OuDuPo (Potential Sustainability Workshop)
Drawing up sustainability charters in Bordeaux and Nantes opened up new methods for the co-construction and transmission to all stakeholders (including real estate operators) of objectives developed at the urban scale. Several project opportunities on the Atlantic seaboard—Bordeaux, Rennes, and Nantes—provided an opportunity to develop new methods.
Matrix approaches allow us to define the actions to be implemented for each goal and associated objective, by type of stakeholder. And at the scale of their intervention: from programming to use, via urban form, public spaces, and built interfaces. They guarantee a holistic approach, cross-functionality, and coherence at different scales. Conscious of the fact that sustainability strategies are more robust when developed as part of a group effort, and that the actors who take the reins will be less inclined to tear down the frameworks and objectives they helped build, our studio set up an unprecedented negotiated planning method, along the lines of the negotiated urban planning experiments developed on Ile de Nantes and later in Bordeaux.