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International seminar of the IVM chair
14-15 JUNE 2007
at the Paris Val de Seine National School of
Architecture

Having looked at the links between mobility and social integration, architecture, the appropriation of objects, the City on the Move Institute is now exploring the interface between mobility and economic production. This involves establishing a new category, professionals on the move, which goes beyond questions of transport to create a framework for the analysis of all activities involving the consumption of mobility.

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The aim is to assess the scope and characteristics of mobility as production in the big cities, together with the effects of easier mobility on access to work and on the dynamics of local economies. The aim will be to draw up an inventory of the working conditions of mobile workers, in order to understand the needs of these actors of the urban environment. The seminar’s scientific committee will be headed by Michel Savy with Jean Pierre Orfeuil and Frédérick de Coninck and focus on four major themes:

The beginnings of itinerant working:
• Companies and the tools for working on the move
• Profession? Sometimes itinerant... New competencies and know-how
• Work is in the street: City management and professional mobilities
• Moving is producing?