Custom Made

The exhibition Tailor-made solutions to adapt to scarcity and live well in our territories. Heading for the ZAN! Explores the levers and tools that can be used to provide tailor-made responses to each situation. It presents the points of view of local elected officials, planning stakeholders and residents, identifying the counterparts that accompany changes in practice and the conditions of the project.

How can we artificialize less and live better? By what means can architecture, urban planning and development promote architectural and landscape quality, the intensification of uses, access to services and living things?

Organized around three parts, the exhibition questions the recent history of urban sprawl and the links that unite planning and living soils, the preservation of which is a condition of habitability of our territories. Through a selection of documents (photographs, plans, sections and videos), it highlights around thirty inspiring achievements, in which land sobriety is tangible as a new model for planning cities, villages and territories. These portraits of urban and rural projects, witnesses of local diversity and revealing the potential of the "already there", show that the fight against urban sprawl is not a renunciation: on the contrary, it offers new capacities to inhabit the world, via the recycling of what already exists, the optimization of density and the restoration of nature in the city and outside the city. These examples are avenues for building new tailor-made practices, adapted to the specificities of each context.

At the end of the tour, the forum, a place for dialogue and debate, hosts a physical model that allows everyone to learn about urban planning that respects living soils, at the forefront of planning practices.