Landscape Architecture Harvard University
    • Ken Greenberg
      Architect Greenberg consultants inc. (Toronto) / Urban Designer Greenberg consultants inc. (Toronto)
    • Florence Junca-Adenot
      Founder of Forum Urba 2015 Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
    • Anick La Bissonnière
      Architect Atelier Labi / Scenographer Atelier Labi
    • Jacques Verville
      Engineer Ministère des Transports du Québec (MTQ) / Representative Ministère des Transports du Québec (MTQ)
    Research Team
    • 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)
    • Rachel Bonin
      Administrative Agent UNESCO Chair in Urban Landscape (CUPUM)
    • Catherine Brouillette
      Research Assistant UNESCO Chair in Urban Landscape (CUPUM)
    • Karina Luzia Desmarais
      Secretary UNESCO Chair in Urban Landscape (CUPUM)
    • Sophie Lacoste
      Research Assistant UNESCO Chair in Urban Landscape (CUPUM)
    • Christine Robitaille
      Student University of Montreal
    • Valérie Gravel
      Student School of Architecture / Architectural Intern N/A
    Conseiller professionnel
    • Patrick Marmen
      Chargée de cours École d’urbanisme et d’architecture de paysage / Chargé de formation pratique École d’urbanisme et d’architecture de paysage / Research Agent Chair of Landscape and Environment (CPEUM)

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  • Partners

    Other partners

    • UNESCO Chair in Urban Landscape (CUPUM)
    • Chair of Landscape and Environment (CPEUM)
    • Faculty of Environmental Design
    • Délégation permanente du Canada à L’UNESCO (Paris)
    • Commission canadienne pour l’UNSECO (Ottawa)
    • Brown and Storey Architects
    • dlandstudio
    • Trollback + Company
    • Gilles Hanicot
    • Ministère des Transports du Québec (MTQ)
    • City of Montreal
    • Ministère du tourisme du Québec
    • Ministère des relations internationales du Québec
    • Andrew Foster – Push Montréal
    • Catalyse urbaine, architecture et paysage
    • Clément Boitel
    • Dennis A. Winters, Tales of the Earth
    • Efoe Arnaud
    • Superlandscape
    • Gerwin De Vries + Alexander Herrebout
    • Ghazal Jafari et Ali Fard
    • Thibodeau, architecture+design
    • Yvette Vasourkova, MOBA Studio
    • zerOgroup + Fabrica de Paisaje
    • Arrondissement Côte-des-Neiges-Notre-Dame-de-Grâce
    • Arrondissement de Lachine
    • Arrondissement du Sud-Ouest
    • Arrondissement de Ville-Marie
    • Cité de Dorval
    • Cité de Montréal-Ouest
    • Cité de Westmount
    • Communauté Métropolitaine de Montréal (CMM)
    • Ministère des affaires municipales, des Régions et de l’Occupation du territoire (MAMROT)
    • Ministère de la Culture, des Communications et de la Condition féminine (MCCCF)
    • Canadian Pacific
    • Canadian National
    • Aéroport de Montréal
    • Parcs Canada
    • Conférence Régionale des Élus de Montréal (CRÉ Montréal)
    • Direction de l’Île-de-Montréal (MTQ)
    • Direction des relations internationales (Université de Montréal)
    • School of Landscape Architecture
    • Réseau des villes créatives de l’UNESCO (Paris)