Autonomous Zones Team 3

Manuel madero a01285758 Tifany PAdilla A01411511 Cindy Won a00836823 Fernanda anaya a07013364

Notre-dame-des-landes

Zone à défendre

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The Grand Ouest or Nantes-Notre-Dame-des-Landes airport project is an operation, launched in 1963 and abandoned in 2018, intended to provide service to the Brittany and Pays de la Loire regions by responding to the foreseeable saturation Nantes-Atlantique international airport by transferring its commercial activities to a new airport to the northwest of Nantes

Notre-dame-des-landes

Weak signals

• In the mid-1960s there were already plans to build a second airport outside of Nantes.
• In the 1970s the government designated Notre-Dame-Des-Landes as the construction site. This originated local resistance.
• In 1994, the government revitalized the airport project to reduce air traffic.
• In the 2000s, the French Primer Minister announced interest in turning Nantes into and international hub
• In 2009, local activists invited other activists to the zone and this is where everything started to take place
• In 2010, Vinci corporation were selected to build the airport.
• In 2012, Operation Caesar happened (helicopters and armed vehicles entered the area).
• In January 2018, the french government ended the airport protect.
• In 2018, the government announced that the people living in the zone had until early-spring to leave the premises.

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Timeline of main weak signals

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LIFE ON LAND

15

Sustainable Developement Goals

SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES

11

CLIMATE ACTION

13

RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION

12

EXTERNAL STAKEHOLDERS

ZAD-ists / ACTIVISTS

MILITARIZED POLICE

GOVERNMENT

The government was responsible for introducing the idea of a new airport, mid-1960s, and in 2018, due to activists, they canceled the proyect.

They're in charge of doing the government's dirty work. They entered the activist camp with armed vehicles and helicopters and they're monitoring if people leave the community or not.

Actors involved in the development of the TAZ

These are the people who never gave up and who live of the premises of the construction site (Notre-Dame-Des-Landes). They fought so the government couldn't build the airport and decentralize the economy.

Some stakeholders made the airport construction seem like the government was "promoting the public interest". However, other stakeholders organized an awareness campaign, and they were ready to defend the zone when the police came with barricades.

Zone à Défendre indeed reflects many aspects of the transformation paradigm, particularly with its community-based nature, the challenge to dominant systems, the progression into alternative ways of living, and the sustainable interaction it manages with the environment. However, it also differs with the objectives of the transformation paradigm. This anarchist group aims to protect a certain geographic area from being modified by public construction projects, instead of having a business focus. It doesn't promote stakeholder engagement because the type of engagement they have towards the authorities is often confrontational. Zone À Défendre doesn't have performance indicators to measure success, their way of measuring this success is simply by delaying the development projects in the area they are protecting.

¿Transformation paradigm?

Bibliography

About: Zone À Défendre. (2023). Dbpedia.org. https://es.dbpedia.org/page/Zone_%C3%80_D%C3%A9fendre Legall, M. (2017, January 26). The Zad: An autonomous zone in the heart of France. ROAR Magazine. https://roarmag.org/essays/zad-autonomous-zone-france/ Sustainable Development Goals | United Nations Development Programme. (2015). UNDP. https://www.undp.org/sustainable-development-goals?gclid=Cj0KCQjwrfymBhCTARIsADXTablkQq7RJv31TOsFuB7IjFLPi8C1Zhy6XUSNoVErtObW4_iCyEEfNB0aAhKzEALw_wcB Thomaidi, P. (2018). A zone to defend. PhMuseum. https://phmuseum.com/projects/a-zone-to-defend-1 WAJDZIK, A. (n.d.). La Folle Histoire de Notre-Dame-des-Landes - Ouest-France.fr. Retrieved from https://s.ouest-france.fr/labs/grand-format/notre-dame-des-landes/

Ecological thoughts

The Mixed Airport Union is born, which brings together the local authorities (Region, Department, Metropolis, Municipalities, etc.). He defends this project considering that it has an economic bet ("3,000 jobs must be created") and an ecological one ("an end to the inconvenience at the gates of Nantes").