Validated Expert info
Expert can perform the Lead expert role and Ad hoc expertise missions at network and programme level in relation to:
- The design and delivery of (transnational) exchange and learning activities
- Thematic expertise:
> Food
> Participatory Governance
> Circular economy - Methods and tools for integrated and participatory approaches:
> Integrated and participatory design of strategies
> Sustaining engagement of stakeholders and translating strategies into actions
Summary
10+ years of support to European cities as URBACT Lead Expert (2 Action Planning Networks: REFILL The City on the temporary use of vacant spaces and Sustainable Food in Urban Communities; 2 Transfer Networks: BioCanteens #1 & #2 on healthy food practices and cities’ food sovereignty; An URBACT I & II capitalisation study: Social Innovation in Cities) and as Expert for Urban Innovative Action (Collections of Ghent, project on cultural heritage and social cohesion; Handbook for Crisis-Resilient Innovation capitalisation study).
Founder of the sustainable transformation lab Strategic Design Scenarios based in Brussels, I have been working for 25 years with public authorities and companies to create innovation labs in cities and administrations (Conseil Départemental of La Réunion, FR, of Mayenne FR, Wallonia Region, BE; JRC, EU Policy Lab. ...), designing sober and resilient public policies (What if we used less water?, Lille FR; GoodFood, Brussels, BE...), co-constructing toolkits and games to accompany professional practices (VISIONS+21 on local participative foresight, Organic Skeptic on sustainable food...).
As a trainer at the INET Institute for National Territorial Studies for civil servants in France, I can mobilise a wide range of pedagogical experiences on design applied to policies (SciencesPo Lille, FR), social innovation (ENSAV La Cambre, BE; Politecnico, Milan, IT; guest professor in design schools and universities worldwide, DESIS, Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability) and education for sustainable development (PERL, Partnership for Education and Research on Responsible Living, Erasmus+).
