Agathe Hamzaoui

Research officer at Plateau Urbain | France

Agathe Hamzaoui knows that, with a dash of creativity and solidarity, a city’s vacant spaces can be repurposed for the benefit of its citizens. As a Research Officer at Plateau Urbain, she examines the possibilities for extracting value in underused and abandoned spaces: this structural vacancy being a natural and unavoidable by-product of urban processes. Agathe is a catalyst for change, bringing together property owners and diverse, often lower-income, tenants who struggle to access work and accommodation opportunities. This collaboration climaxes in an evolution in modes of creation and work that bridges gaps for Paris’s most vulnerable and excluded.