France
48 places across 13 territories, 2 nationwide
France joins in phase 2 of the atlas. Tiers-lieux, urbanisme transitoire and mappings such as the one by France Tiers-Lieux will be its starting point.
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Places by territory
Ateliers Médicis
Clichy-sous-Bois · Île-de-France
A public cultural institution created in 2015 in Clichy-sous-Bois and Montfermeil, the municipalities that symbolised the 2005 riots, to host artist…
Partially verifiedSee place →Reuse of vacancySpaceLa Cité Fertile
Pantin · Île-de-France
A third place established since 2018 in a former SNCF goods station in Pantin, with a vegetable garden, greenhouse, brewery and coworking space devot…
VerifiedSee place →Civic foodSpaceLa Louve
París · Île-de-France
Paris's first cooperative and participatory supermarket, opened in 2016 in the 18th arrondissement, inspired by the Park Slope Food Coop in New York.
VerifiedSee place →Commons and belongingSpaceLa Maison des Babayagas
Montreuil · Île-de-France
A self-managed residence of twenty-one social housing units for women over sixty, opened in 2013 in Montreuil after fifteen years of campaigning by f…
Partially verifiedSee place →Reuse of vacancySpaceLe 6b
Saint-Denis · Île-de-France
A former Alstom office building beside the Saint-Denis canal, converted since 2010 into a creative centre with more than 200 artist studios and resid…
Partially verifiedSee place →Art and territorySpaceLe Centquatre-Paris
París · Île-de-France
The former municipal funeral service of Paris (1874-1997), refurbished for 109 million euros and reopened in 2008 as a public cultural institution.
VerifiedSee place →Reuse of vacancySpaceLes Grands Voisins
París · Île-de-France
Temporary occupation of a former 3.4-hectare Paris hospital between 2015 and 2020, run by the collectives Aurore, Plateau Urbain and Yes We Camp.
VerifiedSee place →Art and territorySpaceMains d'Œuvres
Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine · Île-de-France
A former social and sports centre of the Valeo factories, handed over in 1997 by the communist Saint-Ouen council to the association of Fazette Borda…
VerifiedSee place →Reuse of vacancySpaceVolumes
París · Île-de-France
A 1914 signage factory in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, opened in 2014 as a creative and productive hub with coworking, a makerspace and a profes…
VerifiedSee place →Coco Velten
Marseille · Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Temporary occupation of a former public building in central Marseille, led by Yes We Camp with Groupe SOS and Plateau Urbain.
VerifiedSee place →Reuse of vacancySpaceLa Friche la Belle de Mai
Marseille · Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
A former tobacco factory converted since 1990 by a collective of artists into a large independent cultural complex.
VerifiedSee place →Commons and belongingSpaceLongo Maï (cooperativa Le Moulin)Longo Maï
Limans · Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
A self-managed agricultural and craft cooperative founded in 1973 in Limans by young activists from the libertarian and Marxist traditions, following…
Partially verifiedSee place →La Cagette
Montpellier · Occitanie
A cooperative and participatory supermarket opened in 2017, run by more than 5,500 members who are at once owners, customers and volunteer workers.
VerifiedSee place →Reuse of vacancySpaceLa Halle Tropisme
Montpellier · Occitanie
A former barracks of the Montpellier Infantry School converted in 2019 into a 10,000-square-metre cultural and business park.
VerifiedSee place →Reuse of vacancySpaceLa stAtion
Le Monastère · Occitanie
A third place in Rodez combining coworking, food service and cultural programming, opened in 2023 near the former municipal slaughterhouse.
Partially verifiedSee place →Civic labs and participationSpaceLab Place
Oust · Occitanie
A rural tiers-lieu in the Couserans, in the Ariège Pyrenees, run by a 2016 association in which individual and organisation members vote alike.
VerifiedSee place →Bruit du Frigo
Bordeaux · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
An urban creation collective founded in 1997 by architects, with roots in street workshops from the mid-1990s.
