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Changemakers Times #9: facing COVID-19, taking collective action

“I live this experience as an enriching and positive period that helps to put the notion of usefulness back into everyday life. It even impacts the way I look upon my work on a daily basis”.

Anna Perehinec is in charge of urban projects for a large real estate group. A position of responsibility, focused on urban, ecological and social transition. When the health crisis linked to Covid-19 broke out, she did not hesitate to get involved as a volunteer with the Hospitals of Paris organization to work as closely as possible with nursing staffs and patients. Working with IMOTHEP and COVISAN associations, Anna tells us about her involvement in this unprecedented and strange period. She shares with us how volunteering changed her vision of life and the meaning of our daily lives.

Read her Changemakers Times interview

“There’s a furious desire to go back to work and deal with this virus one way or another”

Jean-Marc Palhon, chairman of EXTENDAM, was interviewed by the CEO of MKG Group, Vanguelis Panayotis. Together, they drew up a comprehensive review of the situation and prospects for the recovery of the hotel sector in this video Hospitality On, a specialist in the hotel and tourism sector in France and abroad, broadcasted a few days ago.

Watch the full interview

[BONI.D] Just One Giant Lab (JOGL), the first open lab for research and innovation

JOGL is an open research and innovation platform which aims at collaboratively solving issues of general interest. Through open science, responsible innovation and continuous learning, the platform proposes to unite the brains of the world to work on all unresolved social, environmental, humanitarian and health issues. Thanks to an elaborate AI, and a well-designed interface, collaboration between leaders and contributors is facilitated. Jogl creates a collective and distributed intelligence, associated with very concrete entities: university laboratories, companies, foundations, NGOs, public services… which also feeds itself from the creation and sharing of new tools and knowledge.

The ambition of this planetary research laboratory is to multiply by 10 the number of contributors working on urgent and global issues, to reach 50 million contributors. An initiative that is helping to change the world.
Congrats Jogl! Visit the lab here.

Here is the series of interviews sharing the feedback of the organisers and ambassadors of the mission CES Tourism 4.0 !

Organised by Bpifrance and EXTENDAM in early January 2020, the programme immersed 16 French hotel and hospitality companies in the Las Vegas Innovation Fair. Between emotions, surprises and new parctices perspectives, this experience had a strong impact on its participants.

This programme of interviews conducted by Les Grandes Idées and Jean-Philippe Albaret invites you to relive the experience through the testimonials of Bertrand Pulles for EXTENDAM, Pedro Novo for Bpifrance, Vincent Ducrey for the HUB Institute, Grégory Pourrin for Paris INN Group, Laurent BOISSONNAS for Open Golf Club, and Gérard BIART for CSEP Hospitality.

Watch all the interviews here.

Confined to Brussels, Maud Caubet answered Architecture d’Aujourd’hui questions

At a time when France is gradually leaving lockdown, every structure is reorganising themselves, mixing remote and presential work when they can, each one seeking its new rhythm. A good timing to take the time and read the interview given by Maud Caubet to Architecture d’Aujourd’hui magazine for its Confiné.e.s series.

Views on the world of tomorrow, architectural practices in the current particular context and the months to come’s one, new ways of working, new ways of thinking. AA Architecture d’Aujourd’hui magazine gives architects a voice by questioning their vision of the situation but also their cultural recommendations.

Between softness, humility and societal ambition, discover the interview of Maud Caubet for the series Confiné.e.s of AA Architecture d’Aujourd’hui magazine.

[BONI.D] How to consume: what if we regain control?

Have you ever imagined being able to choose the products on offer in your local shop or supermarket? Knowing everything about prices and where the money goes? Taking part in its operation and even being its co-owner? All this is possible with the participative and collaborative supermarkets that are spreading out in France.

While the concept is not new, it is making a strong comeback and taking on even more meaning in tomorrow’s world, which we hope will be more local.

Let’s discover La Louve. Following the model of the Park Slope Food Coop developed in Brooklyn since 1973, La Louve in Paris is the precursor of this type of business in France. Since 2017, more than forty initiatives of this kind have been growing in France. Their main principles: a non-profit cooperative status, capital belonging to the users of the business only (the purchase of shares is essential to access it) and participation (the owners each give 3 hours of their month to the structure).

Do you like the idea ? Go and find the cooperative and participative supermarket closest to you.

New arrivals and evolutions at EXTENDAM

Europe’s leaders in business hotel industry’s private equity firm is taking great care in the composition of its team. Since January 2020, two new profiles have joined EXTENDAM: Cécile Leclerc, Investment Manager and Mélanie Pauchard, Communication and Marketing Manager. Two great evolutions are also to be noted: Jaafar Guessous joins the management of EXTENDAM while Maxime Durand moves to the position of Investment Manager.

For more information on these recent appointments, please click here.

What are the scenarii for the recovery of the hotel industry?

With a return to normality planned for 2022-2023, what are the possible scenarii for the recovery? On Friday 17 April, Jean-Marc Palhon, Chariman of EXTENDAM, Matthieu de Lauzon, Managing Partner of EXTENDAM and Olivier Petit, Hospitality and Tourism Expert at In Extenso Tourism Culture & Hotels, shared their analysis of the situation and the evolution of the sector over the coming months and semesters.

Read the complete report of the conference in the Club Patrimoine newsletter of April 20th, 2020.

[BONI.D] Message in a bottle : understood !

10 outdoor sports athletes, a waste sorting centre. This is all that freeskier Mathieu Navillod and photographer Dom Daher needed to carry out this punchy journalistic photo project.

The “A Bottle in the Sea” report shows spectacularly staged pictures of athletes practicing their sport amidst all kinds of waste. Shocking images that argue in favour of the quick implementation of large-scale environmental acts. All of the duo’s shots go in pairs: problem and solution. More than an alarm raise, they show us that the solutions are there and are just waiting to be deployed in a large scale.

A message in a bottle which must find a maximum of recipients (and which is already on the right track).

To admire the project and learn more about the solutions it is this way

Tribute to Jean-Philippe Ruggieri

We would like to pay tribute to Jean-Philippe Ruggieri. His teams, his partners and all the players of the real estate sector liked him for his professionalism and his humanity. A man whom we had the pleasure of getting to know better during a great joint work with L’Avenir en Héritage team in the Athletes’ Village competition. All our thoughts are with his family and the beautiful Nexity team.