How to re-place narratives of rehabilitation?

Excerpt from the Europan 17 catalogue of results, read the article from:

Bernd Vlay (AT) – architect,  StudioVlayStreeruwitz, teacher in Wien, www.vlst.at/en

Creating a provocative interpretation of a vital habitat labandoning its human-centred authorship to open up to non-human companions introducing a fascinating ʻtrans-human urbanity’. Instead of cannibalising the areas to develop them from the outside it provides an opportunity that something from within can start to blossom. Among the winning projects of Europan 17 competition, there is two groups - one facing the apparent threats of contamination, intoxication and fragmentation; the other facing the alluring availability of still ʻunbuilt’ land, ready for densification; the both reveal how the notion of trans-human urbanity creating fascinating perspectives, synergies, intensities and ʻmixités’ that operate beyond the Anthropocene-driven imagination.

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Østmarka (NO), Winner – A Home for All