IVM's 10th Anniversary
On December 13, 2010, IVM celebrated its 10th anniversary at the Forum des images in Paris with the main organisers and partners of the projects undertaken since its formation, and IVM's representatives from China and Latin America (see list at the bottom of the page)

■ Presentation of completed and ongoing projects
■ Round tables
■ Priorities, new partners and new projects

At the event, a partnership agreement has been signed between IVM and Paris-East University's Research and Higher Education Centre (PRES), represented by its President Bernard SAINT-GIRONS.

© Vereen Ramsani

"What are the most serious mobility problems in your country? What values are important to the decision-makers in your country?" ▪ Answers by Chinese, Argentinian, Brazilian and French IVM experts

IVM's 10th anniversary means:
5 exhibitions, 19 publications, 15 conferences, 8 competitions or prizes, on-request transport for teenagers, the unemployed, orientation tables, tactile public transport relief maps, a technological prototype, 1 community platform, 6 city workshops in China, public debates, the Lisbon taxi festival, night forum in Rome, Integration Forum in Saint-Nazaire, the Taxi research network, architecture workshops, a new bus information system in Buenos Aires, websites in French, English, Spanish, Chinese, online books, blogs.

Research, action, knowledge sharing
to enhance urban mobility.
IVM's mission is to develop innovative international initiatives and social, organisational and scientific, technical and cultural experiments. It develops projects that promote mobility for individuals and social groups with particular difficulties, which aim to improve the quality of the places and times of movement, which contribute to the development of the cultures of urban mobility and civic relations and which take account of environmental constraints and priorities.

In the presence of its main collaborators and partners in Europe, in China and in Latin America:
Isabel Arteaga, los Andes University, chief curator of the "La calle es nuestra... de todos !" Exhibition in Bogota; Juan Pablo Bocarejo, Los Andes de Bogota University; Andrès Borthagaray, director of the City of Buenos Aires Strategic Planning Council and Director of IVM-Latin America; Eric Charmes, Director of the "city, space, society" interdisciplinary research laboratory and curator of the "Street belongs to all of us!" and "Dream cities, sustainable cities?" Exhibitions; Jean-Pierre Clair, Director of the Ail 46 Association, mobility for integration project; Hoëlle Corvest, head of accessibility at the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, A-Z Project for blind and partially sighted people; Margareth da Silva Pereira, Director of research at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and curator of the IVM exhibition "A rua é nossa... é de todos nós !" in Rio; Richard Darbéra, researcher at CNRS/LATTS and scientific director of the IVM colloquy on "The taxi, tomorrow's urban mobility solution"; Frédéric de Conink, Professor at Paris-East University, Director of the "City at home" project; Gilles Delalex, architects and project leader of the IVM exhibition "The Street belongs to all of us!"; Juan Carlos Dextre, Pontifical University of Peru, chief curator of "La calle es nuestra... de todos !" in Lima; Jean-François Doulet, IUP Paris-East University, head of IVM's China programme; Xavier Fels, strategic advisor to IVM, "City at night" programme; Oscar Figueroa, Professor at the Catholic University of Chile and member of the IVM chair Latin America; Francis Godard, President of Université Marne-la-Vallée and scientific director of IVM's International sessions on "Contemporary Urban Mobilities. The challenges. The actors. The actions. Pan Haixiao, Professor at Tongji University and Director of IVM China; Zhuo Jian, Tongji University, curator of the "The Street belongs to all of us! Exhibition in Beijing and Shanghai; Liu Jian, school of architecture of Tsinghua University in Beijing et member of the IVM-China chair; Wu Jian, Vice-President of Tongji University in Shanghai and member of IVM's research and strategy Council; Eric le Breton, a sociologist at Rennes University 2 and scientific director of the IVM programmes "Mobility and integration" and "Day-to-day employee mobility"; Carles Llop, architect, Grand Prix for urban design in Spain and Catalonia, Jordi Borja, geographer and urban planner, Open University of Catalonia, curators of IVM's "The Street belongs to all of us!" Exhibition in Barcelona; Jean-Pierre Orfeuil, Professor at the Paris-East University IUP, Chairman of IVM's Research and Strategy Council, scientific director of the three chairs colloquy; Francis Rambert, Director of the French Institute of Architecture and joint curator of the IVM exhibition "Architecture on the move!" Didier Rebois, architect, General Secretary of Europan and curator of the IVM exhibitions "Architecture on the move!" and "The Street belongs to all of us!"; Marcel Smets, architect and urban planner, Professor at the University of Leuven and member of IVM's Research and Strategy Council; Taoufik Souami, Professor at the French Institute of Urban Planning and scientific director of the IVM programme "Climate change, urban mobility and Cleantech", curator of the "Dream cities, sustainable cities?" Exhibition; José Viegas, Professor at the Polytechnic University of Lisbon, director of the taxi festival; the Chinese winners of the "Better Mobility, Better Life" Prize and the whole team!...