Source: https://www.atelierobservatoire.com/
| Location | Laassilat, Bouskoura region, Morocco | |
| Variable | Centralized urban policy of Morocco |
| DP_1: Collective Governance | According to the Helix system[1], we can analyze the situation of the Atelier de l’Observatoire:
1) Active citizens, commoners, social innovators, city makers, local communities. This dimension is surely completed, since the project has been created by two people from the local ground and has the ambition to integrate people as much as possible in its realizations. 2) Public authorities: Here we can underline the support of Minister of Culture, local cultural centers, the Regional Council of Human rights in Casablanca, several universities. 3) Private actors (national or local businesses; small and medium enterprises; social business): The Atelier de l’Observatoire has reached agreements with foundations in the private sector such as the swiss Drosos (…)[2] or the Arab fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC). 4) Civil society organizations and NGOs: The Atelier de l’Observatoire has a strong network with other civil society organizations, weather informal or formal agreement. 5) Knowledge institutions. ONU, European Union… Those well-known institutions are also supporting different projects of the Atelier de l’Observatoire. Then we can analyse that this dependent variable is very strong, since all actors are united together around the Atelier de l’Observatoire, even if scales, amounts, time spent can be very different from one another. |
Strong |
| DP_2: Enabling State | L’Atelier de l’Observatoire has the support of the Minister of culture itself, meaning a lot in the top-down approach of power in Morroco. But the state appears to be in the background, maybe only used for financial resources. The state may also occasionally lend public spaces facilitating collective actions such as exhibitions, which correspond a lot more to a collaborative project. The problem is that the initiative is not understood in this sense for local authorities and may appear as a counterpower. For those reasons, here we can think of a weak dependent variable for enabling state. | Weak
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| DP_3: Social Poolism | Here we can see different neighborhood actors, creating a pooling economy around cultural and social thematic. The Social and Economic pooling is thus a strong dependent variable. | Strong |
| DP_4: Experimentalism | Different alternative approaches are experimented through diverse programs, with multiple forms: meetings, surveys, exhibitions, educational programs, preservation projects, production of works and publications. The Atelier de l’Observatoire has a very innovative projects, that enable a whole community to access to a new approach of cultural goods. In the case of the Curatorial program built by the Madrasa, it was a success in the Mediterranean regions, with other initiatives working in different countries. We can define this variable as Moderate. | Moderate |
| DP_5: Tech justice | The potential of digital infrastructures and access to technology to facilitate collaboration does not seem to be taken into account in the different projects of the Atelier de l’Observatoire. Here we have a weak dependent variable for the tech justice. | Weak |
Casablanca-Atelier de l’Observatoire-2012-Research, Art & Culture- Atelier de l’Observatoire, Laassilat, Bouskoura region-https://www.atelierobservatoire.com/