Urban storytelling devices to embody municipal climate strategies
Client: Ville de Lancy Date: October 2024
How to make climate futures an accessible and widely-known subject? This project develops urban narrative devices that embody Lancy's climate strategy in public space, part of the city's "Urban Mosaic" project and climate plan presentation to the population. By creating objects that challenge and question, we transform streets into political debate spaces on climate adaptation. These "climate tales" explore different adaptation currents – geoengineering, legal personality of waterways, genetic engineering, hybrid infrastructures for humans and animals, localized artificial climate creation – to make potential futures comprehensible and desirable. These systemic devices become vectors for collective mobilization and shared imaginary construction, showing how our urban heritage could evolve facing climate challenges. This approach transforms public space into meeting and exchange places on common interest subjects, creating a popular culture of climate imaginaries.