«  Peer Cities and Pilot Transition Territories  » workshop

The reference system resulting from the workshop

Julian Perdrigeat, Collectif, March 2019

The « Peer cities and pilot transition territories » workshop had a twofold ambition: on the one hand, to make progress in the modelling of the transition process specific to each territory participating in the workshop so as to stabilize and perpetuate the commitment and encourage a change of scale; on the other hand, to produce a shared reference system with a view to facilitating the transfer of experience to other territories; the reference system being made up of operational concepts based on action methodologies. This twofold ambition was reflected in the setting up of exchanges on the transition experiences of each of the participating communities, from the complementary point of view of elected officials, administrative executives and economic operators, in order to identify the policies and action methodologies relevant to the transition, as well as the reasons behind their relevance. The frame of reference highlights four series of questions around which these actors are systematically called : the commitment of the actors of the territory as a resource, acting in an integrated way and taking an interest in the systemic effects of the action, working in cooperation, evaluating the value created and questioning the relationship between the means mobilized and the value created to bring about the emergence of new economic models.

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«  Peer Cities and Pilot Territories of Transition  »

1. AMBITION, OBJECTIVES AND FRAMEWORK OF THE WORKSHOP

Originality of the gait.

The Loossian source code

The economy of functionality and cooperation

2. THE SHIFT FROM HYPOTHESES TO INVARIANTS

3. WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS

4. THE COMMITMENT OF THE ACTORS OF THE TERRITORY AS A RESOURCE

The « tags » (or invariants) that emerged from the workshop on engagement

Methods of doing and methodologies of action

Creating the conditions for the involvement of the inhabitants

Elaborate a narrative of the territory based on the contribution of its actors

Maintain individual and collective commitment in the long term through its recognition

Devices

Organize on a permanent basis devices for exchanging and highlighting the commitment

Change the way of building specifications

Organize trips as a lever for involvement in project portage

5. ACT IN AN INTEGRATED WAY, BE INTERESTED IN THE SYSTEMIC EFFECTS OF THE ACTION

The « tags » (or invariants) that emerged from the workshop on transversality

Methods of doing and methodologies of action

Put on new glasses

Pull the string without breaking it ###

Seeking a ripple effect through exemplarity and transversality

Link and organize the work between complementary actors on a transition issue.

Pilot the combination of objectives and actors

Devices

Reflective and learning organization

Communication device around the development of the story of each action

Creating Clubs

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The « tags » (or invariants) that emerged from the workshop on cooperation

Methods of doing and methodologies of action

Conducting actions in a cooperative manner

Devices

Provide places and time for sharing, feedback and reflexivity.

Inter-departmental dashboards for monitoring project contributions

6. EVALUATE THE VALUE CREATED AND QUESTION THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE VALUE AND THE MEANS MOBILIZED TO BRING ABOUT THE EMERGENCE OF A NEW ECONOMIC MODEL.

The « tags » (or invariants) that emerged from the workshop on the value

Methods of doing and methodologies of action

Identify potentials, strategic intangible resources and choose the path

Seizing opportunities means seizing new resources ###

Evaluating the costs of inaction, helps to shed light on the benefits of the actions to be implemented

Mutualize resources

Devices

Refounding a dynamic of public and private investment

Evaluation devices

New forms of financing for investment and operations

7. IN A WAY THAT IS TRANSVERSE TO THE HYPOTHESES, A MANAGEMENT MODE BASED ON COOPERATION AND A REORGANISATION OF ROLES.

The transition to Sustainable Development is leading to a cooperative management style.

Manage in project mode and cooperative mode, gradually re-aggregating the roles between « elected officials » and « service actors ».

Identify the change in professional posture

Use reflexivity devices

8. CHANGE SCALE, TRANSFER TO OTHER TERRITORIES

Changing scale, transfer: what do we put behind these terms?

The two dimensions of scale change

Change of scale through system jumps

A value that fits into different territorial scales

Transfer to other actors / territories

Both acceptances of the notion of transfer

Transfer involves building a repository

Operational concepts and action methodologies are the basis of the repository

Double movement of de-contextualization and re-contextualization

What device to decontextualize?

And to re-contextualize ?

Places to elaborate forms of consciousness and thought that support the transition…

Conclusion: a democratic issue

9. IN THE FORM OF A CONCLUSION… AND BY WAY OF PERSPECTIVE

A second stage of the workshop

To a factory of territorial transitions

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