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This proposal was selected because:

In February 2020, the City of Lausanne launched its fourth Neighborhood Contract in Entre-Bois. ( www.lausanne.ch/contrats-de-quartier ) A Neighborhood Contract is a commitment based on trust between the City of Lausanne and the people who live and/or work in the neighborhood to reflect on and participate together in the sustainable improvement of the neighborhood’s quality of life and living environment. This is achieved through joint projects and community-based initiatives related to daily life, while fostering dialogue between residents and municipal authorities.

A committee composed of about ten residents has drawn up a roadmap with some forty proposed projects that could be carried out in 2022 and 2023. Among these proposals, particular emphasis is placed on the daily lives of young people and their involvement in the neighborhood. Your messages via the Suggestion Box confirm this need.

If young people or adults would like to participate in developing a project for a community gathering space, we invite you to contact Emilie Loertscher, project manager for Neighborhood Contracts, at contratdequartier@lausanne.ch.

Meeting place for young people in Bellevaux (evenings and weekends)

Avatar: Pilar Beltrami Pilar Beltrami

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1. Background:

For years, I have been bothered by noise from young people in Bellevaux late at night, because, as they themselves have told me, they have nowhere else to go and are being turned away everywhere. They don’t want to go to the forest because it’s unlit, and there really needs to be a pleasant, designated space just for them.

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2. Proposal:

We should offer them a location that’s easily accessible in the neighborhood, but away from residential areas—for example, the roof of the T.L., in the form of a cabin, tent, yurt, or alternative village—which they could build themselves, so they’d want to take care of it, or even hold a design contest and not leave everything up to the architects. Of course, we’d need a code of conduct to ensure it doesn’t become a hotbed of conflict and graffiti. It’s difficult, but I truly believe there would be young people who’d want to get involved and create something beautiful! Even if it’s a temporary structure that can be rebuilt after a while, it would allow other young people to participate as the first group grows up.


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3. Motivation:

The primary beneficiaries would be the neighbors (who could finally get some sleep) and also young people, who might find other “leisure activities” besides drinking alcohol on the street and acting wild, and this happens every weekend, in a repetitive and pointless cycle that has been going on since I moved to the neighborhood—more than 10 years ago. In general, everyone, because this example could spread to other neighborhoods and break free from the cycle: consuming, getting drunk, spending money, forgetting. As a former teacher, the future of young people is close to my heart, and we can’t let them fall into the traps of boredom and existential emptiness. It’s utopian, but I believe in it, and now that I’m retired, I wish I’d had something like this to do in my youth on evenings—besides going to bars....

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