A pilot project in Glasgow by Trees AI. A new cloud-based platform launched in Glasgow to help fund, grow and maintain urban forests, as city’s frontline defense against flooding and pollution. Trees are infrastructure, their roots are plumbing, their leaves are canopy, their trunks are sustainable building material. Urban trees are a city’s frontline flood defense and air quality regulators, they support its healthcare and education services. Forests sequester carbon, absorb stormwater and provide insurance amid the uncertainty of climate change. Their growth, cultivation and maintenance creates green jobs, improves biodiversity, provides homes for flora and fauna and places for humans to connect with nature. In June 2021, Glasgow City Region announced plans to plant 18 million trees in the upcoming decade creating extensive urban forests stretching across now-derelict sites and connecting historic woodlands. In October 2022, Glasgow hosted COP26, and amid the many pledges and promises made by politicians on behalf of nation states, we announced TreesAI - a new infrastructure to help fund, grow and maintain urban forests - which we’re piloting with Glasgow City Council. Mapping of trees within Glasgow territory Urban trees provide multiple services for the city. Investing in nature is important to reduce climate risks Organogram of the Trees As Infrastructure model Data-driven outcome/impact modelling comparing the estimated future benefits of two different green infrastructure designs Source main image Source texte Domus Air n.4, April 2022

Grizedlae Arts (GA) is based in the English Lake District National Park and has over the last decade gained a reputation for pioneering new approaches to art production and exhibition. Unlike traditional institutions and, indeed, its own history in the British land art movement, GA does not have studios or exhibition space, but rather offers artists the opportunity to carry out projects using social media, cultural and economic of the territory and beyond. Source : https://www.grizedale.org/places/ Source : https://www.grizedale.org/places/ Source : https://www.grizedale.org/places/ Source : https://www.grizedale.org/places/ Source : https://www.grizedale.org/places/ Text Source : Trans-Local-Act

Following numerous mobilizations since 2003 for the preservation of building 7, located in Pointe-Saint-Charles, in Montreal, Collectif 7 à Nous was born. Collectif 7 à Nous is a non-profit organization born in 2009 which brings together citizens, cultural, community, libertarian and social economy organizations. Its aim is to develop the Building 7 project on former CN land, south of La Pointe. It practices a democratic, horizontal and inclusive mode of management and practices principles of shared governance and non-violent communication. The organization is done in circles of evolving and not fixed responsibilities. Building 7 is now converted into a place of sharing and exchange. Today, the activities of building 7 are multiple; There you will find: Le Detour solidarity grocery store, managed by volunteers and offering inexpensive fresh products, a craft brewery, a Press Start cooperative which is a self-managed place of gathering, entertainment and debate, an arcade and a training school. art. Collaborative workshops, called ‘the B7 workshops’ are also organized around ceramics, DIY, bicycle repair, etc. The Building 7 project carries values of social justice, autonomy, respect, democracy and aims to be an engine of social, political, cultural, economic and environmental transformation, in the environment which gave birth to them and well beyond. Source : 100° Source : Bâtiment 7, 2019 Source : memento Text Source : https://www.batiment7.org/autogestion/

The activities of the Multimedia Institute [mi2] are vast: informal education, training in technology and digital media, development of free software, archiving and publishing of digital and printed media, management cultural and political work... The Multimedia Institute began in 1999 as a non-governmental spin-off of the Croatian Open Institute. In the public eye, the work of mi2 is primarily visible through the activities of its public members. space and cultural center - MaMa. Since its opening, MaMa has been a meeting place, a reference point for different communities ranging from political activists to media artists, electronic music creators, theorists, hackers and free software developers, gay and lesbian support groups. Guided by the ideal of sharing, it immediately offered young creators, independent cultural actors and citizen initiatives free access to facilities and its Web infrastructure. MaMa's facilities were important to the emergence of the local independent and alternative scene, but its activities were also very important. In recent years, the Multimedia Institute and MaMa have become significantly involved in the fight against gentrification in Zagreb and Croatia. Source : https://mi2.hr/ Source du texte : Trans-Local-Act

