Communa

Communa's projects aim to serve local communities by creating places of solidarity 🧡 In concrete terms, this translates into the organisation of events and activities open to all, in collaboration with local residents, in rehabilitated spaces. Any examples? In a place in Communa you can find yoga classes for Muslim women, pastry workshops for seniors, skating classes for young people in the neighborhood, artists, bicycle workshops, repair cafés, people who find a home. 🧘 🍰🚲 A whole ecosystem of people motivated to improve their daily lives a little that rubs shoulders in their buildings.

Since 2013, the non-profit organisation has stood out in transitional urban planning by facilitating a dozen places, housing 350 people and supporting more than 200 associative or social and solidarity economy projects... No less!

Communa optimizes the recovery of resources through activities based on repair, reuse and recycling (the 3Rs). 💚 How? By recovering existing buildings, where they are considered "waste", to make them "resources" at the service of vulnerable populations. This makes it possible to avoid building new buildings when we can mobilize existing buildings and extend its life cycle... As the saying goes: "The greenest building is the one that is already built"! 🏢🌱

The non-profit organisation rehabilitates vacant social housing while working with socio-professional integration organisations (OISP) and with recovered materials.

Their idea? Create "prooves of concept" that can inspire public policies, which will then make it possible to generalize the occupation of vacant buildings but also to create new places of community and solidarity in the four corners of the city. Between socio-community work, socio-professional integration, work against homelessness, circular economy, participatory governance and joie de vivre, Communa is resolutely at a crossroads to increase societal impact on a daily basis.