Alexis Curodeau-Codère
Co-coordinator of the Stories committee
To ensure both democratic and agile functioning, Transition en commun has established several complementary bodies. These include working on specific projects, providing specialized expertise on various cross-cutting themes, and guiding the alliance.
Three thematic working groups, five support hubs, the Espace Quartiers, and three major decision-making bodies (the steering comitee, executive council & the general assembly) enable the alliance to successfully carry out its projects and determine its direction as democratically as possible.
The Steering Committee is the space where major directions are decided and decisions are made for the alliance. Composed of around thirty people, the CO has been co-chaired since the launch of the alliance by a co-presidency consisting of two elected officials and one representative from civil society.
Committee meetings take place on dedicated days that include neighborhood visits.
Co-coordinator of the Stories committee
The Executive Committee is appointed by the Steering Committee. At least one of the Steering Comitee co-presidents must be a member of the Executive Committee and serve as its chair. The Executive Committee meets approximately once a month, at the request of the general coordination or its chair. Its main role is to support the GC and provide greater decision-making agility on matters assigned to it by the Steering Comitee (e.g., monitoring directions, overseeing ongoing projects, etc.).
Co-President & Acting Co-General Coordinator
The Demotorization Working Group addresses mobility issues and the role of automobiles in Montreal. Bringing together a variety of key actors from different neighborhoods, the academic world, and various institutions, the working group develops recommendations and solutions tailored to Montreal’s diverse realities to tackle over-motorization.
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The Housing in Transition Working Group is the space dedicated to thinking about the future of Montreal’s real estate from the perspective of resilience to climate change, access to housing, and energy efficiency.
Co-President & Acting Co-General Coordinator
As the socio-ecological transition must be resolutely democratic, the Participative Democracy and Governance Working Group is where the alliance focuses on the democratic future of the City of Montreal. Twenty years after the first project on this issue, the DPG group is making Montreal Democracy 2.0 a major TeC project for the coming months.
Co-President & Acting Co-General Coordinator
The JEDI Hub (Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) ensures that the alliance integrates social justice issues into its considerations at all times. While it is essential for the alliance to approach this with humility and address biases inherent in traditional environmental movements, it is our duty to make every effort to achieve a transition that leaves no one behind.
The Knowledge Hub ensures that citizen, professional, activist, academic, and traditional knowledge are valued in the alliance’s reflections. The hub aims to connect these different forms of knowledge, rejecting the authoritative effects of an expert stance and providing a multidimensional perspective on the shape the socio-ecological transition should take.
Co-President & Acting Co-General Coordinator
The Internal City Committee is the space where several city officials and TeC members exchange ideas on how to develop opportunities for sharing expertise and resources, as well as creating impactful collaborative projects between the City and civil society.
The Stories Hub consolidates a network of expertise in socio-ecological transition narratives by organizing workshops on narrative approaches during TeC events and the annual meetings of the Montreal Culture Commission. This network is also occasionally called upon to contribute to events, projects, or experiments as needed.
Co-coordinator of the Stories committee
The Mobilization and Outreach Hub provides support by identifying and analyzing strategic opportunities in public communications and influence, mobilizing actors of the socio-ecological transition, and more broadly, enhancing the overall visibility of the alliance.
Co-President & Acting Co-General Coordinator
The Neighbourdhoods Space is a space for reciprocity, solidarity, capacity building, and neighborhood influence within TeC. Regularly hosting meetings on various themes, it is also during its events that the Solutions Space takes place.