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Urban Planning through place and process, with Les Ateliers Internationaux

As a member of international urban design workshop organisation, Les Ateliers, Karthaus has engaged with a number of significant ‘live’ urban planning projects around the world. Each Les Ateliers workshop is instigated by the local authority and professional participants are invited with a remit to make urban proposals for immediate implementation as well as strategic direction. As a particpant, Jury member and scientific director of these workshops, Karthaus has experienced all aspects of the process in wide-ranging contexts in China, Europe, Russia and India. Reflecting on this and his professional experience as an urban practitioner, Karthaus has elaborated an approach to urban practice that considers the specific processes and structures of implementation as a form of context to be incorporated into the design process. This approach has informed the methodology of an EU-funded workshop in India on the design and construction of a new city for 560,000 people, for which Karthaus and Bougnoux were scientific directors. The briefing and synthesis documents for this workshop attempt to implicitly engage the design process with the structure and outlook of the local authority, the Naya Raipur Development Agency, to deliver proposals with the best chance of implementation. This approach has been expounded through a series of lectures and papers, culminating in a seminar at the school of Doctorate studies of IUAV University, Venice in 2013.

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