Quels modèles d'innovation aujourd'hui ? Le terme “d'innovation”, polysémique s'il en est, tend historiquement à être compris de façon limitée; souvent comme synonyme d’invention ou de recherche et développement, en particulier dans le domaine technologique. Une telle approche mène à favoriser certains types de soutiens (pôle de compétitivité, projet de R&D, crédits impôt recherche, dispositifs JEI) au détriment d'une vision plus large. La notion d'innovation renvoie pourtant à des réalités très variées. Notons en particulier les changements de perspectives suivants amorcés depuis une quinzaine d'années :- Les finalités de l'innovation tendent à s'élargir ou à se multiplier : innovation sociale, culturelle, projets citoyens ou environnementaux. Ce constat a deux conséquences directes. D'une part, les objectifs dans ces secteurs dépassent les logiques de compétition ou de croissance. Décryptage des stratégies d’innovation De quels modèles d’innovation parle-t-on ?
Sous quels angles d’analyse appréhender ces modèles ? Privatising public space (1) « thenextwave. One of the issues that the Occupy movement has brought into sharp focus is that of city land and its ownership. On Wall Street, Zuccotti Park is owned privately but heavily constrained by covenants. Occupy LSX ended up camped on ground partly by St Paul’s Cathedral and partly by the City of London Corporation because Paternoster Square, where the London Stock Exchange is located, is private land. In practice, urban land is increasingly owned or managed by private interests, even when it appears to be public space.
This is a new enclosure movement. So it seems appropriate that Occupy LSX has made so visible the private nature of Paternoster Square (as seen in the picture above) and that one of the ‘teach-outs’ it has organised through its Tent City University was about the private control of public space. From public interest to economic interest Rules and security guards And indeed, you can tell when you’re on a privately controlled site because of the notices. Like this: Like Loading... Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper: Transform Your Public Spaces Now. A low-cost, high-impact incremental framework for improving your community now “Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper” (LQC) describes a local development strategy that has produced some of the world’s most successful public spaces — one that is lower risk and lower cost, capitalizing on the creative energy of the community to efficiently generate new uses and revenue for places in transition.
It’s a phrase we borrowed from Eric Reynolds at Urban Space Management. LQC can take many forms, requiring varying degrees of time, money, and effort, and the spectrum of interventions should be seen as an iterative means to build lasting change. We often start with Amenities and Public Art, followed by Event and Intervention Projects, which lead to Light Development strategies for long-term change. PPS is working to support communities to create great destinations through the LQC process. PPS can help implement a wide range of low-cost, high-impact interventions: LQC Amenities and Public Art Approach Action Plan. Textes des communications | Des métropoles hors-sol ? Ville de demain : quelle place pour les personnes âgées ? - Solutions Durables. Imagining the United States Without Shopping Malls. If I were to ask you to list symbols of American consumerism, I bet the words “shopping mall” would come to mind pretty quickly. And that’s because for the past 5 decades, shopping malls have been a dominant feature of the retail scene in a country that has more retail space than most.
In 2009, NPR reported that the U.S. had 20 square feet of retail space per person (almost 7x as much as the country who came in 2nd, Sweden). But is all this set to change? Witold Rybczynski makes the bold assertion in his book Makeshift Metropolis that in 25 years, many shoppers will have never stepped foot in a shopping mall.
While recent reports do indicate that they’re on the decline, this is surely a bit of an exaggeration on his part. Nevertheless, it is interesting to re-envision a world without them. Shopping malls first rose to popularity as the American population shifted to the suburbs, becomi ng an increasingly autocentric culture seeking greater efficiency and convenience in their lives. Back to the Future | James Howard Kunstler. A road map for tomorrow's cities by James Howard Kunstler I LOVE THOSE CITIES-of-the-future illustrations from the old pop-culture bin. In “yesterday’s tomorrow,” they always get things so wonderfully wrong.
