ABSTRACT
This interview with atelier d’architecture autogérée begins with a discussion of recent resilience theory and policy to explore the ways that their practice responds to the need for integrating top-down and bottom-up policies, complementing strategically public and civic initiatives. They speak in particular about the need to empower communities’ agency of change at wider scales. They point to the ‘commons’ movement as a good example, and the ways that grassroots resilience movements are producing new social and economic values and are contributing to a new political-economic agenda of the ‘commons’. They present their project R-Urban, a network of citizen projects and grassroots organisations around a series of self-managed collective facilities that host economic ecological and cultural activities and everyday practices that contribute to boosting resilience in an urban context, as well as discussing their new project, Wiki Village Factory, a cluster of social and ecological innovation to provide centralised support for civic-urban resilience at a regional scale.
