Arts, Culture, and Heritage as Drivers of Change
Tomorrow’s Daily Lives
From Care Infrastructure to Caring City
In Nancy, the project transforms a fragmented metropolitan territory by starting from everyday habits. By revealing hidden resources-canals, greenhouses, infrastructures and existing buildings - it reconnects neighborhoods through ecological landscapes, productive spaces and shared public places. Rather than replacing the city, the project amplifies what already works, turning infrastructures of care, mobility and production into a caring urban ecosystem for sustainable and inclusive daily life.
France
Local
Nancy south and Jarville
Mainly urban
It involves a physical transformation of the built environment (hard investment)
Early concept
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Individual
Reintegrating and strengthening urban landmarks within a renewed fabric of sustainable and shared public spaces.
The site brings together three distinct yet interconnected conditions: the Saint-Pierre Bonsecours area, adjacent to Parc Olry and the municipal greenhouses, and a former hospital and education district soon to be vacated; La Californie, a social housing neighborhood developed in isolation, lacking services and quality public spaces; and a commercial and industrial strip between the Meurthe river and the Canal de la Marne au Rhin, currently dominated by infrastructures and large retail.
Rather than addressing these areas separately, the project considers them as parts of a single urban ecosystem, with strong yet underused potential for connection and transformation.
The approach builds on what is already present and meaningful, structured around three components: heritage, everyday practices, and living soil.
Heritage includes buildings, infrastructures, landscapes, and ordinary places that shape local identity. These are seen not as constraints, but as drivers for transformation.
Everyday practices (living, moving, meeting, shopping) reveal the territory’s real dynamics. Starting from these habits ensures that change translates into tangible improvements in daily life.
The soil, in its ecological and physical depth, forms the project’s foundation. Its regeneration through depaving, ecological restoration, and landscape continuity supports both biodiversity and human uses.
From this, a clear operational framework guides interventions through three actions: Reveal hidden potentials, Revitalize underused spaces, and Rekindle living soil as a driver for quality of life.
Ultimately, the project proposes a vision that is both strategic and accessible, enabling public authorities to act while allowing residents to recognize, appropriate, and support its transformation.
The site brings together three distinct yet interconnected conditions: the Saint-Pierre Bonsecours area, adjacent to Parc Olry and the municipal greenhouses, and a former hospital and education district soon to be vacated; La Californie, a social housing neighborhood developed in isolation, lacking services and quality public spaces; and a commercial and industrial strip between the Meurthe river and the Canal de la Marne au Rhin, currently dominated by infrastructures and large retail.
Rather than addressing these areas separately, the project considers them as parts of a single urban ecosystem, with strong yet underused potential for connection and transformation.
The approach builds on what is already present and meaningful, structured around three components: heritage, everyday practices, and living soil.
Heritage includes buildings, infrastructures, landscapes, and ordinary places that shape local identity. These are seen not as constraints, but as drivers for transformation.
Everyday practices (living, moving, meeting, shopping) reveal the territory’s real dynamics. Starting from these habits ensures that change translates into tangible improvements in daily life.
The soil, in its ecological and physical depth, forms the project’s foundation. Its regeneration through depaving, ecological restoration, and landscape continuity supports both biodiversity and human uses.
From this, a clear operational framework guides interventions through three actions: Reveal hidden potentials, Revitalize underused spaces, and Rekindle living soil as a driver for quality of life.
Ultimately, the project proposes a vision that is both strategic and accessible, enabling public authorities to act while allowing residents to recognize, appropriate, and support its transformation.
The concept emerged from an immersive reading of the territory through walks, observations, and mapping. This process produced a multi-scalar cartography of uses, landscapes, and infrastructures, revealing how everyday practices shape the area.
At the national scale, the site appears as a territory of transit structured by major logistical and infrastructural flows. At the regional scale, it reveals a diversity of productive landscapes and underused infrastructures. At the local scale, the analysis focuses on daily life, observing how inhabitants move, meet, and appropriate space.
