Initiatives by topic
Community involvement
www.budgetparticipatif.paris.fr/ - co-construisons-paris, « Madame la maire, j'ai une idée »
Cycling activism
Wikipedia: Cycling in Paris
Food activism
Jardins partagés, Paris.fr - V’île Fertile
Open spaces
Wikipedia: List of parks and gardens in Paris, Promenade plantée or the Coulée verte (French for green course) is a 4.7 km (2.9 mi) elevated linear park built on top of obsolete railway infrastructure in the 12th arrondissement. It was inaugurated in 1993.
Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle
Sustainable transport activism
Wikipedia: Paris, Public transportation
Walking:
Paris contains a much more contiguously walkable structure than both New York City and London [1]
Urban sustainability
atelier d’architecture autogérée / studio for self-managed architecture (aaa) is a collective platform which conducts explorations, actions and research concerning urban mutations and cultural, social and political emerging practices in the contemporary city.
aaa acts through ‘urban tactics’, encouraging the participation of inhabitants at the self-management of disused urban spaces, overpassing contradictions and stereotypes by proposing nomad and reversible projectsf, initiating interstitial practices which explore the potential of contemporary city ( in terms of population, mobility, temporality).
It is by micro-political acting that we want to participate in making the city more ecological and more democratic, to make the space of proximity less dependent on top-down processes and more accessible to its users. The ‘self-managed architecture’ is an architecture of relationships, processes and agencies of persons, desires, skills and know-hows. Such an architecture does not correspond to a liberal practice but asks for new forms of association and collaboration, based on exchange and reciprocity and involving all those interested (individuals, organisations, institutions), whatever is their scale.
Our architecture is at the same time political and poetic as it aims above all to ‘create relationships between worlds’.
Resources
Citizens data initiative
Video
Interwiki links
Wikipedia: Paris
References
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