Preface Anna Catasta, President of Europan

Anna Catasta President of Europan

The 15 th session of Europan took place when the exceptional situation caused by the medical emergency of the Covid 19 pandemic had not yet occurred.

European cities proposed 47 sites from 12 European countries to attract submissions inspired by the theme of “Productive Cities”, developed by young urban, architectural and landscape design professionals aged under 40. Places and contexts that had been marked by earlier purposes and practices were rethought to harmonise with the new priorities of urban locations, notably as living entities with their own metabolism, around the competition’s three main topics: Resources, Mobility, Equity. 1241 teams registered for the Europan 15 competition.

11 national juries, some of them working together, undertook the analysis and evaluation of the 901 projects submitted. The juries met in two sittings in the second half of 2019. The quality of the submissions is evidenced by the large number of projects shortlisted following the first sitting (230, i.e. more than 25% of the proposals). In mid-October 2019, the European Cities and Juries Forum, which was held in Innsbruck (AT), provided an opportunity to explore the themes and proposals further by bringing together the juries and site representatives to debate issues that went well beyond local concerns alone. Together, the juries selected 136 projects —44 winners, 47 runners-up, and 45 special mentions. These projects offer a long-term vision of the possible metamorphosis of the sites, but many of them are also process-projects that suggest modes of development over time. Indeed, building the productive city requires all the actors to unite around the ideas proposed and to contribute to actions that go beyond sectoral priorities and are as much political as spatial, as much public as private, as much local as global.

The projects presented in this catalogue are divided up into families of sites according to themes, and include the winners and runners-up, but also projects that the 11 juries perceived as significant. Articles by experts who followed developments throughout the session compare the projects, and elucidate their meaning in relation to the central theme.

Over the space of a few months, much has changed in Europe and around the world. The future of our cities depends on their capacity to respond to new and significant challenges, such as those relating to public health and unforeseen emergencies. The relationship between the domestic dimension and public space is changing, the dichotomy between working life and personal life becoming less marked.

More than ever, the reality of Europan is embedded in the need to support and enhance the processes of communication between municipalities and young professionals, and to contribute to the design and implementation of new ideas. This will be a particular challenge for the next session of the competition, Europan 16, which will focus on the theme of “Living Cities”.

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E15 Map of sites

JUDGMENT

How are Europan projects assessed? E15 Juries Presentation

WINNING PROJECTS

136 projects: 44 winners, 47 runners-up and 45 special mentions

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RESULTS

Towards Regenerative Eco-Productive Milieus Didier Rebois (FR), architect, teacher and Secretary General of Europan + Chris Younès (FR), anthro-philosopher, researcher and professor

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1/ CHANGING METABOLISM

1/a Multiplying and Connecting Agencies

Learning to Multiply Miriam García García (ES), PhD in Architecture, landscape architect & urban designer

Borås (SE) Winner – Made in Borås Runner-Up – Plugin 2 Produce Special Mention – Re:Mediate

Champigny-sur-marne (FR) Winner – Lost Highway – (L)earning from A87 Runner-Up – Stamping Ground Special Mention – Verdoyer, cultiver, hybrider

Guovdageaidnu (NO) Winner – Catalogue of Ideas Winner – Radical Reimagining

Marseille (FR) Runner-Up – 43°20’3’’N 5°21’39’’E: Manifeste clinique Runner-Up – Learning from Marseille Runner-Up – Le Faubourg du réemploi 50 51 52 53

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68 74 75 76 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 Nin (HR) Winner – Soft Buffers Runner-Up – MOVEnIN Special Mention – A Moment Apart

Rotterdam Vierhavensblok (NL) Winner – Makers’ Maze Runner-Up – Platform of Commons

Täby (SE) Winner – The Generous City Runner-Up – Living Proximities Special Mention – Den Gröna Kilen

Weiz (AT) Winner – Learning from the Future

Runner-Up – Weiz Archipelago

1/b From Linear to Circular Economy

Definitions of Circularity Carlos Arroyo (ES), architect, urbanist, linguist, teacher

Charleroi (BE) Runner-Up – Forging the Fallow Special Mention – Carsid sur la Sàmbre Special Mention – Matière savante

Enköping (SE) Winner – Root City Runner-Up – Painting Greyfields Special Mention –

Live + Work + Innovate Graz (AT) Winner – 47Nord15Ost Runner-Up – Of Cycles and Streams Special Mention – Island (e)Scape

Karlovac (HR) Winner – The Fantastic Forest Phenomenon Runner-Up – Open City

Laterza (IT) Winner – O’ Sciuvilo Runner-Up – LA3: a Productive Square Special Mention – Up-CyclinGravina

Port-Jérôme-sur-Seine (FR) Winner – Boîtes à secrets Runner-Up – La ville école Special Mention – Reveal the City: the Telhu’Halle

Rochefort Océan (FR) Winner – L’escargot, la méduse et le bégonia Winner – Let the River In! Special Mention – Be Kind, Rewild 102 103 104 105

