Research.
Regenerate.
Innovate.
Our mission
The BeLab is an experimental space dedicated to design research for sustainable, regenerative futures to benefit our territories.
Our core values
We believe in place-based collaboration to respond to real life-centered needs. Our pedagogical models include active, experiential learning, research by making and experimentation.
We aspire to contribute to new regenerative models, regenerative initiatives and activities that restore natural ecosystems.
We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience.
~John Dewey
Our services
In the lab, young designers carry out interdisciplinary research through design and in a supported educational framework (“learn by doing” studios). Our research intends to be contextual, applied, and qualitative. We create pilot projects and strategies in sustainable and regenerative innovation to benefit the territories and their communities in response to major challenges of ecological transitions.
Experimental
Makers Space
Applied
Research
Lab
We are located in the premises of Besign, The Sustainable Design School, in close proximity to The Région Sud and Sophia Antipolis. The BeLab serves as a hub for creative individuals and companies who are passionate about design and sustainability.
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How can the Be-Lab help you?
Enterprises
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Your company is seeking to innovate with usage scenarios and test new biomaterials, why not start with a pilot program?
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Your architecture/planning firm is involved in the renovation of a city block that’s been long disinvested, who to involve?
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You are a social housing developer faced with damaged common spaces; how could we make them more inclusive?
Local
government
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Your town hall is curious to practice participatory democracy but doesn't know where to start...
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Your city planning department must manage a heritage location or abandoned garden or wasteland, how to seek and define new usage?
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Your citizen council needs to innovate in terms of member recruiting, team building, and volunteer engagement…
School & cultural
organisations
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Your cultural/ outreach department wishes to meet the expectations of new audiences with a mobile offering that can serve several neighborhoods
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Your student office wishes to go one step beyond public consultation to include a future housing complex’ student residents.
Subjects that matter
Sustainable transformation
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Supporting transitions –urban, social, ecological, or digital – with a human-centered approach
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Ensuring quality of life, activating public spaces, addressing security and social cohesion challenges
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Accompanying economic revitalization in city centers and industrial wasteland, promoting cultural identity, and sense of place