How to regenerate life in weakened neighbourhoods?

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Dimitri Szuter (FR) – PhD Architect, researcher and performer, Founder of P.E.R.F.O.R.M!, www.perform-the-city.org

When neigh-bourhoods are considered as devitalized or even dangerous places to live in, actions are needed both in terms of architectural interventions and of public space strategies in order to reconnect with more dynamic networks and to enhance communities life.
Five exemples of this type of districts – winners of Europan 17’s competition are analysez. They need to be transformed into a regenerative interface to host a renewed social and cultural life. The act of regeneration is at the core of the ʻLiving City’. Some relate in a synergistic way to the ability to empower both nature and communities, or to give them more space and resources by developing new strategies and tools to regenerate the living conditions, Some others explore different ways new commons for the living (humans and more-than-humans) can be shaped, both in terms of spaces and values.

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Madrid (ES), Runner-up – WASTELAND-SCAPES