Mapping became a tool to connect places, habits and opportunities. It highlighted key gaps: the absence of local productive spaces, fragmented mobility networks, and disconnected everyday uses. The canal emerged as a major yet underused resource, capable of structuring new ecological and logistical continuities.
This analysis was complemented by a study of public policies, investment cycles and local stakeholders, leading to a phased and adaptable strategy aligned with ongoing transformations, including reduced car dependency and the development of more local and resource-efficient systems.
The project builds on existing dynamics. Retail sites, hospital relocations and infrastructures become opportunities for transformation through adaptive reuse and programmatic diversification. Existing assets such as the municipal greenhouses and Parc Olry are extended into a continuous productive and ecological framework.
In the Californie district, the strategy focuses on public space rather than buildings, introducing a linear park that improves daily life, climate comfort and social cohesion.
By turning everyday life into a design tool, the project redefines urban transformation as a process rooted in lived experience, where the city evolves with its inhabitants rather than ahead of them.
At the national scale, the site appears as a territory of transit structured by major logistical and infrastructural flows. At the regional scale, it reveals a diversity of productive landscapes and underused infrastructures. At the local scale, the analysis focuses on daily life, observing how inhabitants move, meet, and appropriate space.
Mapping became a tool to connect places, habits and opportunities. It highlighted key gaps: the absence of local productive spaces, fragmented mobility networks, and disconnected everyday uses. The canal emerged as a major yet underused resource, capable of structuring new ecological and logistical continuities.
This analysis was complemented by a study of public policies, investment cycles and local stakeholders, leading to a phased and adaptable strategy aligned with ongoing transformations, including reduced car dependency and the development of more local and resource-efficient systems.
The project builds on existing dynamics. Retail sites, hospital relocations and infrastructures become opportunities for transformation through adaptive reuse and programmatic diversification. Existing assets such as the municipal greenhouses and Parc Olry are extended into a continuous productive and ecological framework.
In the Californie district, the strategy focuses on public space rather than buildings, introducing a linear park that improves daily life, climate comfort and social cohesion.
By turning everyday life into a design tool, the project redefines urban transformation as a process rooted in lived experience, where the city evolves with its inhabitants rather than ahead of them.
Living heritage
Everyday practices
Productive landscapes
Adaptive reuse
Urban commons
Environmental, social, cultural, and economic challenges are addressed as an integrated whole. The project is based on a simple principle: working with what already exist - landscapes, infrastructures, buildings, and everyday practices - to transform and amplify these resources rather than replace them. By reactivating underused spaces, it fosters environmental resilience, social inclusion, cultural continuity, and local economic vitality simultaneously.
Environmentally, the project prioritizes regeneration over expansion. Soil restoration, depaving, and ecological continuities enhance biodiversity and climate adaptation, while the canal, riverbanks, and former railway lines become low-carbon mobility corridors. Reusing existing buildings reduces material consumption and emissions while preserving heritage.
Socially, the approach builds on existing practices. Walking routes, informal crossings, and shared gardening become starting points for transformation, ensuring that changes remain accessible, understandable, and collectively appropriated.
Culturally, the project values continuity. Former hospitals, industrial traces, and landmarks such as the Marcel Brot Tower are reinterpreted rather than erased, allowing history to remain visible while supporting new uses and narratives across generations.
Economically, the strategy aligns with ongoing dynamics. Retail areas evolve through regular cycles, offering opportunities to introduce mixed uses progressively. Adaptive reuse, student housing, and agro-logistics linked to fluvial transport support local economic ecosystems without disruption.
More broadly, the project acknowledges that urban transformation unfolds over time and through people already present.
Sustainability is thus understood not only as environmental performance, but as the capacity of the project to remain open, adaptable and collectively sustained over time.
Environmentally, the project prioritizes regeneration over expansion. Soil restoration, depaving, and ecological continuities enhance biodiversity and climate adaptation, while the canal, riverbanks, and former railway lines become low-carbon mobility corridors. Reusing existing buildings reduces material consumption and emissions while preserving heritage.