A laboratory for transforming public policies. La 27e Région inspires and invents the services, administrations and public action methods of tomorrow. It is a laboratory for public transformation, constituted as an independent association, which offers a multidisciplinary, reflective and experimental space to build desirable futures for public action. Convinced of the importance of reintroducing experimentation and trial and error into public action, we test new services, tools, methods and organisational modes with administrations. We mobilise concepts inspired by design, social sciences and alternative movements (do-it-yourself, free culture, popular education). The 27th Region relies on a community of practitioners and agents throughout France, who share and extend its approaches. Through projects and events, it works to animate and develop this community. The 27th Region seeks to put forward alternatives to the dominant ideologies of public transformation and to influence the debates. It documents its concrete experiences, develops prospective narratives, and publishes articles and books. Text source Image source: la27eregion.fr and modernisation.gouv.fr

Sarai began work in 2000 on issues of media, urban life, and the public domain, at a time when such issues were hardly on the horizon in India. In addition, Sarai brought together academics and practitioners in a new dialogue and collaboration. Sarai was initiated by Ravi Vasudevan, Ravi Sundaram , both faculty at CSDS; and the Raqs Media Collective (Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula & Shuddhabrata Sengupta). Sarai’s early research foci on urbanization, media life, and information are now part of any serious thinking about the contemporary. Since its inception, Sarai has initiated research projects on media urbanism, Cybermohalla, critiques of intellectual property, free software, art practice and the public realm, language and the city, and many others. It has supported unique independent fellowship programmes, and held a host of events including conferences, workshops, and performances. Like all experimental research initiatives in India, Sarai has seen cycles of expansion and contraction, involving the dispersion of some nodes and the emergence of new sites and publics. Sarai’s current projects address the larger themes of media archeology, infrastructure, data and law. Sarai has generated regular publications. These include the widely circulated Sarai Reader series, graphic novels, the urban classic Trickster City, and researcher broadsheets. Practice based works have also emerged from Sarai’s fellowship projects and the Media Lab. Sarai is the home of the academic journal BioScope. This is a blind peer-reviewed journal focusing on film and media studies, with an additional interest in image and sound practices Source text Sources images Saria.net

Saprophytes Architects, landscape architects, visual artists, builders and graphic designers, the Saprophytes have been developing artistic and political projects around social, economic and ecological concerns since 2007. We claim a relational aesthetic that emphasizes social experience as a founding artistic and constructive act. For Les Saprophytes, the process of collective fabrication of the project is as important as its finished form. Seeking the specificities and potentials of each place, our projects of micro-urbanism, of concrete urbanism, weave their way between the scales of territory and express themselves through different types of actions. INSTALLATIONS ephemeral installations, surprising urban objects that go out to meet the inhabitants of cities to question the uses and meaning of public spaces. DURABLE Long-term actions on specific territories aiming at constituting groups of inhabitants-builders of collective projects for their neighbourhood. CONSTRUCTION Construction or help to self-construction of furniture, small architecture, public space or scenography. Source image Saprophytes Source image Saprophytes Source image Saprophytes