VerifiedSee place →Reuse of vacancySpaceDarwin Écosystème
Bordeaux · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
A former 19th-century military barracks, handed over in 2008 and transformed since 2011 into an ecological transition ecosystem with coworking space,…
Partially verifiedSee place →Reuse of vacancySpaceLa Quincaillerie
Guéret · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
A former hardware shop, later a community radio station, transformed into a 1,000-square-metre third place in central Guéret, run jointly with the Ag…
VerifiedSee place →Le Village Vertical
Villeurbanne · Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
The first residents' cooperative created in France in the 21st century, started in 2005 by a group of Villeurbanne residents and inhabited since 2013.
VerifiedSee place →Participatory urbanismNeighbourhood or villageSaillans, democracia participativa municipal
Saillans · Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Between 2014 and 2020, a citizens' list with no leader or fixed manifesto governed this Drôme municipality using participatory democracy methods: com…
Partially verifiedSee place →Reuse of vacancyProjectVillages Vivants
Crest · Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
A cooperative of collective interest founded in 2018 in Crest to buy and refurbish empty commercial premises in villages and small-town centres, then…
VerifiedSee place →Hôtel Pasteur
Rennes · Bretagne
A former dentistry faculty from the late 19th century, without university use since 1967 and converted since March 2021 into a third place led by the…
VerifiedSee place →Third placeSpaceLe Champ Commun
Augan · Bretagne
A cooperative created in late 2009 in Augan, a village of 1,500 people in central Brittany, to sustain local shops in a rural area affected by the di…
VerifiedSee place →Reuse of vacancySpaceLes Ateliers du Vent
Rennes · Bretagne
An artistic collective born in 1995 amid that year's social mobilisations in France, bringing together self-taught artists and social science student…
VerifiedSee place →Base 11/19
Loos-en-Gohelle · Hauts-de-France
A former mine pit closed in 1986 in the town of Loos-en-Gohelle, converted into a reference hub for sustainable development with intensive resident p…
Partially verifiedSee place →Civic labs and participationSpaceL'Hermitage
Autrêches · Hauts-de-France
A former 30-hectare farm estate in the Oise forest, bought in 2017 by a citizen initiative that brought together 850 people and a crowdfunding campai…
Partially verifiedSee place →Reuse of vacancySpaceLa Condition Publique
Roubaix · Hauts-de-France
A former 1904 textile conditioning warehouse, in the heart of a city that lived off cotton and wool, refurbished in 2004 by architect Patrick Bouchai…
VerifiedSee place →Civic foodSpaceSuperQuinquin
Lille · Hauts-de-France
A cooperative and participatory supermarket opened in 2017 in the Fives district of Lille, following the model of the Park Slope Food Coop in New Yor…
Partially verifiedSee place →BLIIIDA
Metz · Grand Est
A former three-hectare bus depot in Metz, handed over to artists in 2013 during a Nuit Blanche and later transformed by the association TCRM Bliiida…
VerifiedSee place →Civic labs and participationSpaceLe ShadokLe Shadok, fabrique du numérique
Estrasburgo · Grand Est
A former Seegmuller port warehouse on the presqu'île André Malraux in Strasbourg, transformed in 2015 by the Eurométropole into a digital factory wit…
Partially verifiedSee place →Art and territoryProjectLe Vent des Forêts
Fresnes-au-Mont · Grand Est
An open-air contemporary art centre created in 1997 by six farming and forest villages in the Meuse, in an area marked by the First World War.
Partially verifiedSee place →Art and territorySpaceMotocomotoco
Mulhouse · Grand Est
A former building of the DMC textile manufacturer in Mulhouse, occupied since 2013 by a collective of artists that today has around 140 resident stud…
VerifiedSee place →Estuaire Nantes<>Saint-Nazaire
Nantes · Pays de la Loire
An artistic route born as a biennial in 2007 along 120 kilometres of the Loire estuary between Nantes and Saint-Nazaire.
Partially verifiedSee place →Reuse of vacancySpaceLe Lieu Unique
Nantes · Pays de la Loire
A former LU biscuit factory, with its 1909 art nouveau towers, first occupied by a cultural squat from the late 1980s and converted in 1999 into a na…
Partially verifiedSee place →Commons and belongingNeighbourhood or villageZAD de Notre-Dame-des-Landes
Notre-Dame-des-Landes · Pays de la Loire
A bocage area north of Nantes occupied since 2008 to block an airport, one of the longest territorial struggles in recent France.
