A Major University and Urban Development Project The École de Nancy celebrated its centenary in 1999; it was the organisation that originally brought art and industry together. The same year three of Nancy’s elite university colleges, the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art, the École des Mines and ICN Management School, decided to form an alliance similar to that which created Art Nouveau, i.e. break down barriers between cultures and disciplines, bring science, art and management together and create a new type of university. This is the aim of a highly innovatory project called ARTEM, standing for Art, Technology and Management. Greater Nancy’s local authorities and universities joined forces to have the project included in the year 2000 Plan-Contract between the French government and the Regional Council. In 2001 four government Ministries, National Education, Higher Education and Research, Culture and Industry, approved the project on the grounds of its innovatory nature and potential contribution. The three colleges have since encouraged their students to set up joint structures and activities; in 2005, a major Town Planning and Architectural Competition was launched. Other important local schools joined the Project: the Jean Lamour Institute, a research centre specialising in materials, the Institute for Business Administration and the University of Trades (apprenticeships). ARTEM, which will doubtless play a very important international role, is a vast, 25-acre town planning and architectural project for the redevelopment of the site of the former Molitor and Manutention barracks in the centre of Greater Nancy. Aerial view of the district, 2005 © Imatec © ENSMN

ARTEM, the Alliance… There is clearly a need for a radically new type of education and training to meet the new century’s economic and social challenges: this was the objective that led three elite university colleges in Greater Nancy, the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Nancy (EMN), the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Nancy (ENSA) and ICN-Management School Group, to form a strategic partnership called ARTEM in 1999. The three colleges, with active support from the local authorities, had a common aim: to break down traditional boundaries, unite people (artists, engineers and businessmen and women), disciplines (art, science, technology and management), and professional know-how (creation, production, valorisation and negotiation) in order to transform and enhance their existing research and educational methods and better train the new generation of creators and decision-makers. The Ecole des Mines, (National Mining School) has strong links with business and industry Originally called the Metallurgical and Mining Institute when it was founded in 1919, it became the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines in 1947. Today it is part of Lorraine National Polytechnic. It has always worked closely with industry, training engineers in many disciplines, in particular production and product design engineering. Given the rapid evolution in various trades and technologies, it progressively broadened its scope to include major disciplines such as materials engineering and research, earth sciences, the environment and risk management, energy, process engineering, industrial engineering,

computer science, engineering mathematics… Today it has eight laboratories and research teams with a total staff of more than 350. One of the founders of ARTEM, the École des Mines gives top priority to developing the international side of its training by collaborating with famous non-French universities and colleges and building partnerships with companies all over the world. www.mines.inpl-nancy.fr ICN, one of France’s top management schools Founded by Nancy University and Meurthe-et-Moselle CCI in 1905, Nancy Commercial Institute became the ICN School of Management Group in 2002. A top French management school, it is a private, higher education establishment attached to Nancy 2 University. Providing both a university education and professional training, ICN at present has 2,000 students, tomorrow’s leaders, on its various theoretical and practical courses and on incompany training. They include managers from the most important sectors of the economy: banking and insurance, audit and appraisal, agrofood, industry, consultancy, distribution… Deeply involved in research in new management skills, ICN collaborates closely with a number of internationally reputed universities and schools and has over a hundred partnerships with universities all over the world. At present more than 200 non-French students are studying at ICN in Nancy. www.icn-nancy.com © ENSMN © ICN

...three elite university colleges The history of the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art is closely linked to that of Nancy Deeply involved in Nancy’s artistic, economic and cultural history, ENSA (École Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Nancy), which adopted its present form in the late 19thC, was one of the prime movers in the development of the École de Nancy. One of the key personalities in the movement, Victor Prouvé, was rector during the inter-war period. Now a higher education institute recognised by the Ministry of Culture and Communications, ENSA offers courses in a wide range of visual and plastic arts, design and communications leading to nationally recognised degrees: the Diplôme National d’Arts Plastiques and the Diplôme National Supérieur d’Expression Plastique. In addition to the key role it plays in ARTEM, the School has close links with various artistic and cultural bodies such as the Fine Arts Museum and the Nancy School of Architecture. www.ensa-nancy.fr Since 2000, ARTEM’s philosophy has been put into practice, as can be seen in the shared courses forming part of the curricula at several schools and in the annual Research and Creation Workshops that attract some 600 students from the three main colleges. Veritable production sites on which new research and experimental problems are analysed and developed, these workshops cover a range of subjects (sustainable development, interactive media, conception and design…) that have direct business and commercial applications.

