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PresentationIndia&#8217;s Smart City Mission was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2015 with the aim to promote intelligent solutions to improve urban infrastructure and services. It draws inspiration from globally-circulating ideas about digital and technology-driven urban innovation. Initially announced as a program to build 100 new smart cities across the country, the Mission finally took the form of a competition between 100 existing Indian cities, selected by the central and regional governments. Each candidate city proposes an urban project either to improve (retrofit) or redevelop certain areas, or to extend the city within the administrative boundaries (greenfield development). To design their proposals and strategies, candidate cities are assisted by consultants appointed by the state or by an external partner agency, such as the World Bank or the Asian Development Bank, or even "sponsor" countries including France via its Agence fran&#231;aise de d&#233;veloppement. The projects are then put into competition, and the winners can implement their proposals while the others are invited to review their strategic plan and resubmit it in the next round.Early assessments of the Smart City Mission, including the various proposals made by the candidate cities, the first projects carried out and their reception by local authorities and residents have raised a number of questions about this new mode of city-building. First, the Smart City Mission must be understood in the context of the gradual adoption of the smart city concept in India, and it therefore engages with scholarship on the global circulation of models and their adaptation to specific contexts. Secondly, the Mission offers a compelling window through which to examine the transformation of modalities of state action in the urban domain, in terms of decentralization and changing scales of governance, but also with regard to partnerships between the public and private sectors. Third, since the Mission highlights popular participation in project design, it invites us to question the choice of audiences targeted by this type of programme as well as the relevance of the proposals in relation to local needs and realities. Fourth, the study of smart city projects highlights the gap between the ambitions of the central government and the technical skills of municipal authorities, thus raising the question of the differences between the scheme&#8217;s objectives and its implementation.Following on a first meeting devoted to India&#8217;s Smart City Mission held in September 2018, the specific aim of this international workshop is to focus on issues of social and environmental sustainability. On the basis of field-based investigations, the presenters will critically assess the smart city experiments as they unfold. Among the questions to be discussed are the following: How does India&#8217;s engagement with smart cities compare with other international cases? To what extent do projects in India draw on cutting-edge technologies? How can we characterize the governance and politics of India&#8217;s engagement with &#8216;smart urbanism&#8217;?Workshop organized by:Loraine Kennedy (CNRS, CEIAS, EHESS)Pushpa Arabindoo (UCL, IEA de Paris)Marie-H&#233;l&#232;ne Z&#233;rah (IRD, CESSMA, Centre for Policy Research, Delhi)Anna Dewaele (CEIAS, EHESS)Program9:30 &#8211; 11:00&#160;&#160;Session I. Situating India&#8217;s Smart City Mission in international perspectiveMorning Discussant: Pushpa Arabindoo, UCL, Institut d&#8217;&#233;tudes avanc&#233;es de ParisCities and the (re)ordering of elite coalitions under advanced neoliberalismIpshita Basu, University of Westminster, LondonLeveraging international support for SCM: which criteria guide lenders/donors?Gautier Kohler, Agence Fran&#231;aise du D&#233;veloppement, Paris11:00 &#8211; 11:30 Break11:30 &#8211; 13:00&#160; &#160;Session II. Cutting-edge or ordinary - how sustainable are SCM projects?Analysing the &#8216;environment&#8217; of Smart Cities in India: Issues of sustainability and equitySeema Mundoli (Presenter), Hariprasad VM, Preeti Venkatram and Harini Nagendra Centre for Urban Sustainability in India, Azim Premji University, BengaluruOf photovoltaics and puffed rice: the politics of energy and climate change in India&#8217;s Smart CitiesAnkit Bhardwaj, Centre for Policy Research, Delhi13:00 &#8211; 14:30&#160;&#160; Lunch Break14:30 &#8211; 16:00 &#160; Session III. Smart Cities as political projectsAfternoon Discussant: Eric Leclerc, Universit&#233; de LilleDepoliticising Smart Cities in IndiaPersis Taraporevala, King&#8217;s College LondonCountering the national Smart City Mission: alternative &#8216;green&#8217; projects in KolkataAnna Dewaele, CEIAS, Paris16:00 - 16:30 Break16:30 &#8211; 17:15 Session IV. Exceptional instruments for governing the smart cityExceptional governance structures at the heart of the SCM: an evaluation of Special Purpose VehiclesMarie-H&#233;l&#232;ne Z&#233;rah, CESSMA and Centre for Policy Research, Delhi17:15 &#8211; 18:00 Round Table Discussion / Q &#38; AModerator: Loraine Kennedy, CEIAS, ParisFor more information, contact Loraine Kennedy: kennedy@ehess.frPr&#233;sentationLa Smart City Mission en Inde a &#233;t&#233; inaugur&#233;e par le Premier ministre Narendra Modi en 2015 dans le but de promouvoir des solutions intelligentes pour am&#233;liorer les infrastructures et services urbains. Elle s'inspire d'id&#233;es qui ont circul&#233; dans le monde entier sur l'innovation urbaine num&#233;rique et technologique. Initialement annonc&#233;e comme un programme de construction de 100 nouvelles