Strategic Design Scenarios | We are an innovation lab specialised in public innovation, strategic design, scenario building, policy design, co-design with users and community centred approaches. We work on public policy innovation through design, social innovation and sustainability.

We are a design lab specialised in public and sustainable innovation, strategic design, scenario building, co-design with users and community centred approaches. We conduct field work, action-research, and training activities. We work both on the present and on the future(s), and both at local level and at meta level.

Do we need participatory democracy to save democracy?

on Mar 27, 2020

Everyone acknowledges today that democracies around the world are increasingly challenged. The number of issues they have to face – and have difficulties to respond to (social justice, economic stability, climate change, etc.) – put our democracies at risk.

Phasing-in : Amorçage d’un processus d’innovation publique

on Jul 15, 2019

L’amorçage d’un processus d’innovation publique c’est l’amorçage d’un changement. Or, toute transformation de pratiques, de méthodes et d’outils au sein d’une structure, quelle qu’elle soit, prend du temps. Plutôt que d’essayer de « décréter » le changement, il convient de l’enclencher lentement, progressivement ; il s’agit d’une stratégie de “phasing-in“.... [read more]

À Marcoussis, les citoyens co-construisent le futur

on Nov 12, 2018

Penser le futur ne doit pas être le privilège des prospectivistes et auteurs de science-fiction. Alors que les hommes politiques sont de plus en plus prisonniers du court terme, les citoyens doivent s’emparer de l’avenir, l’imaginer, le construire. « Inventer le futur ensemble » est même une condition indispensable à la vitalité de... [read more]

Take care of your city’s public services!

on Jul 10, 2018

“The society is changing at a high speed and the municipality has to change to reconnect with it” declared Fleur Imming, Deputy Mayor of Social Affairs, Life and Districts of the city of Amersfoort (Jégou, F., Bonneau, M. 2015). This average city (150 000 inhabitants) located in The Netherland... [read more]

A journey through temporary use | Refill URBACT

on Apr 5, 2018

NEW USE OF VACANT SPACES SPURS INNOVATION ON A LOCAL LEVEL Over the past few decades, many cities have experimented with finding Temporary Uses for abandoned or neglected spaces and buildings. Their experiences serve as a source of inspiration and change in other cities where Temporary Use can act as... [read more]

Massive Codesign : A proposal for a collaborative design framework

on Apr 5, 2018

This book focuses on “massive codesign”: the idea that multiple and/or numerous participants having different voices collaborate in a design process broken down into different steps and formats and resulting in a relevant and diversified amount of data. Services, strategies and scenarios are presented as the main field of application:... [read more]

Scenario stretching game

on Jan 30, 2018

Do you know what is “Scenario-stretching”. Not yet? Well, “Scenario-stretching” is a tool, developed by SDS, to co-create disruptive, surprising and out-of-the-box scenarios and solutions.

Engaging citizens and stakeholders in the setting of EU future research agenda

on Dec 4, 2017

CIMULACT stands for ‘Citizen and Multi-Actor Consultation on Horizon 2020’. The project engages more than 1000 citizens in 30 countries in Europe, along with a variety of other actors, in shaping a desirable sustainable future. In a highly participatory process, the project will provide a unique contribution to European research... [read more]

We all have a good reason not to evaluate [public policies]

on May 18, 2017

In local sustainable development projects (local authorities, municipalities, intermunicipal associations, urban areas, etc.), tons of actions are carried out, but the impact of these actions is rarely evaluated. Indeed, there is a tendency to verify whether actions have been completed or not, but local administrations tend not to closely look at the... [read more]

Deep Dive Study Visit Nantes – Temporary use as slow urban planning

on May 18, 2017

Deep Dive Study Visit Nantes – Temporary use as slow urban planning Click here to download the PDF

Deep Dive Study visit Riga – Common Ownership

on May 18, 2017

Deep Dive Study visit Riga – Common Ownership Click here to download the PDF

Deep Dive Study Visit – Temporary as an asset to reduce exclusion

on May 18, 2017

Deep Dive Study Visit in Bremen- Temporary as an asset to reduce exclusion. Click here to download the PDF

Social innovation in cities – Capitalisation report

on Jan 7, 2016

Download the article / “Social innovation in cities, URBACT II capitalisation” Authors / Jégou, F., Bonneau, M. City administrations are facing a whole range of challenges on the social, environmental and economic fronts. New competences are being transferred from the national or regional levels while the budgets available to tackle them... [read more]

European sustainable food cities

on Feb 18, 2015

Download the handbook : Creating space for sustainable food systems in urban communities – Practical approaches and examples for cities, and watch the elected officials of the partners cities commit to place sustainable food high on the political agenda in 2015 and beyond.

Task force on sustainable lifestyles

on Jan 4, 2010

This report is a tool for anyone working on sustainable lifestyles and behavior change. The content comes from the nine Task Force projects and the wider evidence base on sustainable lifestyles. There are three sections to this document: about sustainable lifestyles; about the task force; taking sustainable lifestyles forward. Download Click... [read more]

Selected work

Active Citizens for greater participatory democracy

Citizen’s participation in small and medium EU cities The aim of ActiveCitizens is to rethink the place of the citizen in the local governance by finding a balance between representative ... [read more]

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Citizen’s participation in small and medium EU cities The aim of ActiveCitizens is to rethink the place of the citizen in the local governance by finding a balance between representative... [read more]

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Imagining the future of a village together with citizens by Christophe Gouache How can you build and plan the future development of a village if you don’t involve citizens in ... [read more]

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Imagining the future of a village together with citizens by Christophe Gouache How can you build and plan the future development of a village if you don’t involve citizens in... [read more]

Territorial agri-food policy - BIOCANTEEN

all projects / Case studies / selected work

Info coming soon !

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Info coming soon !

Setting up a public innovation lab in Mayenne

all projects / Case studies / selected work

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[english] How could the local power and citizen organizations better collaborate to foster resilient local dynamics in favor of the environnement? Many citizen initiatives have taken place in the Brussels ... [read more]

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[english] How could the local power and citizen organizations better collaborate to foster resilient local dynamics in favor of the environnement? Many citizen initiatives have taken place in the Brussels... [read more]

all projects / Case studies / selected work

[english] Training people to apply the design approach to the public action field, in a classroom-like setting, is quite a challenging wager which often leads to frustration. On the contrary, exclusively ... [read more]

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[english] Training people to apply the design approach to the public action field, in a classroom-like setting, is quite a challenging wager which often leads to frustration. On the contrary, exclusively... [read more]

Innovation Action-based training at SMEDAR

all projects / Case studies / selected work

[english] Thanks to this on-field application this training is trully action-based – contrary to standard classroom training. Together with SMEDAR and the city of Rouen’s mixed syndicate for waste disposal,... [read more]

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[english] Thanks to this on-field application this training is trully action-based – contrary to standard classroom training. Together with SMEDAR and the city of Rouen’s mixed syndicate for waste disposal,... [read more]

NATCONSUMERS - Reducing residential energy through natural language feedback

all projects / Case studies / selected work

How could we be more reasonable consumers? How could we adapt/modify our behaviors towards more responsible and sustainable use of energy in households? Energy saving is not a very sexy ... [read more]

by admin on Jun 3, 2017 • No Comments

How could we be more reasonable consumers? How could we adapt/modify our behaviors towards more responsible and sustainable use of energy in households? Energy saving is not a very sexy... [read more]