Entre « hors-sol » et « tout-terrain » (English version below) Expliquer le design appliqué à l’action publique dans les modalités habituelles de formation en chambre est une gageure… et souvent une source de frustration, quelque chose comme : « …je vous raconte sur un[…]
BIBMARKT MATCH-MAKING
Eight o’clock: people crowd in front of the entrance to De Centraale. Inside it is full: a long line of people waits in front of the counters to withdraw their places. A concert ? A show ? Not at all.[…]
Back from Helsinki Design Week…
As a foreign visitor a Design Week is not an easy to use service: 250 events spread all other the city and along more than one week is difficult to grasp in a short 2 days visit… So this article[…]
Mikado Design for PEER 2 PEER…
TAIEX-REGIO multi-country workshop on evaluation of TAIEX-REGIO PEER 2 PEER pilot project Peer to peer means a distributed networking architecture that partitions tasks between equipotent peers. Since 2015 it is also a new tool called TAIEX-REGIO PEER 2 PEER[…]
Making citizens’ deliberation the new normal…
CIMULACT research scenario building workshop took place these Thursday and Friday at the Politecnico university in Milan. A large intense workshop with more than 100 participants at 12 tables dealing each with social needs emerged from the 30[…]
Citizenship in Brussels’ lockdown
Saturday 7:10 rushing to the metro: today we host the Brussels’ CIMULACT workshop. The same workshop takes place also in Milan today and last week it was in Copenhagen. These 3 workshops are the first of a series of workshops[…]
Design des politiques publiques: un exercice pratique…
Comment les villes peuvent-elles mieux collaborer avec les citoyens? Comment adapter la gouvernance et les politiques publiques des municipalités pour tirer au mieux parti de l’innovation sociale? Les transformations en cours dans la ville d’Amersfoort/NL et l’exemple d’autres villes Européennes[…]
Killing the powerpoint and the keynote!
What will you bring home from the URBACT City Festival in Riga? was the question asked by the moderator Sally Kneeshaw at the final panel of participants representing various levels of local, national and EU governance. Typical question where you[…]
Stakeholders process ‘in piazza’?
…one of the many lessons learned from Sustainable Food in Urban Communities URBACT thematic network was the very different cultures of participation and stakeholder processes accross our partner cities. Where it is pretty straight forward in Amersfoort/NL or Bristol/UK for[…]
Innovation Futures workshop at LIFT 2011…
Innovation Futures workshop at LIFT 2011 – Innovating within innovations challenges… How is innovation changing and which challenges innovation will have to face in the coming future? INFU is an on-going European research project focusing futures of innovation, scanning weak[…]
EESC Design Eleven for Active Ageing and Intergenerational Solidarity
EESC DESIGN ELEVEN for Active ageing and Intergenerational solidarity – Updating elderly… EESC Design Eleven is a competition launched in November 2010 by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) to prepare the European Year of Active Ageing and Intergenerational[…]
PERL working on green jobs for sustainable living…
PERL working on green jobs for sustainable living… March 6th-9th 2013 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[…]
Piloting visioning tools of the kit with St Orens, Agenda 21…
St Orens is a 10000 suburban city East of Toulouse hosting March 28th a visioning atelier in the perspective of finalizing the Agenda 21 at the end of the 2013. It was for SDS and ARPE the occasion for piloting[…]
Think-tank RAID – La communication entre habitants et administration : (Re)Design d’un service public
Organisées par l’ESSTED, École Supérieure des Sciences et Technologies du Design de Tunis, la seconde édition des RAID ou Rencontres Annuelles Internationales du Design avait pour thème: Design et Territoire(s). Cinq journées de conférences, ateliers, expositions, festivals pour explorer les[…]