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Next Monday 5 February will be launched the ninth session of Europan. You will then find on the website www.europan-europe.com information on the theme, the sites, the calender and the rules and will be able to register and download the full site’s files of the competition.
We hope that many of you will take part to this session on a dynamic –sustainable city and new public spaces – and strategic theme for the 73 European cities that propose attractive sites and wait for your innovative ideas and projects. You will find underneath some synthetic information on the competition.
While launching Europan 9, we make a double bet. On one side, we count on the young professionals of design, who will take part in it with energy, to show, once again, their talent and imagination. And, on the other side, we count in the success of projects most carrying urbanity linked to the specific contexts.
Good work - and good luck - to you all!
| Launching |
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05 02 2007 |
| End of registrations |
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31 05 2007 |
| Entries |
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28 06 2007 |
| Results |
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18 01 2008 |
22 participating countries and 73 sites
Belgique/België/Belgien
Ceska Republika
Denmark
Deutschland
Eesti
España
France
Hrvatska
Ireland
Italia
Latvija
Magyarország
Nederland
Norge
Österreich
Polska
Portugal
Schweiz / Suisse / Svizzera / Svizra
Slovenija
Suomi-Finland
Sverige
United Kingdom
The generic theme of Europan 9 – European urbanity, sustainable city and new public spaces - specifically involves collaboration with the cities and urban developers in the organising countries. Indeed, the ultimate aim of the European vision of the city is to make society, in other words to bring together people of all conditions and origins. However, the dominant trend towards individualisation, the quest for autonomy, cannot be ignored. This is precisely the contradiction that Europan addresses: on the one hand wanting the city – i.e animation, communal life, people – and on the other side wanting intimacy, privacy, home and the immediate circle.
Once again, the generic topic of European urbanity lends itself to the multiple variations suggested by the sites proposed by the cities to entrants in the EUROPAN 9 competition. They are divided into four "families", differentiated by the problems they raise: possibilities for extension of the sustainable city, mobility networks and interconnections, local mutations and densification, opportunities for public spaces in an urban context.
TOPIC
EUROPEAN URBANITY
SUSTAINABLE CITY AND NEW PUBLIC SPACES
Urbanity can be defined as a shared way of experiencing the city and its functions but also as a way of envisaging city space in order to create the conditions for people to come together in communal places: public space.
But where does public space start and where does it stop? Can neighbourhood and local spaces be seen as part of the public domain? And also, can we use the term public space for the new communal spaces - such as shopping malls, stations and airports?
Designing urbanity-creating projects that link in with the status of public space means rethinking it in the context of sustainable urban development, i.e. development that does not damage the environment but incorporates it into the process of change. It raises a few questions.
Mobilities and diversity of travel
How to deal with car use within the city and to encourage a diversity of travel methods in the public domain?
Densities, morphology and open spaces
Does preventing city sprawl consuming natural areas necessarily mean increasing the construction density and enhancing communal open spaces where nature is present in the city?
Multifunctionality and intensity
How to promote functional mix in order to reduce travel distances and facilitate intensity of collective spaces?
Private space / public space
Faced with the risk of the hegemony of private dimension to the detriment of communal space within the contemporary city, how to deal with the dynamic of investments around public domain?
FAMILIES OF SITES
Topic 1: EXTENSIONS IN QUESTION
Since a sustainable approach of the urban development implies a moderate consumption of the territory, how to deal efficiently with the best potentialities for extensions?
a) Aligning
Badajos (E) - Calahorra (E) - Cork (Ir) - Moudon (CH) - Ørestad (DK) - Riga (LV) - Santander (E) - Tartu (EE) - Tjörn (S)
b) Limiting
Almere (NL) - Catania (I) - Espoo (SF) - Kapfenberg (A) - Kotka (SF) - La Laguna (E) - Odda (N) - Rostock (D) - Tallinn (EE)
Topic 2: NETWORKS ON THE MOVE
Is there a new way to consider the networks of mobility within the city, not only as a functional mean to move, but also as a new starter to create intensity and urbanity?
