IMM DesignLab

05/06/2026

🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️ Walkability in Cities with IMM 🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️

Walkability is a key element in creating sustainable, livable cities. In IMM enhancing walkability involves designing urban spaces that prioritize pedestrian movement and connectivity. By improving sidewalks, crosswalks, green spaces, and pedestrian-friendly infrastructure, IMM aims to create environments that encourage walking, reduce car dependency, and promote healthier lifestyles.

Walkable cities not only benefit the environment by lowering emissions but also foster social interaction, economic activity, and community well-being. Let's build cities where walking is a pleasure, not a challenge! 🌳🏙️

Picture: Lodi (Italy)

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05/06/2026

Earth Overshoot Day lands on July 30 according to the announcement by Global Footprint Network .
Humanity is using nature 73% faster than Earth’s ecosystems can regenerate, meaning this overshoot is equivalent to using 1.73 Earths. It is the highest level of global in human history. This level of overuse is possible because one can deplete natural capital.

Earth Overshoot Day 2025 falls on July 24th.

05/06/2026

In , urban diagnostic is a model-based approach able to define through an objective qualitative and quantitative representation, the state of a system and its performance. investigating urban context as a Complex Adaptive System analyzes patterns of problems and malfunctioning conditions to infer the source of the problem. The identification of the cause or nature of malfunctioning condition or problems by systematic investigation makes our diagnostic work necessary for any effective transformation process. by a science based diagnostic approach provides to designers, local authorities, decision-makers and stakeholders a full understanding on how and why urban systems perform the way they do and a decision support tool for transformation actions aligned to the UN 2030 . is a tool also able to quantify the effects of modifications in the various areas by performance indicators.
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05/06/2026

This World Environment Day is an opportunity to reflect on one of the main findings from the ’s Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report:

Human activities, principally through emissions of greenhouse gases, have unequivocally caused global warming.

Read the report here 🔗 https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/

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Before / After: Rue de Lagny, 20th arrondissement, Paris.

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05/06/2026

💧 Thanks to these installations made in , part of the rainwater, instead of running off toward the gutter, helps nourish the vegetation and seep into the soil
➡️ https://l.leprogres.fr/Hc1

05/06/2026

Protecting the planet means more than preserving nature. It means reimagining how we live, learn and lead change together.

At UNESCO, this commitment takes shape through efforts to advance , support environmental journalists bringing urgent climate stories to light, and strengthen that protect while fostering sustainable development.

From classrooms to communities, from knowledge to action, is helping build a more resilient, just and sustainable future for all.

This , let’s turn awareness into action and action into lasting impact.

🔗 https://www.unesco.org/en/days/environment