Permaculture
Competition Team
Anne-Lise Gruet (FR), architect
Amélie Allioux (FR), architect
François Hamon (FR), architect
Maud Nÿs (FR), civil engineer-architect
Anne Petit (FR), artist
Europan 12 Saint-Herblain
runner-up
Team point of view
“Permaculture” weaves the invisible fabric of the city, its places and shared links. It characterizes those often invisible urban dynamics that can restore the meaning of a neighbourhood. This iterative methodology looks at the short-term, the day-to-day and the event, in the long-term evolution (alteration) of the city. Fast, micro-scale events generate disruption and change on the macro scale.
In order to emerge rather than be imposed, the changes are based on citizen involvement; they confront private interests to bring the collective and now inevitable project into being.
Permaculture maintains that the adaptability of a city is its ability to implement systems of production that consume less, bringing greater capacity for innovation.



