Three themes were specifically explored:

• Urban agriculture in 2040, with a visit to Lausanne’s Place de la Riponne by agronomist Nicolas Bezençon.
• The village of Châtillon in the canton of Fribourg, which has gone from being a dormitory village to a place of life and links in 2040, visited by engineer Marc Mueller.
• Mobility, with the example of Geneva’s Place Cornavin, in the company of Marc-Edouard Schultheiss, transportation engineer.

The transition to these 2040 futures has not been easy…. We had to overcome the inertia of politics, the habits of citizens already caught up in a host of constraints, and tension in the face of change in an uncertain world. But crises are sometimes the source of the greatest changes.

Explore the future to build the present: that’s the challenge we want to take up with the Hub des possibles through a series of podcasts and conferences entitled “2040, j’y vais!” which we’ll be launching in 2024. Gabrielle Desarzens’ programs and the collaboration with RTS were the opening of this series. February will see the announcement of our conferences and the “2040, j’y vais!” podcast.

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