ARTEM’s RCD (Research, Creation and Development) activities have resulted in the introduction of major new programs in three main subject areas: Creativity, Innovation and Design / Risk Management, Sustainability of Works and Territories / Interactive Media ARTEM today ARTEM and its enterprises According to Michel Mathieu, the Association’s Chairman, and MD of CERP Lorraine, the company members of the ARTEM Enterprises Association actively support the innovatory concept, “A new model of training to meet evolving needs”. Having actively supported the first ARTEM Enterprises Workshop, the business world will make a more important contribution in the next phase with business leaders playing a greater part by sharing their experience. Members of ARTEM Enterprises BANQUE POPULAIRE DE LORRAINE-CHAMPAGNE, BNP PARIBAS, BONGRAINGÉRARD, CABINET TURKA, CERP LORRAINE, CHEVRY & ASSOCIÉS, CIRMAD EST, CLARION EUROPE SAS, CORA HOUDEMONT, DALKIA EST, DIALOG GUYOT SA, DUPONT MEDICAL, EDF, EXPERTIS-CFE, FRANCE LANORD ET BICHATON, FRANCE TELECOM, GAN, GAZ DE FRANCE, GOUVY, HSBC, KPMG, LAGARDE ET MEREGNANI, LA LIBERTE DE L’EST, LYONNAISE DES EAUX, NOREMAT, ORIENT COMMUNICATION, PERTUY CONSTRUCTION, SAINT-GOBAIN P-A-M, SNVB, SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE.

ARTEM plus... Three more organisations have since joined ARTEM: Institut Jean Lamour, Institut d’Administration des Entreprises (Business Administration) and the Université des Métiers et de l’Artisanat (Trades apprenticeships). Institut Jean Lamour has an excellent reputation in materials and nanotechnologies. Given its two science universities, the Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine and Henri Poincaré University and the CNRS, Nancy has acquired a fine international reputation in materials. At present approximately 450 researchers spread over five laboratories on two campuses are working in three major areas: metallurgy, the physics and chemistry of functional materials and nanosciences (the study of phenomena observed in extremely small structures and systems). Bringing these skills together on the future campus will transform Nancy into one of the finest centres for materials in Europe. The combined unit will have a mixed research CNRS-University status. An active participant in two Lorraine Competitiveness Clusters, MIPI (Innovatory Materials – Intelligent Products) and FIBRES, the unit will also seek to apply pure research to commercial ends in partnership with Lorraine SMEs. [email protected] The Institut d’Administration des Entreprises (IAE): a wide range of training

The Nancy IAE (Company Administration Institute) is Nancy 2 University’s training and R&D centre in management and management sciences). It is one of 28 units comprising the national IAE network. It runs a number of courses in marketing, human resources, finance, design quality…, specifically for public and private organisations and enterprises The further education and E-training courses are designed for students with at least a two-year post school diploma, in particular company directors and staff. It carries out considerable research and is the site of Lorraine’s only management and financial research laboratory, CEREFIGE, (in conjunction with Metz IAE). IAE also has a number of international cooperation agreements enabling students and staff to study and gain experience abroad (under the Leonardo, Socrates and Erasmus programs). In collaboration with non-French universities it has also set up a number of joint degree courses. www.univ-nancy2.fr/IAE Université des Métiers et de l’Artisanat: Apprenticeship: another way of learning An apprenticeship training centre run by the Meurthe-et-Moselle Guild Chamber will be established on the same site. It is being built by Lorraine Regional Council. The building will be next to ARTEM and will meet the highest Environmental Quality Standards. It will offer apprenticeships in various trades: in the food industry (bakers and pastry-makers, chocolatemakers and confectioners, butchers and pork butchers), hairdressers, beauticians, dental mechanics… thus training tomorrow’s craftsmen and women who will have another way of continuing their studies. © IJL © ICN © Meurthe-et-Moselle Guild Chamber

