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ANNUAL REPORT

GEHL

CONTENT

03 Gehl Team 05 Enabling Change 09 Gehl Highlights 13 Financial Year in review 17 Communication Year in review

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TEAM DIRECTOR

STRATEGIST DESIGNER

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

URBAN DESIGNER

DATA SCIENTIST

PROJECT MANAGER

URBAN PLANNER

PROJECT DIRECTOR

A. Ghigo DiTommaso

Ashrita Shetty

Alejandra Edery

Aja Jeanty

Adam Eriksson

Aga Filipowicz

Adriana Akers

Alexander Spitzer

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ENABLING CHANGE -- 2030 STRATEGY As we look back on the past year, it has been a year of transition – starting new chapters and closing others!

We kicked off the year by gathering the entire Gehl organization in Copenhagen for a 3 day GetAway in October 2018. Over the course of three days, we re-visited and co-created the purpose of Gehl and discussed various themes of equal

importance to the world, to people, and to us as an organization. For the past two decades, we have been advocating for a change of paradigm in planning. That shift is now happening. We are changing gear and moving from ‘advocating for change’ to ‘making change’ locally and globally. The GetAway provided us with the opportunity to outline a collective framework for our journey toward 2030,

emphasizing three fundamental pillars: ongoing internationalization, innovation, and digitalization, as well as partnerships that facilitate progress in these areas.

This past year has been the first year with the Innovation Team in full operation.

The team has successfully developed the Public Life Platform in beta-version, as well as explored and developed two new services connecting ‘food systems’ and ‘air quality’ to place. Both projects were very timely in relation to the C40 Mayors Summit in Copenhagen in October 2019, where two sub-networks of cities signed a Healthy Food Declaration, as well as a Clean Air Act. We are now looking forward to scaling these services with our partners.

Various people took on new leadership positions. Partner Matthew Lister as Managing Director in our New York office, in collaboration with Associate Julia Day as Team Lead. In Copenhagen Director Ola Gustafsson took over our urban design team and Director Birgitte Bundesen Svarre joined the Management

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Team as leader of our urban strategy team. With our Management Team now in place, as well as Project Directors set-up in all three offices, we are ready for the next stage in development.

team that committed to the public life agenda and to Shin-pei Tsay who led the

During the year, the Board of Directors of Gehl Institute decided to wind down the organization to achieve more clarity of brand and services in the US market.

We spun-off Gehl Institute 4 years ago, and the board Chair Kimberly Driggins helped us realize that the separation to Gehl was causing more confusion than possibilities to scale. It has however been 4 years of inspiring exploration in the fields of open data, research and capacity building, all off which we are now continuing in new ways as an integrated part of the Gehl practice. We remain hugely grateful and thankful to both the board and to the foundations that supported Gehl Institute in the development of important new knowledge and networks.

A special thanks goes to the

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organization for 2 and a half years as the Executive Director.

Another important development this past year, was publishing ‘Soft City’. This thought leadership piece was made possible with the generous support of the philanthropic association Realdania. We were happy to be able to publish this new book with Island Press, and I especially want to thank two people who have been instrumental in the completion and success of this work – Partner, Creative Director and now author David Sim and Director and Team Lead Birgitte Bundesen Svarre as Project Manager and co-editor.

collective achievements and increased impact. We have welcomed new Gehl people, but also had to say goodbye to others. Our memories go especially to Ulrik Nielsen to whom we said a final goodbye this summer as he passed away after almost two years of battling illness.

Finally, I would like to thank all our clients and collaborators, extending a special thanks to Bernard van Leer Foundation, Eat Foundation and Novo Nordisk – Cities Changing Diabetes for sponsoring our work around foodscape and air pollution.

A big thank you to everyone at Gehl.

Thanks to all of you for your contribu tions this past financial year and for your

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2023 HIGHLIGHTS

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Crafting a framework for a Santiago de Chile brownfield site, we’ve developed an 8-neighborhood mixed-use masterplan with ample public areas, including streets, squares, and parks, along with a scenic mountainside park.

Guiding the redesign of Denver’s 16th Street Mall, we’re envisioning a vibrant public life. Our work involves developing guidelines that define the aspirational character of public space, crucial as the City prepares for the full street redesign.

Revitalizing a district in Kirchberg, Luxembourg, we’ve crafted a people-first vision, implementing a densification plan alongside strategies for pedestrian, cycling, and parking.

Over the past four years, we’ve reimagined the planning process and urban development.

Turning a road into a park in Copenhagen.

Working to develop a vision for a green park which will deliver on Copenhagen’s car bon neutral targets for 2025.

Transforming an industrial heritage site into a mixed neighborhood in Nürnberg, we’re developing a masterplan that builds on the successful shift from a former factory to a cultural and educational community.

Transforming an old industrial site into a vibrant, mixed new neighborhood in Aarhus, Denmark, our urban development project prioritizes sustainability and community.

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Helping to define design excellence for a region. Continuing our work on the Design Excellence Framework, a tool to help the Walton Family Foundation prioritize, guide, and document impact of investments in the public realm across Northwest Arkansas.

Creating equitable innovation in Chattanooga. Developing a people-first innovation strategy and district public realm framework to enable everyday participation in city life.

A new vision for Stanford’s Town Center.

Defining a vision for the Town Center as an expression of Stanford’s intellectual vitality, the heart of culture and engagement on campus and a place for vibrant daily life.

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Redesigning Santa Monica’s Third Street Promenade. Working with Rios Clementi Hale Studios to create new spaces to gather and play, improve flow and circulation, and increase engagement with retail storefronts.

Investigating air quality for the city’s youngest residents through Thrive Zones in Copenhagen.

Using urban design as a tool to reduce the negative impact of air pollution in neighborhoods. A collaboration with Google Environmental Insights and the City of Copenhagen with support from Bernard van Leer Foundation.

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FINANCIAL YEAR IN REVIEW

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660 mill DKK

Across the Gehl Group, our revenue has stabilized at

Investing in the primarily areas for our future in

Organization and Leadership Innovation and Digitalization Thought Leadership (‘Soft City’ Publication)

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GEHL GROUP

Revenue Per Market

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38%

Markets with growing demands

7% 9% Others

62%

Markets close to us

Approximately 62% of our work is in markets close to us (US and Scandinavia).

38% of our work is in markets where we experience a growing demand for our services such as Northern and Eastern Europe, Canada and Latin America, as well as in Asia and Australia.

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Revenue Per Client Type

Foundations / International Organizations

31% Public Sector / Municipalities

53%

Developers / Private Corporations

Our work with public sector clients including municipalities accounts for 31% of our work, work with developers and private corporations accounts for 53% and finally our work with foundations and international organizations accounts for 9%, which shows how we are successfully applying our ‘people-first’ approach across sectors towards our overall mission of ‘Making Cities for People’.

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100,193 FOLLOWERS COMMUNICATION YEAR IN REVIEW Two and a half years ago we implemented a Social Media Strategy in collaboration with Untold, our social media consultant.This past year we have grown our Culture & Communication team with more skilled people, specializing in communication design and strategy.

Since the strategy was created, we have been focused on growing our online community and bringing an even wider breadth of content to our followers. These efforts have paid off. This fall we celebrated as we surpassed 100,000 followers on our combined social media channels.

On our website we continue sharing live updates from projects and our stories of positive change through the Gehl LIVE section, which includes our blog, projects and news updates. Thank you to our online community for continuing to share comments and engaging in our content both on our social media channels, as well as on our website.

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