In 2021-2022, the Académie de France in Rome – Villa Medici has launched the pilot edition of the educational programme Résidence Pro!
The first edition of the Residence Pro in a few figures:
15 schools
9 departments of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region
300 students
28 regional sponsor companies
1 week at the Villa Medici in Rome
The start of the 2021 school year marked the launch of the Résidence Pro, a new ambitious educational programme initiated by the French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici, the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region, the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Academic Region, through the Campus des Métiers et des Qualifications Forêt Bois Nouvelle-Aquitaine which coordinates all the professional establishments in the region – and an active network of public and private partners in the forestry and wood industry brought together within the Woodrise ecosystem. This first edition honoured the forestry and wood industry, from cabinet making to forestry and wood construction, mobilising more than 300 students from 15 vocational high schools representing the diversity of the territories of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region.
From September 2021, each class taking part in the programme imagined and documented a collective work inspired by a major heritage work in the city of Rome, in accordance with the terms of the Résidence Pro For this exercise, the students were accompanied by their teachers, by the FCBA technological institute (forest, cellulose, wood, construction, furniture) and by 20 regional “sponsor” companies contributing their expertise. This preparatory phase of reflection will culminate in the visit of all the participating high school students to the Villa Medici in Rome in May 2021.
The Proto-Habitat pavilion designed by the two former Villa Medici residents Frédérique Barchelard and Flavien Menu (class of 2019-2020), installed in the Villa Medici gardens as part of the Festival des Cabanes, was used during theRésidence Pro for moments of exchange and conviviality between the participating high school students and the teams.
For this first edition, Villa Medici and the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region combined their financial resources to make the Résidence Pro possible, in line with the social commitment of the French Academy in Rome and its partners. For the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region, it marked the experimentation of a particularly ambitious way of supporting a high school mobility project in the service of their artistic and cultural education.
About the forest-wood-paper industry in Nouvelle-Aquitaine:
A pool of jobs, a carbon pump and a biodiversity reserve, the forest-wood-paper industry plays a key economic and environmental role for the region: 2.8 million hectares, 34% of the territory of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, 88% of the annual carbon sequestration in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, about 60,000 jobs and 10 billion euros of turnover per year. By helping to reduce the carbon footprint and energy consumption, the use of wood in construction is a decisive element in the effort to be more sober and efficient. In this context, after taking the form of the 1st World Congress on Medium and High-Rise Wood Buildings in 2017 in Bordeaux, “Woodrise” has evolved since 2018 to a format of “Woodrise Meetings”, totaling each year nearly 50 activities in New Aquitaine dedicated to the general public and professionals. Woodrise, and the ecosystem of partners that gathers around it, allows to communicate on wood construction and to stimulate both demand and supply by promoting the technicality of the companies present in Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Acknowledgements:
Fédération nationale du bois (FNB)
Participating institutions in the project: Établissement Régional d’Enseignement Adapté Joël Jeannot (Trélissac) Établissement Régional d’Enseignement Adapté Théodore Monod (Saintes) Lycée de Navarre (Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port) Lycée des métiers du bâtiment Jean Garnier (Morcenx-la-Nouvelle) Lycée polyvalent du Pays d’Aunis – Lycée des Métiers du Bois (Surgères) Lycée polyvalent Haroun Tazieff – Lycée des métiers du bois (Saint-Paul-lès-Dax) Lycée polyvalent Nelson Mandela-Pôle Bâtiment et des Arts Associés (Poitiers) Lycée Porte d’Aquitaine (Thiviers) Lycée professionnel Agricole et Forestier Roger Duroure (Sabres) Lycée professionnel Édouard Vaillant (Saint-Junien) Lycée professionnel Henri Brulle (Libourne) Lycée professionnel Lavoisier (Brive-la-Gaillarde) Lycée professionnel Louise Michel (Ruffec) Lycée professionnel Saint Joseph – Apprentis d’Auteuil (Blanquefort) Lycée professionnel Sillac (Angoulême)
Sponsoring companies of the project: APROBOIS, BBCE, BOLLINGER+GROHMANN, BOUNEY NÉGOCE BOIS ET MATÉRIAUX, DITEC, DL, FOLIE ROYALE, GROUPE AIRIAL, JEUDI.WANG, JOUBERT PLYWOOD, LAMÉCOL, LAMELLUX, LESBATS, LES ABRIS NOMADES, LES AGENCEURS DE FRANCE, LEGENDRE & LUREAU, MAISON BOIS VALLERY, NODE ARCHITECTURE, QUINCAILLERIE PORTALET À DAX, ROTHO BLAAS FRANCE SARL, SAPPARRART ET FILS, SERGE FERRARI, THEBAUT PIN, TONNELLERIE SYLVAIN, UN TOIT POUR LES ABEILLES, UNIKALO, WALD, YESS ÉLECTRIQUE.
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The Résidence Pro program is realized with the support of:
