WIDE OPEN PROJECT

EXPLORING POSITIVE PLACEMAKING INITIATIVES WORLDWIDE

Vision

Building an inclusive, collaborative and resilient city starts with creating spaces of encounters, ready to host inclusion, collaboration and beauty. In the past years, many places have been experimenting towards more freedom and common sense. Pioneers, idealists, visionaries, they’ve been opening the way of a more human approach to the city. Meanwhile urbanism, third-places, colivings, illegal occupations, makerspaces, urban labs, mobile activations… These are all revolutionary seeds, that could be our best chance to tackle climate change and migration flows. Let’s gather and share the stories and knowledge of the ones who have experience growing it. Who knows? We might positively change the world.

POSITIVE SPACES WORLD TOUR

The Wide Open Project started as solo road-trip of placemaking initiatives, to documentate positive spaces worldwide: 15 months of  countless space visits and interviews with passionate placemakers, architects, philosophers, urbanists, anthropologues, sociologues, right-to-the city activits, designers and artists in Paris, Detroit, Montréal, Havana, Mexico City, Medellin, Bogota, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Porto Alegre, Lomé, Accra, Lisbon, Madrid and Valencia. Now, we are several “place tellers”, ready to guide those willing to explore positive spaces around them! Let’s build a worldwide crowdsourced storytelling of what the world can look like.

BUILD A NARRATION

Give a better understanding of how diverse and impactful positive-innovation ecosystems can be by broadcasting instructive videos & articles made along the way.

WRITE A GUIDE

Write a collective guide gathering international inspirations, to inspire and give practical insights to potential ecosystem builders - from the public, private, NGO, or civilian sectors.

CREATE A COMMUNITY

Gather thinkers & doers willing to collaborate & share best-practices, experiences & knowledge on positive-innovation ecosystems internationally. Join HERE !

DISCOVER INITIATIVES WORLDWIDE

ALL VIDEOS & ARTICLES
Vila Itororó, open shipyard in São Paulo
5th step of the third-place world tour by Wide Open with a pioneering project in transitional urbanism: Vila Itororó, in…
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SESC Pompeia, a hybrid and atypical cultural space
Academic partner of the Wide Open Project, the EDHEC Business School supports this world tour of ecosystems of positive innovation.…
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From Montreal to Paris, transitional urbanism at the service of inclusion
Second step of the Wide Open Project, a world tour of positive innovation ecosystems: transitional urbanism in Montreal. This month,…
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Hub city – an unprecedented experiment in technological democracy in Lomé
For the 6th step of the Wide Open Project, Léa moved to Africa, looking for positive ecosystems to meet the…
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The Club of Arts and Crafts, a space to revolutionize Togolese craftsmanship
For the 6th step of the Wide Open Project, exploration of positive ecosystems around the world, Léa traveled to Africa,…
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Third places and urban revitalization: the “Casa B” case in Bogotá
The 4th step of Wide Open exploration was made in Bogotá for a stopover at Casa B, a unique cultural…
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Ponyride: a third-place for a more inclusive and sustainable Detroit
As the first destination, the explorers of the Wide Open collective went to meet Ponyride, a third-place with positive impact,…
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Ruta N, the innovation hub of Medellín
The fourth stage of Wide Open exploration was in Medellín. Long ravaged by the ravages of narco-trafficking, this city, known…
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The Build Institute, a Detroit-based ethical incubator
First stop: the vibrant & creative city of Detroit. After years of economic, demographic & social crisis - leading to…
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    Concrete Examples

    Ponyride is an inclusive urban lab which contributes to Detroit's revival by fostering collaboration and encourageing positive community action among local engaged makers: entrepreneurs, nonprofits, designers, artists...

    Ponyride, Detroit

    Projet Young is Montreal's first pilot for temporary occupation of vacant municipal buildings which offers a diverse set of nonprofits, artists and companies a place of experimentation in Griffintown, the city's innovation District.

    Projet Young, Montréal

    Laboratorio para la ciudad is Mexico City’s new experimental office for civic innovation and urban creativity. The Lab is a space for reinventing the way citizens and government can work together towards a more open, sustainable & creative city.

    Laboratorio para la ciudad, Mexico City

    What are their impacts ?

     

    Because they are interfaces of collective innovation, we believe that these places can catalyse the societal transformations we are all waiting for. Here are some concrete impacts they have on local populations & territories!

    REVITALIZATION
    EXPERIMENTATION
    EMPOWERMENT

    Team

    LÉA MASSARÉ DI DUCA
    LÉA MASSARÉ DI DUCA

    Founder director

    Léa Massaré di Duca, a graduate of EDHEC Business School, begins her career in culture and then the strategic editorial. After 2 years at AccorHotels, she became an independent consultant in 2016. A field worker, after several humanitarian experiences (Madagascar, Bulgaria, Calais), she co-founded in 2017, WIDE OPEN, the opportunity for her to fully engage in a social entrepreneurship project.

    SOPHIE BOCHEREAU
    SOPHIE BOCHEREAU

    Explorer

    Sophie Bochereau, a graduate of Sciences Po Bordeaux and La Sorbonne, worked for 15 years in the valorization of projects of general interest, serving public, private and non-profit actors. She is passionate about economic, social and environmental innovations, as well as collective intelligence methods. After having opened a community place in Paris, she continues her action for the empowerment of the communities with the exploration of the new positive eco-systems.

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