Rotor is a a cooperative that organises the reuse of construction materials. We dismantle, process and trade salvaged building components. Rotor DC is a cooperative company which is entirely owned by its employees. We are based in Brussels, and we attempt to be as generous with this city as it is with us. We seek to collaborate with contractors, non-profits and other companies, and to become a central part of a regional ecosystem for large scale reuse of building materials. While at the start in 2014, we almost exclusively sold materials dismantled by our own workers, our shop now also trades materials from several other suppliers such as demolition contractors and real estate companies. By trading in salvaged materials, we help reduce the quantity of demolition waste, while offering quality building materials that have a negligible environmental impact. Many of our materials are cheaper than new for the same quality. Some materials are equally expensive as new, but come with a great story, a deep patina or simply a clear conscience. And then, from time to time, we offer for sale pieces that were conceived by renowned designers, or created by skilled craftsmen, or made using technologies now out of reach. These pieces are priced a bit higher, but we hope the economies made with our more generic materials help bring them in reach of the many. We have a strict policy with regards to exceptional architecture, and never get involved in demolition projects before they obtain the proper permits. We fully support maintenance and refurbishment strategies for existing buildings. We require documentation of ownership on all of the materials that transit through our shop. While reusing building materials is as old as construction itself, building materials and techniques have significantly evolved since. We develop deconstruction techniques, logistical systems and remanufacturing installations for contemporary building materials, with a focus on finishing materials. Our specialisations include – repair and transformation of lighting equipment, – a state of the art method for removing mortar from ceramic tiles – the reprocessing of high quality ‘urban’ wood – cleaning and preparing for reuse of furniture and building hardware, sanitary equipment – planning and organising of salvage operations in large and complicated buildings Rotor Deconstruction is an autonomous side-project that emanates from Rotor, a Brussels-based non-profit firm engaged in promoting and facilitating the reuse of building components as a strategy on the path towards a more resource-efficient materials economy. Since 2012, Rotor has been documenting existing dealers of secondhand building materials in Belgium and in neighbouring countries. The results are published on opalis.eu. Through this study, we realised that despite the high level of professionalisation of the sector, many dealers are focusing on rustic materials destined for the domestic rural market. Few were geared towards selling what comes out of large building compounds of the service sector, which then and now makes up the bulk of demolition debris in metropolitan areas like the Brussels Region. Rotor Deconstruction grew out of the realisation that certain dots needed urgent connection. photo: Rotor DC, WTC towers, Brussels photo: Rotor DC, North Station, Brussels photo: Rotor DC, warehouse

Green alleys are citizen projects that aim to improve the urban environment by taking direct ownership of underutilized and often neglected space. A green alley can be divided into spaces that serve different uses. For example, citizens involved in the project may want a space for eating, urban agriculture, playing, resting or socializing. These spaces can contain all sorts of elements: flowerbeds, plant strips, honeycombed paving stones, planting boxes, trees, shrubs and climbing plants, murals, urban furniture, play modules, etc. In addition to enhancing a neglected space, the transformation of alleys discourages the illegal dumping of waste, harmful activities and contributes to the fight against heat islands. source text Photo: - Le Devoir André Brisebois lives on Henri-Julien street, near the small Demers street, on the Plateau-Mont-Royal. The street is not an authentic alley because it has a name, and an ancestral house proudly displays an address. Patrick Lavoie, President of the Modigliani Green Lane Committee, accompanied by some members and residents of the neighborhood. Photo: Dominic Gildener/Métro Média Illustration. A green alley in Montreal - Wikicommons

Transition Town Totnes is a community-led organization that aims to strengthen the local economy, reduce our environmental impact and build resilience as we adapt to climate change. It is an organization run by a group of local volunteers, made up of a small team, who come together to work on projects. Anyone can get involved. It is a community organization with nearly 40 local projects and 9 thematic groups working to strengthen the social economy and prepare for a future outside of oil. TTT helps create thriving, healthy and caring local communities, where lifestyles take into account the needs of future generations as well as the present. Taking into account rising fuel prices, economic uncertainty and climate change which bring many challenges. However, TTT focuses on these elements by attempting to increase personal and community well-being, promote the local economy and find lifestyles in line with the values of our Earth. The Transition Network is here to support the ever-growing networks of transition initiatives across the UK and the world and help them to self-organize around the transition model, to create initiatives that work for resilience. Source : Transitiontowntotnes.org Source : Transitiontowntotnes.org Source : Transitiontowntotnes.org Source : Transitiontowntotnes.org Text Source : Trans-Local-Act et Transitiontowntotnes.org