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Following a call for expressions of interest launched by the City of Arles, REDMAN has been selected to transform the 6-hectare Minimes brownfield into a model urban district: Mix-Cité.
This ambitious project aims to:
✔️ Reconnect currently disconnected neighborhoods
✔️ Create a large 3-hectare landscaped and food-producing park
✔️ Offer housing accessible to all generations
✔️ Develop an image campus, a media hub, and shared spaces
✔️ Integrate a strong environmental approach: soft mobility, stilt buildings, local energy mix, etc.
Designed as a living lab, Mix-Cité will be built through an open dialogue with residents and local stakeholders starting in 2025, to create a district that reflects the identity of Arles region.
With this project, REDMAN reaffirms its commitment to a low-impact city grounded in local realities.
In Saint-Mathieu-de-Tréviers, Econocom Factory is giving a second life to digital devices through a circular economy model.
Under the leadership of Stanislas Husson, Econocom Factory refurbishes smartphones, computers, and tablets in its 3,200 sqm facility, applying up to 60 quality control checks. The products are certified ISO 14001, Qualicert SGS, RECQ, and labeled Service France Garanti.
By extending the life of electronic devices, the company significantly reduces digital technologies’ carbon footprint, knowing that 80% of a device’s environmental impact comes from its manufacturing.
A mission-driven company since 2021 and officially recognized as part of the social and solidarity economy (ESS) in 2023, Econocom Factory also supports workforce inclusion: 32% of its 130 employees come from the SMAAART Academy, a training program run in partnership with Pôle Emploi.
👏 Hats off to Econocom Factory for this innovative approach that combines technology, responsibility, and solidarity.
While the smart city was long seen as a technological response to urban challenges, more and more voices are calling for a different vision: one that’s more organic, resilient, and human.
In a feature published in the journal Urbanisme, several key players in city-making advocate for a less techno-solutionist approach, centered instead on robustness, civic engagement, and functional simplicity.
🗨️ According to Matthias NAVARRO, co-founder of REDMAN:
“The city cannot be built on a logic of pure performance modeled on industrial standards. It’s not a production line — it’s alive, complex, organic!”
Thinking in terms of sobriety, resilience, uses and adaptability, rather than performance at all costs, is essential to designing desirable and sustainable territories.
An article by Lucie Romano, featured in the latest issue of Urbanisme