POC Hiding places and adventures’ edge A green hillock to relax with family How do you transform a green and wooded hillock into a child and family friendly space, allowing them to have fun and fostering creativity? How do you visualise and strengthen the links between Ferme d’en Haut and its surrounding environment? How do you make Read more about A green hillock to relax with family[…]
POC Englos / Lille Food Experience – LiFE R&D supermarket The project LIFE, Lille Food Experience, aims to bring together a food start-up incubator, an urban farm and a national wholesale market around a supermarket, in order to form a platform for food excellence. The project’s aim is to bring together stakeholders in research, development, Read more about R&D supermarket[…]
POC Culture in the garden Reintegration market gardening In Haubourdin, in the middle of the street Carrières-de-cement full of businesses, in an old quarry, there are almost three hectares dedicated to market gardening and mutual aid. Since 1998,Intervalhas been helping job seekers reintegrate the professional world … by growing vegetables. Culture of earth and culture Read more about Reintegration market gardening[…]
Aymeric Jaillais, Lucas Crouzetet Cheverry and Theo Mannechez Atypical partnerships, heterogeneous actors, ambitious initiatives or new conceptions of tomorrow’s society? Today in France, 1,000 schools need to be renovated because of their age and obsolescence. This worrying figure raises questions about the ability of public actors to act alone for a sustainable renovation of public Read more about Atypical partnerships, heterogeneous actors, ambitious initiatives or new conceptions of tomorrow’s society?[…]
Nathalie Joyeux, Camille Pichot and Camille Serrisier Participatory mapping, a tool for collaboration between citizens? From the Michelin paper map to the successful Google Maps app, maps are part of our daily lives: going on holidays, joining friends, finding a restaurant, going to a concert. Whatever the nature of our needs and profiles, maps seem Read more about Participatory mapping, a tool for collaboration between citizens?[…]
Workshop “around the table”: Design – participation, power and privilege François Jégou – September 2020 “At a time when politicians divide and rule, when social crises reveal pronounced differences, what responsibilities do designers have when facilitating the democratic participation of a neighbourhood’s inhabitants?” This is the question Laetitia Wolff[1]raised at the opening of the first Read more about Workshop “around the table”: Design – participation, power and privilege[…]
POC DESIS Design for social innovation and sustainability In the complexity of contemporary society, social innovation is spreading and its potential, as a driver of sustainable change, is increasing. To facilitate this process, the design community, in general, and design schools, in particular, can play a pivotal role. In fact, design schools can orient their Read more about Design for social innovation and sustainability[…]
POC LTC Radio Long Term Care Radio: Helpful Histories How might we make moments of change more relatable, livable and understandable by building proximity with the people living in long term care (LTC)? Can negative stereotypes around aging be shifted by recognising and supporting the abilities of people living in care? Our elders have lived through Read more about Long Term Care Radio: Helpful Histories[…]
POC Collective Food Collaboration, Hong Kong- CN Vulnerable food systems What to think about the naturally nutritious farm products found in stores, or the opposite, spoiled fruit turned to waste in landfills? Covid-19 revealed the fragility of our global fresh food supply chain and the need to rethink local farms, in order to build resilient food systems: to Read more about Vulnerable food systems[…]
POC Grajaú Colla, Rio- BR Realconnections within the virtual world How mightwe cultivate trust during social isolation times? How can small businesses be supported through this pandemic? What about acollaborative platform that maintains solidarity and connects producers and buyers? Collaborativeness, people and service geolocalisation GrajaúCollabis a participatory mapping that aims toidentify small businesses and volunteers in the Grajaúneighbourhood, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), during the Coronavirus pandemic. Read more about Realconnections within the virtual world[…]