New European Bauhaus Prizes 2023

Initiative category

Identify the award category for which this initiative is being submitted
Prioritising the places and people that need it the most

Email user
horsgabaritmarseille@gmail.com

Basic information
Initiative title
The city for childrens

Full initiative Title
The city for childrens. Participatory planning in the neighborhood of Encagnane

Please provide a short, catchy description of your initiative to be used in communication towards the public.
The objective of the project was to make children actors in their environment and help them improve one or more spaces through a project that embodies their own voice and needs. Regular workshops have been conducted with childrens between 6 and 11 years hold in order to make a diagnosis of the state of the neighborhood, to choose together a place of intervention, to imagine the change of the chosen space, to discuss with the technical services concerned and finally to follow the construction

What was the geographical scope of your intiative?
Local

Where was your intiative implemented?
Member State(s) and Western Balkans
France

If relevant, insert names of region(s)/municipality(ies) involved
Aix-en-Provence, neighborhood Encagnane

Does your initiative address mainly urban or rural issues?
Mainly urban

Does your initiative refer to a physical transformation of the built environment or other types of transformations (hard or soft investments)?
It refers to a physical transformation of the built environment (hard investment)

Has your initiative benefited from EU programmes and/or funds?
No

Has your initiative won an EU prize with a monetary value awarded?
No

Does your initiative has a minimum level of maturity? The minimum level of maturity is exemplified by stakeholder/ initiative promoter commitment to implement the initiative in practice and a clear methodology /approach.
Yes

On whose behalf are you submitting the application?
As a representative of an organisation
Please provide the contact details for the project promoter (the individual or representative of the organisation authorised to represent the project)
- Name of the organisation(s): Hors Gabarit
  Type of organisation: Non-profit organisation
  First name of representative: Emilie
  Last name of representative: Mosnier
  Gender: Female
  Nationality: France
  Function: president
  Address (country of permanent residence for individuals or address of the organisation)<br/>Street and number: 93, la Canebière
  Town: Marseille
  Postal code: 13001
  Country: France
  Direct Tel: +33 6 18 48 94 09
  E-mail: horsgabaritmarseille@gmail.com
  Website: https://horsgabarit.org/
Social Media accounts (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, etc.)
- URL: https://www.facebook.com/horsgabaritmarseille
In case my initiative is selected as a finalist of the NEB Prizes 2023, I agree to share the name (individual and/or organisation’s), email address, website and social media accounts indicated above with other NEB Prizes finalists. I also agree to publish the name (individual and/or organisation’s), website and social media accounts indicated above next to the public description of my initiative in the channels of the European Commission.
Yes

How did you hear about the New European Bauhaus Prizes?
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Description of the initiative
Please provide a summary of your initiative
For 3 years and through different workshops we have accompanied children of Encagnane district, to express themselves about their environment and to become agents of change. The workshops are led by a multidisciplinary pair or trinomial of architectes, urban planners, anthropoplogist, graphic designer, herbalist. The work with the children unfolds through different stages : cartography and graphic charter, urban and landscape charter, diagnosis of the neighbohood and choice of the place to renovate, diagnosis of this place (the forecourt of the school) and field survey, design project of the forecourt, exchanges with the technical committee (representatives of social landlord, associations, tecnhical services of the townhall) construction site and inauguration.
Posters and poster cards summarizing each stage present the work of the children and are distributed in the neighborhood and stuck on a Totem built and installed in a square in the neighborhood in order to communicate as widely as possible about the process and the project in progress. .
The worksite involved the coordination of the interventions of the Green Spaces services and the Municipal Buildings Service, the participatory worksite with young people and the participatory workcamps with the inhabitants of the district, and many associations based on Encagnane.
The project's objectives were :
1) Accompany children in questioning their urban environment in order to:
- Allow them to look at the neighborhood differently
- Organize a consultation on an outdoor space to be redeveloped
- Analyze and design improvements to living spaces used by childrens
2) Promote greater consideration of children in the life of the city :
- Get adults to consider children as a resource of proposals
- Restore an intergenerational vocation to public or common spaces
- Encourage public actors to take children into account in the urban renewal of the district
3) Develop a synergy of local actors

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with 5 key words.
urban and architectural education

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with key words
participatory planning and design

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with key words
learn in action

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with key words
inclusive city

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with key words
citizen kids

Please give information about the key objectives of your initiative in terms of sustainability and how these have been/will be met. Please highlight how the initiative can be exemplary in this context.
In order to design and imagine the project for the forecourt, childrens have thinking about to reduce mineral soils and introduce nature in this space. They imagine, wrote and built panels with messages to other citizens to respect the site

