POC « en plein centre » Collaborative approach right in the city centre! Urban-centric businesses are heckled by big-box stores and online sales. Vacant spaces keep growing within cities. How can we fight the increase of empty shop windows and abandoned streets, by giving a second chance to these vacant shops? Experimenting in vacant spaces Tourcoing’s city-centre Read more about Collaborative approach right in the city centre![…]
POC ADN Textile School «beyond walls» What if the territory’s textile DNA could be used to forge new social ties? This is one of RE_ACTextile’s propositions, a project carried out by the students and teaching staff of the Textile Design section at the ESA – Academy of Fine Arts of Tournai. Open workshops The Textile Design Read more about School «beyond walls»[…]
POC The station of tomorrow Going beyond the rails 100,000 people go through the Lille Flandres station every day, yet its traffic is one of the newest in France. What do today’s users expect from tomorrow’s stations? How can this multifaceted complex matter contribute to facilitating user mobility, favour urban planning, offer new services through Read more about Going beyond the rails[…]
POC DESIGN IN Collaboration between cities “When I was young, all the shops were busy… today, everything is closing, you can’t find a thing! People go to shopping centers or order online now.” How might design intervene and change this situation? What good practices might other cities be able to share on the issue? Re-designingcitycentres The projectDESIGN Read more about Collaboration between cities[…]
POC Métamorphoses Silencieuses What to do where there is almost nothing? In a prolific and fertile environment, vegetation establishes itself quite quickly, taking advantage of all the available resources and giving beautiful fruits. In a less favourable, neglected, arid or cold environment, the needs are more demanding, requiring more work, carefulness, encounters and exchange … Read more about What to do where there is almost nothing?[…]
POC les Beaux Endroits Ephemeral installation for long-term projects… Why organise workshops with the neighbourhood population to design things that will be dismantled after 3 months? The ephemeral installations called “Les Beaux Endroits”are a pretext to trigger collaboration between stakeholders who normally ignore each other and for starting projects between them. Create desires Les Beaux Endroits, Read more about Ephemeral installation for long-term projects…[…]
POC Ecorenov Rev3 Ecoles de demain Eco-schools of tomorrow… Schools are central public places in the life of a neighbourhood. Yet in 50 years, schools have hardly changed. Premises have deteriorated and buildings certainly don’t embody the changes needed to address the climate challenge. How do you take on the massive eco-renovation of schools (more Read more about Eco-schools of tomorrow…[…]
POC PRéLUDE Pedagogy of the student conductor “When I went to university, they helped me customise and build my career. I was able to mix learnings from different educational modalities: face-to-face or distance learning. I was able to adjust the timing of the training, speed up or slowdown in order to do internships abroad, pursue Read more about Pedagogy of the student conductor[…]
POC Le service public municipal comme un trait d’union Municipal public services as link Inaugurated in March 2020, Armentières’ new Cultural and Social housing project ‘Trait d’union’offers its users a shared reception comprising multiple public and associative services, gathered in one single place: “We no longer have to go to different sites of the city to make Read more about Municipal public services as link[…]
POC Trinum Lilliad – Université de Lille To see the air quality How can visitors make the best use of public buildings? Could they be given information that helps them decide what to do there, and how? What kind of data on the environment offered by the building would be needed to adapt their own Read more about To see the air quality[…]