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Rennes – Redesigning science policy together with its stakeholders
[ENGLISH] Convinced of the added value of collaborative approaches, in December 2022 Rennes Métropole launched a participative (re)design of its public policy in support of Higher Education and Research (ESR)…
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Design Workshop for Sustainability
Co-creating digital solutions to address the pressing goals of the SDGs at the Cork University Business School, Cork (Ireland). In January 2022, SDS conducted a 3-day workshop titled ‘Building Sustainable…
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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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Citizen participation? Hell no!
The game ‘Citizen participation? Hell no!’ is meant to put everything on the table, to speak out, frankly, honestly, about all the challenges that are to be faced internally within…
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Do we need participatory democracy to save democracy?
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,…
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Innophobia : do not innovate
Innovating in the #publicsector? That’s too complicated! Here is our last mini #game called #Innophobia All the reasons why innovation is so hard in #publicinstitutions Game in Fr+En avalaible in…
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Are you doing Research & Innovation responsibly?
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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Gestion active des consommations (GAC)
Le projet GAC (Gestion Active des Consommations), financé par la région wallonne, visait à expérimenter comment les habitants d’un quartier peuvent gérer de manière collaborative leur production et consommation d’énergie…
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Energy Conscious Consumers (ECO2)
ECO2 is a Horizon 2020 funded research project to increase energy literacy and improve energy efficiency through the ACT4ECO e-learning platform. Since citizens play a key role in the transition…
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À Marcoussis, les citoyens co-construisent le futur
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…
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A journey through temporary use | Refill URBACT
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…
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Massive Codesign : A proposal for a collaborative design framework
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…
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Scenario stretching game
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.
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Engaging citizens and stakeholders in the setting of EU future research agenda
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…
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Scenario-stretching cards
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. You want to see it? Just…
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We all have a good reason not to evaluate [public policies]
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…
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120 DUTCH CIVIL SERVANTS FOR LIFT EUROPE
As part of the integration programs for their young public servants, the Dutch ministries organize a study tour to Brussels to visit the European institutions, meet and exchange with their…
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Milieux & créativité
Titre du livre/ “Milieux & créativités” Contributeurs/ Aich J., Beaucé P., Ben Hayoun N., Bullet J., Caraës M., Chamoiseau P., Comte P., Darné O., Didier E., Gerner J., Jégou F., John…
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Laboratoire des usages et des pratiques innovantes (LUPI), Cité du Design, 2016
“Laboratoire des usages et des pratiques innovantes (LUPI)” Cité du Design, 2016 Le LUPI est une méthodologie innovante qui permet de développer, sous forme de scénarios d’usages, de nouveaux produits,…
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Social innovation in cities – Capitalisation report
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…
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European sustainable food cities
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…
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scenario building
Scenarios as we intend them, are visions of the future together with concrete solutions definition that may lead from the current situation to this future vision… Scenario building is first…
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stakeholders engagement
The very projection process works as knowledge brokering facilitating mutual understanding: scenarios building allows stakeholders to look beyond their current interactions and direct interests, to share a common view of…
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local transformation process
Different local projects are designed in system so that they support and reinforce each other, generate synergies and allows to reach the momentum to change or start change at the…
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new solution definition
Beyond classical new product definition, new ‘solution’ definition is a larger process envisioning complete new systems including products, services, policies and their related communication… + See more projects related to…
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new tool development
Approaching discontinuities through scenarios building and definition of new solutions requires very often to revisit the toolbox we use: we therefore tends to design new tools ad’hoc for each and…
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training for social change
Focusing new and more sustainable ways of living, the final output beyond new solutions definition is the effective change of the material culture in the daily living resulting in shifts…
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policy recommandations
The success of policies depends also from the way they are designed: how they interact with the material culture of products; if they contradict or complement themselves; how they are…
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