Comment: 1. Our candidature has just been selected to lead this great urban transformation and revitalization process in the very center of Grenoble city. The project deals with the urban transformation of an underused area: ZAC Flaubert. This is currently a 90 hectares transition area at the crossing of a North-South axis and an East-West one, both important for the city.
Being a strategic part of the city and its inhabitants, this huge project has various stakes and raises one question: How to give an identity to this area which is now a cluster of micro-identities? The mayor, from the Ecologist party, wants to integrate citizens in an ambitious co-construction process that would start with Flaubert to spread across the whole city. He is committed to involving residents, shop owners, citizens at each step of the co-construction project.
Now our objective is to acquire a deeper understanding of the project, its complexity and the challenges we have to face. The area is dedicated to sand sports and offers a large range of unconventional sports.
This becomes an interesting opportunity, linking an existing infrastructure to the project, creating a space dedicated to Flaubert urban process within an existing facility. The avant-gardist city of Grenoble has been promoting for more than two decades an innovative and creative program for a better, more social and sustainable city. At the edge of the technological progress and always listening to its citizens, Grenoble is a lot more than the 11th largest city in France: it is an example of a political burning desire to create the new city of tomorrow.
Various urban initiatives have contributed to a deep change. Each year, the city supports more than actions around three main ideas: involving citizens , fighting social inequalities and stimulating weaker areas. The complete social spectrum is involved in the projects by means of public debates and meetings to discuss the future use of their area.
