It is a project combining culture and ecology that the Department of Manche is launching to talk about adaptation to the risks linked to climate change. “The rising water levels will transform the Manche coastline and the urbanization that has developed on the coastal fringe will be impacted. This transformation offers us the opportunity to rethink our way of living on the coast, to better take into account this sensitive natural environment and the biodiversity that occupies it,” explains the Department which launched a partnership with the Council for Architecture, Town Planning and the Environment, the attractiveness agency Attitude Manche and four partner campsites. “A territorial residency which aims to question the attachments and tourist practices of the Manchois as well as their perspectives of adaptation in the face of climate change and rising water levels. A call for applications has just been launched, open until December 31, 2024.”
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The Department is looking for people with skills in human and social sciences, regional planning and visual arts, performing arts, etc.
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“Inventing dream solutions for adapting the territory to climate change”
“This residency is a participatory research and creation project which has the dual ambition of revealing the characteristics of this attachment and tourist practices in these vacation spots, and of inviting local tourists to invent their dream solutions for future adaptation . »
The residency will extend over four weeks from the end of June to the beginning of September 2025, roaming in four campsites: from June 21 to 28 at the Baie municipal campsite in Saint-Jean-le-Thomas; from June 28 to July 5 at the municipal campsite Le Clos Marin in Pirou; from August 23 to 30 at the Clairefontaine municipal campsite in Siouville-Hague and from August 30 to September 6 at the private campsite Le Cormoran in Ravenoville.