Who does what? ARTEM has a number of local and national partners: for example... Financial backers The operation is part of the French National-Regional Plan. The main financial partners in the region are Lorraine Regional Council, Meurthe-et-Moselle County Council and Greater Nancy Urban District Council. The French national government is participating through the Ministries for National Education, Higher Education and Research, Culture and Industry. Partners Nancy-Metz Educational Authority has been co-ordinating the preparation of the educational and scientific programs. The various universities and schools have also contributed to designing the courses and launching the operation, in particular ensuring they are allocated enough space for their proposed educational activities. ADUAN (Nancy Urban Area Town Planning and Development Agency) carried out the preliminary studies. EPFL (Lorraine Public Land-holding Establishment) is demolishing and clearing the site and will be in charge of site security. Finally, Solorem (Lorraine Public-Private Development Company) has been

instructed by Greater Nancy Urban Council to organise the redevelopment of both the site and the surrounding district and ensure work starts on time. It will also handle communications for the project. Contracting Authority The French Government has appointed Greater Nancy Urban District Council as Contracting Authority. It will define the overall aims and operating objectives, raise the financial backing required and organise competitions for the selection of the architects and works engineers. It will also manage the project and related communications throughout the different phases. The Architects The Architects will be responsible for the architectural design of the project and the related town planning. In cooperation with the Contracting Authority they will select the contractors and manage the work site in collaboration with the design office. The International Competition for the selection of the architect was won by Nicolas Michelin and Partners who have been appointed architects for the operation as a whole and for the first phase of construction. Further competitions will be held for the selection of the architects for the subsequent phases. Public meetings were held to consult the people living in the area and take into account their opinions in preparing the project; they will be kept in the picture during the works. © Greater Nancy Urban District Council

A new urban area Around 2011-2012, the site of the former Molitor and Manutention barracks will be transformed into a new 25-acre urban area fully integrated into the Haussonville-BlandanDonop district. The contract has been awarded to Nicolas Michelin and Partners, winners of the international competition for the redevelopment of the site and the construction of the National Mining School and Jean Lamour Institute. Architecturally it is a daring, highly innovatory project which nevertheless complements the old city. The proposed long shopping mall gives an excellent idea of the importance ARTEM attaches to ensuring the new development is accessible and becomes an integral part of the district. The ARTEM Mall, a new type of public area Created by doubling the width of Rue du Sergent Blandan and designed on the lines of the other major public squares in Nancy: Place Stanislas, Place Carrière and Cours Léopold, the shopping mall will be an exceptionally important urban feature, a new kind of public area forming a strong link between Saint Mary’s Park in the north and Place de Padoue in the south. Bright and airy, it will be a key urban feature, marking the boundary of a highly original district divided into blocks. Each block will have its own school directly accessing the mall. They will be grouped in pairs with landscaped garden-squares shared by each couple of schools, as will the courtyard-gardens between the blocks. While giving the appearance of being part of the mall, the schools will be in “marker-buildings” in remarkable contemporary design but on the same scale as the houses surrounding them. Common areas: premises for

associations, a café, a house of languages, a cluster of amphitheatres or art galleries, plus shops and services, will be provided all along the shopping mall creating a special, lively, ever-changing atmosphere. A new district will thus be created with its own schools, buildings and gardens. To the south, Place de Padoue will become a vast piazza giving access to the campus which is incorporated into the mall. The piazza will form the heart of a new urban village… A vast international university project, ARTEM will also be a key part of a new urban layout in the heart of Greater Nancy. Above: Greater Nancy’s main town planning projects Below: © ANMA / 2006

