From 7 to 25 September, 15 to 18 young professionals and students from across the world will gather in the Paris Region to tackle a challenge that concerns us all: how do we learn to live with water, in a metropolis that has long turned its back on it? Channelled rivers, impermeable soils, buried waterways.... Paris bears the marks of an urban development model that pushed water to the margins. Today, with rising flood risks, urban heat islands and growing pressure on resources, reinventing that relationship has become urgent.

That is what this workshop sets out to do: starting from water to imagine a metropolis that is more liveable, more resilient, and more inclusive.

Urban planners, architects, sociologists, agronomists, economists, engineers, artists, historians: all disciplines are actively sought. It is precisely this diversity of perspectives that makes the experience so rich and distinctive.

Three weeks of field immersion, intense collective work, and engagement with researchers, elected officials, and local residents, culminating in strategic visions and concrete proposals presented before an international jury. A unique method, sitting at the crossroads of a research lab and a real-world project, with genuine freedom to propose bold ideas, to be listening by the actual decision-makers.

Apply by 31 May: ateliers.org/l/apply-seine

Link to the workshop webpage: https://ateliers.org/en/workshops/245/