Démocratie participative

vignette|upright=1.8|Logo de la Charte de la participation du public La démocratie participative est une forme de partage et d'exercice du pouvoir, fondée sur le renforcement de la participation des citoyens à la prise de décision politique dans le cadre de la démocratie représentative. À la différence de la démocratie directe, le processus de décision ne se fait pas sans les élus mais en collaboration avec ces derniers. On parle également de « démocratie délibérative » pour mettre l'accent sur les différents processus permettant la participation du public à l'élaboration des décisions, pendant la phase de délibération. La démocratie participative ou délibérative peut prendre plusieurs formes, mais elle s'est d'abord instaurée sur le terrain de l'aménagement du territoire et de l'urbanisme, avant de s'étendre dans les champs de l'environnement. Dans ces cadres, les associations jouent un rôle central en tant qu'interlocuteurs pour les autorités publiques. En France, une Charte de la pa

A participatory WebGIS platform to support biodiversity inventory in the Geneva cross-border area

Jens Ingensand, Stéphane Joost, Ivo Widmer

The context is the URBANGENE project which aims at estimating the impact of urbanization on biodiversity using genetic information. The paper discusses the opportunities to involve citizens in a conservation process through the development of a participatory platform based on user-friendly, specially adapted and reusable crowdsourcing tools.

Aalto University2014

Radical urban movements and the participatory city

Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Mischa-Sébastien Piraud

This paper is based on an interdisciplinary study – mixing sociology, anthropology, urban planning and architecture - of 40 years of urban struggles in a small neighborhood of Geneva called Les Grottes. In the 70’s, Les Grottes was the place of birth of Geneva’s squatter’s movement which was initiated in opposition to a modernist rehabilitation project implying its almost complete destruction. Over the years the neighborhood has been the place of many local conflicts around the use of public spaces and/or buildings along many institutional innovations. The urban movements it fostered (squatters and neighborhood’s associations) have contributed to the spatial and institutional transformation not only of the neighborhood but of the entire city. They were part of the larger shift toward the ideology of the “sustainable urban development” and its ambiguous articulation with the “new spirit of capitalism”. We focus our analysis on the shift from an anti-capitalist contestation framed in a social class discourse (urban movements of the 70’s and 80’s) to a participatory and contractual handling of local conflicts (participation around a « contrat de quartier » initiated in 2010). This shift can be seen as a form of depolitization process in two ways. First, the « contrat de quartier » implies a strict spatial delimitation along a managerial approach of the « urban problems » publicly addressed. This narrow frame reduces the possibility of expanding the critic to larger entities and processes (as implied for example in the more radical anti-capitalist critics inspired by Marxism) (Boltanski, On critique, 2011). Secondly, the participatory management and renovation of the neighborhood implies a systematic recourse to the various technical and juridical normative frames. This lead to a certain form of « governement through the norms » (Thévenot) wich reduces specific forms of enacted critic of capitalism expressed through alternative spatial settings and « auto-organization » of everyday life. Nevetheless, autonoums actors and associations still play the game at the margin, participating at the same time to the institutionalized frame while developing projects and critics which open new alternatives.

2013

Radical urban movements and the participatory city

Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Mischa-Sébastien Piraud

2013

Production urbaine et participation citoyenne, table-ronde

A participatory WebGIS platform to support biodiversity inventory in the Geneva cross-border area

Radical urban movements and the participatory city

Radical urban movements and the participatory city

Production urbaine et participation citoyenne, table-ronde

A participatory WebGIS platform to support biodiversity inventory in the Geneva cross-border area