Housed in Lille at the Biotope, the new headquarters of La Métropole Européenne de Lille (MEL), the Maison Action Publique’s activities take place in the spaces of the MEL’s public policies laboratory in an exhibition area and of course online.

Today The Maison POC Action Publique is about thirty projects that testify to the vitality of the action of the MEL and the municipalities as well as their capacity to rethink their ways of doing things. They deal with subjects such as food waste, preparing the city for heat waves or the temporary occupation of vacant spaces. These projects are both responses to problems that are taking shape in the metropolitan area and sometimes more widely in our society, but are also catalysts for changes within the public administration. They enable us to rethink the way it works, the ways of doing things and of intervening with the idea of producing renewed public action, or even new forms of public action, more in tune with the needs of our time.