One of my favorites, from the August 1925 issue of Popular Science Monthly, depicts a heroic cross section of New York’s Park Avenue looking to the south from around 47th Street in the far-off sci-fi future of 1950. “Airport landing fields” are denoted on the roof of a building that has replaced the familiar Grand Central Station tower at the end of the vista. A zeppelin hovers over a row of quaint little “aeroplanes” stashed up there. Park Avenue itself has become a pedestrian mall, not a honking Checker Cab in sight. The illustration is a beautifully rendered black-and-white lithograph, and the layout of this future New York is impeccably rational down to the pneumatic “freight tubes” in the lowest subbasement of the buildings. Bye Bye Beaver All suburbs have a problematic destiny. 3D Map of London's Urban Complexity. TEAM | Q&A with Chiara Camponeschi « Enabling Suburbs.
Chiara Camponeschi is author of The Enabling City and works at the intersection of interdisciplinary research, social innovation and urban sustainability. 1. What do you think are the most difficult challenges, contradictions and opportunities facing suburbs and their communities, or Aspley/your suburb and its community? Suburbs are particularly vulnerable places. As predominantly car-centric, they lack lively public spaces where the act of socializing can go beyond forms of recreational or status-defining consumption. 2. I see these challenges as a tremendous opportunity to spark a conversation about the future of suburbs and their sustainable survival. 3. Much of my work focuses on cities, but I strongly believe that both suburban and rural communities should be invited to join the conversation, especially if the aim of our work is to produce outcomes that are holistic and mindful of dynamics of exclusion. 4.
Of course, there are no ‘one size fits all’ models to follow here. 5. 6. Imagining an Elastic City. Planters and urban gardening tools at Kennedy Greenway in central Boston, the site of the Occupy Boston encampment. Last spring, after attending a panel about urbanism in Mumbai, I wrote a blog post about what I called the "entropic city" — one that is constantly changing and re-imagining itself. “Entropy,” I argued, “is a cultural and an economic necessity. Restricting and channeling change imposes a dominant idea of what change should be, and what existing conditions are undesirable.
But it also stifles innovation and creates monocultural economic environments that are vulnerable to dramatic changes. And, let's be honest, it's a lot less fun.” This post got a lot of attention, which got my attention. I had already been interested in temporary uses in cities, primarily those developed by socially engaged artists who use temporary installations to destabilize power and question existing cultural norms about, among other things, right to education and public space. . + share. URBAN GAMES 2010/2011 // documents. 40 ans du Grand Lyon en feuilleton » Pourquoi ce feuilleton ?
Policies for a Shareable City #10: Shareable Rooftops. UPDATE: We've summarized much of the series this article is part of in a new report, Policies for Shareable Cities: A Sharing Economy Policy Primer for Urban Leaders. Get your free copy here today. The sky’s the limit when it comes to getting creative with our rooftops. As we run out of horizontal spaces in our cities, rooftops come to mind as an important resource. Because they get more sun than almost anywhere else, we should harness rooftop spaces to collect solar energy, grow plants, or create sunny social spaces. Rooftops also make first contact with a large amount of rainwater, which makes them prime candidates for the collection and management of water.
A rooftop garden in Southern California. At the same time, many ways that we might use our rooftops are costly and may present legal barriers. Exempt height and square-footage limitations for certain rooftop uses: Nearly all zoning codes impose height limitations on buildings. Reinterpreting Green Space in cities. This post is also available in: Chinese (Traditional) ‘A product of the creative encounter between the man-made and the natural, between order and disorder, the garden can offer productive metaphors for the interactions between human life and time, care, thought or space.’ The fate of the city garden has been featured on This Big City in the past. With pressure on urban space increasing as populations grow and building becomes more intensive, will gardens be a less common sight in future cities? Those interested in this subject (who happen to be in London this weekend) might enjoy the Serpentine Gallery’s Garden Marathon.
Held annually in west London’s Kensington Gardens, this sixth Garden Marathon aims to be ‘an exploration of the concept of the garden’. Anyone looking for direct analysis of the future of urban gardening is likely to be disappointed, but if you’re up for a creative exploration of of the concept of ‘the garden’, this could be right up your street. Thai Flood Hacks. ISB’s underwater rover competition and Bangkok’s first FabLab On saturday i was guest and judge at ISB’s underwater rover competition. 10 students in four teams have competed against each other. This was the first time the students have build an underwater rover.
