New Nomads sees an opportunity in combining two problems in order to create a new solution: The desires of a young generation constrained by the limitations of urban living and an ageing, ‘rural’ population suffering from the effects of urban migration. By harnessing the geographical assets of each village, New Nomads presents a vision on a regional scale that relies on sharing at an intercommunal scale.
Through the development of innovative, activity-focused projects, Turenne, Argentat and Ussel would develop programmes for short-term residencies designed to provide individuals with a positive environment in which to progress personal projects. In turn, their energies would help in the creation of new industry, agricultural developments and intercommunal housing builds. The project would advance existing structures and help to restore the village centres as desirable.
With balanced risk-assessment the project looks carefully at the processes fundamental to a sustainable village ecosystem. It creates new innovative opportunities for differing cultures to provide solutions for one another’s problems whilst maintaining a sharing strategy that is financially and socially interdependent.
Instead of a ‘disconnected tourism’, New Nomads injects an industrious, optimistic population to act as a reboot to an unrealised potential. It is a re-stimulation of an environment that needs protecting and restoring for the future.
New Nomads is the rediscovery of a social ecosystem.
credits : Pauline Marcombe & Majed Katir
Specials thanks to : Marie Marcombe & Etienne Barthelemy
