1. Toward Ecoïsm on the Road of
Societal Resilience
The case of Fontaine d'Ouche area in Dijon (Burgundy, France)
Author: Franck Dubois
05/06/2013 Dubois / VeT MOVIDA - Dijon 2013 1

2. Toward Ecoïsm on the road of Societal Resilience
Atelier 2 : modélisation de la résilience territoriale
Modeling of Territorial Resilience

4. Context
• People face the fear of a collective sclerosis
– Doomsayer’s messages,
– increasing complexity
– unstable governance
Enhance a splitting vision of the world
A Fragmented perception of other
communities

6. Ecoïsm

7. Ecoïsm
E·co·ism [IˈKɒʊɪzəm] noun
1- the habit of valuing everything only in reference
to one community's personal interest;
2- collective selfishness dealing with the relations
and interactions between other groups* and their
environment;
3-protection of its own territory in order to survive.
Conccurency of other communities from which the
annoyance should come from.
• family – friends – colleagues – floor mates – block – neighborhood – city…

8. Is a National Resilience Possible?

9. Is a Local Resilience Possible?

10. 05/06/2013
The Research program: VeT (Transition Towns)
Galibert_Masselot_Dubois / VeT MOVIDA -
Salerno 2012
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How to mobilize citizens
around eco-responsible
conducts ?

11. Communautary Resilience

12. From Fragmented Communities to
Common Resilience
• What can support the bounce to socio-
ecological transition?
• The proposal attend to clarify the needs and
the use of what can change individual and
collective perception with a beneficial
voluntary action.

13. The Whole Community can Change ?
• What can I do alone as individual?
– Who participates ?
– Who consult ?
– Who transfer ?
– Which legitimity to intervene?
– Who decide?

14. Aim Target
• To Contribute to an entire resilience of a
Community
• To contribute to the debate with modelization
tools
• To be able to take into account hidden factors

15. Local Actors ‘s Typology
Environment
Individual
Association
Non
Gouvernemental
Organisation
(NGOs)
Pro GroupsInterest Group
International
Organisation
(O.I.G.)
Institutions

16. Example : Perceptions Institutions / Civil Society
Institutions Civil Society
Theory Concret
Universal Rules Adaptation
Centralisation Action
The Formal Perfection Efficiency
Writing World Whatever the Shape
Prudence Initiative
Mistrust Trust – Delegation
No real sanction Assess the Outcomes
Less worry for dead lines Time is Money
Sensivisity to medias Limited Sensivisity

18. Organisations Supranationles Européennnes

19. The Block Syndrome

20. Ecosystems Fragmentation
• Each artificial phenomenom of spatial
fragmentation can prevent someone to move
where she/he/it should.

21. Biodiversity Fragmentation
• Forests
• Lanscapes

22. Natural Spaces Fragmented

23. Invisible Undesirable Consequences ?

24. Parallel Development of Communities
• A Common Foundation
– Transversality
– Values
– Rules
– Rights
• Autonomy
– Emancipation
– Empoyerment
– Implemanting desires

25. Los Quipucamayocs

26. Los Quipucamayocs

28. Archaea : Single-cells micro groups

29. A Significant change needs a Whole
Perception
• Nodes particularly hard to discover between
groups;
• Links that affect other groups
• Underground element perception
• Being able to streamline the conversion
process

31. Cuzco : a transformation system model ?

32. Cuzco

33. Urban Sprawl in Cuzco : « Khipu » type

34. Habitats Fragmentation

35. Kingdoms for each salted lake

36. hydrographical basin deeply affected by Human
Impact
Human activity affected by hydrographical basin
evolution

37. Budapest

38. Sofia

39. Contextuality of our research territory

40. Dijon a distant city outside French
Kingdom

41. Dijon in 1574

42. The « Tour de France » in 1908

44. Consciousness of being a part of a National
Heritage

46. French Networks built beside Dijon

54. An Urbral Element ?
• Combined elements of the urban and rural
Tryst Williams

57. Dijon in 1969

58. Fontaine d’Ouche in 1969

61. Fontaine d’Ouche in 1974

64. Statistical Division Map

68. Adaptive Cycle Resilience

69. Re-Ecological Connectivity
• Eco-Bridges

73. Fontaine d’Ouche Bicycle path

74. Fontaine d’Ouche
• The Neighborhood is becoming a green surety
for Dijon conglomeration
• Focusing on the River side and Natural spots

77. franck.dubois@u-bourgogne.fr
FRANCK DUBOIS