POC Friche Brunel The community at the heart of real estate projects The Sheds of le coin du Monde is the story of a wasteland, an ideal building land for housings in a neighbourhood in need. It is also the story of a local collective, BW Friches, that became concerned about the quality of its environment Read more about The community at the heart of real estate projects[…]
POC Art of Green Mind Craft-of-green mind Are you concerned by the current discreet consumption taking place? The general mysophobia has given rise to possible future environmental pitfalls. There is a need to rethink the way we live in regard to today’s physical distancing measures, but mostly in order to anticipate scenarios of more sustainable consumption Read more about Craft-of-green mind[…]
POC Transitional Food Program, Bangkok- TH Food Citizenship: Post-pandemic Food Resilience Policy Design A Transitional Food Program by the Thai Health Promotion Foundation The COVID-19 pandemic represents an undeniable risk for future food security. Preventive healthcare involves active citizenship, immunity and resilience. How can food policy design enable food citizenship, not only for this pandemic, but for Read more about Food Citizenship: Post-pandemic Food Resilience Policy Design[…]
POC URBACT Biocanteens Transfer Network, Mouans-Sartoux – FR Sustainable school meals for green and healthy local food systems For those familiar with Asterix comics, Mouans-Sartoux could be compared to a small sustainable city, surrounded by the rather unsustainable French Riviera, where it’s all about real estate interest, high pressure on land use and mass tourism. At the core Read more about Sustainable school meals for green and healthy local food systems[…]
POC Jardins familiaux Quartier Faubourg à Béthune Gardening collaboration between neighbours “We want a garden that is unlike any other garden in Lille”,declaresGeorges, a resident of the Faubourg de Béthune neighbourhood. Georges, Guislaine, Alexandra, Hervé, Ahmed and all the citizensparticipating in the process, wishabove allto:“forge links between neighbours”, “reachchildren who neverleave theirhouse”, “exchangetheirknow-how and activatehidden resources.” Shared intergenerational garden Located at the foot of somebuildings, Read more about Gardening collaboration between neighbours[…]
Poc Rues végétalisées Campus ZEN, Zero Net Emission! It is a growing movement: more and more cities want to vegetate public spaces and encourage citizen initiatives to reintroduce biodiversity into the city. Nature is important for everyone: not only for the pleasure of the eyes, but also to build cities that are able to withstand Read more about Campus ZEN, Zero Net Emission![…]
POC Villeneuve d’Ascq Ville Nourricière Nourishing city In order to respond to the climate challenge and fight excessive minerality, preserve large landscape continuities and enhance biodiversity, Villeneuve d’Ascq is designing a nourishing city for its citizens. Agricultural areas are no longer just variables for adjustment to the needs of urban development or simple land to Read more about Nourishing city[…]
POC design for SDGs 3d Building capacity to address global health risks What can be done to better prepare design students for the needs of a society in pandemic? Could a course focused on these issues build the needed capacity to overcome today’s and tomorrow’s health risks? Strengthening early warning and reducing risks Yonsei University’s students are Read more about Building capacity to address global health risks[…]
POC Repenser l’enseignement de la marque Designing responsible and socially responsible brands Thinking and questioning a communication school’s pedagogy and organisation, in order enable students to design brands that truly care about its consumers and meet their needs. Designing brands whose values create bonds, brands that make society, this is the challenge of the workshop Read more about Designing responsible and socially responsible brands[…]
POC Passage de la Soie ‘Passage de la soie’ to weave connections ‘Passage de la Soie’ is located in the neighbourhood of Virolois in Tourcoing. New buildings stand side by side with old ones, giving it a certain identity, source of a dynamism linked to the rich industrial past of the place. Could this space Read more about ‘Passage de la soie’ to weave connections[…]