• Expertise of the European project Coworkmed, AVITEM

    Project management : AVITEM (Agence des Villes et Territoires Méditerranéens Durables) Year : 2017 The study conducted by Villes Innovations consisted in identifying the externalities produced by coworking spaces and defining a public policy for the development of Third Places, on both european and mediterranean levels.

  • Expertise of the Pangloss Labs, Ferney- Voltaire (Ain area, France)

    Project management: ARDI (Agence Régionale du Développement et de l’Innovation) Partnership : Ocalia Years : 2015-2017 Villes Innovations studied Pangloss Labs, located in Ferney-Voltaire, Ain area, France (Expertise of the Living Labs and Fab Lab of Rhône-Alpes).

  • Urban regeneration of Usera neighborhood, Madrid (Spain)

    Project management : Ville de Madrid Partnership : Improvistos Year : 2016 In cooperation with the Madrid based architects agency Improvistos, Villes Innovations has developed an urban regeneration project for Usera neighborhood, in the south of Madrid.  

  • Urban regeneration of Fuencarral district, Madrid (Spain)

    Project management : Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid Partnership : Improvistos ; Paisaje Transversal Year : 2015 In close association with Madrid based architects agency Improvistos, Villes Innovations developed a regeneration project of a northern district of the city, Fuencarral.

  • Doctoral thesis in Science of Territories – Urban Planning – Cognitive Urban Systems

    Project management : Laboratoire PACTE, INterland, Ecole Doctorale des Sciences de l’Homme du Politique et du Territoire, Université de Grenoble Years : 2009-2012 Doctoral thesis in Science of Territories – Urban Planning – Les Systèmes Urbains Cognitifs. Des supports privilégiés de production et de diffusion d’innovations? For its doctoral thesis, Raphaël Besson conducted a comparative […]

  • Study and report on the economic paradigm of Third Places

    Project management : Grenoble Institut National Polytechnique – Chaire Innovation Industrielle Partnership : Laboratoire PACTE Year : 2014 Under the scientific leadership of the Chaire Innovation Industrielle of Grenoble INP, Villes Innovations has conducted a study to analyze the economic model of a set of french (Living Lab and Fab Lab of Grenoble CCSTI ; […]

  • Study on the regeneration of an industrial wasteland into an Arts-Science-Industry Third Place

    Project management : Young Architects Competitions ; Nute Partecipazioni Partnership : Big Bang Studio Year : 2014 In the framework of a collaboration with Big Bang Studio architectural consultancy (Lyon, France), Villes Innovations imagined the regeneration of an industrial wasteland into a place for artistic, cultural, urban and socio-economic experimentation (Bologna, Italy).