Jardin Demain 

The project began with a strategic study to manage the abandoned areas, which offered a vision of urban nature that took into account the potential value of these spaces, rather than considering them as the wasteland resulting from urban sprawl. While the city is managed by public institutions – the municipal, regional and inter-urban authorities – the landscape, which is the product of all types of practices, should be considered as a common good, which means that everyone must combine their efforts. Citizens become actors and managers. Elements from previous projects are reused, enhanced and repurposed. For instance, the wheelbarrows became our mobile logistics base – seeing them means that the garden is not far away.

We constantly have to make adjustments and change our plans when new difficulties arise. Discussions with residents also lead to surprises, such as the lightning-fast planting of perennials by the primary schools in the Lemasson neighbourhood.

Celebrating together is just as important for the public good as the garden. The inexhaustible collective energy put forward to revitalise a place or a moment in time illustrates the power of building happiness.

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The gardener of Coloco :
Miguel Georgieff + Guillaume Morlans + Pablo Georgieff + Nicolas Bonnenfant + Romain Joubert + Fabien David + Louis Le Faucheux +  Matthias Petitjean + Sylvain Dupuis + Thibault Leponcin + Benjamin Mesnager + Claire Munier + Sarah Sellam + Firas Touati + Mathieu Caramello + Camille Coupez + Marie Damien + Camille Dandelot + Isabelle Siegel + Gilles Garreau + François Couy-Perrais + Cécilia Febrer + Beatriz Ruiz + Thomas Martin

The gardener of the town of Montpellier :
Bruno Troadec + Jérôme Sibade + Romain Bonnier + Didier Rigal + Florian Masse + Guillaume Bihan + André Lavis + Fabien Fouchet + Anthony Beliman + Sébastien Vallée + Maarten Thiels + Jérôme Dotigny + Yannick Salles + Chantal Attard-Lassus + Frédéric Robert + Alain Bisset + Eric Nobécourt + Laurence Jourdas + Denis Gaufier + Lisa Lacroix + Hélène Chamayou + Jean-Marc Alméras + Philipe Croze + Laurent Guillaume + Clémentine Papa

The gardener and local associations :
Carmen Garcia + Ramona Irles + Sylviane Diaz + Isabelle Lopez + Valérie Diaz + Badra Moussaoui + Anne Marie Castano + Nicole Marin Khoury + Nathalie Molina + Mercedes Gallindo + Monique Chiron +  Mme Yolanda + École élémentaire Garibaldi
Garden creation : Comité Consultatif du Quartier Croix d'Argent + Club de l'âge d'Or Entretien du jardin: Association "Du soleil au Lemasson" + Association APIEU

Guest artists :
Graphic design : Gonzague Lacombe + Pauline Rosso + Adrien Revel
Pictures : Danilo Capasso + Claudia Hernandez Nass
Music : les cousins Marpegan
Massages : Mama Marpegan
Graffiti : Christophe Choquet / Koston