Governance as Repair: Small Acts, Collective Metabolism

David Miguel De Almeida Catalao

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Emeline Christiane Marlyse Ludwig

Across the Bolmon watershed, stagnation runs deeper than water. Overlapping responsibilities—shared between the Métropole, the Conservatoire, and the State—have fixed the territory, leaving ecosystems and decisions without flow. Repair begins through small, situated gestures that reweave this layered governance in service of Bolmon. As they accumulate, they loosen rigidity, allowing a collective metabolism to take shape in the form of a legal personality for the lagoon, where care replaces control and time restores movement.

Team
Unit:
RIOT
Teachers:
Charlotte Malterre-Barthes
Assistants:
Elif Erez Henderson, Antoine Pierre Marie Iweins D'Eeckhoutte, Kathlyn R Kao
Infos
Year:
2025
Period:
Y3 (BA), Y1 (MA), Y2 (MA), Fall
Category:
Semester Project
Topic:  
Architecture, Construction, Environment, Experimentation, Landscape, Society, Sustainability, Technology, Territory, Urban study
Copyright:
CC BY Licence
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