The video traces the student’s work done on the redynamisation of Saint-Gilles, a popular neighbourhood in Liège,Belgium. They worked on the project of a diffused campus through the co-design of a set of collaborative services with the populations living there. The action research project proposes to leverage on an original specificity of Saint-Gilles: this relatively small central urban area in a secondary medium-size town of Belgium is hosting more than 30 schools from kindergardens to universities and counts more than 10 000 students for only 5 000 inhabitants: collaborative and public services will be developed to foster the core idea of Saint- Gilles as a ‘Diffused Campus’ in order both to build a new identity of the neighbourhood, to strengthen the social fabric between students and other inhabitants and improve both quality of local living and sustainability in the neighborhood.
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Welcome to Saint-Gilles
UN GRAND-MÈRE POUR DÎNER
By Prana Aquitalia
This is a service that allows connecting elder people with students in order to share a meal on a regular basis (once a week for example). Students can enjoy a nice homemade meal while the elderly person can benefit from the young people company. They can do the shopping and the cooking together and share experiences, tips, good practices and advices.
RE-CYCLE
By Florian Hatry
Local inhabitants who want to get rid of their old bicycles can give them away to the Re-Cycle team (composed of voluntary students) who will repair and fix them. Once the bikes are operational again then they can be rented using a “name your own price” principle. Re-Cycle is a good way for everyone to get a bike and go around for a very small budget.
LA BROUETTE BIO
By Jérémy Husquin
A group of students, organized in a kot, are delivering organic products, coming from local producers, around Saint Gilles using their wheelbarrow. The Organic Wheelbarrow service facilitates the access for everyone to organic products. Besides that the Organic Wheelbarrow team also help people who are in need of transporting, moving or delivering any kinds of goods around.
LES TABLES DE SAINT GILLES
By Martin Duchêne
Les Tables de Saint-Gilles is an online platform that allows you to look for shared meals around you, in your neighbourhood and join them. You can either be a guest or an host but in both cases you’ll meet new people and enjoy good food (for a very small price). This service facilitates social interactions and bring people closer together.
RECUP’BOOK
By Mohamed Elastal
There are some books we want to keep and there are some we don’t. Recup’book is a network of boxes, small diffused libraries, that are set up around in the neighbourhood (either inside cafes, restaurants or outside on the sidewalks, bus stops etc.). Take the book you finished reading, drop it in a box, and take another one for free. Drop and take as much as you want as long as you share.
J’IRAI LAVER CHEZ VOUS
By Pierre Stevens
Often, students don’t have a washing machine, so they go to laundromats. What a waste of time waiting there ! Next door your neighbour has probably got a washing machine that you could use. Signs on windows show whether or not the machine is available to use or not. If it is, then knock at the door and see what you can do in exchange for your laundry, maybe you could go get some groceries, do some gardening or whatever might be helping the one helping you. Save money, energy and meet the people who are living around you.
MONPARRAIN.BE
By Samatha Zylberztajn
Students often have to move, for study reasons, to cities they don’t know, and where they don’t know anyone. The godfather/godmother program allows students to choose a godparent from the local inhabitants. Knowing someone is the first step for feeling comfortable and being integrated in the neighbourhood life. Sharing time, doing things together, meeting the people the other one knows help growing a personal local social network and build a familiar and friendly environment.
JOB’MINUTE
By Valentin Van Ravenstyn
Students are often in need of money and having a regular job is hard to conciliate with a student’s planning. Job’Minut offers quick jobs to get in the neighbourdhood. Inhabitants call the Job’Minut Center and explain what they need someone for and the Center forwards the call to available students. Mowing the grass, cleaning the house, gardening, car washing, babysitting, getting groceries are some of those small jobs you can get with Job’Minut. Not only it allows students to earn some money but it also creates social relations within the neighbourhood.
