Gwenaëlle d'Aboville

Born in 1981, Gwenaëlle d'Aboville is an urban planner with a master's degree in urban planning from the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, and a DE architect with a diploma from ENSA Paris La Villette. She is partner and director of the Ville Ouverte agency, which she founded in 2004.

Winner of the Palmarès des Jeunes Urbanistes in 2016, the agency brings together a team of 40 urban planners, architects, engineers and cartographers. The multidisciplinary team works on development projects, operational or regulatory urban planning, urban or architectural programming. The agency is involved in regional projects, revitalization of town and city centers, urban renewal and transformation of public spaces.
It sees participation as a cross-cutting project method, in the service of more sensitive, inclusive urban planning. Gwenaëlle d'Aboville feeds this research through publications, in the journal Métropolitiques or through books Aménager sans exclure, faire la ville incluante (Le Moniteur, 2018).
A member of the IDHEAL (Institut des hautes études pour l'action dans le logement) advisory board, she works on housing production and quality. With Nicolas Binet, she published Réparer et construire la ville: pour un renouvellement de l'offre en logement (Le Moniteur, 2024).

She has taught at the Magistère aménagement de Paris 1 and the École d'Urbanisme de Paris, before taking part in the post-master's training program for the DSA d'architecte-urbaniste at the École d'architecture de la ville & des territoires Paris-Est from 2018. She was recruited by the School in September 2020 as associate lecturer. She is an associate researcher at the OCS laboratory (observatory of the suburban condition).