Europan 15

Feb 2019 - Feb 2021
Productive cities /2

Figures Europan 15

PARTICIPATION

1241 REGISTRATIONS
901 ENTRIES (72,6%)

136 PRIZES

44 WINNERS AND 47 RUNNERS-UP 
PLUS 45 SPECIAL MENTIONS
ON 47 SITES

Countries and sites

EUROPAN 15 - 12 participating countries

Europan Belgique/België/Belgien
Europan Deutschland
Europan España
Europan France
Europan Hrvatska
Europan Italia
Europan Nederland
Europan Norge
Europan Österreich
Europan Polska
Europan Suomi - Finland
Europan Sverige

Cities of EUROPAN 15 - 47 urban situations

Belgique/België/Belgien: Charleroi (BE), La Louvière (BE)
Deutschland: Bergische Kooperation (DE), Selb (DE)
España: Barcelona (ES), Casar de Cáceres (ES), Lasarte-Oria (ES), Madrid - La Arboleda (ES), Oliva (ES), Palma (ES), Sant Climent de Llobregat (ES)
France: Auby (FR), Champigny-sur-Marne (FR), Floirac (FR), Marseille (FR), Pays de Dreux (FR), Port-Jérôme-sur-Seine (FR), Rochefort Océan (FR), Romainville (FR), Saint-Omer (FR)
Hrvatska: Karlovac (HR), Nin (HR)
Italia: Laterza (IT), Verbania (IT)
Nederland: Rotterdam Brainpark I (NL), Rotterdam Groot IJsselmonde (NL), Rotterdam Kop Dakpark (NL), Rotterdam Vierhavensblok (NL), Rotterdam Visserijplein (NL)
Norge: Guovdageaidnu (NO), Raufoss (NO), Rødberg (NO)
Österreich: Graz (AT), Innsbruck (AT), Villach (AT), Weiz (AT), Wien (AT)
Polska: Warszawa (PL)
Suomi/Finland: Hyvinkää (FI), Tuusula (FI)
Sverige: Borås (SE), Enköping (SE), Halmstad (SE), Helsingborg (SE), Täby (SE), Uddevalla (SE), Visby (SE)

Theme

PRODUCTIVE CITIES /2
Resources - Mobility - Equity

Europan 15 session enlarges the topic from Europan 14 –“Productive Cities”, which is a complex and crucial one in the contemporary mutation of European cities. This session, Europan would like to particularly focus on the issue of the ecological transition related to a vision of the productive city for the future.
The ecological productive transition needs to consider synergies between ecosystems, between biotopes and artefacts, between functions and uses, between citizens (etc..) rather than only considering a dualist approach. Creating synergies between these elements is another way of thinking and making the city in order to anticipate and to make the urban authorities more aware of their responsibilities towards the environment and life.

Europan 15 therefore proposes to point out three issues for this challenge on new productive conditions of transformation: Resources, Mobility and Spatial Equity.

1- Resources How to minimize consumption and resource contamination (water, air, soil, energy...)? How to share resources? How to imagine social and technical innovations on this subject?

2- Mobility How to integrate mobility and accessibility into productive territories?

3- Equity How can spatial equity contribute to social equity? How to connect social and spatial elements? How to create a productive balance between territories, between urban and rural, between the rich and the poor?

These three categories –Resources, Mobility and Spatial Equity– can be declined on 3 scales: territorial, middle and micro scales.

The territorial scale –XL– corresponds to the larger scale, even beyond the city in some cases (inter-cities or rural) from the mutation of uses and practices. For Europan, this means developing, after the competition, strategic studies on larger scales that allow the city to have a guide for urban development.
The middle scale –L– is the one of the district or a strategic urban fragment. This type of sites leads to the development of the rewarded ideas into urban projects, in which the teams can also develop a smaller part.
The micro-scale –S– is the smaller scale, on which projects can develop and resonate on a larger scale. It is also the scale of fastest production, smallest interventions, sometimes even temporary.

Therefore, the challenge for Europan 15 is to propose a diversity of sites which reconsiders the connection based on synergies between city and productive spaces within 3x2 different issues : Implanting, Creating proximities, Changing metabolism.

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