The instigator of “The Transition Towns” movement, Rob Hopkins considers that the transition must become a permanent way of life and thought in order to get us through the current crisis. In particular, he proposes declaring a “climate emergency” and to build, teach, and produce only from this new perspective. The purpose is to spur us into action and to reevaluate the whole globalized capitalist system of production and consumption. By leveraging networked local and citizen actions that propose new universally replicable models based on the commons and cooperation, he intends to spark a global movement, in a spirit of degrowth.
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Rob Hopkins is the instigator of the international “The Transition Towns” movement, which supports many environmentally responsible initiatives carried out by both municipalities and citizens. Its primary goal is to unleash our imagination in order to inspire the desire and the courage to act.
Urban planning, under the impulsion of modernism, has long been considered solely from the perspective of space. Time-based approaches are still a neglected field of public policy. However, the ongoing changes in our relationship to time and space call for a revaluation of these values. Luc Gwiazdzinski identifies the reasons why he theorizes a greater use of time-based planning to address the challenges of sustainable urban development, insisting on the notions of temporary and temporal urbanism while promoting a malleable and adaptable metropolis. Luc Gwiazdzinski is a geographer, head of the “Innovation et Territoire” Masters Program at IGA (Grenoble Alpes University), associate professor at Shanghai University, and president of the Pôle de recherche et d’expérimentation sur les arts urbains (Polau).
Patrick Bouchain is a committed architect and scenographer, for whom architecture must respond to concern for the general interest. He is the founder of the Construire agency. He integrates research and collaboration into his architectural approach, working in particular with contemporary artists. We questioned him in the documentary “PCA-STREAM: from research to action”. Here he shares his vision of the role of the architect, of the importance of research in understanding the framework in which he operates. In particular, he deals with the question of the commission model, from the way of receiving it to the construction of the project.