France-Paris: Imagine the city of the future.

Background

The Make the City challenge is back for a 3rd edition! This is a new opportunity to become a player in the making of the city, a major challenge of the 21st century. Creativity and teamwork will be in the spotlight to offer more human, inclusive, livable, sustainable and environmentally friendly living spaces and places. The Palladio Foundation, its founders and patrons and Agorize are waiting for you!

Did you say real estate and city?

For the organizers, the Palladio Foundation, its founders and patrons, real estate and the city means:

• An industrial and service sector made up of 8 interconnected business sectors: architecture-development-urban planning, engineering-technical services, consulting, investment-financing, real estate development, building construction, marketing, management
• The building, the building, the place of life, the living environment
• The place of residence, health, work, production, trade, exchange, service, mobility, culture or leisure
• Public facility, airport, office, commercial, school, warehouse, healthcare institution, hotel, housing, museum, stadium, etc.
• The city, an ecosystem, an urban environment
• The big city, the medium city, the small city
• Designing, financing, building, managing, even marketing the spaces, infrastructures and places to live that make up the city

The Challenges

The human and inclusive city and real estate

How to (re)put people and good living at the heart of the city and its living spaces?

A few things to think about:

• Participation of citizens in the making of the city and its real estate
• Citizen uses of buildings and the city
• Exchanges, meetings, mutual aid and sharing between citizens in the city
• Governance
• Real estate and urban services offered to citizens
• Development of living spaces and places
• Accessibility of people to buildings and services in the city
• Access to real estate
• Reception of new populations (climate refugees, politicians, etc.)
• Access to care and well-being in the city

The city and low-carbon and sustainable real estate

How to build, manage or transform cities and buildings that respect the environment and the planet?

A few things to think about:

• Materials (new, reuse, distribution, etc.)
• Constructive methods
• Construction or renovation waste
• Evolution of buildings (reversibility, rehabilitation, transformation, adaptation to climate change, etc.)
• Methods of financing and investing in spaces, infrastructures and buildings
• Land use planning and urban planning
• Use of space
• city ​​supply

The smart and connected city and real estate

How to use new technologies to think and optimize the design, management and use of the city and its real estate?

A few things to think about:

• Energy and networks in a building, between buildings and in the city
• Tools for planning, designing or managing buildings and cities
• Movements and flows within the city and between cities
• Air, water and sound quality in the city and in real estate
• Quality of life in the city and in living places

Requirements

• Your proposals must be respectful of the environment and the common good
• You are free to go very far in the projection of your innovation but you must integrate the innovations already in progress
• Your proposals must have a positive impact on society

Published on 04 November 2022.