Ecopoly

As part of an urban project management mission for the Alzette Belval EPA, to facilitate consultation, encourage participation and engage residents, l'Atelier proposed the creation of workshops based on a game: Écopoly.

The rules of the game: each resident chooses, within a given budget, the actions they would like to see implemented to control their environmental, social and economic impacts, adopting different levels of strategy, ranging from territorial development (renewable energy, mobility, agriculture, etc.) to the choice of very concrete measures to be implemented in housing (roofs, uses, green façades, shared services, etc.).

A true educational tool for sustainable development and urban projects, the workshops allow us to co-construct with local residents and future inhabitants the ambition and planning of operations to be undertaken in the area in front of elected officials and the technical services of local authorities, who are witnesses to the desires of the inhabitants. It is a citizens' workshop to create a set of specifications!

To participate in the Écopoly workshops, each player has a prize pool of €20 per workshop (represented by 20 stickers) allowing them to select sustainable development actions, each characterized by its economic, social and environmental values. The first workshop offers residents the opportunity to focus on strategic development actions for the greater area (in terms of renewable energy, mobility, agriculture, etc.). The second allows them to prioritize the measures they would like in their homes and associated public spaces (roofs, uses, green façades, shared services, sustainable mobility options, etc.).

Summary: In addition to their educational virtues in terms of sustainable development and the urban project, these workshops have enabled us to understand the priority actions to be carried out in order to meet the needs of the inhabitants (considering the development of market gardening, seeking to clean up the river that runs through the city, etc.).