Socially, the approach builds on existing practices. Walking routes, informal crossings, and shared gardening become starting points for transformation, ensuring that changes remain accessible, understandable, and collectively appropriated.
Culturally, the project values continuity. Former hospitals, industrial traces, and landmarks such as the Marcel Brot Tower are reinterpreted rather than erased, allowing history to remain visible while supporting new uses and narratives across generations.
Economically, the strategy aligns with ongoing dynamics. Retail areas evolve through regular cycles, offering opportunities to introduce mixed uses progressively. Adaptive reuse, student housing, and agro-logistics linked to fluvial transport support local economic ecosystems without disruption.
More broadly, the project acknowledges that urban transformation unfolds over time and through people already present.
Sustainability is thus understood not only as environmental performance, but as the capacity of the project to remain open, adaptable and collectively sustained over time.
Our approach to aesthetics goes beyond visual composition. It is conceived as a systemic and lived experience, where beauty emerges from the relationships between spaces, uses, ecological processes, and collective practices. In this sense, aesthetics becomes a driver of well-being, attachment, and long-term care for the place.
Each site is approached through its history and existing conditions, not as a constraint but as a resource for re-enchantment. In the Californie district, for instance, a post-war housing area dominated by cars, residents often struggle to find their place even at the foot of their buildings. The project reclaims these ground-level spaces by introducing a large shaded and permeable linear park, transforming an inhospitable environment into a welcoming and shared living space.
In outdoor spaces, aesthetics is expressed through living landscapes. Biodiversity and ecological processes are made visible and perceptible. Reopening buried streams, restoring tree alignments, and developing layered vegetation create evolving environments shaped by seasons. These transformations improve climate comfort while reinforcing the identity of the site within the Meurthe floodplain.
The same care is given to the built environment. Existing heritage, from historic hospital structures to post-war housing, is not erased but transformed. Through rehabilitation, energy retrofitting and spatial adaptations, buildings gain in comfort, usability and meaning.
Rather than designing isolated objects, the project reveals the beauty of ordinary spaces by making them usable, accessible and meaningful again. It fosters a shared landscape where people, infrastructures and living systems are interconnected.
In this sense, beauty is not imposed but emerges from use, care and transformation, creating places where people recognize themselves and choose to belong.
Each site is approached through its history and existing conditions, not as a constraint but as a resource for re-enchantment. In the Californie district, for instance, a post-war housing area dominated by cars, residents often struggle to find their place even at the foot of their buildings. The project reclaims these ground-level spaces by introducing a large shaded and permeable linear park, transforming an inhospitable environment into a welcoming and shared living space.
In outdoor spaces, aesthetics is expressed through living landscapes. Biodiversity and ecological processes are made visible and perceptible. Reopening buried streams, restoring tree alignments, and developing layered vegetation create evolving environments shaped by seasons. These transformations improve climate comfort while reinforcing the identity of the site within the Meurthe floodplain.
The same care is given to the built environment. Existing heritage, from historic hospital structures to post-war housing, is not erased but transformed. Through rehabilitation, energy retrofitting and spatial adaptations, buildings gain in comfort, usability and meaning.
Rather than designing isolated objects, the project reveals the beauty of ordinary spaces by making them usable, accessible and meaningful again. It fosters a shared landscape where people, infrastructures and living systems are interconnected.
In this sense, beauty is not imposed but emerges from use, care and transformation, creating places where people recognize themselves and choose to belong.
Inclusion is central to the project’s spatial and social strategy, embedded in both its design approach and its governance model.
Existing resources such as the park and municipal greenhouses are reinterpreted as open and shared infrastructures. Beyond their productive and ecological roles, the greenhouses become tools for local governance: through cultivation cycles and plant production for public spaces, they actively contribute to shaping the urban environment. This process connects institutions, local actors and residents, fostering shared responsibility and access to knowledge, skills and ecological practices.
