E18 Portraits - Cultivating the Commons

Madrid (ES) - Runner-up

Cultivating the Commons

Associates: Atidh Jonas Langbein (DE) – architect urbanist,  Matti Drechsel (DE) – urban planner,  Eduardo Vicente Puertes Espert (ES),  Mar Monfort Vengut (ES), Nami Gradolí Giner (ES) – architects 

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"Cultivating the Commons, means to give a new attention to what and who is already there. Existing places obtain new meaning by getting connected to each other. Long-time inhabitants gain new agency, by establishing new organisational forms. The care routines for open spaces are adapted to welcome new non-human inhabitants adapted to the local climate."

Soft mobility and urban ecology intervention
Network of pathways, placitas and renaturalized corralas
Enhancing the connection with its surroundings