Pistyles develops a service of maintenance and animation of parks and gardens in order to put the management of nature in the city at the service of social link and biodiversity. A response to the need to reappropriate green spaces in the city. The Pistyles project was created to respond to the under-utilization of ecological techniques in the landscaping sector and to revalorize the human, social and entrepreneurial qualities of the gardener, whose profession has become deeply technicalized in recent years and has lost its original meaning: taking care of nature. Pistyles has an innovative project based on an alternative and green vision of city life. This cooperative society of collective interest (Scic) reinvents the urban well-being through gardening to improve the living together. Its motto reflects the long-term ambition of the structure : "Garden after garden, let's change the city".
Which problem does the practice try to solve?
This practice is trying the ecological crisis.
What are the solution to address the problem?
Create and develop a some animation with the habitants around gardening.
What are the beneifts for the user/community?
The benefits for the community is to build some new relationships between habitants and Pistyles and exchange some practices on how to look after green spaces.
How are CE principles addressed?
Pistyles and other associations are creating a green aera for pop-up shops. The project is to buy containers from cargo companies and rehabilitate using green construction materials (green roof, clay and straw for isolation).