The "Lab'citoyenneté - Open lab" system of citizen engagement laboratories, set up by the Sociétés en Mutation en Méditerranée (SoMuM) institute, is taking more and more shape.
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Its Lab'Citoyenneté Villa Air-Bel (Lab'VAB) project is one of the winners of the "Emergence of new collaborations" AAP of the "Transfert" program launched by the A*Midex university foundation. The funding awarded will amount to €64,400 over 12 months, and will consolidate the action plan for this ambitious local project, designed jointly with the Villa Air-Bel association and a vast network of cultural, socio-economic and institutional players.
A new cultural and economic hub for the region
The Lab'VAB project, a public-private partnership, will support the creation of a third-party space in the Air Bel housing estate in Marseille, from its preliminary diagnosis through to its various operational phases, and will initiate a professional scientific, cultural and technical engineering skill among the students involved in the project, in order to promote civic education through applied research.
A first in the region, Lab'VAB links residents, associations and scientific culture around the memory of a place and around social issues that affect residents first and foremost: the redevelopment of derelict areas, access to training and employment, access to culture, the fight against discrimination.
Enhancing an exceptional place of memory
The Lab'VAB project and the future "tiers-lieu" will help to enhance this site and shed light on the unique history of the "Villa Air-Bel", now in ruins - a bastide that protected and saved anti-fascist and Jewish artists and intellectuals persecuted by the German authorities and the Vichy regime during the Second World War.
Article originally published in Lettre d'AMU, October 2021
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