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URBACT SSA – Why cITIES NEED TO experiment THEIR POLICY IDEAS
[ENGLISH] “Experimenting before deploying”, “testing to verify hypotheses”, this is the logic behind the Small Scale Actions (or Testing Actions) that have been integrated into the URBACT method. As a…
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Renouveler la politique de la vie nocturne Parisienne
Anticiper les évolutions et transformations de la vie nocturne, débloquer les imaginaires et envisager de nouvelles pratiques et des usages inattendus. En 2022, nous avons mené une mission pour la…
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Habitat Collectif Innovant
Un habitat collectif de qualité ? C’est ce que souhaitent tous les acteurs… mais est-ce que toutes et tous parlent de la même chose ? Les qualités de l’habitat présentées…
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Et si on consommait moins d’eau ?
ENGLISH VERSION BELOW Co-design de la transformation des pratiques d’usage de l’eau à l’échelle du territoire : une preuve de concept dans la métropole lilloise Un travail de co-design de…
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Cité Educative Lyon 8e
Education is a vast and complex sector. There are hundreds of stakeholders from the national education ministry to each school, of all different levels of education, from nurseries to kindergarden…
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European cities for greater participatory democracy
To download the publication, click on the picture below or go to the bottom of the page to get the link. Citizen’s participation in small and medium EU cities The…
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Inventing the future of Marcoussis with citizens
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…
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VILCO – Improving the collaboration between city authorities & citizens
[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…
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Design of public services at INET
[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…
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SMEDAR – Training & exploring how to improve waste management site
[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,…
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NATCONSUMERS – Reducing energy use through smartmeter natural feedback
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…
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Changemakers – A game to teach design thinking to kids
ChangeMakers created Empatheia, an innovative computer learning game that can be easily implemented in formal and non-formal education settings. The main goal of the game is to help children develop…
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COMPASS – Responsible research and innovation
Responsible Innovation COMPASS is an EU-funded H2020 project that supports Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) from emerging technology industries to manage their research, development and innovation activities in a responsible and inclusive…
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Wallonia Region – Installing a creativity lab
[english] “The gap between what our administration preached as general executive manager of economy, employment and research and it’s actual ability to innovate, kept on growing.” says Isabel Quoilin, DGO6’s…
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Evalophobia: designing a provocative game about policy evaluation
[english] Why don’t we assess the executed public policies of our inlands? What is preventing it from happening? Why does it never/hardly ever happen? How could we ensure that the…
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Cojardinage/cogardening
Ce projet soutient l’agriculture urbaine dans la capitale en favorisant le partage des jardins inexploités. Beaucoup de Bruxellois ne cultivent pas dans leur jardin, alors que d’autres en rêvent mais…
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Zero Carbon Universities – Imagining Campuses of the future
[english] What is a zero carbon campus? What does it mean ? What does it look like ? How is that different from a traditional campus? What is better in…
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CIMULACT – Citizen and Multi-Actor Consultation on the EU research agenda
CIMULACT: Engaging all of Europe in shaping a desirable and sustainable future Citizens to provide concrete and unique input to the European Union’s research and innovation agenda CIMULACT stands for…
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Justice research – Exploring how to respond to juvenile delinquents violence
Participatory action research for the staff intervening with minors entrusted by a court decision both in the public sector and the voluntary sector and concerned with the care of violent…
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L’ADMINISTRATION PUBLIQUE AU COIN DE MA RUE
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AT THE CORNER OF MY STREET A residence regarding access to local public services A SGMAP and 27e Région partnership. Involving beneficiaries as relay to reach “invisible” citizens…
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URBACT – Capitalizing on Social innovation in cities
URBACT II (2007-2013) is a European exchange programme promoting sustainable and integrated urban development in line with the objectives of the Europe 2020 strategy. It enables European cities to work…
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Visions+21 toolbox
To enable local authorities to build upon the national working group reflections on “Rio+20 and after : The future of Agenda 21″ and lead a prospective exercise of their own Local Agenda 21, a…
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Sustainable food in urban communities [urbact]
The URBACT Thematic Network “Sustainable Food in Urban Communities” is a project involving 10 European cities that wish to grow, deliver and enjoy more sustainable food: they are looking for joint,…
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The Ecological and Social Transformation of the Region
Started 3 years ago the TESR (Transformation écologique et sociale de la région) stands for Ecological and Social Transformation of the Nord Pas-de-Calais Region in the north of France. We can…
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PRODUCT SERVICE SYSTEMS
The Product-service systems project is part of the TURAS program (supported by the Seventh Framework Programme of the EU). The PSS project is led by Brussels Environment, Ecores, Group One,…
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A21_GIRONDE, A TERRITORY OF SOCIAL CO-RESPONSIBILITY IN 2033
Agendas 21 of tomorrow for ‘Conseil General 33’ Toolbox to co-create and build with the ‘Girondin’ stakeholders a desirable vision for the territory. This was for SDS the second occasion…
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Sustainable procurement of the Rhône-Alpes Region
Immersion residence at Rhône-Alpes Regional Council to investigate public procurement processes and co-design a series of experimentations to fluidify green procurement and support the regional sustainable transition.
