POC CRÉAlab Reinventing teaching Do you remember all the fun you had when your teacher told you stories with small figurines? It is the reason why Céline imagined Story Apron, with 9 different pockets that allow to put the figurines into context at each stage of a story. At CRÉAlab, Céline trains students to become Read more about Reinventing teaching[…]
POC Mob-Mob Temporary mobile furniture Neighbourhood renovations can take up to several years, during which time the population has to live in the midst of all the work, provisional arrangements, precarious urban equipment… How might we design modular and temporary street furniture that allows, in a flexible and economical way, to give rise to neighbourhood Read more about Temporary mobile furniture[…]
POC Hôt-El Neighbourhood in transition Renovating 360 housing units in the city of Elocques, a set of small working-class houses built in 1900 on a site of 13.7 hectares in Hellemmes : a rehabilitation project that will be ongoing until 2024, involving “drawer housings” wherein the inhabitants leave their home during renovations and live in “tampon” housings. It’s Read more about Neighbourhood in transition[…]
POC The Big House Like a big family home! Open-air cinema, repair cafe, educational chicken coop, within walls festival, solidarity shop, garden of senses, etc. What do all of these ideas (and many others) have to do with each other? They all come from a workshop that brought together in August 2019 different teams from IEM Read more about Like a big family home![…]
POC The Saillysienne Factory Citizens’ Initiative Local Factory The adventure began 3 years ago, at the end of the film screening “Tomorrow”, with a question raised by many saillyssians: what do we do? Since then, the municipality of Sailly-Lez-lannoy, a metropolitan city of less than 2,000 people, has been accompanying citizen initiatives through workshops, wherein Read more about Citizens’ Initiative Local Factory[…]
POC Nomadic Café in Five Nomadic coffee break in your neighbourhood “I discovered the Nomadic Café in June. The appointment in a park, a bit like a treasure hunt, and then arriving at our host’s home. A pleasant garden, discussions, meeting new people and lots of new tips about my neighbourhood” says Fanny, resident of Read more about Nomadic coffee break in your neighbourhood[…]
POC GAC, Active Consumption Management What is the energy today? We use our washing machine and all other home appliances whenever it suits us. However, rooftop photovoltaic panels produce electricity only during daylight and especially during sunny days, leading to moments of overproduction and non-use of the energy. This implies that there is a need Read more about What is the energy today?[…]
POC Espace culturel Tisserands Lomme Did you get lost? In Lomme, everyone spends their lives around their house, with the impression of belonging more to the neighbourhood than to the city. Hence the question, “Well then, did you get lost?”when you find someone from Lomme a little bit too far from home. Espace Culturel Les Tisserands Read more about Did you get lost?[…]
POC Electricity shapes my neighbourhood Electricity shapes my neighbourhood What if public substations took on new colours and told us all about the local history, heritage’s secrets and citizen’s dreams for the world of tomorrow? Found in every town, every neighbourhood, these electrical substations, just like the walls and street furniture, could be turned into artistic Read more about Electricity shapes my neighbourhood[…]
POC Brico-conciergerie From DIY to eco-renovation “With eco-renovation policies, it is the most vulnerable that are the hardest to reach. You need to work at a neighbourhood level, with local stakeholders and residents.” Supporting and simplifying Many households, including low-resource and energy poor households, do not receive the support to which they are entitled. A Read more about From DIY to eco-renovation[…]