Levente Polyak

Featured in Changer with Funding the Cooperative City!

Posted on March 5, 2016 by PL

Eutropian with VIC and the other 9 projects supported by Advocate Europe were featured in Changer – A Stronger Europe Through Continental Obstacles. Take a look!

Concerned with the future of social services and welfare systems in European cities, the project, Funding the Cooperative City, by the Rome-based association Eutropian, is positioned at the interface of urbanism and activism. Working through an established network of actors from Southern and Eastern European cities, the project explores visions for the city of tomorrow, where social services are provided by citizen networks and where cooperative urban development prevails. Through a series of workshops in Budapest, Madrid, and Rome as well as a publication, the outcomes will be spread throughout Europe.

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MARCH 7, Amsterdam > New Life for Markets at Pakhuis de Zwijger

Posted on March 3, 2016 by PL

Next Monday 7th March we will be presenting our work on markets in Rome at the Pakhuis de Zwijger.
The Italian Challenge – Dutch Designer inspires Europe
Pakhuis de Zwijger at 20:00 on 7th March

More info here

Last year the Dutch Embassy in Rome and the Consulate General in Milan called out for urban projects about Food, Water and Energy. The purpose for this open call was to get Dutch and Italian architects, researchers and other creatives to work together on urban challenges. This resulted in a successful programme of Dutch Italian collaborations. For this evening we invited four of these projects to Amsterdam to tell us how they worked together, the different urban challenges and future projects.

The objective of Il mercato al centro was to explore with experts working in the Netherlands which could be the future role of markets in the reanimation of the neighbourhoods from a social point of view as a service to the citizen, from the health one thanks to quality food, from an environmental one with short chain food distribution and lastly from an economic one supporting local production.

Il mercato al centro is a cooperation of Eutropian, the TUTUR project of the City of Rome,TSPOON and supported by the Dutch Embassy in Rome.

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FEBRUARY 27, London > R-Urban Wick, Hackney

Posted on February 26, 2016 by PL

Join us for a weekend of hands on workshops at R-Urban Wick in the Mobile Garden City. 10.30AM – 5PM

Levente Polyak from the EUTROPIAN project will be joining us on Saturday to interview some of the participants and give a short presentation about EUTROPIAN. Levente is a researcher and urban planner, specialised in urban regeneration, cultural development, community participation, local economic development and social innovation. He will give a short presentation in the shed at 1pm – just before/during lunch.

R-URBAN WICK @ THE MOBILE GARDEN CITY
Corner of Temple Mills Lane and Honour Lea Ave
Chobham Manor Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
E15 2ER

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https://www.facebook.com/Public-Works-154153644744211/
http://www.publicworksgroup.net/

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Nuova vita ai mercati / New life for markets film released!

Posted on January 22, 2016 by PL

New Life for Markets is a project that aims at elaborating strategies to revitalize declining marketplaces. Marketplaces have traditionally constituted some of the most important public spaces, attracting people from all ways of lives and all financial capabilities. In the past decades, however, they gradually lost their role: while urban and metropolitan agriculture are flourishing, and an increasing number of enterprises work on short chain food distribution, many markets in European cities are abandoned or underused. The project explores the possibilities to renew markets as public spaces, by connecting them to new agriculture initiatives, by inviting various actors to play a role in their renewal, and by creating viable economic models for their maintenance and vitality, by including new social and cultural functions.

In October and November 2015, we organized workshops at the markets of Pigneto and Metronio to bring together protagonists of the marketplace revival. Emanuela Liverani and Federico Greco made a film of these events, looking at both the architectural and social dimensions of these markets. Watch the film here.

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DECEMBER 14, Brussels > Partnership for urban development – Future of the EU Urban Agenda

Posted on December 14, 2015 by PL

Partnership for urban development – Future of the EU Urban Agenda
EESC, room VMA 3 – rue van Maerlant 2, 1040 Brussels, Belgium

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Following the lead of the upcoming Dutch EU Presidency, the European urban policy community is actively working on the preparation of an Urban Agenda. The aim is to promote cooperation between European, national and city level representatives and stakeholders so as to stimulate growth, liveability and innovation. In order to better understand how to engage civil society organisations, the Dutch Presidency invited the EESC to express its opinion on this issue.

It is within this context that the EESC is organising a public hearing on Partnership for urban development – Future of the EU Urban Agenda. The purpose of the hearing is to gather suggestions from representatives of civil society organisations as well as experts in the field of urban development, and discuss them with institutional representatives in view of channelling findings into the EESC’s opinion. The event will take place on 14 December 2015 from 2.30 p.m. at the EESC’s premises.

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DECEMBER 2-3, Plzen > Creative Placemaking Festival

Posted on December 1, 2015 by PL

December 2-3, 2015
DEPO2015, Pilsen; DOX, Prague

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Creative placemaking and sustainable urban development are among the most intriguing current challenges. How can designers, urban planners, architects, cultural operators, and other creative minds contribute? What role can abandoned industrial spaces play in industrial towns and cities? How can new technologies be used for cities’ development and transformation? How can new ways of engaging citizens and attracting tourists help to (re)create cities, towns, and places? Modern cultural institutions: how do they help create places and implement cultural strategies, while engaging business, art, and policy actors?

The aim of this year’s edition of the Open Up! Creative Placemaking festival is to answer these questions and discuss culture driven urban development. The event will bring together policy makers, artists, representatives of cultural institutions, architects, designers, and the general public to discuss how to use the arts and culture in order to design better cities.

Among some of the confirmed guests are Agata Etmanowicz (Fabryka Sztuki), Štěpán Kubišta (Jatka 78), Levente Polyak (Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Center), Kim Tuin (NDSM creative zone in Amsterdam), and many other experts.

