The finalists for the 2022 Prize

After meeting on 14th and 15th July, the international Jury of the 2022 European Prize for Urban Public Space has chosen the 5 finalists for this year’s award.

Meeting in Barcelona of the International Jury to decide the selected works and finalists

The time has come for evaluating the 326 works from 35 countries that have been presented for the 2022 European Prize for Urban Public Space

Lugh O'Neill presents the spatial sound composition «Karst»

With his project “Karst”, composer and spatial sound designer Lugh O’Neill sets out to create a work of art recorded in situ in settings of great cultural and acoustic value

Samira Benini Allaouat presents the eco light sculpture "Geo-Llum"

The artist Samira Benini Allaouat presents “Geo-Llum”, an artistic installation that also works as public and ecological lighting. It is a proposal for public lighting in urban spaces based on a bacterium that produces electricity while decontaminating the soil. "Geo-Llum" is the winning project...

Counter tourism vs. tourism

• Judith Butler

The American philosopher, a lover of European cities, speaks of the dilemma of how to be a tourist without harming the environment or causing damage to local communities.

Meeting diversity

• Burhan Sönmez

The novelist and president of PEN International highlights the cosmopolitan spirit of Istanbul and recalls that Gustave Flaubert was fascinated by the diversity of languages he heard in its streets.

Postcard City

• Martín Garber Salzberg

Tourism is a huge source of income for Barcelona, and for some of its citizens, who have no qualms about attracting more and more tourists without a thought for the serious consequences this entails.

This is our house, if houses can be owned

• Martín Garber Salzberg

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.

"Tolerance for difference is learned in cities"

• Rahel Jaeggi

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.