Participatory, Self-Managed, Collective Building Projects: When Every Act Is Politicised

Advocates of a practical utopia, committed to the search for consistency between ecological theories and practices, explore the notions of “participation” and of “work” from a critical perspective on industrial development. Work is then understood as the adoption of a political stance (ecological, libertarian). In the world of militant eco-construction, we study variations in the organisation of tasks in participatory, self-managed and collective building projects, whether in legal frameworks such as worker cooperatives (SCOP), or in the conflicting setting of a new airport in Notre-Dame-des-Landes.