EUROPAN 13 Topic continues with the EUROPAN 12 topic on "THE ADAPTABLE CITY"

18/02/2015. Launching next March 2nd, 2015
metalocus, INÉS LALUETA

Taking as its theme "The City Adaptable 2", the 13th edition of Europan invites young European architects to participate in its new edition.

Europan 13 logo.

Europan needs to adapt to the changing conditions in the production of urban and architectural environments and encourage new ways of designing and producing spaces. Adaptability is one of the major issues for the future of European cities, maybe one of the most important given the evolution of the urban societies.

EUROPAN 13 will be launched next March 2nd, 2015, on close to 50 sites in 15 European countries. In the meantime, get prepared with the important dates of this new session, below.

It is proposed for Europan 13 to continue with the generic theme of “the adaptable city”: adaption to the need for more sustainable development but adaption also to the context of an economic crisis that the majority of European cities are currently undergoing.

Three generic concepts structure this overall theme:

Resilience as a challenge: to be able to extend or find again the identity of the city’s structural elements (built or landscaped) in a context of significant changes.
Social adaptability as a goal: reconciling the coherence of these structures with the evolving uses and practices.
Economy as a method: managing urban transformations in different contexts of actors and means, yet with limited resources and in the era of the “post-oil city”

Taking these three themes into account induces changes in the urban and architectural order in the logics of actors (Welfare State Versus Self-Organization), in the contents (Segregation Versus Sharing) but also in the design processes (Object Versus Project (Process)) –
see details hereafter.

Europan therefore wishes that the sites be confronted to the major challenges concerning the adaptability of European cities and also propose concrete innovations in the order given by the site representatives, arousing new project approaches by young competitors

EUROPAN 13 CALENDAR

LAUNCH OF THE COMPETITION Mo. March 2nd, 2015.

Launch of the competition on the European website and opening date for registrations

SUBMITTIN QUESTIONS

Fr. May 15th, 2015.- Deadline for submitting questions on sites and rules
Fr. May 31st, 2015.- Deadline for answers on questions on sites and rules

DEADLINE SUBMITTIN DOCUMENTS

Tu. June 30th, 2015.- Deadline for submitting documents
Fr. July 3rd, 2015.- Deadline for controlling submissions

SHORTLISTING

July-October 2015.- Shortlisting of entries by the national juries
October 2015.- Comparative European analysis of the shortlisted ideas and Forum of Cities and Juries
November 2015.- Final selection of winning projects by the national juries Results

ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE RESULTS

Fr. Dec. 4th, 2015.- Announcement of the results
November 2016.- Inter-Sessions Forum