L’audiovisuel pour améliorer la participation au processus de concertation citoyenne dans le cadre de projets d’aménagement : expérimentation et potentiel de transférabilité

Abstract

Improving citizen consultation in land planning is a major current challenge answering to the lack of representativeness, modernization and time consuming processes. This paper is based on an original hybrid participation research, mixing face-to-face formats (participatory workshops, debate forum, etc.) and online debate (numerical platform). In this context, audiovisual media seem to be promising, as they are frequently used in geography and planning to give voice to stakeholders and sensitively transcribe the territory, but also within the framework of participatory processes (documentaries, journalistic formats or films made by the participants). The project presented here aimed at improving citizen commitment and participation within land planning projects. We have thus developed very short video formats presenting different types of scenarios to support the participatory process. The goal is that these tools are easily used by planners and citizens as “video media” to enhance the debate. This article tries to questioning the innovative audiovisual protocols deployed and their potential for transferability to other territories or land planning projects.

Keywords

• citizen participation
• video
• commitment
• public hearing
• land planning