Claire Planchat
Researcher INRAE – UMR UNH & Territoires
Claire Planchat is a research fellow at INRAE, an associate researcher at UMR Territoires, and founder of the agency Vous Êtes D’Ici. For over 20 years, she has been developing expertise in engineering and action research for adaptive land management through the use of participatory, artistic, and educational tools. Her professional career has focused heavily on the development of facilitation tools (Art and Nature Project for the resident management of the Nazinga Ranch in Burkina Faso, 2000), dialogue and evaluation (2003-2004, geomatics specialist at the Auvergne Regional Council, 2019-2022 co-editor of the participatory master plan for the ENS Ecopôle du Val d'Allier), with a view to studying and proposing territorial management of natural and agricultural resources and intangible heritage (2004-2006, evaluation of landscape charters and environmental policies for the Auvergne Volcanoes Regional Nature Park, 2018-2023 pilot project Villages of the Future for the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Region). Since 2008, Claire Planchat has contributed to various training modules at the National Schools of Architecture in Clermont-Ferrand, St-Etienne and Lyon, at AgroParistech, Clermont Auvergne University and CYCU University, College of Design (Taiwan) on the use of participatory tools to promote user expertise in the collaborative development of a territorial project.