top of page
Building tomorrow’s
eco-districts
Why?
The city of Nantes is building a new high-skate neighborhood, trying to follow ecological and social goals set by the French government. With the soon-to-be neighbors and local stakeholders, we imagined the uses of this futuristic neighborhood set to be ready in 2027.
How could we build a neighborhood that meets government-issued ecological and social goals?
How do we structure the exploration?
Over several months, we conducted 21 workshops with over 100 participants, centered on 7 key themes
to comprehensively explore the uses of this futuristic neighborhood.
Each workshop was curated to provide participants with the opportunity to share their expertise.
To gather strategic recommendations for decision-making, we used a variety of tools, including speculation, personas, user journey, and service prototyping.
What questions should we ask?
We asked a range of questions to gather insights, letting it evolve with participants' own questions.
One of the series focused on food, our questions ranged from "What equipment do you need in your kitchen?" to "Which fruits would you like to see growing in the pedestrian-only streets?"
"What if I could harvest in the neighborhood?"
"What if our fridges
were underground?"
We also considered very practical aspects by asking professionals:
"What would convince you to bring your business to Pirmil?"
Then, what should we share?
We transformed the verbatim records into clear recommendations for the project's decision-maker.
You can access our deliverables on the city's website (in French).
Acknowledgement:
Thank you to Anaïs and Vraiment Vraiment
for trusting me on this project.
bottom of page