The project deliberately avoids over-defining spaces. By allowing room for appropriation and evolution, it supports a diversity of uses and users, including those often excluded from formal planning processes. Public spaces are conceived as flexible and welcoming environments, enabling residents to adapt them to their needs and reinforcing a sense of belonging.
Accessibility is strengthened through continuous and legible public space networks, prioritizing walkability, cycling and transversal connections between fragmented neighborhoods. Particular attention is given to everyday routes, ensuring safe and inclusive mobility for all.
Affordability is supported through a reuse-first strategy, preserving existing housing and limiting costs. Targeted interventions improve living conditions without displacement, while new programs introduce complementary housing and local services.
Finally, the project promotes inclusive governance by considering inhabitants as active contributors. Inclusion is therefore not an outcome but a process, where space becomes a shared resource shaped by those who inhabit it.
Existing resources such as the park and municipal greenhouses are reinterpreted as open and shared infrastructures. Beyond their productive and ecological roles, the greenhouses become tools for local governance: through cultivation cycles and plant production for public spaces, they actively contribute to shaping the urban environment. This process connects institutions, local actors and residents, fostering shared responsibility and access to knowledge, skills and ecological practices.
The project deliberately avoids over-defining spaces. By allowing room for appropriation and evolution, it supports a diversity of uses and users, including those often excluded from formal planning processes. Public spaces are conceived as flexible and welcoming environments, enabling residents to adapt them to their needs and reinforcing a sense of belonging.
Accessibility is strengthened through continuous and legible public space networks, prioritizing walkability, cycling and transversal connections between fragmented neighborhoods. Particular attention is given to everyday routes, ensuring safe and inclusive mobility for all.
Affordability is supported through a reuse-first strategy, preserving existing housing and limiting costs. Targeted interventions improve living conditions without displacement, while new programs introduce complementary housing and local services.
Finally, the project promotes inclusive governance by considering inhabitants as active contributors. Inclusion is therefore not an outcome but a process, where space becomes a shared resource shaped by those who inhabit it.
Participation is embedded in the project’s methodology through the analysis of everyday practices. By observing how inhabitants already use and appropriate spaces, the project integrates these behaviours as a form of implicit participation, grounding design decisions in real needs and lived experiences.
The project is conceived as an open and evolving framework, where transformation is progressively shaped with users rather than predefined. Participation continues through implementation via flexible tools such as calls for initiatives (AMI), enabling local associations, social economy actors and collectives to actively contribute to the transformation of key sites.
This approach goes beyond consultation by involving stakeholders in defining uses, management models and spatial configurations. Co-design workshops and participatory processes support this dynamic, creating spaces for dialogue, negotiation and collective decision-making.
Underused buildings and vacant spaces become opportunities for temporary or transitional occupations, allowing projects to be tested, adjusted and progressively appropriated before long-term consolidation. Tactical and reversible interventions play a key role, providing immediate improvements while keeping the project adaptable.
Through this iterative process, residents and users actively influence the evolution of the project. Their involvement helps reveal overlooked needs, adapt programs and anchor new uses in local realities.
Participation is not a step in the process, but the very condition through which the project exists, evolves and remains meaningful over time. It establishes the conditions for a collectively shaped and evolving urban environment.
The project is conceived as an open and evolving framework, where transformation is progressively shaped with users rather than predefined. Participation continues through implementation via flexible tools such as calls for initiatives (AMI), enabling local associations, social economy actors and collectives to actively contribute to the transformation of key sites.
This approach goes beyond consultation by involving stakeholders in defining uses, management models and spatial configurations. Co-design workshops and participatory processes support this dynamic, creating spaces for dialogue, negotiation and collective decision-making.
Underused buildings and vacant spaces become opportunities for temporary or transitional occupations, allowing projects to be tested, adjusted and progressively appropriated before long-term consolidation. Tactical and reversible interventions play a key role, providing immediate improvements while keeping the project adaptable.
