The City of Grigny and the Grand Paris Sud Urban Community in Essonne are developing a multicultural facility within a reinvented city center, with an opening planned for 2028. Designed by the architecture firm Atelier Novembre, this facility will host four major cultural, artistic, and educational organizations from the region: the Conservatory of Music and Dance, the Municipal School of Visual and Plastic Arts / Micro-Folie, and the Sidney Béchet Cultural Center (managed by the City) as well as the media library (managed by Grand Paris Sud).

Bringing these four existing structures together within a single facility serves several objectives:

1 - Uniting these organizations around a common and unifying project;

2 - Supporting new forms of expression and learning by encouraging the public to take ownership of the space, in line with cultural rights;

3 - Developing and strengthening synergies between cultural, community, and institutional stakeholders in the region.

This venue aims to be a space for meeting, experimentation, and sharing, where access to culture becomes a driver of dynamism and inclusion for the entire population of Grigny.

To provide the municipality with a suitable, functional, and unifying tool, Manifesto is assisting the City of Grigny and the Grand Paris Sud Urban Community in developing the project plan for this shared facility. Manifesto is creating a framework document based on a territorial diagnosis, interviews with institutional and cultural stakeholders, and a series of workshops involving residents and local actors. This work aims to define the operational principles, priorities, and cooperation methods that will structure the future project plan.