Levente Polyak

Eutropian will be leading the expertise within the URBACT network ‘Interactive cities’, looking into how digital, social media and user generated content can improve today’s urban management in the European cities. With the Leading Partner of the City of Genova (IT) together with Tartu (EE), Alba Iulia (RO), Murcia (ES), Liverpool (UK) and Lausanne (CH) we will start developing this new challenging project in the coming six months and then develop the second phase also with an extended partnership. Further information here.

Between 2012 and 2015, the KÉK – Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre invited to Budapest a dozen Dutch practitioners, whose work is organized around the reuse of vacant buildings and areas. By presenting these practices, connecting them to their Budapest counterparts and creating situations of formal and informal exchange, KÉK opened new spaces for thought in the Hungarian architecture, planning and deve- lopment culture and in civil society. Vacant City is the result of these encounters, assembling the key thoughts and experiences of the program’s 3 years.

The publication explores experiments in inclusive urban transformation and can be purchased at lakatlan@kek.org.hu or at the KÉK- Contemporary Architecture Centre Gallery at Bartók Béla út 10-12, Budapest.

Bottega #3
Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa
Venerdì 9 ottobre 2015 dalle 17:00 alle 19:00 (CEST)
Palermo, Italia
http://www.eventbrite.it/o/push-8114284153

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 workshop 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. The methodology of the workshop consists of collaborative process where participants share a common experience by visiting a traditional food market in Palermo with local experts from the administration, food industry and environmental NGOs, and then within a workshop session the potentials and challenges of a new market will be discussed: how to prevent gentrification, how to ensure accessible good quality food, how to organise markets in order to be economically sustainable. Participants are expected to contribute with their own expertise and bring back home new ideas on the development of a conceptual model for a vital, economically sustainable and socially inclusive marketplace. The outputs of the workshop will be integrated in the ongoing workshop series and publication in collaboration with the European Cultural Foundation, therefore for allowing for a wider dissemination of the experience.

Eutropian has become Associated Partner of the United Nations World Urban Campaign and will contribute towards developing inclusive governance and collaborative planning strategies within the Network. The collaboration aims aims at tackling the overwhelming challenges our cities face around the world, such as food, energy, economic crisis, and a growing realization of the consequences of climate change.

Do you have a film on architecture or the city? Send it to us! The Budapest Architecture Film Days is now accepting submissions for its 8th edition to be held in Budapest in March 2016. We are looking for works in all genres, forms and lengths related to design, architecture and built environment. Entry is free. Deadline: 31st October, 2015.

Please find the steps of submitting a film below:
1 – Fill out the form
2 – Send your film via an online file-transferring platform (dropbox, wetrasfer, etc.) to filmnapok@kek.org.hu
For more information about the festival please visit http://filmnapok.kek.org.hu/en/ or contact filmnapok@kek.org.hu.

A workshop on the new models for funding collaborative urban projects: the participants will mark existing urban initiatives and will jointly seek models for their sustainability when there is no solid financial footing. The people who will be drawn in the workshop include municipality officials, architects, urbanists and economists.

Supported by the Hungarian Cultural Institute in Sofia
Where: 51 Maritsa Blvd.
When: 21.09-22.09, 10.00-18.00
Subscribe at workshops@edno.bg before 15.09
Language: English, no translation
More details: http://edno.bg/en/one-architecture-week-2015/events/1762

Hybrid City is an international biennial event dedicated to exploring the emergent character of the city and the potential transformative shift of the urban condition, as a result of ongoing developments in information and communication technologies (ICTs) and of their integration in the urban physical context. It aims to promote dialogue and knowledge exchange among experts drawn from academia, as well as researchers, artists, designers, advocates, stakeholders and decision makers, actively involved in addressing questions on the nature of the technologically mediated urban activity and experience. The second installment of the Hybrid City, that took place in 2013 boasted seven keynote speakers, sixty-eight paper presentations and diverse parallel events, that were documented in the printed volume of proceedings. More info at http://uranus.media.uoa.gr/hc3/

Saturday, September 19, Auditorium Rivoli

More details at www.a10.eu

Wil je ook meedenken en werken aan de toekomst van de ruimtelijke ontwikkeling van Den Haag? Kom dan 4 september naar de werkconferentie Ruimte voor de stad. De gemeente Den Haag neemt het initiatief om samen de transities duurzaamheid, demografie, economie en technologie te verkennen en aan ruimtelijke oplossingen voor Den Haag te werken. Daarbij zijn Nederlandse en internationale experts met inspirerende lessen en visies uitgenodigd om onze manier van kijken naar de stad te prikkelen. Vrijdag 4 september is het begin van een nieuw netwerk met de stad. Samen worden nieuwe inzichten gecreëerd en ruimtelijke opgaven voor de stad geformuleerd. http://www.ruimtevoordestad.nl