A laboratory with a strong sense of social responsibility

Since its creation, Lab'Urba has been strongly committed to social relevance as a laboratory supporting public action, civil society and the socio-economic world. It interacts and cooperates with all the stakeholders in collective urban action, using a wide range of collaborative methods.

• Institutions (State and local authorities)  

• Public, semi-public and private development and urban planning operators

• Local residents and organised civil society groups

• Science-society mediation organisations

• Participation in the scientific committees of public and private socio-economic organisations or political-administrative bodies

• Training

• Production of new knowledge through action research and participatory research

• Structuring medium and long-term partnerships (chairs; actor-researcher networks, etc.)

• Participation in public debate

• Popularising and disseminating knowledge to professionals, the general public and schools
  Decision-making and support for change

The thematic areas of Lab’Urba focusing on collective urban action through the lens of socio-spatial and socio-environmental inequalities, as well as through the lens of the ecological transformation of urban planning practices and urbanized spaces, lie at the heart of these partnerships.