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Dr. Diyab Chaden is the founder of IES EMEA (Industrial Environment & Sustainability), a strategy consulting firm based in Paris and specialized in the field of environment and sustainable development in the EuroMed area. She has worked extensively in the Middle East and Europe on environmental issues (risks and impacts of pollution, development of innovative technologies for waste management and pollution treatment ...).

 

Dr. Chaden Diyab is a chemical engineer and holds a Ph.D. in environmental science from the University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris, France). She worked in France for international companies specialized in the field of infrastructure and the environment, for which she was responsible for defining the technical strategy, business development and partnership.
Dr. Chaden Diyab is a member of a working group of OECD MENA-OECD Business Council issues related to energy, infrastructure and climate change in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa). The role of this group is to provide guidance and advice to policy makers to promote innovation and green investments in the MENA region. Its role is also to identify and analyze barriers for investors and companies. The Working Group provides recommendations for policy makers, and an analysis on the challenges of energy and innovation in the MENA region.
Dr. Diyab Chaden provides training for industrial and economic development organizations in the Paris region French (Essonne, Val de Marne). It intervened in the Middle East on environmental issues related to pollution management, including as project manager involved in the management of coastal pollution by hydrocarbons in Lebanon.
She has contributed to the deployment of the management, treatment by innovative techniques and management of relationships with local organizations. Dr. Diyab Chaden has also contributed to the development of green technologies for the treatment of water pollution and soil.
In the Middle East, she worked in Iran with Iranian companies for the training of 40 high-level industry leaders on best management practices of environmental problems, energy (energy efficiency) and waste. Addition to these projects she was involved in the framework of the Convention "peace Canal" in Jordan, she was also selected to speak at the conference "Eurogulf: joining forces in a changing World" in 2010 in Kuwait (role energy Efficiency for the Gulf countries).
Dr. Diyab Chaden occurred as a lecturer on the role of innovative energy solutions (sustainability of fossil fuels and clean transportation) as part of the Amadeus Institute (Morocco) MEDDAYS 2010. It also works with a Polytechnic Institute (LaSalle Beauvais) to develop new concepts for innovation and partnership between the North and South.
EMEA IES (Industrial Environment & Sustainability) aims to be a key player in the development of industrial partnerships between northern and southern shores of the Mediterranean.

About the founder

The city of our dreams. It’s a passionate subject. Thinking about it, it’s a bit like imagining a Paradise. Logical thinking often leaves room for imagination; each of us has a vision of our own. The city of our dreams is an ideal, without an existent common project.

 An Ancient Debate

 

 

In the play “The Birds” (414 BC), Aristophanes and Hippos have a conflict over two opposing vision of the ideal city:

?            That of a city built according to a mathematic and orderly approach

?            And that of a city that puts humans first and foremost

 

The Dream of a Green City

 

What do we imagine, when we think of the concept of a Green City?

?            a city free of the weight of industrial pollution?

?            a city capable of regenerating its soil previously contaminated by source pollution?

?            a city able to harness the sun and wind as an energy source?

Therefore, the “the smart city” would be an ideal founded upon clean technology.

Nevertheless, the cities of the future cannot be reduced to simply a technologic approach.

 

Innovation Isn’t Necessarily Entirely Rooted in Technology

 

My grandmother took care of her 14 children, all the while dealing with a war that has yet to cease. She has continued to innovate to adapt to a quotidian life marked by a lack of water and electricity.

My mother had to face war during her daily life, as well. She had to find original solutions  with sparse resources so that we could escape the situation.

 

In India, Africa, and various countries ravaged by war, people constantly innovate. But these “smart” solutions are often quite costly. We have much to learn from people of these countries. The future of our cities could also profit from their knowledge, and these “frugal” innovations.

 

Putting Man First and Foremost in the City of Tomorrow

 

Before 1975, Beirut had been a cosmopolitan city that breathed life. Today, Lebanon’s capital bears the scars of a civil war. It is an exhausted city, that desperately wishes to reclaim its colorful energy and life it once had. Beirut doesn’t want to be “smart” ; Beirut wants to find its soul, its joy. It isn’t looking for technology, but a guarantee that everyone can live and share in harmony. Above all, it is a human project. It’s a dream that is also shared by cities such as Damascus, Baghdad, or Tobruk.

 

The Tower of Babel

The city of tomorrow can be built around increasingly high towers, inhabited by people  who don’t necessarily understand each other, even if a common language has been found. The myth of Babel is a cautionary tale, warning us of the dangers of a purely technological project.

 

It is incredibly important to put people at the heart of our urban plans. The challenge is to create links, harmony, and joy amongst the inhabitants of our cities, so that they may become places of peace, joy, happiness, and well-being for all.

 

Chaden Diyab

The Dream City

 

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 The Dream City

 

The city of our dreams. It’s a passionate subject. Thinking about it, it’s a bit like imagining a Paradise. Logical thinking often leaves room for imagination; each of us has a vision of our own. The city of our dreams is an ideal, without an existent common project.

 

An Ancient Debate

 

In the play “The Birds” (414 BC), Aristophanes and Hippos have a conflict over two opposing vision of the ideal city:

?            That of a city built according to a mathematic and orderly approach

?            And that of a city that puts humans first and foremost

 

The Dream of a Green City

 

What do we imagine, when we think of the concept of a Green City?

?            a city free of the weight of industrial pollution?

?            a city capable of regenerating its soil previously contaminated by source pollution?

?            a city able to harness the sun and wind as an energy source?

Therefore, the “the smart city” would be an ideal founded upon clean technology.

Nevertheless, the cities of the future cannot be reduced to simply a technologic approach.

 

Innovation Isn’t Necessarily Entirely Rooted in Technology

 

My grandmother took care of her 14 children, all the while dealing with a war that has yet to cease. She has continued to innovate to adapt to a quotidian life marked by a lack of water and electricity.

My mother had to face war during her daily life, as well. She had to find original solutions  with sparse resources so that we could escape the situation.

 

In India, Africa, and various countries ravaged by war, people constantly innovate. But these “smart” solutions are often quite costly. We have much to learn from people of these countries. The future of our cities could also profit from their knowledge, and these “frugal” innovations.

 

Putting Man First and Foremost in the City of Tomorrow

 

Before 1975, Beirut had been a cosmopolitan city that breathed life. Today, Lebanon’s capital bears the scars of a civil war. It is an exhausted city, that desperately wishes to reclaim its colorful energy and life it once had. Beirut doesn’t want to be “smart” ; Beirut wants to find its soul, its joy. It isn’t looking for technology, but a guarantee that everyone can live and share in harmony. Above all, it is a human project. It’s a dream that is also shared by cities such as Damascus, Baghdad, or Tobruk.

 

The Tower of Babel

The city of tomorrow can be built around increasingly high towers, inhabited by people  who don’t necessarily understand each other, even if a common language has been found. The myth of Babel is a cautionary tale, warning us of the dangers of a purely technological project.

 

It is incredibly important to put people at the heart of our urban plans. The challenge is to create links, harmony, and joy amongst the inhabitants of our cities, so that they may become places of peace, joy, happiness, and well-being for all.

 

 

 

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