Please give information about the key objectives of your initiative in terms of aesthetics and quality of experience for people (through design, positive emotions and cultural benefits) and how these have been met. Please highlight how the initiative can be exemplary in this context.
Childrens involved in the process and in the project for the forecourt had thinking about coulours, forms, materials, associating each of those elements in order to have a colorful, scented, clean, multi-use and multi-generational space. The question of aesthetics was explored collectively and through practical exercises like drawing and models

Please give information about the key objectives of your initiative in terms of inclusion (ranging from accessibility and affordability for all to inclusive governing systems, design for all principles or new societal models) and how these have been met. Please highlight how the initiative can be exemplary in this context.
The children are the big ones forgotten by the urban planning and public policies. Our cities are less and less suitable and secure for children who are not only losing spaces to play, to exchange and to make adventures but also spaces of autonomy. Our project wanted to include children's voice in urban development and show to each-one that the voice of children is relevant and can improve spaces and ways of doing them.

Please explain the way citizens benefiting from or affected by the initiative and civil society have been/will be involved in the initiative and what has been/will be the impact of this involvement on the initiative
Many associations, school, social center of the neighborhood were involved in the process in differents ways (information, consultation,
public inquiry, participatory worksite...

Please explain how different stakeholders at various levels (local, regional, national, European) were engaged in the design and implementation of the initiative.
Many associations, school, social center of the neighborhood were involved in the process in differents ways (information, consultation,
public inquiry, participatory worksite...
Representatives of social landlord, school teaching teams, associations, tecnhical services of the townhall were convened to the technical committee to discuss the proposals of the children and find solutions to respect at the same time the standards and the technical requirements and the will and the needs of the children

Please explain which disciplines and/ or knowledge fields were reflected in the design and implementation of your initiative. Please explain how representatives of these different fields interacted with each other, and what the added value of this process was
Imagining the forecourt project was a great exercise and cross-curricular learning for the children. A lot of academic knowledges were involved : history, geography, mathematics, geometry, writing, drawing. Teachers could use the content of the workshops to deepen different subjects.
But childrens also learn to listen each other, to work and discuss together, to enhance their voice with adults and decision-makers.
The children dabbled in areas such as cartography, public policies, decision-making process, public surveys, architecture and urban planning.

Please highlight the innovative character of the initiative, when compared to mainstream actions in the field of the initiative
It was a bottom-up process involving childrens and able to change the way of doing things by politicians, technicians, decision-makers.

Please describe which elements of your initiative could be replicated or transferred to other places, groups of beneficiaries and contexts. This may involve, for example, aspects of the methodology, technology, processes, products, learnings, etc.
The process and methodology can be replicated and transferred to other places and contexts. We have a lot of documentation of all the project, each workshop has his "roadmaps" and his balance sheet. The posters document and explain to the public each stage of the project. The urban and landscape charter can be used by planners and politicians to take into account the needs of children in urban planning.

Please describe the methodology or approach used in your initiative.
It is a methodology of citizen participation declined and applied to childrens. Learn by doing, questioning, experiencing and playing.

Please explain what kind of global challenges the initiative addresses by providing local solutions
As the Italian pedgogue Francesco Tonucci says, cities are better for everyone if they are designed by and for children. A city with childrens in her streets and squares will be safer and more inclusive for all. Learn to do cities with children is giving everyone a chance to live better our territories.

Please detail the scope of progress in the implementation of the initiative. This can include already demonstrated results/outputs related to the chosen Prizes category, and the already achieved benefits from the initiative for direct and indirect beneficiaries. This can also include a development plan of the initiative, with a particular attention to the steps envisaged in the year following the application, and including envisaged results and benefits from the initiative
The process was able to lead to a concrete achievement (the project for the forecourt). This was an objective but it was not easy to achieve it (economics, standards, planning). We can consider this achievement as a success car childrens were very happy and proud to see the realization of their dreams and their work.
In the forecourt today parents can wait for their children in a more pleasant setting, children can play and use this space as a living space.
In the collective memory this place will be a place arranged by the children and it will work as a trigger for other similar experiences.
By seeing the experience via the web (site, film etc.) other social landlords, real estate developers, politicians and cities are already contacting us to repeat the experience

Please provide documents that demonstrate the maturity level of the initiative and commitment to implement the initiative in practice (e.g.: evaluation report, final or mid-term initiative report, certification, publications, building permit, grant agreement, letter of support, partnership agreement, etc.)
Web link
Web link
- https://www.france.tv/documentaires/societe/4460488-citizen-kids.html
If relevant, please describe how your initiative contributes to developing new competences, especially in the context of the European competence framework on sustainability.
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