The star of the stage of the september 2022 Design Week in Paris, plastic seems to have moved beyond the disdain it had been experiencing lately. Thanks to recycling, its environmental footprint is now better controlled, which has turned into a real selling point. But beyond the material itself, it is an entire production logic that should be "recycled" to extricate ourselves from the dogma of newness and disposability.

Looking back on last year, preparing for what is to come.

Discover our 2022 retrospective !

Through the long-term perspective specific to paleoanthropologists, Pascal Picq can analyze the evolution of the human line in view of the parallel and sometimes jarring history of its habitat. In particular, he highlights how changes in ways of working have been a driver of the radical transformation of urban forms throughout history. He considers that the conditions for a new wave of change that could thoroughly transform our cities are already established, and he calls for new forms of nomadic living, in terms of housing and ways of moving around, as well as lifestyles organized on the basis of fusion-fission models of society. He also calls for a return of anthropology into the city, in order to make it easier for residents to reclaim their space. A Stream 05 article to discover now!

Last weekend to discover Michel Blazy's exhibition "Six pieds sur terre" at the Portique!

Michel Blazy's work is the result of collaborations with snails, mosquitoes, moulds and bacteria. In his article for Stream Voices, he questions through his living works the temporality of art and the boundaries between living and non-living, natural and artificial. A Stream Voices article to discover now!

Given that space influences behavior, Sonia Lavadinho calls for a “relational city” to kickstart the process. Like the city itself, mobility could be perceived as not only functional, but as something that can take on a new dimension, as events. Enriching the urban experience would then change our spatiotemporal relationship to the city and foster better social behavior.

A Stream 05 article to discover now !

How can we then assign a new status to nature in order to better preserve it? For Marine Calmet, this involves moving beyond our attitude of domination of the living and productivist logics of growth and to instead think in terms of commons and the protection of the living. With the forward-looking curriculum Wild Legal, she explores and imagines the creation of new legal tools based on concrete case studies, in particular around the concept of ecocide, to protect the environment and imagine types of governance that could help achieve a more harmonious articulation of the local and global scales.

A Stream 05 article to discover now !

Through the example of the Stream Building, a modular and reversible building with a wooden structure and mixed programming, this article from Madame Figaro looks at the approaches that architects are exploring to implement resilient urban strategies.

The notion of urban metabolism can be viewed in several ways. From a quantitative perspective, by considering flows; from a political ecology perspective, by considering social factors; and from an urban design perspective, by considering the sum of intertwined environmental and social ecosystems beyond administrative borders. In each of these approaches, urban technologies and the availability of data provide exciting prospects.

Discover the article by Urban AI's Emerging Leaders !

Discover the 2022 edition of Traits Urbains on the 100 who make the city!

Diego Landivar is a lecturer and researcher in economics and the founder of the Origens Media Lab, a “third place” research lab developed to address critical situations. More flexible and responsive than conventional research laboratories, Origens focuses on the far-reaching transformations brought about by the environmental crisis and supports civil society in its struggles.

While the existence of the office building does not yet seem obsolete, the challenge remains to adapt office spaces to the new societal and environmental paradigms that are emerging. Reversibility, mixed-use construction and programming, and low-carbon design are all levers to be activated, as can be seen in the Stream Building project.

An enlightening article to be read in the IEIF's Réflexions Immobilières issue 100!

For the 5th Nouveaux Mondes evening at the Pernod Ricard Foundation, Cynthia Fleury and Antoine Fenoglio (Les Sismo) present "Ce qui ne peut être volé, Charte du Verstohlen", a manifesto to help strengthen our power to act and our freedoms. A great opportunity to dive back into their interview published in Stream 05 on the concept of Design with care.

Virginie Maris is an environmental philosopher. In Nature à vendre – les limites des services écosystémiques (Nature for Sale - The Limits of Ecosystem Services), she questions the relevance of monetary valuation of services rendered by nature.
You would never calculate how much your relationship brings you, so why do it with nature?

Discover the latest photos of Makers' construction site !

Planting of the first tree of 360, our new project on the border of Paris and Vanves designed for Mata Capital!

360 is part of the Plateau district's revitalization. Its remarkable location and accessibility, at the head of the Périphérique, encouraged an ambitious rehabilitation to adapt the building to contemporary environmental issues and to new uses and work modes, while saving the carbon weight of a new building in a demolition-reconstruction scenario.

The project of the emlyon business school's future campus in Gerland wins the prize of the BIM and DATA strategy and the regional Grand Prize of the Pyramides d'argent 2022 organized by the FPI Région Lyonnaise!

The Stream Building, a low-carbon building with a modular and recyclable structure, will be the second project resulting from the Réinventer Paris 1 competition to be delivered!

Laura Bouday, in charge of the project at PCA-STREAM, talks about the technical challenges faced by the team in designing the project, which is "the culmination of a major reflection on the way we work today.