@ARTICLE{10.21494/ISTE.OP.2018.0293, 

TITLE={An innovative device using participatory decision-making to inform public policy on air quality}, 
  
AUTHOR={Davia Dosias-Perla, Lionel Scotto d’Apollonia, Sylvie Blangy, }, 
	
JOURNAL={Technology and Innovation}, 
	
VOLUME={3}, 

NUMBER={Issue 4}, 
	
YEAR={2018}, 

URL={https://openscience.fr/An-innovative-device-using-participatory-decision-making-to-inform-public}, 
	
DOI={10.21494/ISTE.OP.2018.0293}, 
	
ISSN={2399-8571}, 
	
ABSTRACT={This article presents the initial results of a study on an original participatory action research approach focusing on the articulation and the participative fabric of public policies on outdoor air quality in Montpellier, France. The approach, called Artivistes-atelier, is described, providing a dynamic map of the stakeholders involved and/or impacted and their capacity for action. The article examines this field experiment that is simultaneously reflective and analytical. These initial results allowed to interrogate through the Artivistes-atelier initiative prism the strengths and potentialities of citizen mobilization and the socioenvironlental issues democratization which is ensnared in the institutional governance. For this purpose, the article describes more widely the experimental territory with a pragmatic, reflexive and critical experience. This article is a real opportunity to build a first comparative device to be reproduce in an ADEME project in R&D, entitled Air Climate Society and Art. This project has two main aims: to decompartmentalize socio-environmental issues and to support the implementation of public policy on outdoor air quality. The results and identified limits of the Artivistes atelier device allow to examine the potentialities of the implementation of the public policies on air by all the stakeholders, starting with the citizen, whose participation in politics is an elusive phenomenon.}}