Through this iterative process, residents and users actively influence the evolution of the project. Their involvement helps reveal overlooked needs, adapt programs and anchor new uses in local realities.
Participation is not a step in the process, but the very condition through which the project exists, evolves and remains meaningful over time. It establishes the conditions for a collectively shaped and evolving urban environment.
The project is structured to articulate stakeholders across multiple governance levels, ensuring coherence between local actions and broader strategic frameworks.
At the local scale, municipalities, residents and neighborhood actors are directly involved in the transformation of public spaces, facilities and everyday services. This proximity ensures that interventions respond to real needs and support local appropriation.
At the metropolitan level, the project aligns with Greater Nancy’s strategies for mobility, ecological transition and economic development. A key example is the planned Marché d’Intérêt Local, which resonates with the project’s proposal for an agro-logistics system along the canal. By linking food production, distribution and short supply chains with fluvial transport, the project provides a concrete spatial extension to existing metropolitan ambitions.
At the regional and national levels, stakeholders contribute through housing policies, infrastructure funding and environmental programs. The adaptive reuse of large institutional sites supports land sobriety objectives, while soil regeneration and ecological continuities align with broader sustainability goals.
At the European scale, the project is consistent with frameworks such as the Green Deal, particularly through low-carbon mobility, circular resource management and biodiversity restoration.
The added value of this multi-level approach lies in its capacity to combine strategic vision with operational implementation. Each level mobilizes its own tools, competencies and funding mechanisms, enabling phased development and shared responsibility.
In this way, governance becomes a tool for transformation, aligning policies, resources and local initiatives into a shared and operational urban project.
At the local scale, municipalities, residents and neighborhood actors are directly involved in the transformation of public spaces, facilities and everyday services. This proximity ensures that interventions respond to real needs and support local appropriation.
At the metropolitan level, the project aligns with Greater Nancy’s strategies for mobility, ecological transition and economic development. A key example is the planned Marché d’Intérêt Local, which resonates with the project’s proposal for an agro-logistics system along the canal. By linking food production, distribution and short supply chains with fluvial transport, the project provides a concrete spatial extension to existing metropolitan ambitions.
At the regional and national levels, stakeholders contribute through housing policies, infrastructure funding and environmental programs. The adaptive reuse of large institutional sites supports land sobriety objectives, while soil regeneration and ecological continuities align with broader sustainability goals.
At the European scale, the project is consistent with frameworks such as the Green Deal, particularly through low-carbon mobility, circular resource management and biodiversity restoration.
The added value of this multi-level approach lies in its capacity to combine strategic vision with operational implementation. Each level mobilizes its own tools, competencies and funding mechanisms, enabling phased development and shared responsibility.
In this way, governance becomes a tool for transformation, aligning policies, resources and local initiatives into a shared and operational urban project.
The project is shaped through the interaction of multiple disciplines, brought together by the complexity of the territory itself. Spatial design is approached as a continuum between architecture, urbanism and landscape, where built forms, open spaces and living systems are conceived simultaneously.
Environmental knowledge plays a structuring role, particularly in relation to soil regeneration, water management and biodiversity. These processes directly inform spatial qualities and long-term resilience, rather than being treated as technical layers. At the same time, mobility and infrastructure thinking help reframe existing networks—canal, rail and streets—as supports for new everyday uses.
Understanding how people live, move and appropriate space is equally essential. Insights from social practices guide the transformation, ensuring that proposals remain grounded and adaptable. This is complemented by an economic perspective integrating productive activities, circular systems and local value chains into the urban fabric.
Questions of heritage and time are also central. Existing buildings and infrastructures are considered as resources to be transformed rather than replaced, ensuring continuity while enabling new uses. Spaces such as municipal greenhouses or agro-logistics platforms embody this approach, where production, learning and collective practices intersect.
This overlap of disciplines allows the project to move beyond fragmented expertise, towards a holistic and situated response to contemporary urban challenges.
