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Long live long termism!
INTERVIEW Ouishare Fest with Nicholas Paul Brysiewicz. According to the Long Now Foundation, we need to think long-term, because some issues are bigger than us and concern our whole civilization. Not the next election cycle, not even our lifetime, but the next 10.000 years ahead of us.
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Resilience lacks radicality. Let’s cultivate our imagination seriously.
INTERVIEW with Rob Hopkins. In his latest book, the founder of the Transition movement passionately puts imagination back at the heart of his approach to ecological transition and resilience. What if imagination is the missing element we need to move beyond the status quo and embody an authentic transition?
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Sous la technique, les matières
Entretien avec Jean-Baptiste Fressoz. Aujourd’hui, l’écologie fournit une cure de jouvence à une idée ancienne : le progrès technologique. Il sature la question écologique avec des débats souvent pointus sur les choix énergétiques et techniques : éolien, solaire, atome, voiture électrique, 5G et consorts. Mais pose-t-on bien le débat ? Que cache cette obsession pour les techniques ou la production énergétique ? Autant de questions que nous nous sommes posées avec l’historien des techniques Jean-Baptiste Fressoz.
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Questioning digital practices of habitants living in low-income neighbourhoods
In 2018, the Lab Ouishare x Chronos launched Capital Numerique (Digital Capital), an action-research to question the digital practices of residents of four low-income neighbourhoods (Bagnolet, Bobigny, Besançon and Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni). The project was supported by a number of public and private partners: La Banque des Territoires, l'ADEME, l'ANRU, Est Ensemble, Orange, la MAIF, l'Agence du numérique (The government’s digital agency), Pôle Emploi (Employment center) and CDC Habitat. One and a half years later, after several meetings, interviews and workshops, we are here to deliver our main lessons and avenues for experimentation.
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Living together on our social issues
A complex problem requires collaborative and iterative design. It is with this conviction that, since 2018, we have been conducting an experiment in Roubaix with a variety of actors, including residents in situations of fuel poverty. Far from institutional and technocratic mechanisms, we move forward on the premise that the first experts in these situations are those who experience them on a daily basis. After two years of workshops and various initiatives, the principles of empowerment and self-organization that we have collectively shown have germinated and raised new questions.
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Questioning the educational potential of digital tools with the whole educational community
In 2019, we carried out a study at Besancon, in the Planoise neighbourhood, to better determine and understand the educational and unifying potential of digital tools. That drove us to question the initial order, to broaden our field of study to replace digital tools with simple tools, to meet and bring together the diversity of educational actors in the district.
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But what happened to the dignity of work?
INTERVIEW with Laëtitia Vitaud. While the national and interprofessional mobilisation against the pension reform continues, Laëtitia Vitaud delivers a historical analysis of the changes in work and trade unionism in her latest book 'Du labeur à l'ouvrage'. Or how work has progressively lost its meaning, its protection and its dignity.
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Prototype a shared knowledge for the transition and transformation of territories
Everything today indicates that a quality of a study does not only depend on the quality of its production, but also on the care given to its transmission and conditions of its appropriation by the actors of its territories. It is with this intuition that the “Extreme Scenarios” approach was born, a one-year exploration that we delivered in 2019.
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Every time a civilization is in crisis, there is a return of the commons
INTERVIEW with Michel Bauwens. The commons are nothing new. Historically citizens always came together to pool resources and manage them collectively and autonomously. It is the responsibility of cities and states to identify, connect and support them. Today the commons appear as a choice of society in a world at the end of its lifespan. A society where economic and productive systems will finally be compatible with the major planetary balances.
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Rethinking mobility to design cities for humans
INTERVIEW with Max Schwitalla. How can we transform our cities through small-scale solutions, mobility hubs and citizen participation, putting sustainability and quality of life at the center ?
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Innovative partnerships and territorial anchorage: Transforming GRDF into a zero carbon platform for societal impact
This collaboration was initiated as part of an ambitious mission: increasing GRDF’s (Gaz Réseau Distribution France, a gas distribution company) green gas or biogas proportion in its infrastructure network to 10% by 2030, compared to it’s 0.1% today. This mission aimed to connect GRDF with actors of the ecological transition, who are commonly under the radar of most of the gas companies today, with the aim of creating value for local territories.
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Supporting a city in the design of a third place
In early 2018, we supported the city of Marmande and the Office of Tourism of Val de Garonne in the design of a hybrid place dedicated to the future of festivals in an industrial wasteland spanning 40,000 square meters. The design phase was aimed at defining the conditions for feasibility and success metrics of the project, to launch a community and put forward an operational plan for the next phase. Abandoned for almost close to a decade now, this wasteland is now set to become a burgeoning center of creative industries.
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