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Designing solutions to energy insecurity with those most concerned
A Ouishare team accompanied the Rexel Foundation, to co-design responses to energy insecurity with those most concerned. The second step was to activate a community that could experiment with these solutions.
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LEX Barcelona: Learning how the sharing city of tomorrow is being designed, implemented and shaped today.
From November 12th to 15th four facilitators from Argentina and France joined for an unique Ouishare Learning Expedition (LEX) around the Smart City Expo World Congress and Sharing Cities Summit in Barcelona.
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Curating an immersive experience to explore the futures of work
Following a growing partnership, Nesta invited Ouishare to be a Content Partner for FutureFest 2018 to "occupy the future" and offer radical alternative visions. We were asked to bring our unique participatory and innovative approach to event design. The result was an immersive five session program exploring The Future.s of Work like never before.
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Coliving on the rise: can house-sharing make cities great again?
On October 11th 2018 Co-Liv the first major event about coliving in Paris will welcome you. To get you up to speed about the promises and challenges that coliving offers, we interviewed Jonathan Imme.
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What global cities are (not) telling us: the politics of immigration, identity and invisible frontiers. Interview with Saskia Sassen
"What I care about is how a well-rounded city like Paris can incorporate those individuals in/from the banlieues, who don't feel this is their city." Saskia Sassen on what would she do if she were Mayor of Paris.
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Supporting a city in the prefiguration of a Third Place
At the beginning of 2018, we assisted the city of Marmande and the Val de Garonne tourist office in the prefiguration of a hybrid venue dedicated to the future of festivals on a 40,000m2 industrial wasteland. This prefiguration phase aimed to define the conditions of feasibility and success of the project, to launch a community while proposing a pre-operational scenario. Abandoned since 2009, this wasteland is destined to become a place of emergence for the creative industries.
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To Scandinavia and beyond: how a learning expedition fostered a community around mobility
As part of the Mobility as Networks study made by Le Lab Ouishare X Chronos, 16 partners and eight team members went on a five-day Learning Expedition through three Scandinavian cities to meet and get inspired by the actors designing the mobility of tomorrow.
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Creating safe spaces: how re-designing an office can lead to new ways of collaboration
A leading automotive company in Germany wanted its employees to design their new office in a collaborative way. To help them achieve this, Ouishare created a safe space for workers to solve internal problems and develop a collaborative culture.
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Designing for a better society: how tiny houses can have a huge impact
Interview with Ricardo Mayor on the role of designers and architects crafting our social tissue. We explore how the tiny house model was adapted to respond to the current refugee crisis. From how new production models can empower citizens and change our relationship with refugees, to ultimately changing the way we design cities.
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The vaccine for fake news? More fake news.
Interview with Ruurd Oosterwoud, founder of DROG, on how becoming a fake news factory can make us immune to the tactics behind misleading viral stories.
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What if cities led the fight against climate change? - An interview with Mark Watts
Nations States have failed to tackle climate change. Then, what if a network of cities paved the way to a more sustainable world. Mark Watts is Executive Director of C40, a network of 91 of the world’s major cities, committed to bold action on climate change. Here is his perspective on this global issue.
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Building the networked city from the ground up with citizens - Interview with Francesca Bria
How can technology lead to more participation in democratic processes? Who should own and control city data? Can cities embrace a model that socializes data and encourages new forms of cooperativism and democratic innovation? In the run-up to the Ouishare Fest Paris, Albert Cañigueral interviewed Francesca Bria, the chief innovation officer of Barcelona.
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