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A vending machine containing first aid items, female hygiene products, and bathroom amenities whose profits are redirected towards providing hygienic care for the homeless, inspired by the DNA replication system.
Allume Paris
An exploratory, augmented reality game that brings the characters in Paris' street names to life, inspired by neural plasticity.
B.A.BA
A mobile application that guides blind commuters through the subway using beacon technology, inspired by molecule signaling and hormone transport.
BioCité
A system of pedestrian-friendly green corridors, built over unused road space, that connect the green spaces of Paris, inspired by the brain's neural network.
Bonlieu
A summer program for marginalized suburban youth that reinforces classroom lessons with hands-on projects, inspired by the process of angiogenesis.
BonVoyage
BonVoyage seeks to address sexual assault and sexual harrassment in public transportation by building a mobile app that uses Bluetooth technology in public transportation to connect people with a network of nearby active bystanders, and creating a set of interactive training modules.
BubbleBox
A mobile and autonomous hygiene module available to migrants, refugees, and homeless people free of charge, inspired by the role of white blood cells in the immune system.
Chemiring
A compact planter system to retrofit historic Parisian chimneys and increase biodiversity, inspired by brush border cells.
Café-Tiers
Café-Tiers is a non-profit café that will employ refugee people and be located along the Champs- Elysées. It will serve as a community and event space for both refugee and non-refugee communities, meant to promote the social integration of refugee people within Paris.
CoMixité
An educational cartoon magazine, made by children, for children, inspired by the signal transduction cascade.
Center for Civic Engagement
A new branch of the Mayor’s Office helping to facilitate grassroots social innovation, inspired by the innate and adaptive immune systems.
Citélève
Our solution proposes reallocating approximately 150 units in the to-be-built Olympic Athletes village as affordable housing for low-income students. In return, students receiving housing will participate in a mentorship program.
Compétition Divercité
An annual innovation competition in which teams of high school students from across Paris collaborate to solve the city's most pressing problems, inspired by the symbiotic relationship between red ants and acacia trees.
Econnexion
An ecological sister school program pairing students of different socioeconomic backgrounds, inspired by DNA repair mechanisms.
desmains
At desmains, visitors will be able to receive help at any time of the day, to create their hygiene and cleaning products with ten ingredients sold in bulk.
Equalettes
Low-cost and eco-friendly public toilets that provide a gender-equitable solution to the problem of public urination in Paris, inspired by the lysosomes in our cells.
e-Co Metro
We aim to create green hubs in new stations of the GPE where commuters can mingle and learn more about sustainability events through a digital kiosk, and where elderly and primary school students can work together to create a community garden that preserves the local biodiversity.
Fast Trash
A pre-sorting pneumatic waste system, visible at strategic locations along the Seine, inspired by the human digestive system.
Foodlib'
A network of publicly accessible refrigerators and pantries where Parisians can exchange excess fresh food, inspired by the way carbon dioxide travels from the cells to the lungs.
Les Galeries du Métro
A curatorial program in which Parisian museums "adopt" subway stations in the greater Paris region and choose artists-in-residence to decorate subway platforms, corridors, and entrances, inspired by the decorator crab.
Greenmobile
This mobile electric greening unit aims to increase environmental awareness and green spaces in the Parisian suburbs.
GenEx
An online platform to facilitate offline, bidirectional mentoring between youth (13-26) and Third Age adults (50-70), inspired by evolutionary arguments for intergenerational partnerships.
Green Coin
An alternative "green currency" that rewards users for performing environmentally friendly actions, inspired by the kidney's ability to reclaim and reuse waste.
Greenspired
A whimsical approach to urban greening using moss art on building facades and billboards, inspired by the process of pufferfish nest construction.
Harnessing the Seine
Hydroelectric kinetic turbines on the bed of the Seine that generate electricity for the subway system, inspired by the ATP synthase enzyme.
HYPOT
A public health campaign for the subway pairing crowdsourced educational posters with innovative hygiene measures, inspired by hormone signaling.