a) Linking
Herning (DK) - Linz (A) - Loures (P) - Nacka (S) - Praha (CK) - Reims (F) - Sion (CH)
b) Polarizing
Graz (A) - Nijmegen (NL) - Ottignies (B) - Upplands Väsby (S) - Vantaa (SF)
c) Diffusing
Andenne (B) - Le Locle (CH) -Oslo (N) - Reggio Emilia (I)
Topic 3: LOCAL MUTATIONS
What kind of urban project can be proposed to “build the city over the city” in obsolete areas as well as in living districts to transform them into multifunctional neighbourhoods?
a) Infiltrating
Ama (E) – Amsterdam (NL) - Babenhausen (D) - Carbonia (I) - Genève (CH) - Gyor (H) - Saint Chamond (F) - Straubing (D) - Warszawa (PL) - Zagreb (HV)
b) Intensifying
Dublin (IR) - Erice (I) - Groningen (NL) - Le Havre (F) - Mulhouse (F) - Pistoia (I) - Poïo (E) - Selb (D) – Sheffield (UK) - Stoke-on-Trent (UK) - Vejle (DK)
Topic 4 OPPORTUNITIES FOR PUBLIC SPACE
How to create new types of public spaces, not as artificial forms cut off from the social dynamics, but related to living spaces and profiting of the opportunities offered by the existing urban territory?
a) Walking
Berlin (D) - Clermont-Ferrand (F) - Donauwörth (D) - Ljubljana (SL) - Milton Keynes (UK) - Spremberg (D) - Tirso (P) - Trondheim (N) – Wien (A)
b) Sharing
Bisceglie (I) - Bordeaux (F) - Délémont (CH) - Firenze (I) - Lillestrøm (N) - Odivelas (P) - Opatija (HV) - Siracusa (I) - Soria (E)
CALENDAR
Launching
Launch date of the competition (consultation of Web site including theme, rules, presentation of sites proposed for the session): Monday 5 February 2007
Registration
Registration online and downloading of the complete site folders: Monday 5 February – Thursday 31 May 2007
Questions and visits
A Forum online for each site will be available between 5 February and 6 April 2007. A Forum online on the rules will be available between 5 February and 18 April 2007.
The dates of visits organized with the local and national officials on each site will be posted on the European website.
Entries
Closing date for submission of entries: Thursday 28 June 2007.
Closing date for receipt of entries sent by express delivery services or by post: Monday 23 July 2007.
Selection
Short-listing of entries by the national juries: September - October 2007
European Cities and Juries Forum: November 2007
Results
Announcement of results: Friday 18 January 2008
European Forum of results: June 2008
PATRONAGE
  
Under the auspices of the Member of the European Commission in charge of education, training, culture and multilinguism, Mr Nikolaos Sifunakis, and the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Mr Terry Davis
THANKS
Europan Europe wishes to thank all those who helped to provide the materials of this Europan 9 Website.
SITES
The documents of the sites pages - images and texts - have been produced together with the representatives of the 73 sites and the national secretariats of 22 participating countries.
TOPICS
The topics pages (Urbanity of housing, between city and nature - Open spaces as new public spaces - From the network to the street) are the synthesis of three thematic debates of the Forum of Sites, held in Berlin last 2 December 2006.
FAMILLIES OF SITES AND TOPICS
Topics reviews and analysis were conducted by the members of the Technical Commission, and supervised by the Scientific Committee:
Scientific Committee:
Pascal Amphoux, geographer, professor, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Carlos Arroyo Zapatero, architect, teacher, Madrid, Spain.
Aglaee Degros, architect, teacher, Delft-Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Ellen Hellsten , architect, teacher, Oslo, Norway.
Hugo Hinsley, architect, professor at the ’Architectural School, London, United-Kingdom.
Ines Nizic, architect, teacher, Vienna, Austria - Croatia
Bernard Reichen, architect, urban planner, Paris, France.
Roger Riewe, architect, professor Graz, Austria.
Marcel Smets, architect, professor, Louvain University, Belgium.
Socrates Stratis, architect, Europan Cyprus secretary, Nicosie, Cyprus.
Technical commission:
Pierre-Marie Auffret, architect, Paris, France
David Franco, architect, Madrid, Spain.
Jens Metz, architect, Berlin, Germany.
Didier Rebois, Europan general secretary, architect, professor, Paris, France.
Bernd Vlay, architect, Europan Austria secretary, Graz, Austria.
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