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UPDATE SQUAT CITY COMPETITION! April 15th, 2009 More than 3'000 contributors have visited this site! More than 120 projects have been successfully submitted! We are enthusiastic about the results! THE DEADLINE FOR CONTRIBUTIONS WILL BE EXTENDED TO MAY 31st, 2009! THANKS TO ALL CONTRIBUTORS FOR CREATING OUR COMMUNITY! WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED DURING THE OPENING DAYS OF THE 4th IABR 2009 in ROTTERDAM IN SEPTEMBER! |
By today, we will launch the 'mini-documentary recorder', our mini-documentary assembling tool! All contributors are now able to create the mini-documentary of their project - it's easy to use and individual! Please go to "SUMISSION" and you will be directed to 'mini-documentary recorder'. You will also be able to see a mockup of the future webpage your project will be displayed on: www.urbaninform.net. This page and its projects will be exhibited at the 4thIABR. |
Squat in the Open City Today, the ability of the city to guarantee the co-existence of its inhabitants is threatened by social segregation, functional differentiation, and spatial fragmentation. The 4th IABR 'Open City' is committed to display projects that negotiate between the integrating and segregating forces and enable people of diverse cultures and lifestyles to connect and interact. ,Squat City' is part of the Rotterdam Biennale and deals with the increasingly common phenomenon of informal urban developments all over the world. If 'squatting' can be understood as the process of appropriation by which excluded local actors gain access to the territory and resources of a city, then a new type of activism should focus on the strategies and techniques that allow these informal processes to develop in a more inclusive and sustainable way. |
Squat City is a platform that supports the self-empowerment of local actors in the informal city. Squat City launches a competition calling for best-practice projects in the fields of architecture and urban design. Squat City will collect and display these projects and practices on the Squat City Community webpage. Squat City presents best-practice urban and architecture projects to potential sponsors in order to fund their further development. Squat City fosters strategies and practices that enable diverse co-existence in the Open City. |
Competition The projects submitted for the Squat City Competition should contribute the agenda of the 'Open City' by proposing inventive design strategies and techniques pertaining to informal urban development. The call goes out to projects from the fields of architecture and urban design that are based on or that support bottom-up practices and that encourage the self-empowerment of local actors, and that help formalize and legalize such developments. They qualify by being: - economically sustainable, e.g. by creating jobs and supporting. social business - ecologically and energetically sustainable, e.g. by reducing waste. or energy and material consumption. - socially sustainable, e.g. by creating education facilities and enabling communities to become self-reliant. |
Please enroll in the competition by completing the online submission form. The uploading of your contribution will result in a mini-documentary and a fact sheet. You can examine the three exemplary mini-documentaries, one from each of the three categories below: Tool: construction technologies, equipment, building material Building: design schemes for buildings and/or open spaces City: urban design schemes, financing strategies The selected projects will be displayed on the new Squat City Community webpage and be exhibited at the IABR 2009. |
Deadline for Submission: MAY 31st, 2009. The first prize is $2'000, the second $1'000, the third $500. download competition document The jury is composed of members of the IABR curatorial team: Kees Christiaanse (chief curator, KCAP), Tim Rieniets (ETHZ), Fabienne Hoelzl (ETHZ), Can Altay, Michelle Provoost (Crimson), Georgeen Theodore (Interboro), Bart Goldhorn (Project Russia) |
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sample1(tool): United Bottle, Instant
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sample2(building): Iquique, Alejandro Aravena
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sample3(city): Medellin, MetroCable
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Sponsoring Globally, project implementation depends on the connection of local actors, practitioners and sponsors for start-up funding or micro credits. Squat City is committed to establish this connection. The website will act like a catalogue for best-practices - an investment into the future of our cities. Squat City acts as a non-profit organization. Please contact us for further information: sponsoring@squatcity.net |
Contact info@squatcity.net Founders: Jörg Stollmann (stollmann@squatcity.net) Rainer Hehl (hehl@squatcity.net Associate Researchers: Christiane Lange (lange@squatcity.net) Lukas Pauer (pauer@squatcity.net) Maja Hodel (hodel@squatcity.net) Sasha Cisar (cisar@squatcity.net) Tomas Polach(polach@squatcity.net) Collaborating Institutions: Genisis Institute for Social Business and Impact Strategies |
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