Gwenaëlle d'Aboville

Born in 1981, Gwenaëlle d'Aboville is an urban planner, a graduate of the Master's program in urban planning at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, and a certified architect from ENSA Paris La Villette. She is a partner and director of the Ville Ouverte agency, which she founded in 2004.

Winner of the 2016 Young Urban Planners Award, the agency brings together a team of 40 people, including urban planners, architects, engineers, and cartographers. The multidisciplinary team works on development projects, operational and regulatory urban planning, and urban and architectural programming. The agency is involved in regional projects, the revitalization of city centers and town centers, urban renewal, and the transformation of public spaces.

It considers participation to be a cross-cutting method for projects, promoting a more sensitive and inclusive approach to urban planning. Gwenaëlle d'Aboville contributes to this research through publications in the journal Métropolitiques and through books such as Aménager sans exclure, faire la ville incluante (Le Moniteur, 2018).

As a member of the advisory board of IDHEAL (Institut des Hautes Études pour l'Action dans le Logement), she works on housing production and quality. She has published Réparer et construire la ville : pour un renouvellement de l'offre en logement (Le Moniteur, 2024) with Nicolas Binet.

She taught at the Paris 1 urban planning master's program and the Paris School of Urban Planning before joining the post-master's program in architectural and urban planning at the Paris-Est School of Architecture and Urban Planning in 2018. She was recruited by the School in September 2020 as an associate lecturer. She is an associate researcher at the OCS laboratory (observatory of suburban conditions).