Territoires en Résidences is an on-going programme initiated by the French public innovation laboratory 27e Région. 15 'residences' intended as long period immersions of multidisciplinary design-driven creative teams in local public institutions will be organised over the period 2009-2010: Enhancing a local digital social network to support citizen connectivity in the city of Rennes; turning a new college into a resource for small towns around in Champagne-Ardennes region; investigating the 'City 2.0' in Bordeaux; fostering cross-fertilisation within a programme of projects for sustainable energy in Alpes-Provence- Cote d'Azur... are some of the topics that emerge from this situated participative innovation process with for each the aim to co-design with local players an articulated set of long term scenarios and a short-medium term program of projects geared at triggering social change towards sustainability in the hosting institution.
Residences are a flexible and efficient format of innovation on the territory. These real-scale experimentation addresses an intermediate level of action both deeply rooted in local contexts and meaningful at the territorial political scale.
Moderator: Mathieu BERGER
Report by: Judith LE MAIRE – Benoît MORITZ (to be confirmed)
Director of Strategic Design Scenarios
François Jégou, Director of the Brussels-based design research company Strategic Design Scenarios, has 20 years of experience in strategic design, participative scenario building and new product-services system definition. He is active in various fields and research projects from investigating Creative Communities for Sustainable Living in China, India, Brazil and Africa with UNEP to European research project building a deliberative platform on food and nanotech.
François is scientific director of the public innovation lab 27e Région in France and teaches strategic design at Politecnico, Milan and La Cambre, Brussels. Last book on the subject: Collaborative Services, Social innovations and design for sustainability.