Environmental knowledge plays a structuring role, particularly in relation to soil regeneration, water management and biodiversity. These processes directly inform spatial qualities and long-term resilience, rather than being treated as technical layers. At the same time, mobility and infrastructure thinking help reframe existing networks—canal, rail and streets—as supports for new everyday uses.
Understanding how people live, move and appropriate space is equally essential. Insights from social practices guide the transformation, ensuring that proposals remain grounded and adaptable. This is complemented by an economic perspective integrating productive activities, circular systems and local value chains into the urban fabric.
Questions of heritage and time are also central. Existing buildings and infrastructures are considered as resources to be transformed rather than replaced, ensuring continuity while enabling new uses. Spaces such as municipal greenhouses or agro-logistics platforms embody this approach, where production, learning and collective practices intersect.
This overlap of disciplines allows the project to move beyond fragmented expertise, towards a holistic and situated response to contemporary urban challenges.
The project relies on a hybrid and phased economic model combining public investment, private development and local value generation. Its implementation is anchored in existing frameworks, including metropolitan investment plans, urban renewal programs and ecological transition funding.
Several sites are activated through calls for initiatives (AMI), enabling social and solidarity economy actors to occupy and manage spaces such as third places, workshops, urban agriculture sites and cultural venues. These uses generate direct revenues while ensuring low entry costs and strong local anchoring.
A key component of the model is the role of municipal greenhouses. Beyond their productive function, they reduce the cost of public space development and maintenance by supplying plants and materials locally. They also act as an attractor, drawing visitors and supporting surrounding commercial activities, while progressively reducing dependency on external suppliers.
The agro-logistics system along the canal, connected to the future Marché d’Intérêt Local, supports short supply chains and local production, creating an economic ecosystem linking farmers, logistics operators and urban consumers.
Adaptive reuse of large vacant buildings allows a phased development: temporary uses first, followed by consolidated programs such as housing, student residences and mixed-use facilities, often supported by public-private partnerships.
By linking ecological resources, local economies and spatial transformation, the project builds a model where value is continuously generated from within the territory itself.
Several sites are activated through calls for initiatives (AMI), enabling social and solidarity economy actors to occupy and manage spaces such as third places, workshops, urban agriculture sites and cultural venues. These uses generate direct revenues while ensuring low entry costs and strong local anchoring.
A key component of the model is the role of municipal greenhouses. Beyond their productive function, they reduce the cost of public space development and maintenance by supplying plants and materials locally. They also act as an attractor, drawing visitors and supporting surrounding commercial activities, while progressively reducing dependency on external suppliers.
The agro-logistics system along the canal, connected to the future Marché d’Intérêt Local, supports short supply chains and local production, creating an economic ecosystem linking farmers, logistics operators and urban consumers.
Adaptive reuse of large vacant buildings allows a phased development: temporary uses first, followed by consolidated programs such as housing, student residences and mixed-use facilities, often supported by public-private partnerships.
By linking ecological resources, local economies and spatial transformation, the project builds a model where value is continuously generated from within the territory itself.
The project proposes an integrated approach to urban transformation, addressing environmental, social, cultural, and economic challenges as a whole. It is based on a simple principle: working with what already exists - landscapes, infrastructures, buildings, and everyday practices - to transform and amplify these resources rather than replace them.
The concept emerged from an immersive reading of the territory through mapping, observation, and walking. This revealed both underused potentials, such as the canal as a connective system, and key gaps in mobility, ecology, and local uses. Combined with policy analysis, this led to a phased and operational strategy aligned with ongoing transitions, especially towards reduced car dependency.
The project is structured around three drivers: heritage, everyday practices, and living soil. Existing buildings and infrastructures are reused and adapted, limiting environmental impact while supporting diverse housing and programs. Public spaces and mobility networks are reconnected, prioritizing walkability, cycling, and access to daily services.
Environmentally, the project focuses on regeneration: soil restoration, depaving, and ecological continuities enhance biodiversity and climate resilience. Socially, it builds on existing uses, ensuring accessibility, affordability, and inclusive governance through adaptable spaces and participatory processes. Culturally, it values continuity, reinterpreting heritage as a living resource rather than a fixed object.