It was remarkable to see how the students have approached this engineering challenge with their rovers ranging from very conventional designs to more advanced and experimental concepts. This event was meant to be the first step in a process that should one day let the students compete in inter-school challenges on international level. I also learned that the ISB has already budgeted and is starting to build a facilities for a full featured Hackerspace for the students. Here are some pictures and videos from the event: Flood platform shoes is not in Thailand, it’s Vietnam. Flood platform shoes is not in Thailand, it’s Vietnam - probably one of the semi-regular short flash floods that happen in Hanoi. LE GOUT DES VILLES IMAGINAIRES. Le goût des villes imaginaires Textes choisis et présentés par Jean-Noël MouretEd Mercure de France, 2011 Dans le vaste atlas des villes imaginaires, où commence le rêve, où s'arrête la réalité ?
Plus l'on tente d'en fixer la frontière, plus la démarcation devient floue. Villes réinventées, rêvées ou idéales, aucune ne figure sur les cartes du temps présent, et pourtant l'on peut s'y promener, en contempler les splendeurs architecturales, converser avec leurs habitants, mais aussi avoir maille à partir avec les autorités, se faire dépouiller dans quelque taverne mal famée... Le présent ouvrage est donc complété de quelques informations pratiques essentielles, afin d'avertir le voyageur des coutumes étranges et des pièges mortels qu'il affrontera inévitablement au cours de ces incursions dans l'espace-temps.
Pour visiter ces cités, nous avons choisi pour guides Tristan Tzara, Marc Pautrel, Maurice Leblanc, H. Grand Theft Urbanism. I received the link to this video from Alain Renk. Alain is from UFO—Urban Fabric Organisation. The video showcases UFO’s Ville sans Limite (Unlimited Cities) initiative. Unlimited Cities is a participatory platform used by architect to enable citizens to change their neighborhood. It is a rapid prototyping tool that allows people to “bring their ideas and react to architectural or urbanistic proposals in a situated way.” Some nights and restless days in a former factory in Montreuil in May and June 2011.The initiative Unlimited Cities was presented by UFO for the first time in June 2011 during the french festival “Futur en Seine” in Paris. (English version – courtesy Google)GIVING RISE TO A COLLABORATIVE URBANISM The prototype Unlimited Cities is the first step toward collaborative intelligence tools designed to enrich the debates on the future of our urban environments.
Like this: Like Loading... Research into cities of the future to be boosted with new London centre. By Laura Gallagher Thursday 10 November 2011 London is becoming a global leader in future cities research, after Imperial College London, Cisco and UCL today entered into a three year initial agreement to create a Future Cities Centre in the capital. See also: Related news stories: The centre will be a physical space in Shoreditch where businesses, academics and start-ups can openly collaborate.
It will be part of Tech City, which is the fastest growing technology cluster in Europe, and it will seek to bring a world-leading research presence and collaborative working to the emerging Tech City ecosystem. The Future Cities Centre will focus on the thematic areas of Future Cities and Mobility, Smart Energy Systems, the Internet of Things and Business Model Innovation. Under today's agreement, new Research Associates from Imperial and UCL will co-locate in the new facilities, where they will embark on new research activities whilst also drawing on the institutions' existing research excellence.
Temporary uses can enliven city neighborhoods. Public Spaces by Eric Fidler • November 8, 2011 Imagine you have a long-vacant storefront or empty lot in your neighborhood. What if, just for a few months, it could become a plant nursery, a food garden, a beer garden, a sculpture garden, a playground, a clothing boutique or a tiny movie theater? What could go here temporarily? These small, temporary projects have the ability to revitalize vacant spaces, enliven neighborhoods, and provide small entrepreneurs a way test out their ideas with relatively small capital investments. Last weekend the National Building Museum held a panel discussion on temporary urbanism around the world.
One theme became clear: our regulatory structure and business practices are very good at accommodating permanent enterprises, but when it comes to temporary uses, we apply the same licensing burdens, lease agreements, and review processes that are unsuitable for projects that may only last 4 weeks.