This blog accompanies the Energie-Cités’ IMAGINE initiative since its beginning in 2006. Designed as an on-going seminar, it aims at offering a continual enrichment of the ideas and thoughts exchanged and developed during the IMAGINE annual foresight seminar, which takes place every year in November at the Royal Salt work of Arc-et-Senans, France.

We publish here articles linked to the IMAGINE seminars, but also wish to present activities and visions taking place in various fields and carried on by diverse stakeholders, which directly or indirectly relate to sustainable energy coming from or applied at the territorial level. Our objective is to make visible a vision for local sustainable energy emerging from a priori unconnected ‘weak signals’.

What do these visions have in common? Do they diverge? What do they mean for local authorities? For local territories? Can ideas provided by local actors live up on a broader scale in a bottom-up perspective?

The articles are mainly provided by the Energie-Cités staff, but are open to anyone interested by this approach.

Stéphane Dupas is IMAGINE Project Manager and Co-ordinator.

Blandine Pidoux is Information Manager at Energie-Cites.

Gérard Magnin is Executive Director of Energie-Cites.

Further information about IMAGINE:
IMAGINE Concept paper (English - French)
IMAGINE Project :
www.energie-cites.eu/IMAGINE
IMAGINE Exhibition :
www.imagineyourenergyfuture.eu/exhibition