Caroline Mignon, President of ATD opened the event by quoting Aurélien Barrau, French astrophysicist and environmental activist: “Let’s start thinking seriously”. Then, Arthur Gosset and Hélène Cloître shared their vision and experience as students destined for a brilliant engineering career, with excerpts from their film RUPTURES. Thibaud Griessinger, an independent researcher in cognitive sciences, then spoke about the place of the human being in transition issues.
The afternoon of the first day was punctuated by various workshops. OT de Granville Terre et Mer took part in topics related to water resources, mass tourism and coastal resilience. Other workshops addressed future environmental obligations, the substitution of European and national customers for distant ones…
The following day was devoted to eductours. An opportunity to discover the coastal developments near Montpellier :
- “le Petit Travers”, the beach of Montpellier residents, and its developments which have restored the site to nature
- La Grande-Motte, a seaside resort sized to accommodate mass tourism as early as 50 years ago, and today classified as Europe’s greenest resort, an icon of 20th-century architecture
Skilling up, working on new economic models, networking, getting away from stigmatization (labels) were taken up several times.
Location: Montpellier
