Montreux Jazz Festival

Beyond narratives of surveillance, control, and optimization: This partnership with the Montreux Jazz Festival aims to explore alternative narratives for the deployment of AI in cities—narratives that highlight the festive, convivial, and inclusive dimensions of urban life. It investigates how the Festival transforms Montreux, reshaping its urban identity and rhythms. The project focuses on: Uncovering new narratives that enrich the city’s urbanity—around music, intercultural dialogue, celebration, and collective experience Understanding the populations it attracts and the flows it generates—cultural, economic, and spatial Through this lens, the GOUAIN brings attention to how urban AI can support inclusive, joyful, and locally rooted urban futures. It seeks to (re)connect AI with the lived, cultural, and social experiences of the city.