Podcast
THINK
Research informs design, fostering innovation and opening up new possibilities in the face of major global challenges.
Research formats
Our approach draws on academic expertise, project methodology and an editorial culture — to analyse, share and put into practice.
Academic research
The Ville-Métabolisme Chair and a CIFRE doctoral partnership with Université PSL and Mines Paris – PSL reflect our commitment to advanced research.
Events
Conferences, talks, exhibitions, screenings and a summer school, all hosted at the Stream Innovation Center to foster interdisciplinary dialogue and professional collaboration.
4 areas of innovation
At both the urban and architectural scale, our projects are shaped by four key themes that embody today's major challenges. They guide both the tight timeframe of the project and the longer arc of theoretical work, ensuring continuity between hands-on design and forward-looking thinking
Architectural transition
Faced with the tangible effects of climate change, we take an active environmental approach, working both to mitigate its causes and adapt to ongoing transformations: decarbonizing construction methods, optimizing energy use, improving thermal comfort and reusing materials.
New programmes
In a world in flux, we explore contemporary ways of living, from dwelling, working and producing to learning, exchanging, caring and moving, in order to rethink architectural programs and design new narrative forms that carry their own aesthetics.
Living systems
As global warming turns cities into heat-stress hotspots that threaten their long-term liveability, redesigning them means curbing soil sealing and pursuing a systemic integration of nature-based solutions, the only way to restore lasting ecological balance.
AI and data
Through the development of new tools for analysis, modeling and artificial intelligence, this theme explores the digital transformation of urban design and focuses on data, whose processing sharpens our understanding of complex mechanisms.
