La 27e région
Public policy design
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Territories in Residence
The Transfo
Superpublic
Inspiring Cases
Click here for the list of professionals who have contributed to the La 27e Région adventure
The memberships of public partners and private individuals are one of our main sources of funding. They ensure our independence and the continuity of our actions.
Become a member of La 27e Région
Download our adhesion grid (PDF in French)
Become a member of REACTEUR PUBLIC
I am a private individual
As a private individual, you can become a member of La 27e Région (40 euros per year). Of course, you will be invited to our general assembly and you will become an actor of La 27e Région's adventure.
You just have to send us back this formulary PDF (in French)
If you wish to go further and support us, you can also donate directly to La 27e Région (please contact us to do so).
LA 27E RÉGION @ SUPERPUBLIC
4, rue la Vacquerie
Monday through Friday, 9:00am to 6:00pm
Learn more about Superpublic
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HOW WE WORK WITH OUR PARTNERS
La 27e Région is not a provider and has no customers; it is a project of general interest. Its role is to produce and pool knowledge, proposals and feedback to be widely shared simply for the common good. Our partners are local and regional authorities, public administrations and private stakeholders who provide funding to both benefit from and actively contribute to the common good.
HOW WE CHOOSE OUR PROJECTS
Our projects are selected by the entire 27 Région team; all our programs (Territories en résidence and the Transfo) start with a series of visits and field interviews to ensure that everyone is prepared to comply with the program's protocol. It sometimes happens that an element of the protocol cannot be met by a given stakeholder, in which case, either the operation is abandoned, reserved for the future, or other players are selected to pursue the operation.
HOW WE WORK WITH PROFESSIONALS IN OUR ECOSYSTEM
La 27e Région is a small team that is not looking so much to grow as a structure, but rather to contribute to developing an ecosystem of players and a community of individuals, or even a specialized sector of activity. When we conduct a program, we call upon candidates so as to select professionals who will implement the program in the field as service providers. We try, as much as possible, to set up multidisciplinary teams, bringing together the capabilities of both seniors and juniors. In doing so, La 27e Région plays a mediating role designed to facilitate the work of the teams with local/regional authorities and all stakeholders.
HOW WE WELCOME PEOPLE TO SUPERPUBLIC
Superpublic is the first open space dedicated to new forms of public innovation. Located at 4 rue Vacquerie in the 11th district of Paris, Superpublic is open from 9am to 6pm during weekdays and for exceptional closures. It is primarily addressed to civil servants, politicians, professionals, students and researchers. In addition to a program of events and meetings, Superpublic is a small co-working space that can accommodate both permanent and temporary residents (for hours, days, weeks or months). Requests for applications are regularly announced and a guide is available explaining the terms of use for the space.
WHO WE WOULD LOVE TO MEET
We are always looking for atypical profiles: new specialized designers, field sociologists, young researchers, all of whom, in priority, are familiar with the public sector.
An idea of partnership, project…?
Please contact Stéphane and Magali
Do you want to work with us?
Please contact Anne and Laura
nousrejoindre@la27eregion.fr
Are your a media or do you want to know more about us?
Please contact Anna and Julien
serencontrer@la27eregion.fr
/ Action research· Resources· Realisations
Designing collectively based on
experience in the field
Higher education institutions train future politicians and public officials in numerous skills, from knowledge of institutions to public accounting, from project management to digital issues. But they are not taught to question theoretical instruction and practical tools or to change them in light of actual practices. Because they lack genuine critical capacity, public services run the risk of both programmed obsolescence and excesses of solutionism: management techniques imagined half a century ago still constitute the toolkit of policymakers today, while new technologies – the Internet first and foremost – are seen as the solutions to all our problems of tomorrow.
How do we make sense of it all? How do we equip policymakers to enable them to (re)design more desirable public policy?
What we call "public policy design" consists of applying the principles of design – or "user-oriented design" – in the making of public policy. This is both a mindset and a series of methods to re-examine the problems of society, to better understand situations from the perspective of the intended beneficiaries, to involve them in tests and simulations, and to develop prototypes of solutions that can later be deployed with a better chance of success.
The design of public policy is a multidisciplinary and collective practice. Designers act as one element of a broader set of professionals versed in the issue of uses: field sociologists, participatory architects and planners, social network professionals, video artists, ethnologists, participatory journalists, philosophers and a number of activists who invent their business practices along the way, by mixing lessons learned from political science, adult education, collective actions, etc.
Based on practices implemented in the field, new possibilities arise as a result of creative dialogue with users and by sharing views by means of representation and materialization techniques. These possibilities are then put quickly to the test, the goal being to organize policymaking practices differently and thereby give new meaning to public action.
"Chantiers ouverts au public" (FR)
"Design des politiques publiques" (FR)
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