The European Prize for Urban Public Space, highlights the relational and civic nature of the typically urban European space, addressing the concept of urban public space and searching for a model of a public, open, universal, compact city that fosters mixed uses and community spirit. In this 2016 edition, the Award seeks the best interventions in public space in European cities carried out throughout 2014 and 2015.
The criteria to be submitted are:
- The explicitly urban nature of the intervention. The size of the city or town is not a limiting factor although priority will be given to medium-sized or large municipalities and those with a more general urban significance.
- The public ownership and/or clearly public-spirited vocation of the project.
- Appropriateness of interventions to the functions required of public space, from those directly linked with citizens’ occupation of a space, through to those pertaining to the collective imaginary.
- Capacity of the interventions to reduce social fractures within the city and eliminate physical and/or symbolic barriers in order to enhance quality of life for the inhabitants.
- Contribution of the projects in the domain of environmental improvement, in promoting public transport and innovation in the treatment of public installations, energy resources and urban waste.
- The degree of citizen participation and engagement in the conception, production and/or subsequent maintenance of the space. Degree of acceptance of the project by users.
- Transversal character of the planning concepts and/or objectives that have guided the project (sociology, demography, history, architecture, economy, engineering, landscaping, anthropology).
If your project meets these criteria, do not hesitate, SIGN UP! Registration will be open from January 13th to February 22nd, you can read all the information here.
The European Prize for Urban Public Space, is a biennial honorary award which recognises, publicises and fosters the creation, recovery or improvement of shared spaces, it is an initiative of the Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona (CCCB) jointly organized with the The Architecture Foundation (London), the Architekturzentrum Wien (Vienna), the Institut Français d’Architecture / La Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine (Paris), the Museum of Finnish Architecture (Helsinki), the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (Frankfurt) and the Museum of Architecture and Design (Ljubljana).
