New Challenges on the Urban Periphery

该项目以2012-2014年PI和Co-I领导的Banlieue网络项目为基础。国阵通过2013年的创新暑期学校，建立学者和从业人员网络，创造跨学科知识和资源，供民间社会团体使用，以此解决法国大巴黎的隔离问题。然而，在过去十年中，由于当地和国际趋势的综合作用，法国郊区的不平等现象大大恶化，包括对边缘化城市地区机构的不信任加剧、污名化和孤立加剧、过度接触Covid-19大流行、年轻居民积极公民意识的下降以及国家推动的中产阶级化，例如，全球体育赛事取代了工薪阶层的居民。虽然这些问题最近与全球北方的许多边缘社区有关，但它们影响全球南方脆弱城市地区的时间要长得多。在2014年完成BN项目后，PI和Co-I与里约热内卢和墨西哥城的社区合作，他们成功地测试了共同创造，这是BN在圣丹尼斯的2013年暑期学校期间开发的一种具有可衡量影响的方法。这种以艺术为基础的知识生产方法旨在促进积极的公民意识和创造力，以分享知识，并在弱势社区建立复原力。使用评估方法来评估共创对参与社区的影响。全球北方和南方的弹性社区之间的共同创造方法和知识共享可以帮助法国郊区的政策制定者和基层组织巩固他们对城市贫困的理解，并为新出现的新挑战制定新的实践解决方案。因此，我们建议回到圣丹尼斯，法国最受歧视的城市之一，目前作为2024年奥运会的未来举办地吸引了公众的关注：1）向习惯于自上而下方法的城市政策制定者和实践者的重点受众传播共同创造，让他们熟悉与民间社会合作伙伴合作共同设计实际解决方案的替代方法; 2）扩大BN在法国和全球南方的影响，扩大网络，包括来自这些背景的新利益攸关方、非政府组织、艺术家和政策制定者，并让他们分享最佳做法; 3）在法国、墨西哥和巴西的利益攸关方和青年活动家团体之间建立桥梁，以激发对城市周边的新思维方式，这些目标将通过一系列创造性活动和产出来实现，包括：a）为政策和实践受众举办两次关于共同创造方法的互动培训讲习班; B）为期12周的由艺术家主导的多媒体讲习班，对青年进行创意写作、电影制作、摄影、活动组织和交流方面的培训;（d）举行了五次面对面的国际讨论小组，但来自全球南方的发言者通过Zoom参加;（e）由工作坊参与者创作的一系列纪录片，主题为“我的邻里公民”，并与当地和全球观众分享，以激发参与者之间的辩论和增进了解。总部设在巴黎的非政府组织“欧洲替代"和一个项目管理委员会，成员包括艺术家、非政府组织、机构、基层组织和圣丹尼斯的场馆。该项目将通过制作一系列共同创造培训材料和15分钟的播客，以三种语言提供字幕，并通过BN的网站和YouTube频道向全球观众提供。政策简报将最大限度地扩大影响，并促进应对关键新挑战的新方法。

This project builds on the Banlieue Network (BN) project led by the PI and Co-I in 2012-2014. BN addressed segregation in Greater Paris, France, by building a network of scholars and practitioners and creating interdisciplinary knowledges and resources made accessible to civil society groups, through an innovative Summer School in 2013. However, over the last decade, inequalities in the French banlieue have worsened considerably due to a combination of local and international trends including rising mistrust for institutions in marginalised urban areas, growing stigmatisation and isolation, disproportionate exposure to the Covid-19 pandemic, the decline of active citizenship in young residents and State-promoted gentrification through, for example, global sporting events that displace working-class residents. While these issues have recently become relevant to many marginal neighbourhoods in the Global North, they have been affecting vulnerable urban areas in the Global South for much longer. After completing the BN project in 2014, the PI and Co-I have worked with communities in Rio de Janeiro and Mexico City where they successfully tested Co-Creation, a methodology with a measurable impact developed during BN's 2013 Summer School in Saint-Denis. This arts-based knowledge production method seeks to promote active citizenship and creativity to share knowledges and build resilience in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. Evaluative methods were used to assess the impact of Co-Creation for participating communities. Co-Creation methods and knowledge sharing between resilient communities in the Global North and South can help policy makers and grassroot organisations in the French banlieue consolidate their understanding of urban deprivation and develop new hands-on solutions to the arising new challenges. We therefore propose to return to Saint-Denis, one of France's most stigmatised cities which is currently attracting public attention as the future site of the 2024 Olympic Games to:1) Disseminate Co-Creation to a focused audience of urban policy makers and practitioners accustomed to top-down approaches, familiarising them with alternative ways of co-designing practical solutions in collaboration with civil society partners;2) Extend the impact of BN both in France and in the Global South by broadening the network to include new stakeholders, NGOs, artists and policy makers from these contexts and engaging them in sharing best practice;3) Build bridges between stakeholders and youth activist groups in France, Mexico and Brazil to stimulate new ways of thinking about urban peripheries.These objectives will be achieved through a set of creative events and outputs, including the following:a) Two interactive training workshops in Co-Creation methods delivered to policy and practice audiences;b) A 12-week artist-led multimedia workshop, training young adults in creative writing, filmmaking, photography, event organisation and communication;c) A photography and short film contest resulting in a 2-day short-film festival and a photographic exhibition;d) Five international discussion panels conducted face-to-face but involving speakers from the Global South participating via Zoom;e) A series of documentaries created by workshop participants on the theme "A citizen in my neighbourhood" and shared with local and global audiences to stimulate debate and broaden understanding between participants.The project will be facilitated by a Greater-Paris-based NGO, European Alternatives, and a Project Management Committee including artists, NGOs, institutions, grassroots organisations and venues in Saint-Denis. The project will build a lasting legacy by producing a series of Co-Creation training materials and 15-minute podcasts subtitled in three languages to be made accessible via BN's website and YouTube channel for global audiences. A policy brief will maximise impact and promote new approaches to the key new challenges.