21.05.2021 - h 17:00 link zoom | Call Launch and Jury Presentation
The ENCOUNTERPOINTS Design Ideas Competition invites architects, designers, planners, activists, and postgraduate students across the world to redesign neglected and marginal space through catalyst low-cost interventions aimed at implementing the character of the place and the quality of life of the residents and visitors of a neighbourhood.
Short-term commitment is often the first step towards longer-term change. We believe that participatory activities, activism, and appropriations of public spaces positively impact individuals, society, and offer a unique chance to face and untangle complex issues of cultural dialogue, integration, and negotiation.
The ENCOUNTERPOINTS Design Ideas Competition ensues from the EU funded research project en/counter/points: (Re)Negotiating Belonging through Culture and Contact in Public Space and Place, which investigates the relationships between official and unofficial sites, practices, processes, and discourses of public space, culture and integration to uncover multiple (re)negotiations of belonging in a diverse Europe.
The ENCOUNTERPOINTS Design Ideas Competition is aimed at investigating how public space design can promote, enable, and encourage these processes, by collecting challenging, innovative, original proposals targeting the common goal of creating a more inclusive, equal, sustainable built environment.
Jury:
- Sebastião de Botton– Colectivo Warehouse
- Patrizia di Monte – Gravalos Di Monte
- Mascha Fehse – ConstructLab
- Théo Mouzard - Collectif Etc
- Stefano Ragazzo – Orizzontale
Event curated by Jacopo Leveratto