Thesis title: How does the organization of participation bodies in the territory “of the future” perform its public? The construction of a smart territory and of a territory “of the future”, Île-de-France

Supervisor: Brice Laurent

In 2019, the Île-de-France Region was one of the winners of the national call for projects “Territoires d’Innovation de Grande Ambition” (TIGA) [High Ambition Innovation Territories] and thus launched its program “Building for the future, living in the future” which aimed at rethinking ways of living and building the regional territory by involving users, through citizen workshops, in the development of each of the actions of the program. This program finds synergies with the “Smart Region” program initiated a few years earlier by the region, and which aims to deploy a platform of digital services and digital tools at the service of the Ile-de-France residents.

My thesis starts from the postulate that the expressions of territory of the future and intelligent territory mobilized here are urban fictions, discourses conveying a fictitious or even utopian vision of the territory, intended to produce, via the various instances of participation and communication media, both a corpus of services and tools that have become desirable or even necessary to inhabit it in the future, and a corpus of new uses. My hypothesis is that this contributes to the creation of a new public inclined to welcome the market for products from the “territory of the future”. Taking as its object the Territory of Innovation program applied on a regional scale, this doctoral research will lead me to identify which are the processes of production of the public to which the studied programs are addressed, and also which are the conceptions of citizenship and territorial planning mobilized.

Publications

Goizauskas Jean & Tisserand Carole-Anne (2024). Material knowledge and practices in the making of a building resource out of excavated soils: a case study in the Paris Region. In Olivier Coutard and Daniel Florentin (Eds.), Handbook of Infrastructures and Cities. Edward Elgar Publishing, 366-374. doi: 10.4337/9781800889156.00036

Tisserand Carole-Anne (2023). Co-création. In G. Petit, L. Blondiaux, I. Casillo, J.-M. Fourniau, G. Gourgues, S. Hayat, R. Lefebvre, S. Rui, S. Wojcik, & J. Zetlaoui-Léger (Éds.), Dictionnaire critique et interdisciplinaire de la Participation, DicoPart (2ème édition). GIS Démocratie et Participation.

Tisserand Carole-Anne (2022). Ethnographie d’une plateforme de crise éphémère. In Hervé Dumez, Benjamin Loveluck, Alexandre Mallard, Innover en temps de crise. Paris, Presses des Mines.

Tisserand Carole-Anne & Brun Victoria (2022). Claude Rosental, La société de démonstration. Revue d’anthropologie des connaissances [En ligne], 16-3.

Tisserand Carole-Anne (2021). La redéfinition du rôle politique de l’entreprise à travers l’impératif public d’innovation « partenariale » Entreprises et histoire, 104(3), 129-141. doi: 10.3917/eh.104.0129.

Other academic activities

Organization, with Aliénor Morvan (SES Télécom Paris), of an interdisciplinary study day entitled “Pourquoi, avec qui et comment concevoir ? Le citoyen-usager dans la co-conception urbaine” [Why, with whom, and how to design? The citizen-user in urban co-design], March 30, 2022 at Mines Paris – PSL. The event was organized with the support the Interdisciplinary Institute on Innovation (i3).

* According to the summaries present in the bibliographic database