Avec l’ostracisme de l’acteur principal : l’usager peut-on alléguer un cadre de vie urbain ?

Abstract EN

As an ultimate great artifact, the city is a crucible and frame living of the majority of mankind; through a backlash, it generates a multidimensional crisis and a nearly generalized uneasiness.

Reviewing the causes underlying this crisis, mentioned by our heuristics spheres, it appears that a factor, although crucial, has been particularly hidden.

Indeed, the human dimension and especially the ostracism of the user, seems to be pointed.

The "degradation" of a built environment, operated by its appropriation or rejection, is a sign, no more revealing that his actor legitimately seeks an idiosyncratic well-being lost in the decision-making process.

As part of the paradigm of self-determination theory, our argument in this paper will be based, essentially on the question of identity, the notion of well-being and the participation of the user in the decision-making process.

The Theory of Self-Determination relates to the Theory of Human Motivation which philosophically refers to the thought of Aristotle, assuming that Man is naturally oriented towards the development of his potentialities.

This theory has been the subject of considerable researches since the 1970s and its predictions turned out to be valid, regardless of individual differences such as age, gender or socioeconomic status.

This approach explains the conditions under which the well-being of an individual is facilitated instead of being impeded.

It maintains that the human, innately, tends to satisfy psychological three basic needs stipulated by the Theory of Self-Determination: the need for autonomy, the need for competence and the need for relationships with others.

About our subject, the satisfaction of these fundamental needs, spatially, should therefore induce a state of well-being reflecting a symbiosis between the individual and his existential environment.

Any mode of being-in-the-world requires a specific spatial and environmental occupation and embodying its identity foundations distinguishing it from all otherness.

The improvement of living conditions will not be proven unless its frame designed, realized and lived is a real translation of the way of life of its user, by responding to his needs, aspirations, feelings and emotions.

Thus, any schism between space of life and way of life reveals a state of existential marasmus.

If the user is overcome by the feeling that this space of life, in which he projects himself, is not his, he develops either total indifference towards it, either a re-appropriative action, or however, an aggressive reaction actively participating in its "degradation".

Making the user contribute in an efficient way, or rather restoring him his right in the formation of his living environment is one of the biggest challenges facing the decisions-makers.

There is no more legitimate or more natural for the notion of being-in-the-world, than to renew the relation between being and the world, its world; and stop hobbling it.