EUROPAN 14, new edition. PRODUCTIVE CITIES, new topic

EUROPAN 14 

1. FROM PRODUCTION TO PRODUCTIVE CITY
What kind of urbanity can logistics and industrial zones have?

The issue is to transform monofunctional districts –and more specifically large housing districts similar to “bedroom communities”– to give them some urban dimension through multiple programs at different scales. Some productive uses can come under the notion of proximity – craftsmen, small traders and service providers, and work related to habitat.

This scale can be extended with productive facilities and venues that are compatible with the residential character. Non-resident citizens also contribute to the district life according to the different rhythms of the day.

ALTA (NO), AMIENS (FR), AMSTERDAM (NL), ANGERS (FR), BÈGLES (FR), ESSEN (DE), GRIGNY/RIS-ORANGIS (FR), HAMBURG (DE), HUY (BE), KRIENS (CH), LILLE (FR), TOULOUSE (FR), WIEN (AT)

2. FROM CITY TO PRODUCTIVE CITY
How to create a vibrant production district, with artisans, workshops and local production?

How to integrate some of the production activities in the city –such as the production of food, energy, low skilled services, new industrial products– to enhance new relations between citizens?

Zoning planning created many “activity” or “industrial zones”, where the dynamics lies on  working hours and some activities have to evolve to minimize urban nuisances.

If new working forms can lead to regeneration, so can the installation of housing and facilities. The issue is to restructure them around public or shared areas, often absent from those territories.

ALCOY (ES), AMSTERDAM (NL), BARCELONA (ES), BESANÇON (FR), CUNEO (IT), KARLSKRONA (SE), LA BAZANA (ES), NARVIK (NO), NEU-ULM (DE), OULU (FI), PLAYA DE PALMA (ES), ZWICKAU (DE)

3. FROM FUNCTIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE TO PRODUCTIVE CITY
How can new forms of mobility improve the degree of hybridization between city and production?

The city has traditionally mixed working places to other uses around structuring streets. Yet, those were transformed by modern planning –designed around motorisation (cars, trucks…)– into non-attractive nuisance roads.

Maintaining production spaces around those axes whilst playing the card of the diversity of uses also involves rethinking those streets in an urban way and provide them with a planning that allows the compatibility of different uses and mobilities.

AMSTERDAM (NL), AURILLAC (FR), ÉVREUX (FR), GRAZ (AT), HELSINKI (FI), MADRID (ES), MÜNCHEN (DE), TORNIO-HAPARANDA (FI/SE), TORRELAVEGA (ES), VINKOVCI (HR)

4. And ... AGAIN PRODUCTIVE!
¿Cómo reintroducir la economía productiva en los nuevos barrios urbanos?

Making the city on the city and regenerating built fragments to consume less territory is a challenge for most European cities. But the mutation / regeneration of large obsolete wastelands –industrial sites, barracks…– can take time, depending on the site scales but also on the necessary change of image to become attractive. 

It is this “in-between time” that can lead to innovative urban practices filling up spaces in a transitional way. Cultural, but also productive activities can develop there in favourable economic conditions and for a limited time, and participate to the evolution of the identity.

AMSTERDAM (NL), GUEBWILLER (FR), LINZ (AT), PANTIN (FR), ŠIBENIK (HR), TRELLEBORG (CH), TUBIZE (BE), WARSZAWA (SE), ZAGREB (HR)


In Spain, the National Committee of EUROPAN 14, presided by the MINISTERIO DE FOMENTO and with the CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE LOS COLEGIOS DE ARQUITECTOS DE ESPAÑA as Managing Member, is formed by the following Promoters and Associate Members:

City Council of Alcoy, City Council of Barcelona, City Council of Madrid, General Direction of Housing and Architecture, Government of Cantabria, General Direction of Architecture, Council of Extremadura, Government of the Balearic Islands, Department of Architecture, Generalitat Valencian, ADIF, FEMP.

EUROPEAN 14 SCHEDULE

RELEASE AND ENRROLLMENT

Monday 13 February 2017.-
- Launching of the competition on the European website with the theme, the regulations, the files of the national structures of EUROPAN and the presentation of the sites of the call.
- Opening of the registration period through the European website and access to the complete information of the sites.

INTERACTIVE INFORMATION ON THE SITES AND THE COMPETITION RULES

Visitas a los emplazamientos
Las fechas de las visitas organizadas con los responsables locales y nacionales se publicarán en la Web europea (consultar la página de los emplazamientos).

CONSULTATION OF SITES THROUGH THE INTERNET

Friday, May 19, 2017.-
Deadline for submitting questions on sites and rules
Friday, June 2, 2017.-
Deadline for answers on questions on sites and rules

ENROLLMENT

Monday, June 19, 2017.-
Deadline for registration

DELIVERY

Friday, June 30, 2017.-
Deadline for submitting documents
Monday July 3, 2017.-
Publication –on the European website– of a temporary list of submitted projetcs
Friday July 7, 2017.-
Deadline for controlling submissions & publication of the final list of submissions

SELECTION AND JUDGEMENT

July-November 2017.-
Shortlisting of entries by the national juries
October 2017.-
– Comparative European analysis of the shortlisted ideas.
– Forum of Cities and Juries.
November 2017.-
Final selection of winning projects by the national juries

RESULTS

Friday, Dec. 1, 2017.-
Results Announcement
November 2018.-
Inter-Sessions Forum