Echoes of the École de Nancy spirit In many ways, Nicolas Michelin’s project appears to be inspired by the École de Nancy spirit: his highly original structures combining a variety of techniques and materials such as steel, glass…, a range of shapes inspired by plants and trees, such as the palm-like pillars with three or five fronds, the island gardens all along the mall, and numerous other plants and shrubs. To meet sustainable development criteria various urban facilities have been designed to economise the consumption of energy by using earth-cooling tubes and solar panels, to recuperate rain water, to make use of natural ventilation… Similar principles will be applied in the construction of the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art, IAE, Institut Jean Lamour... for which calls for tenders will be published in the next few months. Nicolas Michelin – an international reputation Nicolas Michelin, architect and town planner, awarded the Town Planning Grand Prix for 2005, formed the ANMA Agency in Paris in 2000 with Michel Delplace and Cyril Trétout. Having renovated the Halle aux Farines (Flour Market) for Paris VII University, he is now working on a number of projects: housing on the Île de Nantes, the Rouen Water-Board’s head office, Charles de Gaulle Esplanade in Rennes and the Grand Large District in Dunkirk. He is also in charge of urban studies in Lille, Mulhouse, Metz and Rouen and has been invited to participate in major town planning competitions in China. In addition to these professional activities, he was Rector of the Rueil-Malmaison School of Art from 1985 to 2000 and is now Rector of the Versailles École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture.

A district that grew up with the 20thC Marked by the army In the 19thC, what is now the Blandan-Haussonville district was still covered in fields, crossed by narrow roads linking Nancy to nearby villages. In 1871, following France’s defeat, the Treaty of Frankfurt transferred Alsace and part of Lorraine to Germany. Nancy thus became the largest town in north-eastern France as well as a border town.

Little building had taken place in Blandan-Haussonville prior to the middle of the 19thC, but the area grew fast from 1884 to 1909 with the construction of a vast complex of barracks. Fifteen forts were built to defend Nancy as well as numerous barracks in which some 13,000 soldiers were billeted by the eve of the First World War. In 25 years a vast network of military constructions had spread throughout the area: Landremont in 1884, Blandan in 1895, Molitor in 1906, the military hospital between 1901 and 1909. Rapid urban growth These new constructions led to the rapid urbanisation of the area: new streets and houses replaced the market gardens, the Grand Chemin de Saint-Charles, linking Rue de Villers to the road to Neufchâteau, was widened in 1885 and was renamed Rue Blandan in memory of Hippolyte Blandan, a sergeant in Nancy’s 26th Infantry Regiment, killed in Algeria in 1842. Enterprises, tradesmen and shopkeepers moved in: Moser, the locksmith, the large Garage Citroën, Jean Prouvé’s first workshop, cabinet-makers, shoemakers, a tailor, a photographer, a coffee-roaster… As the new century advanced, a variety of artistic, cultural and leisure activities found their place in the area: Nancy Thermal Baths, the École de Nancy Museum, Saint Mary’s Park with its remarkable plants and trees, opened to the public in 1904, and the Ciné-Park where generations of Nancians saw their first films… So many activities attracted by the sound of the bugle and soldiers on the march, bringing life to the new district. Today, with the construction of a vast new campus on the site of the now disaffected barracks, the hundred-year old district is writing a new page in its history. Temporary accommodation built during the construction of the Molitor Barracks, circa 1906 © Nancy Municipal Archives Molitor Barracks, circa 1915 © Private Collection Above: The wheat-field in front of the military hospital, 1915-1916, now the site of the Louison Bobet Swimming Pool - © Lorraine History Museum Facing page: Cover of a 1910 brochure advertising the Magasins Vaxélaire - © Lorraine History Museum

A campus open to the city The shopping mall’s emblematic architecture shows clearly that the project is intended to attract everyone in the surrounding area. The garden islands, the mall with its shops and services are open to everyone, students and local inhabitants alike. The gardens at the heart of each block, their courtyards lined with maples, oaks and pine-trees, will create superb little “squares” where everyone can relax or play. To the south, Place de Padoue marks the entrance to the development and creates a friendly, animated centre for the new ‘village’. ARTEM is providing a range of sporting, leisure and cultural facilities such as the open-air amphitheatre, the School of Art’s art gallery… with something for everyone. The inhabitants have been closely consulted throughout the project, particularly on how the facilities will be used, and kept in the picture regularly at café-meetings with representatives from the ARTEM colleges, at meetings in the Haussonville-Blandan-Donop District Hall and at the regularly updated exhibition.

While specifically created by the university, ARTEM has kept in close contact with the people in the area and is providing them with gardens, and sports, leisure and cultural facilities. © ANMA / 2006