ReAgent Project

Reactive Agent-based Tangible simulation for decision making in urban studies

In the last decades, in the field of urban planning, many advances have been made, however the urban planning processes are still reliant on very traditional approaches that are very laborious and are highly dependent on intellectual processes. The EU-funded ReAgent project focuses on co-constructed pluridisciplinary approaches of modelling and participatory simulation to improve decision making and urban planning strategies. The project studies the impacts of urban policies using Agent Based-Models (ABM) [1] to handle real-time visualization tasks applied both to data and simulation outputs. These models are then displayed on a physical 3D model of the city, called Tangible User Interface (TUI) [2]. ABM coupled with TUI represents a radically new decision support tool which can be used to explore and assess new urban planning strategies that meet citizens and stakeholders needs. The Marie Curie fellowship is carried out at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), in collaboration with LABEX IMU and Lyon Urban School.

The project is led by Arnaud Grignard, researcher at LIRIS and research affiliate at the MIT Media Lab. It involves the use and development of tools developed by LIRIS, the MIT Media Lab CityScience and GAMA Platform.

Since 2019, the LIRIS is co-organizing in collaboration with Lyon Urban School, the School of Anthopocène where this project has been applied to different problamatics and sites.

Here is a preview of the work done in 2019 around the Confluence District of Lyon.