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Agenda 21 France / Rio+20 : the future of Agendas 21
How can we (re)design local governance to facilitate local sustainable transformations?
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HUMAN CITIES 2012 / Reclaiming public space
How to reclaim public space ? How may citizen re-appropriate and seize public space for collective activities and creative interventions?
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Agenda 21Molenbeek / Citizen-walks
Participative organization of a series of citizens walks for the initial diagnosis phase of the new Agenda 21 process of the municipality of Molenbeek in the framework of Agenda Iris…
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Sustainable Lifestyles 2050 (SPREAD)
What is a sustainable lifestyle? What will a sustainable future mean for the way we live, move, and consume? How do we know if our lifestyles are sustainable or not?…
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Territoires en Résidences
How can we renovate the processes of action of public authorities, engage participation in public institutions and foster sustainable transition…
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City-Eco-Lab
Photo-stories developed with 6 families for the City-Eco-Lab exhibition in the 2008 Design Biennale to picture visitors how daily life could be in a more sustainable Saint-Etienne and engage towards…
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Creative Communities for Sustainable Lifestyles
Collection of cases of social innovation promising in terms of transition towards sustainable living with UNEP and the Swedish Task Force on Sustainable Lifestyles in Brazil, China, India and Africa.
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Global Survey on Sustainable Lifestyles
3 scenarios of sustainable living presented through 9 solution story-boards discussed randomly in the online survey promoted by UNEP to beyond 8000 youths worldwide.
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Nanoplat project
Development of a Platform for Deliberative Processes on Nanotechnology in the European Consumer Market based on social computing tools. Projective scenarios simulating possible developments of nanotechnologies in food to stimulate…
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SEE/K Sustainable Everyday Exploration / Sustainable Everyday Enabling Kit
Comparative study of different local sustainable transformation processes through local micro-projects in Milan, Shanghai, Malmö, New-York, Bogota and France, UK, Brazil… and realisation of an enabling kit to support their…
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Cité du Design
Construction of a collective projection based on a story-telling process among the publics of the Cité du Design to define the future usages and functionalities of the new public institution.
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Human Cities Festival 2010
Design of street exhibition in Brussels, Milan and Ljubljana as part of the Human Cities Festival concluding a European research project on public space as a commons towards sustainable cities.
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Designing Household Energy Practices (DHEP)
Non-conference and hands-on workshop bringing together designers and academics working from different points of view on the question of cultural change of household practices in the daily use of energy.
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One Planet Mobility Cities
Users investigation and scenario building exercise with WWF, University and City of Malmö, Sweden to support systemic transition towards sustainable mobility in 5 European cities.
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LOLA Looking for Likely Alternatives
Fostering interests and involvement in education for sustainability and responsible living in national school curriculum: LOLA starts as a follow-up of our exploration of social innovations for sustainability.
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Laboratory for Innovative Usages and Practices (LUPI)
Definition process of a new laboratory focusing user-centred approaches together with the partners companies and institutions of the Cité du Design in Saint-Étienne, France
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ISEU users practices in energy using products
Co-design process with a group of families to define new domestic appliances able to induce a shift in household energy consumption practices.
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EVaN (European Value Networks)
European research project comparing so-called design-driven companies to inspire a new set of innovation…
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VEIL urban farming in Melbourne
Engagement process around scenarios of urban farming in Melbourne through a story-telling workshop and stakeholders envisioning their potential roles in implementing the vision through video-sketches
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Sustainable Everydays Beaubourg
Installation at the D-Day exhibition in Beaubourg Contemporary Art Centre, France engaging visitors to interact between videos scenarios of sustainable ways of living on-site and the Sustainable Everyday Project (SEP)…
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MEPSS – Methodology and tools for Product-Service Systems
European research project aiming at the integration of design, sustainability and marketing tools into…
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SEP Travelling Exhibition
Light ‘in-luggage’ exhibition set developed to promote the Sustainable Everyday Project activities in more than 10 events worldwide in New-Delhi, Bratislava, Florence, Eindhoven, Montréal, Allborg, Wuppertal, Tokyo, Saint-Etienne, Hammar, Genova,…
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Sustainable Everydays PASS
Exhibition venue at the PASS, Scientific and Social Adventure Park, Belgium challenging visitors with scenarios on new and more sustainable ways of living and engaging them to interact with a…
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HiCS (Highly Customer-ized Solutions)
European research project to develop, test and implement a methodology based on a platform of partners…
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Sustainable Everydays Triennale
Major exhibition venue at the Triennale di Milano, Italy designed as a on-site user-research involving visitors to choose between different daily living solutions and compose progressively a sustainable scenario adapted…
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Ambient Agora
European research project exploring the potentialities of new augmented work environments…
