IcARUS methodology in Lamballe-Armor

On 6 May, the municipality of Lamballe-Armor organised an afternoon to work with local stakeholders on urban safety projects for the town. We were lucky enough to be invited to share our experience and the IcARUS methodology.

Over the past few months, the French Forum for Urban Security and the town of Lamballe-Armor have been conducting a participatory study of the town centre to identify and qualify the issues relating to urban safety and public tranquillity in the city. As a result of this study, recommendations were drawn up jointly with the partners, and the municipality wished to continue to involve local stakeholders in imagining how they could be implemented.

School principals, hospital directors, local policemen, elected representatives, representatives of associations and city departments – in other words, over 30 local players – got together to imagine local experiments!

We drew on the experience and lessons learned from IcARUS to design the workshop. We were able to share the approach and adapt the methodology to the needs of the municipality of Lamballe-Armor.

After an introduction by the Mayor and a summary presentation of the results of the study, the participants had time to appropriate and draw inspiration from the ideas for action. They then worked in groups on prototypes, identifying ways of testing the proposals before rolling them out on a large scale.

A great success in terms of local mobilisation, which will feed into the implementation of the city’s projects!