You can find the draft agenda and more information HERE.

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NOVEMBER 23-24, Budapest > A SEM IX. Budapesten – Egy fenntartható városrehabilitáció anatómiája

Posted on November 22, 2015 by PL

A SEM IX. Budapesten – Egy fenntartható városrehabilitáció anatómiája – Konferencia és városi séta / La SEM IX à Budapest – L’anatomie d’une transformation durable
2015. november 23-24.

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A Ferencváros rehabilitációja az első olyan budapesti városfejlesztési projekt volt, amely egy önkormányzat és a magánszféra együttműködésére alapult. A fejlesztés az 1990-es évek elején kezdődött, célja a kerület megújítása volt a leromlott épületállomány fokozatos felújításán és a helyi életminőség javításán keresztül. A fejlesztés középpontjában a SEM IX vegyes gazdasági társaság volt, amelyet az 1980-as években kifejlesztett francia modell alapján hoztak létre. A rehabilitáció sikerének általános elismertsége és eredményeinek tartóssága ellenére a SEM IX munkája kevéssé ismert a közvélemény számára.

A konferencia és városi séta célja a SEM IX. munkájának újrafelfedezése. A program a ferencvárosi rehabilitáció folyamatát mutatja be magyar és francia szereplőin, városfejlesztési és gazdasági modelljén, mechanizmusain és eljárásain keresztül. A Kortárs Építészeti Központ és a Budapesti Francia Intézet által szervezett esemény célja egy olyan rehabilitációs folyamat megértése, egyidejűleg a nagyközönség számára való bemutatása, amely a jövő fejlesztési projektjei számára is modellként szolgálhat.

November 23. Helyszín: Francia Intezet / Institut Francais de Budapest – 1011 Budapest Fő u. 17.
A konferencia nyelve magyar és francia, szinkrontolmácsolást biztosítunk

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NOVEMBER 14, Roma > Mercato come Servizio

Posted on November 6, 2015 by PL

Il 14 Novembre si terrà l’incontro “Mercato come Servizio” all’interno della rassegna “Nuova Vita ai Mercati”. L’evento si terrà presso il Mercato Metronio di Via Magna Grecia dalle 10:30 alle 14:30. Per partecipare si prega di registrarsi a info@eutropian.org

L’evento consiste di un laboratorio con presentazioni e discussione in gruppi sulle potenzialità e le sfide per integrare nuovi usi e nuove funzioni all’interno dei mercati rionali esistenti, al fine assicurare una sostenibilità economica del mercato pur mantenendo la dimensione pubblica ed inclusiva dello spazio.

Programma del 14 Novembre presso il Mercato Metronio

Programma
10:30 – 11:30: benvenuto, introduzione, walkabout con Urban Experience
11:30 – 12:30: discussione in gruppi / modello gestionale del mercato / offerta funzionale e programmatica / modelli economici di mantenimento e ristrutturazione
12:30 – 13:30: conclusione dei gruppi di lavoro
13:30 – 14:30: pranzo al mercato!

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NOVEMBER 3, Budapest > Kihasználatlan terek a városi közösségek szolgálatában

Posted on November 1, 2015 by PL

Kihasználatlan terek a városi közösségek szolgálatában
2015. NOVEMBER 3., KEDD, 9.00-15.00
KÉK, BP. 1111, BARTÓK BÉLA ÚT 10-12.
http://lakatlan.kek.org.hu/seismic-konferencia/
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Magyarországon egyre nagyobb jelentőséget kap a kihasználatlan ingatlanok kérdése. Miközben az üres épületek, helyiségek, telkek jelentős költségeket terhelnek tulajdonosaik vállára, használatba vételükre egyre nagyobb igény mutatkozik a civil és a vállalkozói szférák részéről. Bár az elmúlt években mind az önkormányzatok, mind a civil társadalom oldalán számos kezdeményezés született az üres ingatlanok strukturált újrahasznosítására, a valódi áttörés várat magára. A lakatlan ingatlanok közösségi célú használatba vételének sikere elsősorban a különböző szereplők közötti kommunikáció és bizalom megteremtésén múlik, elősegítve a különböző kapacitások és elvárások, illetve a kínálat és a kereslet közötti kapcsolat létrejöttét.
A konferencia az üres ingatlanok újrahasznosításának lehetőségeit tárja fel, különböző nézőpontok megismertetésén és az egyes városi szereplők igényeinek és lehetőségeinek elemzésén keresztül. Az önkormányzatok, piaci fejlesztő cégek, társadalmi vállalkozások és civil szervezetek képviselőit bemutató és dialógusba hozó esemény célja, hogy újszerű koncepciók segítségével új együttműködéseket hozzon létre egy élhetőbb és fenntarthatóbb város megteremtése érdekében.

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OCTOBER 31, Roma > Mercato in Filiera

Posted on October 26, 2015 by PL

31 Ottobre presso il Mercato di Via Alberto da Giussano, 58 al Pigneto

Programma

10:30 – 11:00: benvenuto, introduzione
11:00 – 12:30: discussione in gruppi: Produzione / Nuovi modelli di vendita / Consumo e ristorazione smaltimento e riciclo dei rifiuti
12:30 – 13:00: conclusione dei gruppi di lavoro
13:00 – 14:30: pranzo al mercato!

Gli eventi di ‘Nuova Vita ai Mercati’ sono realizzati grazie alla collaborazione di Wonderland Platform for European Architecture, Orizzontale, Emuanuela Liverani, Federico Greco, Manuel Torresan, Osservatorio Carteinregola, Urban Experience, gli operatori del mercato Metronio, gli operatori del mercato di Via Alberto da Giussano con il supporto di European Culture Foundation.

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