Das ist unser Haus! | Burkhard Grießenauer, Daniel Kunle, and Holger Lauinger | SEELAND Medienkooperative E.D. | Germany, 2017 | 64 min. | German
Members of the Mietshäuser Syndikat (Union of Rented Housing) describe the model of collective appropriation of space and present projects of widely varying approaches and settings of housing.
The German philosopher speaks of public spaces that make it possible for us to work out who we are through interaction with strangers. At the same time, public spaces are a precondition for collective democratic action.
The Killing of Muhammad Gulzar | Forensic Architecture | United Kingdom, 2020 | 16' | English
Forensic Architecture (FA) is a research agency based at Goldsmiths, University of London. Its multidisciplinary team works together to reconstruct and document cases of abuse for purposes of reporting them in legal and political forums.
An architect and sociologist with a long career concerned with cities, he considers several key aspects of urban transformation and reviews examples of good urban public space practices around the world.
The new call for entries will open on 20 April
The eleventh European Prize for Urban Public Space (2022) will be offered again this year after the interruption in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. This year’s award will cover works carried out between 2018 and 2021.
2018 Edition Finalist
The renovation of the Old Port clears the docks of visual and architectural barriers, thus making the presence of leisure boats compatible with access for all citizens and their recreational activities.
A place where sixteen demonstrating workers were killed in the 1970s has become the new Solidarity Square while also forming the roof of an underground museum on the recent history of a city which was seriously damaged during the Second World War.
The orchards around the town are the focus of an integral project of restoration which restores the old irrigation system of thermal waters, reactivates agricultural activity and opens up a network of pedestrian pathways.
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