The Europan 18 competition topic focuses on the Re-Sourcing questions.
The fragility of the Earth’s ecosystem and social crises lead to the imagination of alternative practices to harmful extraction of resources, overconsumption and pollution of living milieus. Regenerating projects embracing nature and culture are to be though and implemented. It is about weaving synergies between biogeophysical data with socio-spatial justice and health ones. Three main directions for designing forms of resilience and resourcing of inhabited milieus make possible to reactivate other forms of dynamics and narratives around the ecologies of living and caring.
Italy proposes an interesting site in the City of Polignano a Mare a beautiful city by the sea and international tourist destination, in the Apulia region.
The challenge is to find new ideas for urban connections, new residential forms and new uses in some railway areas that are being decommissioned.
Eligibility: under 40 architects, landscaper, engineer-architects, professional in architecture, landscape and urbanism.
The team could be composed also by the graduated except the team leader that must be a professional architect.
Information in italian language on the europan-italia.eu website. Registration and information in english language on europan-europe.eu website.
