Vision

The local hub strives to establish a physical, virtual and symbolic long-lasting link between the different neighborhoods and municipalities located on Greater Angouleme’s territory by highlighting its tangible and intangible small and scattered heritage using a peri-urban metropolitan trail as a laboratory for urban transformation, creative solutions and increase of attractiveness. The Caravane Creative Lab will be a creative, inclusive and shared space for residents and local actors.

Values

• The Caravane Creative Lab is inclusive and accessible, people centric and heritage oriented.
• The Caravane Creative Lab is creative.
• The Caravane Creative Lab is sustainable.
• The Caravane Creative Lab is connecting the past and the present to imagine the future.

Missions

Greater Angouleme aims to transform and regenerate its historical urban spaces while preserving their unique social and cultural identity and environment.

The Missions will focus on:

• Mapping the small, unprotected, scattered built and natural, tangible and intangible heritage throughout the territory.
• Ensuring better knowledge, building a narrative and a greater shared appropriation of the territory’s fabric by the inhabitants and professionals.
• Building on the existing skills within the local CCI sector to highlight this heritage, tell stories and raise awareness and transform the perception of the inhabitants.
• Bringing together a community of contributors to the Caravane Creative Lab.
• Initiating citizen reflection on daily practices and choices (e.g. concept of slow life, etc.).
• Co-designing and creating a pedestrian metropolitan trail as a test bed for innovation and creativity in the historic urban regeneration process.

Mission 1 | Promote cultural heritage and popular know-how at the local level to inhabitants and professionals to create a shared sense of place

This mission is oriented to take a new look at the city and promote new uses in the dialogue between urban and peri-urban areas. The focus will be on mapping the cultural heritage on the field via participatory walks and carrying out a feasibility study for a metropolitan trail to encourage new points of view, the telling of new stories from the districts, suburbs, and peri-urban fringes.

Main HUB-IN Clusters targeted: Culture and Creative Industries (CCI) | New Lifestyles (NLS) | Resilient & Human Connected Places (RHCP)

Mission 2 | Create a platform for encounter and exchange among local partners and citizens via a co-designed dialogue anchored in the territory

This mission is oriented to bring key local stakeholders, mainly associations and partners from the CCI sectors, and citizens together in a local innovation hub, the Caravane Creative Lab; encourage the co-construction of knowledge; launch the co-design process for the metropolitan trail through participatory scouting and the collection of stories.

Main HUB-IN Clusters targeted: Culture and Creative Industries (CCI) | New Lifestyles (NLS) | Resilient & Human Connected Places (RHCP)

Mission 3 | Support professionals to develop new skills in designing projects in tune with the territory’s history, heritage and its possible futures

This mission is oriented to develop new skills and knowledge among the local CCI sector, specifically focusing on urban regeneration and the local built and natural heritage via summer schools, workshops and specific counseling and advice to local professionals to design heritage-related products. This mission will also frame a call for proposals to the CCI actors to highlight hidden heritage and forgotten places, and enhance traditional practices through creative support.

Main HUB-IN Clusters targeted: Culture and Creative Industries (CCI) | Resilient & Human Connected Places (RHCP)

Mission 4 | Develop a shared vision of the territory by 2050

This mission is oriented towards the prospective approach on the importance of heritage elements, the importance of the watercourses in the city, new sufficient lifestyles and how the metropolitan trail can be further enhanced and developed with regular creation of content.

Main HUB-IN Clusters targeted: Culture and Creative Industries (CCI) | New Lifestyles (NLS) | Resilient & Human Connected Places (RHCP)

Annexes

The following annexes can be consulted at this link:

• Metropolitan trail feasibility study
• A’Urba study on the Charente river