La 27e région – Gare BHZ
La 27e Région is a policy lab created in 2007, acting as a “public transformation lab”.
It aggregates a multidisciplinary team and it mainly operates through partnerships with public bodies. It has an action-research activity, aimed at prototyping new methods for designing and implementing public policies by engaging in experiments in the field, but it also acts as a resource center. La 27e Région operates on very different topics, from libraries to health systems. In this document the project “Gare BZH: Nouvelles formes / nouveaux usages pour les gares TER Bretonnes” is analyzed, about orientations for new forms of local train stations in Bretagne.
This project is emblematic of their approach, and particularly relevant for the needs of research on co-creation and RRI. The case describes an organization built on bottom-up initiatives dealing with the exploitation of existing knowledge and resource variety. Concentrating on action research it works on one hand on concrete projects while on the other hand building up a repository of knowledge and experience in the field of bottom-up initiatives related to policy making. Other key factors are the dissemination for replication and application in different contexts following the small-scale projects.