Award Ceremony
The Positive Future jury has reached the end of its deliberations!
With over 300 entries, we are proud and grateful to have been able to generate so much interest for the first edition of the competition.
The results will be announced on September 30, 2021 at 8pm Paris time, during a virtual ceremony that will be accessible to everyone on the Positive Future YouTube channel.
We will communicate the connection link a few days before the event!
This ceremony will also be the occasion to unveil the theme of the 2022 contest.
Just a little more patience!
We hope to see you there!
Neighbourhoods for the Future: a Plea for a Social and Ecological Urbanism
6/14/2021 - 04:00 PM
The current ecological crisis will transform the face and fate of cities, Neighbourhoods for the Future is based on the conviction that we should rethink cities from the ambit of the neighbourhood. It revisits the neighbourhood as the designated scale and arena to build our urban futures. The neighbourhood is small enough to be tangible, yet big enough to make a difference. In order for neighbourhoods to really work, residents need to be engaged and the tactics should be embedded within a wider social policy, if we want thriving cities. …
Urban ecological restoration: overcoming the city-nature opposition
5/25/2021 - 04:00 PM
While the idea of a dichotomy between, on the one hand, a wild nature without humans and, on the other, a city without nature has sometimes been conveyed, Marion Waller will speak on the basis of her work as an environmental philosopher and her experience within the City of Paris to evoke perspectives for an urban and rural future that goes beyond this separation. She will use the projects from the "Reinvent Paris" competition to show the possibilities that the Parisian context offers. …
The meaning of cities - a poetic foresight approach
5/17/2021 - 04:00 PM
A city is not only a system. A technical, social, economic system. It is not only a circulatory, metabolic, informational machine. It is not only a "machine to live in", it is not only a social, physical and virtual network, and it is not only a complex, natural and cultural ecosystem. It is all of this at once, and above all, the human environment par excellence. …
The City, the Dominant Species? Nature and Future of the urban phenomenon
3/3/2021 - 05:00 PM
The city is a fascinating object, from any angle: a simple human settlement; a sprawling conurbation; a teeming architectural exhibition; a place of life, work and education; a compendium of history; an ethnographic subject that is constantly being renewed? …
Drivers of Change and Lifestyle in 2050: A Decentralized and Autonomous Futurescape
4/27/2021 - 04:00 PM
The art and science of futures studies help us obtain a better understanding of the drivers of change by focusing on Long Term, Big Picture and Radical Change: for example, Tech Revolutions (Biohacking plus Artificial Intelligence), Social Upheavals (Massive Access to Free Education/Tools of Production), Business Disruptions (End of Banking), Major Transformations (Post Plastic Society). Drivers of change are factors causing change, affecting or shaping the futures. …
Cities in the post-world - Urban planning agencies explore the (happy) future
4/21/2021 - 04:00 PM
The Fédération nationale des agences d'urbanisme (Fnau) has placed its 2020 meetings under the sign of foresight. The agencies worked in a network on the changes to 2040 to imagine a "world after" that would have succeeded in meeting the challenges of transitions. …
Cities after the pandemic
5/10/2021 - 04:00 PM
As part of the effort to recover from the crisis triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic, cities can reduce the impact of future pandemics and become more equitable, healthy and environmentally friendly," says a new UN-Habitat report released in late March 2021 …
Living well in the city in 2100? Concrete paths to a positive future
4/8/2021 - 04:00 PM
Living well in the city in 2100 is possible! Faced with the climatic, demographic, economic and social challenges that are looming, technological progress, "good" public policies and, above all, the creativity of the greatest number of people offer solutions. …