Conference “Democratizing the Making of Local Public Action. Why? How?” with Nicolas Rio

Conference “Democratizing the Making of Local Public Action. Why? How?” with Nicolas Rio

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Join us on Monday, January 5th, from 4:30 pm to 6 pmfor the conference“Democratizing the Making of Local Public Action. Why? How?”with Nicolas RioOver the past twenty years, local authorities have experimented with numerous participatory democracy initiatives. To overcome the glass ceiling that citizen participation is now facing, it has become necessary to refocus engineering efforts on internal organizational processes.How can design improve the listening capacity of local authorities and help elected officials and administrations shift their perspective? What can be done to reduce inequalities in representation in the making of public action?Nicolas Rio will share with us insights from the experiments he has been leading on this topic for several years within his agency, Partie Prenante.💬 Another opportunity to foster collective reflection on how design contributes to transforming our organizations and public policies.👉 “Democratizing the Making of Local Public Action. Why? How?” — Monday, January 5, from 4:30 to 6:00 PM 🗣️ Nicolas Rio, consultant-researcher in territorial strategies, lecturer at the Urban School of Sciences Po Rennes, and co-founder of the agency Partie Prenante 📍 At L’École de design Nantes Atlantique or onlineTo explore the synergies between design and public policy, the school is once again offering a series of public conferences this year, in partnership with the Caisse des Dépôts, as part of the Master’s Degree in Public Policy Design, launched last year in collaboration with Sciences Po Rennes.At L’École de design Nantes Atlantique, design is seen as a catalyst for transforming organizations and society. Through this “by design” conference series, researchers, designers and public-sector actors are invited to show how design reshapes the ways we make decisions, provide care, make law more accessible, co-design inclusive transitions, evaluate, adapt, and imagine alternative futures.Each event explores a specific field, revealing design not only as a creative discipline, but also as a method for collectively shaping responses to contemporary challenges.Join us on campus or online to hear from a researcher… and enrich our shared thinking!Free event, but registration is required.👇 Registration at the bottom of the page 👇---Full program available on our website: “By Design”: Exploring the Field of Possibilities

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