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L’habitat intergénérationnel solidaire au cœur de la Cité. | SERGE LE BOULCH | TEDxCanebière


[Music]
I have good news and bad news
who hold in a figure 30 the good
first of all compared to our grandparents
we enjoy thirty years
more life expectancy and for the
majority of us 30 years of leisure
and rest rather a very good
new so much as science
promises us each year more the
bad now 30% of people
older people are currently suffering from isolation
a million and a half people out of 5
million over 60 three hundred
a thousand say they had no contact
with a close
three hundred thousand people then beyond
statistics
beyond the numbers the important thing is
obviously the reality that it covers
your reality
and then my reality me this link between
isolation and aging
I do when at 45 I went
visit my grandmother in her house
retirement
so when I came home when I’m
entered this establishment it first
been a big shock
I saw very old people
in armchair
bedecked in front of the television and
I understood that it was in this genre
establishment in this kind of place that
we brought together our our elderly
old and that was the reason for
which we no longer saw in
public space
they are for our children as for
we both far from our eyes
far from our consciences and by
therefore far from our hearts so my
little but my grandmother
her smile her joy when she sees me
when I get back to his room
start by opening a half bottle
warm champagne
what’s the fate of his little night table and
then we laugh we talk gives him
news from the outside what’s going on
behind the walls
and then I campaign 1 until up
the refectory room for her
take her lunch she she makes me
meet his neighbors and there I am
quite astonished since some want
kiss me touch me but the
most are walled in silence
and when she looks at me what I
see it’s a great loneliness it’s these
same is beyond that it’s very
sad
so I’m leaving because I’m not
there that a visitor and I leave my grand
mother in her retirement home
thirty years ago my other grandmother
she died at home in the country
in my parents’ house
surrounded by his children his little ones
children and I was a teenager I loved
Grandma I loved my grandmother
yet his departure and then his absence
seemed natural without violence without
brutality in the order of things
these two very different experiences
but who are two very strong emotions
obviously I still have them at the bottom of
me today and it’s probably the
why I’m here in front of
you because it’s so easy to get
to cut the world with age is the
spouse is the clothes that
disappear it’s the kids who
walks away or who are super busy I
not if you noticed it we’re all
super busy so when in addition we are
isolated we lack a few ways
obviously we are still locked up
more about yourself think about it when you
will be in contact with the elderly who
you are close
usually with age loneliness little
means we asked the person not
more to the social organisms it is
often complicated it is disappointing but in
anyway not to children and especially not
grandchildren the retirement home
of course becomes obvious the solution
but yes mom 20 in retirement home
who will be good with people your age
you will be activities and especially
we worry ramoin
especially we will worry – yeah but
the equation is not so simple
because if your mom or mine
because it’s a subject right now
does not make that decision she
then this risk by leaving the pins
think about housing his neighborhood and
possibly isolate yourself again
more to surrender to
the institution and to age less
a long time sometimes much less
a long time and in any case with a less
beautiful quality of life so noticed
like that actually in the most at
worry
and then she will not disturb what we
sometimes hear this little music a
little provoc a little call for help
I can leave now like this ben
I would not bother me anymore I think since
long time we should in any case
that I should do something
rethink this relationship with our elders
imagine solutions that
keep relationships
social human beings who are so
important for morale is so for
health I had the intuition
a few years ago there are a dozen
years talking with a friend
architect than other forms of habitat
was possible he actually tells me
in germany country of aging
accelerated population a form
alternative inhabitants allow
seniors to stay at home for a long time
very long the longest
possible
it interests me so I go there I am
go with him near lake constance
and we visit small residences of
small residential complexes of 50 60
dwellings in which actually
coexist young people from old
families sometimes the people very
elderly and even some people who
suffer from Alzheimer’s and people
the most fragile are hatched
of attention by the other inhabitants
that they themselves are helped
in this relationship by personal
dedicated to facilitating the link between
residents and between residents and the
rest of the community
the ag give them their time of their
availability of their experiences of
life especially to the youngest and I
am a little pragmatic
I like it because it works sam