villes intelligentes &#224; travers le pays, la mission a finalement pris la forme d'un concours entre 100 villes indiennes existantes, s&#233;lectionn&#233;es par les gouvernements central et r&#233;gional. Chaque ville candidate propose un projet urbain soit pour am&#233;liorer (r&#233;am&#233;nagement) ou red&#233;velopper certaines zones, soit pour &#233;tendre la ville &#224; l'int&#233;rieur de ses limites administratives (d&#233;veloppement sur site vierge). Pour &#233;laborer leurs propositions et strat&#233;gies, les villes candidates sont assist&#233;es par des consultants d&#233;sign&#233;s par l'&#201;tat ou par un organisme partenaire ext&#233;rieur, comme la Banque mondiale ou la Banque asiatique de d&#233;veloppement, ou m&#234;me par des pays "promoteurs", dont la France, via son Agence fran&#231;aise de d&#233;veloppement. Les projets sont ensuite mis en comp&#233;tition et les laur&#233;ats peuvent mettre en &#339;uvre leurs propositions tandis que les autres sont invit&#233;s &#224; revoir leur plan strat&#233;gique et &#224; le soumettre &#224; nouveau lors du prochain tour.Les premi&#232;res &#233;valuations de la mission Smart City, y compris les diff&#233;rentes propositions faites par les villes candidates, les premiers projets r&#233;alis&#233;s et leur accueil par les autorit&#233;s locales et les habitants, ont soulev&#233; un certain nombre de questions sur ce nouveau mode de construction de la ville. Tout d'abord, la Smart City Mission doit &#234;tre comprise dans le contexte de l'adoption progressive du concept de ville intelligente en Inde, et c'est pourquoi elle s'int&#233;resse &#224; la circulation globale des mod&#232;les et &#224; leur adaptation &#224; des contextes sp&#233;cifiques. Deuxi&#232;mement, la Mission offre une occasion unique d'examiner la transformation des modalit&#233;s de l'action de l'&#201;tat dans le domaine urbain, en termes de d&#233;centralisation et d'&#233;volution des &#233;chelles de gouvernance, mais aussi en termes de partenariats entre les secteurs public et priv&#233;. Troisi&#232;mement, &#233;tant donn&#233; que la Mission met l'accent sur la participation populaire &#224; la conception des projets, elle nous invite &#224; nous interroger sur le choix des publics vis&#233;s par ce type de programme ainsi que sur la pertinence des propositions par rapport aux besoins et aux r&#233;alit&#233;s locales. Quatri&#232;mement, l'&#233;tude des projets de villes intelligentes met en &#233;vidence l'&#233;cart entre les ambitions du gouvernement central et les comp&#233;tences techniques des autorit&#233;s municipales, ce qui soul&#232;ve la question des diff&#233;rences entre les objectifs du programme et sa mise en &#339;uvre.Faisant suite &#224; une premi&#232;re r&#233;union consacr&#233;e &#224; la Smart City Mission en Inde en septembre 2018, l'objectif sp&#233;cifique de cet atelier international est de se concentrer sur les questions de durabilit&#233; sociale et environnementale. Sur la base d'enqu&#234;tes sur le terrain, les intervenants &#233;valueront de mani&#232;re critique les exp&#233;riences de villes intelligentes au fur et &#224; mesure de leur d&#233;roulement. Parmi les questions &#224; discuter figurent les suivantes : Comment l'engagement de l'Inde &#224; l'&#233;gard des villes intelligentes se compare-t-il &#224; d'autres cas internationaux ? Dans quelle mesure les projets en Inde s'appuient-ils sur des technologies de pointe ? Comment pouvons-nous caract&#233;riser la gouvernance et la politique de l'engagement de l'Inde dans l'urbanisme intelligent ?Atelier d'&#233;tude organis&#233; par :Loraine Kennedy (CNRS, CEIAS, EHESS)Pushpa Arabindoo (UCL, IEA de Paris)Marie-H&#233;l&#232;ne Z&#233;rah (IRD, CESSMA, Centre for Policy Research, Delhi)Anna Dewaele (CEIAS, EHESS)Programme9:30 &#8211; 11:00&#160;&#160; Session I. Situating India&#8217;s Smart City Mission in international perspectiveDiscussante : Pushpa Arabindoo, UCL, Institut d&#8217;&#233;tudes avanc&#233;es de ParisCities and the (re)ordering of elite coalitions under advanced neoliberalismIpshita Basu, University of Westminster, LondonLeveraging international support for SCM: which criteria guide lenders/donors?Gautier Kohler, Agence Fran&#231;aise du D&#233;veloppement, Paris11:00 &#8211; 11:30&#160;&#160; Pause11:30 &#8211; 13:00&#160; &#160;Session II. Cutting-edge or ordinary - how sustainable are SCM projects?Analysing the &#8216;environment&#8217; of Smart Cities in India: Issues of sustainability and equitySeema Mundoli (Presenter), Hariprasad VM, Preeti Venkatram and Harini Nagendra Centre for Urban Sustainability in India, Azim Premji University, BengaluruOf photovoltaics and puffed rice: the politics of energy and climate change in India&#8217;s Smart CitiesAnkit Bhardwaj, Centre for Policy Research, Delhi13:00 &#8211; 14:30&#160;&#160; Pause d&#233;jeuner14:30 &#8211; 16:00 &#160; Session III. Smart Cities as political projectsDiscussant : Eric Leclerc, Universit&#233; de LilleDepoliticising Smart Cities in IndiaPersis Taraporevala, King&#8217;s College LondonCountering the national Smart City Mission: alternative &#8216;green&#8217; projects in KolkataAnna Dewaele, CEIAS, Paris16:00 - 16:30&#160;&#160; Pause16:30 &#8211; 17:15 &#160; Session IV. Exceptional instruments for governing the smart cityExceptional governance structures at the heart of the SCM: an evaluation of Special Purpose VehiclesMarie-H&#233;l&#232;ne Z&#233;rah, CESSMA and Centre for Policy Research, Delhi17:15 &#8211; 18:00 &#160; Table ronde / Q &#38; RMod&#233;ratrice : Loraine Kennedy, CEIAS, ParisPour plus d'informations, contacter Loraine Kennedy : kennedy@ehess.fr