{"id":19247,"date":"2025-04-16T13:15:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T13:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/avitem.fr\/interview-marie-baduel-et-amine-benaissa-les-seminaires-metropolitains-recit-dune-formation-a-lexpertise-territoriale-en-immersion"},"modified":"2025-04-18T07:23:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T07:23:48","slug":"interview-marie-baduel-et-amine-benaissa-les-seminaires-metropolitains-recit-dune-formation-a-lexpertise-territoriale-en-immersion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avitem.fr\/en\/interview-marie-baduel-et-amine-benaissa-les-seminaires-metropolitains-recit-dune-formation-a-lexpertise-territoriale-en-immersion","title":{"rendered":"[Interview] Marie Baduel and Amine Benaissa: The Metropolitan Seminars \u2013 A Journey into Immersive Territorial Expertise Training"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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[Interview] Marie Baduel and Amine Benaissa: the Metropolitan Seminars \u2013 A journey into immersive territorial expertise training<\/h1>

To better understand the experience of the Metropolitan Seminars, Marie Baduel, Deputy Director of the Agency for Sustainable Mediterranean Cities and Territories (AVITEM), and Amine Benaissa, architect-urban planner and associate professor at the Sorbonne, reflect on the origins, highlights, challenges and encounters that shaped these metropolitan adventures. <\/strong><\/p>

A decade of training and exchange in the Mediterranean<\/strong><\/h2>

For over ten years now, the Metropolitan Seminars have offered a unique platform for training, exchange, and co-construction around urban issues in the Mediterranean.<\/p>

“Metropolises are here, they\u2019ve expanded and continue to develop.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>

By 2030 \u2013 just five years from now \u2013 the Mediterranean region will be home to 500 million people, most of whom will live in metropolises. This process of metropolisation, where large cities expand across wider territories, is a global phenomenon that presents major planning challenges. \u201cIt\u2019s the city at scale, involving critical issues and project-based strategies.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s the city at scale, involving critical issues and project-based strategies.\u201d<\/em><\/p>

In the face of this rapid urbanisation, what are the key challenges for our generation and those to come? \u201cShould we allow the city to spread out over agricultural or natural land without a guiding vision, without a shared project, based solely on ad hoc opportunities? <\/em>“<\/p>

\u00ab<\/em><\/strong> I believe the starting point is that in the<\/em><\/strong>Metropolitan Seminars<\/em><\/strong>we’re neither for nor against metropolises. These are key spaces that against metropolises.
<\/em><\/strong>These are key spaces that contribute to a territory\u2019s <\/em><\/strong>attractiveness <\/em><\/strong>\u00bb<\/em><\/strong> explains Marie Baduel.<\/p>

Mediterranean territories are subject to common pressures marked by uncertainty: climate change, economic crises, social cohesion issues, the rising role of civil society in governance, and new knowledge contexts, notably with artificial intelligence.<\/p>

t is precisely to analyse these dynamics and suggest action strategies that the Metropolitan Seminars exist.
\u00ab<\/em> To take stock of a metropolis in one week <\/em>\u00bb<\/em> <\/strong>with a method based on four core pillars:<\/p>