International audienceSince 2007, researchers of the UMR 7300 ESPACE develop the concept of geo‐governance that has the feature of proposing a spatial approach as a key element to mediation and facilitation of territorial governance.This article presents the specificities of this concept by positioning it in the field of the related concepts and approaches integrating the participation of different actors in territorial projects. It emphasizes the specificities and the relevance of knowledge produced by spatial analysis along with methods that geographers allow to build, explain, represent and disseminate this knowledge during projects related to citizen’s living environment.It shows that in this conceptual framework, space can be a mediato...