Partially verifiedSee place →La Grande HalleLa Grande Halle de Colombelles
Colombelles · Normandie
A former electrical workshop of the Société Métallurgique de Normandie, in the defunct steelworks complex of Colombelles, near Caen.
VerifiedSee place →Reuse of vacancySpaceLe Hangar Zéro
Le Havre · Normandie
A former 900 m² port hangar in the l'Eure district of Le Havre, winner in 2016 of the public competition Réinventer la Seine and converted by the coo…
VerifiedSee place →Reuse of vacancySpaceLe Quartier Libre
Rouen · Normandie
An 8,000 m² plot on the left bank of Rouen, occupied since 2019 by the Friche Lucien and relaunched in 2022 as Le Quartier Libre, pending works for t…
Partially verifiedSee place →Commons and belongingSpaceLes Quatre Saisons
Rouen · Normandie
An intergenerational residence of 35 homes in the Grand-Mare district of Rouen, driven since 2016 by the neighbourhood association BVGM and built tog…
Partially verifiedSee place →La Californie
Toucy · Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
A former industrial friche in Toucy transformed since 2018 by three local associations and residents into a space for making, experimentation and enc…
VerifiedSee place →Civic design collectivesSpaceLa Coursive
Dijon · Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
A cooperation space for cultural and creative businesses born in 2010 in the Grésilles district of Dijon, first in empty flats of a social housing bl…
VerifiedSee place →Écolieu La Filerie
Fresnes · Centre-Val de Loire
A resource space for ecological transition in the Sologne, created in November 2019 by a group of residents of Loir-et-Cher around a vegetable garden…
VerifiedSee place →Reuse of vacancySpaceLes Beaumonts
Tours · Centre-Val de Loire
Former military halls of the Beaumont Chauveau barracks, occupied by the army from the late nineteenth century until 2008, refurbished and opened in…
VerifiedSee place →Avvià, la fabrique à projetsAvvià
Bastia · Corse
A public project factory run by the Communauté d'Agglomération de Bastia, opened in June 2021 in the historic centre of the city, near the citadel.
VerifiedSee place →Commons and belongingSpaceU Chjosu di a VignarellaU Chjosu di a Vignarella
Vico · Corse
A former hayloft of the Jeanne d'Arc care home for older people in Vico, refurbished since 2021 as a third place open to the whole village, winner of…
VerifiedSee place →Association Nationale des Tiers-LieuxANTL
París · Nationwide
The association that brings together France's third places and their regional and thematic networks, born in 2019 as a prefiguration structure and fo…
VerifiedSee place →Civic labs and participationProjectFrance Tiers-LieuxGIP France Tiers-Lieux
París · Nationwide
The public interest grouping that coordinated state policy on third places, created in 2022 by the State, the ANCT and the national association.
VerifiedSee place →Territory by typology
| Territory | Third place | Participatory urbanism | Civic design collectives | Art and territory | Reuse of vacancy | Civic food | Commons and belonging | Civic labs and participation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Île-de-France | · | 2 | · | 4 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 2 |
| Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | · | · | · | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | · |
| Occitanie | · | · | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Nouvelle-Aquitaine | · | 1 | 1 | · | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | · | 1 | 1 | · | 1 | · | 2 | 1 |
| Bretagne | 1 | · | · | 1 | 2 | 1 | · | 1 |
| Hauts-de-France | · | 1 | · | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Grand Est | · | · | · | 2 | 3 | · | 1 | 2 |
| Pays de la Loire | · | 1 | · | 2 | 1 | · | 1 | · |
| Normandie | 1 | 1 | · | · | 3 | · | 2 | 2 |
| Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | · | · | 1 | · | 2 | · | 1 | · |
| Centre-Val de Loire | 1 | · | · | · | 1 | · | 1 | 1 |
| Corse | 1 | · | 1 | · | · | · | 1 | 1 |
| Nationwide | · | · | 2 | · | · | · | · | 2 |