DEFINING THE
SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
OF HUMANITY TODAY
PORTFOLIO OF THE TEAM
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2015UNESCO Culture Urban Future Report
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2018UN E-Government Survey
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2019Global Startup Ecosystem Rankings
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2020UN World Cities Report: The Value of Sustainable Urbanization
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2020City-wide Public Space Strategies. UN Guidebook for City Leaders
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2021UNAIDS COVID-19 Innovation Report
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2021Future City ESG Innovation Index
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2022UN City Prosperity Index
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2012-2024World Urban Forumvarious
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2014-2018Smart City Barcelona World CongressBarcelona
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2016UN Conference Habitat IIIQuito
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2016, 2019C40 Mayors Summitvarious
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2018, 2024World Economic ForumDavos
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2020, 2022Forum of Mayors UNECEGeneva
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2021Smart City Mayors' SummitTaipei
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2023, 2024BRICS Urban Future ForumMoscow
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2023, 2024World Government SummitDubai
The Vision of the Rêve Institute
Created for
Advisory Board
College of Fellows
Research team
PORTFOLIO OF THE TEAM
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2015UNESCO Culture Urban Future Report
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2018UN E-Government Survey
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2019Global Startup Ecosystem Rankings
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2020UN World Cities Report: The Value of Sustainable Urbanization
-
2020City-wide Public Space Strategies. UN Guidebook for City Leaders
-
2021UNAIDS COVID-19 Innovation Report
-
2021Future City ESG Innovation Index
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2022UN City Prosperity Index
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2012-2024World Urban Forumvarious
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2014-2018Smart City Barcelona World CongressBarcelona
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2016UN Conference Habitat IIIQuito
-
2016, 2019C40 Mayors Summitvarious
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2018, 2024World Economic ForumDavos
-
2020, 2022Forum of Mayors UNECEGeneva
-
2021Smart City Mayors' SummitTaipei
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2023, 2024BRICS Urban Future ForumMoscow
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2023, 2024World Government SummitDubai
A Triadic Process:
Synthesizing Past, Present and Future
Revisiting Historical Urban Morphology
We delve into the rich tapestry of historical city formations to glean valuable insights into how societal, economic, and environmental forces shaped former urban constructs. Armed with artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies, we decipher the enduring patterns and practices of these cities, drawing not just inspiration but practical information to improve the resilience and sustainability of future urban planning and development.
Balancing Tradition and Innovation
We navigate the delicate pathway lying between the accumulated repository of tradition and the dynamism of technological innovation. We actively pursue a synthesis of these two, with an emphasis on the continuity of traditional practices, acknowledging that the cities of the future should be adaptable, resilient, and built upon the richness of their past.
Building Hubs of Cultural Excellence
Recognising that major global cultural and innovative leaps often sprang from concentrated clusters of prodigious individuals, like Ancient Athens, Modern Paris or Contemporary New York City, we explore the latest research on the inner workings of these talent pools and learn their secret lessons. By examining their urban dynamics and the circumstantial influences that fostered them, we develop and apply tools to build modern urban spaces with similar hubs, able to offer the right conditions to generate and nurture exceptional cultural achievements.
Creating an impact through dialogue
and partnerships
- Cutting-edge Research: Our work explores uncharted territories of urban planning, design and societal behavior, challenging existing paradigms when the evidence warrants it. Knowledge Transfer through Reports: Our findings take the form of detailed reports with actionable insights, functioning as guides for urban planners, policymakers, theorists, and practitioners.
- Influencing Policies: We work to inform policymakers, leveraging our position within influential circles to bring our theoretical underpinnings to bear on real-world urban development.
- Facilitating Discussions: We actively foster a space for exchange through lectures, symposiums, debates, workshops, and seminars, breeding a dynamic, intellectually curious community that provides leadership for urban advancement.
- Illustrative Case Studies: We translate theoretical insights into practical lessons through meticulous case studies, outlining the essentials of exemplary urban planning.
- International Collaborations: We reach across borders to collaborate with governments, academic institutions, non-governmental organizations, and private enterprises, recognising the essential role of diverse perspectives in our work.
- Mentoring Future Catalysts: As educators, we commit to shaping the minds that will lead the next wave of urban design and planning, ensuring they respect the past, acknowledge the present, and are prepared to meet the future.
- Futurecasting: Towards Real and Desired Sustainable Cities: Our goal is to help build a new generation of truly sustainable cities, grounded in practical realities but also aspirational vision, informed by the cultural precedents of historical practices, and enhanced by modern technology. In areas such as the Middle East, where tradition and modernity form a complex interplay, we strive to instil resilience in new and retrofitted urban fabrics, enabling cities to fully exploit the unfolding digital revolution while managing growing societal complexities.
These new habitats will acknowledge their roots in the most successful and well-adapted historical traditions, and at the same time willingly embrace the transformative power of new technology in creating more harmonious, inclusive and sustainable urban havens.
This is the dream – the Rêve – of the Institute, and its commitment to rigorously implement it, challenging existing futurist fantasies and stereotypes, and illuminating the path to a future that both honours our shared history, and celebrates the promise of technological evolution.
Сontacts
Rêve Institute is the foresight arm of the Grand Paris Alliance (Cercle Grand Paris de l’Investissement Durable), established in 2011 in Paris as Association under law 1901. The Alliance played an active role at the Habitat III Summit in Quito in 2016 with the Global Planners Network/General Assembly of Partners and has been active in the T20/U20 under G20 since 2018.
Cercle Grand Paris - Rêve Institute
9, rue Pierre Villey
75007 PARIS
FRANCE