scotch and then that but but also because
that it makes me obviously rise from
emotions some of which I have
shared with you just then
I return to France
I have about fifty fat
fifty years old at the time and I
tell me this is what I want to do
that’s what I’m going to do I’ve been
consultant I have already gone up three
cans
I will create a company that will
to create residences in which
the human relationship will be at the heart of
everything will be privileged and for all
inhabitants regardless of their age and
whatever their conditions
social then I gathered around me
progressively sociologists of
geographers a small team with them one
meets with elected architects
academics of researchers from
social landlords
we associate inhabitants and have
built for a good year
a concept of habitat
inter-generational solidarity one year
between the beginning of this design and
then his first experiments but
we did it with all these people
managed to build his residences
in which we find housing
that is both comfortable
ergonomic
non-stigmatizing by age and
residences in which one can
integrate places of exchange of sharing
of conviviality
maybe stronger we imagined a
job of manager animators or
animators of men’s women who
facilitate this link this link
intergenerational between the inhabitants
of the same place of life
open on the neighborhood and people in
his residences
they have the opportunity to offer
receive to participate in a club of
create an activity
short of becoming actors of their place of
life and therefore actors of their
life
it’s been seven years since the company exists
and that this device has been implemented
intergenerational solidarity housing
about 25 residences and that we
accompany 1500 families, more than
3000 inhabitants with a social impact that
is much stronger then the habitat
intergenerational what is the best
it is that it is the inhabitants who
explain it from the youngest age of the
no one
I talk and sometimes I
do not account because
I see you I like you see with
my age which I am more fulfilled and I
come out a lot start were
always locked up
good I knew this certain people
it still brings us something
they cooked but otherwise
no I’m going out here I go here after we go
to walk in fact a lot of things
for all alone we can not
to do we will resume the dance there is the
base is well there is transportation there
two years ago at the real de macao within the
country has things on my own
to cook more now I become
the association their cooking I have more than
our meal-carrying call the
remove his end we all smile
we come here we forget all his belongings
that’s what’s beautiful I’m all alone
it’s my family this is my second
family is that meetings of
families in their drinks their
family suppose a 62
but less than a year ago I have young people
in this we give fishing
so in 2015 after experiencing this
device in inhabited environment
I discovered new jobs
developer developers and I understood
that he could also be exercised
by humanists and yes refitted
adapted rehabilitate housing
of today design build
develop the city and territories
of tomorrow
it is of course integrated news
home automation technologies
digital is to make our cities
Smart and connected cities that we
today calls smart city ​​but
it’s also not contradictory
think the place of the human in it’s
together we build it
we have to think the disability the
difficulties old age we need
think places of exchange places
of sharing with them we have developed full
of subjects we have about twenty
operations in progress and those 20
operations the very first ones that
will be delivered in your area one to
marseille and the other to aubagne before the
end of the year and there it is again
thousands of citizen inhabitants who are
concerned here you’ve understood
is that the beginning of the course but
intergenerational solidarity housing
it’s something now that is
a reality for all actors of the
housing and I think we have a little
contributed
and then I hope my grandmothers
are a little proud of me too so for
end a conclusion in three points
the first I’m 60 so I can
bear witness
there is no age to undertake
so if you have projects that make
meaning for you and for society
go ahead go for it, do not waste time
the second but you understand it
the habitat for me it is
participatory intergenerational inclusive
solidarity it is so important
to entrust it to specialists
only to experts
we must all get involved
build together living spaces to
the image of our dreams
finally it’s not it’s not a
constraint it is not an obligation
but it’s a chance
it’s a pleasure to be able to live
together a full human relationship
with all generations and especially
with our old men then went to them
exchange share
and then tell them that you like them
here I thank my family on behalf of
all this and then the partners
obviously with which we
let’s work game I wish you to you
all to your children as well as to help you
to live long but especially to live
fully and give you the means
to have the chance to grow old
serenely with the people who are you
love
I thank you
[Applause]
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