News

February 12
The municipality of Courbevoie has mission the office rethink with Marion Talagrand, AID Observatoire and SNC Lavalin together with two others design teams to develop ideas for the future development of the town centre around the Charras centre (www.ville-courbevoie.fr).

January 12
The office rethink has been chosen with Marion Talagrand, Habitat & Territoires Conseil, Remy Consultant and AID Observatoire by the Communauté d'agglomération Les Portes de l'Essonne (CALPE) to realise an urban study concerning the district Pasteur and its fringes de Juvisy-Sur-Orge (www.portesessonne.fr).

September 11
Christian Horn, rethink, participates in November in the panel of experts on the new town of Sidi Abdellah in Algeria. The meeting deals with the issue of sustainable development of this new town as part of the project New Medina « De la ville pilote à la ville durable : réinventer les villes nouvelles ». This project is part of the cooperation program CIUDAD driven by the European Commission. (www.newmedina.eu)

July 11
A blog on this years’ summer workshop 2011 « La Défense 2050 – au déla de la forme » is now online. You will find information on the territory and the subject and practical information on the planning, the participants and downloads. Conducted by Christian Horn, rethink, the workshop will bring together thirty international participants during 4 weeks in Paris. (http://ladefense2050.wordpress.com)

January 11
This years’ summer workshop is focusing on a specific element of the Paris' metropolitan landscape: the business district of La Défense, its integration into the metropolis and its long-term evolution perspectives. Conducted by Christian Horn, rethink, the workshop will bring together thirty international students during 4 weeks in septembre 2011 to bring up new ideas. (www.ateliers.org)

November 10
The project on the development of the French-Swiss agglomeration of Geneva will receive the 8th Grand European Urban Planning Award 2009-2010 by the European Council of Spatial Planners. The project of a cross-border agglomeration, in which rethink participated, is therewith awarded on a European level. (www.ceu-ectp.org)

October 10
Europan France has invited Christian Horn, rethink, to the Scientific Advisory Board for the 11th session. The Advisory Council shall define more accurately the program for the proposed 6 planning areas with the objective of an urban ecology and sustainable way of life. (www.europan-france.org)

September 10
The Art Galerie ACC in Weimar, Germany, has invited Christian Horn, rethink, for a conference on the 23/09/10 within the exhibition « Portrait of Accra ». It is about the method of the Ateliers and the impact of these interdisciplinary processes on urban planning. (www.acc-weimar.de)

April 10
Christian Horn, rethink, participate in a roundtable discussion at a conference for the project "New Medina". The project is part of the CIUDAD program, driven by the European Commission. Conference title: "On both sides of the Mediterranean: pilot cities, sustainable cities". (www.newtowns.net)

March 10
The team rethink (with Lionel Pénisson, architect; Marion Talagrand, landscape architect; Orénoque, programming ; Coteba, engineers) has been commissioned by the EPA ORSA for the development of an urban planning masterplan for the sector Choisy – Nord du Lugo. (www.epa-orsa.fr)

January 10
For the second time rethink has been chosen by the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland, to participate in a new test study concerning the development of the French-Swiss agglomeration, in partnership with the landscape agency Marion Talagrand, the engineer’s office ITEM and the ecologists OGE. (www.projet-agglo.org)

December 09
The activities of the "Ateliers de maîtrise d'œuvre urbaine", for example the recent urban planning workshop in Vitoria, Brazil, conducted by Christian Horn, rethink, had been selected to be presented during the Networking Events at the « World Urban Forum » in march 2010 at Rio de Janeiro. (www.unhabitat.org)

August 09
The urban planning workshop in Vitoria, Brazil, conducted by Christian Horn, rethink, goes after the selection of the participants in the last phase of its preparation. In October 2009 during two weeks 28 international experts in four teams are going to imagine the future development of this urban agglomeration. (www.ateliers.org)

June 09
L'IAU-îdf has commissioned Christian Horn, rethink, to participate in the organisation and the supervision of the European Workshop on Large Urban Projects: Paris-Rhine-Ruhr - City-regions in the making, labs for the future. The first voyage of the new association Paris Métropole, created in June 2009. (www.iaurif.org)

April 09
Rethink had been chosen by the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland, to participate in a test study concerning the development of the French-Swiss agglomeration, in partnership with the landscape agency Marion Talagrand and the engineers’ office ITEM. (www.projet-agglo.org)

March 09
Christian Horn, rethink, was invited by the French Département Ile de Réunion to participate as a speaker about his experiences overseas and moderator of a debate in the first forum of sustainable neighbourhoods on the Ile de Réunion in September 2009.

December 08
Rethink is mandated by the ZDF (German television network) for the tender procedure and the monitoring of the renovation of the offices and studios in Paris in cooperation with the Cologne architectural office [sic].

November 08
After a tender procedure by the Ministry of Justice, rethink has been selected in partnership with the landscape agency Marion Talagrand to carry out an urban study in Liancourt.

October 08
Christian Horn, rethink, participates in the preliminary seminar of the 2009 session of the Ateliers de maîtrise d'oeuvre urbaine: "The River, future of a territory - potentials and vulnerabilities - The case of the confluence Seine-Oise".

September 08
Christian Horn, rethink, participates as an outside expert at the European research project IP City, which research aim is to investigate analytical and technological approaches to presence in real life settings and urban environments.