{"id":4904,"date":"2020-11-06T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/ville-collaborative\/?p=4904"},"modified":"2020-11-04T11:39:13","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T11:39:13","slug":"facilitating-and-organizing-collaboration-between-heterogeneous-actors-a-mirage-of-public-policies-or-a-new-way-of-making-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/ville-collaborative\/2020\/11\/06\/facilitating-and-organizing-collaboration-between-heterogeneous-actors-a-mirage-of-public-policies-or-a-new-way-of-making-the-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Facilitating and organizing collaboration between heterogeneous actors: a mirage of public policies or a new way of making the city?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Lucie SCHNEIDER and L\u00e9o KACZOR<\/h6>\n\n\n\n

Facilitating and organizing collaboration between heterogeneous actors: a mirage of public policies or a new way of making the city?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Collaboration between different actors in making the city is a modern phenomenon which responds to a democratic aspiration. However, it is a true challenge for the different stakeholders of a project, even harder to overcome if the actors are not used to collaborate with each other. Yet several projects with different approaches try to encourage this collaboration and to allow the creation of new social links. If collaboration during the design of the project is effective, it is often more difficult to value its benefits. Finally, such projects face real barriers, which are not easy to overcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00ab\u00a0The way we design a city is the way we are going to live in it. \u00bb.<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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These words from Lille\u2019s Mayor Martine Aubry, when Lille was selected as 2020 World Design Capital, illustrate the importance of the design step of the projects, which is decisive in the use that will be made of them. In this context, collaboration becomes a central and essential element in the city\u2019s design and public policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Collaboration as means of building\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

the city of tomorrow<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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To collaborate or cooperate means to implement a process of co-construction of knowledge that goes beyond the traditional oppositions between practical and theoretical knowledge, the knowledge of the user and that of the expert. These knowledges are different and complementary. The goal is to create a space where everyone can participate and build a project together. In this case we talk about horizontal organisation. Ideally, collaboration would take place in all steps of the project, and each stakeholder would be on equal terms\u00a0 (communities, planners, civil society…).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Traditionally, decision-makers make the city and public services without involving the local population. In her article \u00ab\u00a0La recherche sur les acteurs de la fabrication de la ville: coulisses et d\u00e9voilements\u00a0\u00bb published in 2019[1]<\/sup><\/a>, V\u00e9ronique Biau explains that the turn of the 2000s leads to questioning the \u00ab\u00a0top-down\u00a0\u00bb model in favour of a collaborative dynamic in which citizens are invited to intervene.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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However, stakeholders are used to acting on their own, with their own techniques and languages. In practice, organising collaboration between stakeholders who are not used to working together can be complex. This difficulty in collaborating appears at several stages, in particular at the level of the project\u2019s co-design, but also on the actual collaboration once the project is inaugurated. It is therefore necessary to question these difficulties, to study the factors involved, and to explore the solutions that are implemented in order to overcome these obstacles, while analysing their range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/sup><\/a>Territoire en mouvement, Revue de G\u00e9ographie et Am\u00e9nagement 2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Trait d’Union project: the cultural and social city of Armenti\u00e8res<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Following\u00a0 the initiative of the town hall, the former Middle school of Armenti\u00e8res (a town in the European Metropolis of Lille) has been rehabilitated as a Social and Cultural Centre to house municipal services and associations. This project is carried out in collaboration with designers whose work consists in bringing different audiences together. For example, the former courtyard is being transformed into a shared reception area and is intended to become a place for living and meeting people. The regrouping of the various municipal services and associations in the same place will encourage new collaborations.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n