Jardin Ouvert
A network of green walls and open planter beds lining the Seine that mitigate urban heat island effect and provide a sustainable alternative to love locks, inspired by microbiome therapy.
Joie de Vivre
A pop-up playground that facilitates child-directed play using upcycled materials, inspired by the mutualistic relationship between glucose and lactate.
KWIAT
A fully equipped, student-run food truck that fosters new friendships within the Parisian student community, inspired by the Golgi Apparatus.
LumiArt
A wind-powered technological art tree that strengthens social cohesion in new communities, inspired by the scaffold proteins that facilitate molecular interactions.
Ma DécouVerte
An interactive app-based excursion designed for children and families to explore biodiversity in Paris, inspired by the protein channels in the cell membrane.
Maison des Saisons
A facility that operates as a homeless shelter in the winter and a youth hostel in the summer, operated by formerly homeless youth, inspired by the diurnal processes of CAM plants.
MapX
A mobile service-learning game that uses GPS data to document the accessibility of Parisian sidewalks, inspired by the inflammatory immune response.
MetrX
An app that rewards users for their distance travelled on public transportation, inspired by the role of pheromones in ant colonies.
Mini Clinique
A medical kiosk that performs basic clinical metrics and virtually connects patients to doctors through teleconsultation, inspired by the lymphatic system.
miSTORY
Storytelling workshops for migrants and refugees to learn how to communicate effectively about themselves in French, inspired by a protein that permits the expression of previously silenced DNA.
(M)Power
An energy efficiency program that captures excess heat from the subway to offset utility costs in low-income housing, inspired by electron transport chains in cells.
Pari(s) Compost
As a pilot program, Pari(s) Compost! advocates for mandatory composting legislation and an educational outreach campaign for the 4th arrondissement and its 26,796 inhabitants.
OuiCan
OuiCan is a competition connecting middle school students throughout the Grand Paris region, challenging teams of students to redesign their own schools to be more environmentally-friendly and sustainable.
OurSpace
An online platform to facilitate the sharing of private spaces for community use, inspired by ion transport across cell membranes.
Pando
A funeral service that increases accessibility to alternative burial practices for Parisians, inspired by the mycorrhizal network that connects plants and fungi.
Paris Hero
An annual Civic Olympics and smartphone application that gamifies and popularizes volunteering, inspired by the human nervous system.
Paris Without Cars
Dynamic bike lanes that adapt to changing traffic patterns, inspired by veins and capillaries.
Parisian Projections
A weeklong cultural festival in which interviews with everyday Parisians are projected onto buildings, monuments, and infrastructure, inspired by endocrine signaling.
Petite Ceinture 2.0
The conversion of an abandoned railway into a bikeway lined with community gardens, sporting activities, and neighborhood-specific social programming, inspired by angiogenesis, the creation of new blood vessels.
PurParis
PurParis is a project devoted to creating pollution-free outdoor exercise spaces on the Seine River open to all residents of Paris.
PickMeUp
A vending machine that sells excess supermarket produce at discounted prices, inspired by the symbiotic relationship between plants and nitrogen-fixing bacteria.
Portes de Paris
Locally-led walking tours based at the former gates of Paris that educate visitors through augmented reality, inspired by the diversity of tropical ecosystems.
Refresh
A multi-sensorial public history program commemorating the May 1968 student protests, inspired by neural networks.
Rethink Green
An educational curriculum and public festival focused on making art with recycled materials, inspired by the Central Dogma.
Salad Bowls Sur Seine
A network of hydroponic islands with phytoremediative plants that purify the Seine, inspired by the nephrons and tubules of the kidney.
Sexpliquer
A truck and website offering educational resources about sexual health, inspired by the signaling cascade.
La Sportative
A mobile athletic facility that promotes gender inclusion in sports through unusual activities, inspired by hormone targeting.
Themed Subway Cars
A program to thematize subway cars and foster interaction between commuters, inspired by vesicle transport.
Végéstation
A program to deploy green walls in subway stations, inspired by the human lymphatic network.
WE-Bench
A smart bench that reduces the digital divide by giving users access to job postings and other resources, inspired by synapses in the brain.