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Special Mention – Volcano

2/ CREATING

2/a Third Spaces In-between

PROXIMITIES

Third Space as Transitional Agent Socrates Stratis (CY), PhD in Architecture, urbanist

and associate professor Hyvinkää (FI) Winner – Symbiotic Fabric Runner-Up – Come Together Special Mention – Come Together Special Mention – The Green Ring

La Louvière (BE) Winner – InterActions

Lasarte-Oria (ES) Winner – Common Node Runner-Up – Agrihub Runner-Up – Lo-Lo-Land Special Mention – Baserritar 4.0 Special Mention – Basohiria

Madrid – La Arboleda (ES) Winner – Proxiphery Special Mention – Treeness – Productive Arboleda Special Mention – Urban Biotope

Special Mention – Zipper City Rødberg (NO) Winner – N.E.W (New Era Wharf) Runner-Up – Lanterner

Rotterdam Kop Dakpark (NL) Winner – Hybrid Parliament Runner-Up – Coop*Work*Park

Sant Climent de Llobregat (ES) Winner – Prunus Avium Runner-Up – Masoveri@ Special Mention – The Shape of Water

Villach (AT) Runner-Up – Stadthöfe Runner-Up – Thresholds (Myth) Special Mention – The Prosperity of a non-Efficient Neighbourhood

146 2/b Interfaces and short cycles

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Blaž Babnik Romaniuk (SI), Architect Auby (FR) Winner – Extractions, from Source to Resources Runner-Up – Grey Matter Runner-Up – Productive Synergy

Casar de Cáceres (ES) Winner – La Charca de la Abundancia Runner-Up – Quesar de Cáceres Special Mention – Ithaka Special Mention – Hybrid Landscapes

Floirac (FR) Winner – Souys-Lab Runner-Up – Augmented Materials Special Mention – New Mythology

Halmstad (SE) Winner – Connection Hub Runner-Up – Walking Halmstad Special Mention – #Stationsstaden

Romainville (FR) Runner-Up – Métropolis métabolisme Special Mention – Bridging Productivities Special Mention – L.A.B.S

Rotterdam Brainpark I (NL) Winner – Team Brainpark Special Mention – Building upon Brainpark Special Mention –

Elegy for the Office Park Selb (DE) Winner – Scherben bringen Glück

3/ IMPLANTING

182 3/a Productive Uses

Special Mention – Selbstgemacht Types and Fields Julio de la Fuente (ES),

Architect and urbanist Innsbruck (AT) Runner-Up – Happy Valley Runner-Up – The Green Heart 192 193 194

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218 219 220 224 230 231 232 233 234 236 237 238 Oliva (ES) Winner – Productive Memories Runner-Up – Even a Brick Wants to Be Something Special Mention – Lattice-Work Special Mention – Look Back, Move Forward! Special Mention – Loop-settling

Pays de Dreux (FR) Winner – Urbanisme agricole Runner-Up – Ecological Magnets Special Mention – A(gri)puncture

Rotterdam Groot IJsselmonde (NL) Winner – Hartland Runner-Up – Semi-Urban IJsselmonde

Uddevalla (SE) Winner – Jalla! Runner-Up – Wake “Bu-Hov-Berg” Up! Special Mention – Plant Uddevalla

Verbania (IT) Winner – Landscape in Between Runner-Up – Lung Hub

Visby (SE) Winner – A Green Settlement – Outside the Wall Runner-Up – See you Between the Wall and the City Special Mention – The Great Visby

Wien (AT) Winner – Capability Mound

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Runner-Up – Der Januskopf Time as Agent to Implant Productive Milieus and to Rethink New Interactions Between Human and Nonhuman Céline Bodart (BE), Architect, PhD in Architecture, researcher and professor and Dimitri Szuter (FR), Architect,

researcher, dancer and performer Barcelona (ES) Runner-Up – Blue Lines Runner-Up – Living Soils Runner-Up – Overlapping Vallbona Special Mention – Interchanger

Bergische Kooperation (DE) Winner – Bergisch Plugin Winner – The Productive Region 240 241 242 243

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Palma (ES) Winner – Beginning at the End Special Mention – Infrastructural Fields Special Mention – Parc-in

Raufoss (NO) Winner – Sewn Heart Runner-Up – This Must Be the Place Special Mention – Today Tomorrow

Rotterdam Visserijplein (NL) Winner – Rambla + Kapsalon Runner-Up – Productive Void Special Mention – Rotterdam Housing-Hub

Saint-Omer (FR) Winner – Hydro-Productive Parks Runner-Up – Saint-Omer: 9 Places to the Sea Special Mention – Social Infrastructures

Tuusula (FI) Winner – Anttila Farm Incubator Runner-Up – 60ºNorth Special Mention – Pihabitat

Special Mention – Symbiosis

WHAT NEXT?

Projects-Processes Manifesto Bernd Vlay (AT), architect, president of Europan Austria, Europan Scientific Committee’s member. With the contribution of the other Europan

Scientific Committee’s members Europan Secretariats

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