The project proposes an aesthetic rooted in everyday life, where beauty emerges from use, living landscapes, and the relationship between people and their environment. Rather than iconic forms, it creates meaningful, evolving spaces that support well-being and belonging.
More than a fixed solution, the project offers a transferable method, capable of adapting to different contexts while preserving its core principle: designing from what already exists.
The concept emerged from an immersive reading of the territory through mapping, observation, and walking. This revealed both underused potentials, such as the canal as a connective system, and key gaps in mobility, ecology, and local uses. Combined with policy analysis, this led to a phased and operational strategy aligned with ongoing transitions, especially towards reduced car dependency.
The project is structured around three drivers: heritage, everyday practices, and living soil. Existing buildings and infrastructures are reused and adapted, limiting environmental impact while supporting diverse housing and programs. Public spaces and mobility networks are reconnected, prioritizing walkability, cycling, and access to daily services.
Environmentally, the project focuses on regeneration: soil restoration, depaving, and ecological continuities enhance biodiversity and climate resilience. Socially, it builds on existing uses, ensuring accessibility, affordability, and inclusive governance through adaptable spaces and participatory processes. Culturally, it values continuity, reinterpreting heritage as a living resource rather than a fixed object.
The project proposes an aesthetic rooted in everyday life, where beauty emerges from use, living landscapes, and the relationship between people and their environment. Rather than iconic forms, it creates meaningful, evolving spaces that support well-being and belonging.
More than a fixed solution, the project offers a transferable method, capable of adapting to different contexts while preserving its core principle: designing from what already exists.
The project is designed to move rapidly toward implementation through a phased and action-oriented approach. In the year following the application, the focus will be on feasibility, partnerships, and the launch of initial interventions.
Key steps include collaboration with a programme manager to refine uses, test economic viability, and structure phasing scenarios. Technical assessments will address building reuse potential, environmental performance, and mobility integration. At the same time, partnerships with local stakeholders will be established to define governance and operational frameworks.
An on-site residency will ensure a continuous presence, fostering direct engagement with residents, institutions, and local actors. This will be complemented by workshops, public meetings, and co-design sessions to identify priorities and shape interventions collectively.
Pilot actions will initiate the transformation process, including temporary uses in vacant spaces, activation of productive landscapes, and first public space improvements. AMI processes will be launched to support the progressive occupation of strategic sites through reversible and adaptable interventions.
In parallel, public funding opportunities (mobility, ecological transition, urban regeneration) will be identified and integrated into existing investment strategies. The project will also be promoted through exhibitions, publications, and collaborations, increasing its visibility and attracting new partners.
This approach aims to translate the concept into tangible actions, creating immediate impact while preparing long-term transformation. By combining immediate action with long-term vision, the project turns transformation into a continuous and tangible process, already anchored in the present.
Key steps include collaboration with a programme manager to refine uses, test economic viability, and structure phasing scenarios. Technical assessments will address building reuse potential, environmental performance, and mobility integration. At the same time, partnerships with local stakeholders will be established to define governance and operational frameworks.
An on-site residency will ensure a continuous presence, fostering direct engagement with residents, institutions, and local actors. This will be complemented by workshops, public meetings, and co-design sessions to identify priorities and shape interventions collectively.
Pilot actions will initiate the transformation process, including temporary uses in vacant spaces, activation of productive landscapes, and first public space improvements. AMI processes will be launched to support the progressive occupation of strategic sites through reversible and adaptable interventions.
In parallel, public funding opportunities (mobility, ecological transition, urban regeneration) will be identified and integrated into existing investment strategies. The project will also be promoted through exhibitions, publications, and collaborations, increasing its visibility and attracting new partners.
This approach aims to translate the concept into tangible actions, creating immediate impact while preparing long-term transformation. By combining immediate action with long-term vision, the project turns transformation into a continuous and tangible process, already anchored in the present.
