Social innovation in cities – URBACT
The role of cities is emerging strongly from the First URBACT Capitalisation report, as a catalyst of social innovation and leading to the reflexion on the role of cities in the process that bridges more traditional forms of governance towards more participatory ones. In addition, cities, facing diminishing public resources, especially within the Crisis, need […] more
Boîte à outils Visions +21
Pour permettre aux collectivités locales de s’emparer des réflexions du groupe de travail national sur les « Agendas 21 de demain » et d’animer une démarche de prospective de leur propre Agenda 21 local, une boîte à outils a été développée au cours de l’année 2013. Des collectivités en Gironde, en Midi-Pyrénées et en Bretagne ont contribué […] more
Mon lycée du 3ème Millénaire
L’opération de développement Lycée du Troisième Millénaire (inscrite dans le programme de la Transformation Ecologique et Sociale de la Région Nord-Pas de Calais) se propose d’organiser: ‘Mon lycée du 3ème Millénaire’, un processus d’auto-reportage pour permettre à chaque lycée de capturer dans un rapide reportage vidéo les biens communs comme on les rencontre dans un […] more
Ecological and social transformation of the region (TESR)
The Ecological and Social Transformation of the Nord Pas-de-Calais Region (north of France) aims to propose a new form of public action that overcomes the fields of traditional skills to start from issues considered essential. It emphasizes the mobilization of “stakeholders” and “rearrangement” of actors to ultimately help produce “common goods”, the densification and the […] more
Products-services-systems (TURAS)
This project explores new hybrid-combinations bewteen products and services systems in order to develop new creative and sustainable business opportunities (both economically viable and creating new jobs) for the Brussels-Capital Region. more
Sustainable Food for Urban Communities (URBACT)
“Sustainable Food in Urban Communities” is a project involving ten European cities that wish to grow, deliver and enjoy more sustainable food: they are looking for joint, effective and sustainable solutions to develop low-carbon and resource-efficient urban food systems. more
Researches on the future of Agendas 21
How can we rethink governance to facilitate local sustainable transformations?
This blog presents two parallel researches on the future of Agenda 21. more
PERL working on green jobs for sustainable living…
March 6th-9th in Marseille, France was the official launch of the second PERL project recently approved for 3 more years of activities financed by the Lifelong Learning Programme of DG Education and Research. PERL for who still doesn’t’ know this now somewhat famous network stands for Partnership for Education and Research for Responsible Living and […] more
Multi-level Governance Charter
Multilevel Governance Charter : A co-design process with the Committee of the Regions more
Sustainable lifestyles 2050 through 4 video-scenarios
What will life in 2050 look like ? What is a sustainable lifestyle ? What does it look like ? Explore four scenarios of sustainable lifestyles in 2050 ! Watch online our video-scenarios !
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DIFFUSED CAMPUS
Get a glimpse at « Sustainability at school »! Welcome in Saint-Gilles! Find out the students’ projects of diffused campus in Saint Gilles, Liège. more
ENSCI Paris DESIS Lab (2012)
ENSCI Paris DESIS Lab // The course will explore scenarios of local development based on collaborative services bridging social innovations and public innovations. The suburban area of Saclay, 20 kilometres South-West from Paris has been chosen to host a high level R&D Campus with universities, research labs, high-tech companies, etc… This top-down development project expect […] more
Human Cities festival > visit the Toolbox blog
From Friday 16th to Sunday 18th of March 2012, the Human Cities Toolbox is in the street in the area of St Boniface in Brussels! 20 tools are presented in posters spread in the streets of the district in places where those examples could be happening : it’s your turn to let your imagination taking […] more
Agenda 21 Molenbeek / Citizen Walks
The Agenda 21 of the City of Molenbeek (Brussels-Capital Region) organised in Novembre 2011 3 citizens walks. The aim of those walks ? Re-discovering their area with the citiezns with a new point of view on sustainable initiatives. more
Agenda 21 Saint-Gilles / Citizens participation
This is a project done with the Agenda 21 of the City of Saint-Gilles (Brussels-Capital Region). more
Inventer les lycées demain
This blog is presents the work-in-progress of the Experimental Studio: Inventing colleges tomorrow, ENSCI Les Ateliers, Autumn 2010. more
Designing Household Energy Practices
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 […] more
One Planet mobility cities
Barcelona, Freiburg, Lille, Malmö and Sofia engage with WWFs’ One Planet Mobility Cities programme: these 5 first European cities joint forces to foster systemic change towards sustainable mobility. The two main action paths are the development of a localised assessment tool to compare carbon reductions of different policy measures and creative stakeholders engagement in carrying […] more
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. Together with the Consumer Citizenship Network, we develop a didactic Teaching Pack to involve pupils and their teachers in this fruitful activity aligned with project-based education and […] more
City eco lab
Sustainable project in Saint-Etienne What are more sustainable ways of living? What would the daily life of a family, a student or a pensioner be like if all sustainable initiatives, projects, ideas, etc… presented at the Biennale International Design were available now in Saint-Etienne? To try to answer this question, we ask some people from […] more
EMUDE / Emerging user demands for sustainable solution
This blog is a digital magazine that shows cases of social innovation promising in terms of sustainable developement. It offers a platform of dialogue for the creative communities that generates these innovations to exchange on the different solutions they promote, between them and with the rest of the citizens that their alternative ideas may stimulate […] more
POLIMI_WORKSHOP 2005
This blog presents all the work developed by the students of the course “Representation & visualisation” hold at the Politecnico of Milan in 2005-06 more
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