Programme
10 — 11
11/2023

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The Forum of Cities and Juries is a special moment in the Europan competition process. It invites us to reflect together on the potential of the preselected projects before the international juries choose the winning teams. This common reflection is an opportunity that goes far beyond analyzing and understanding the projects. Coming together, exchanging concerns and sharing ideas opens up our imagination about a possible future of each of the 51 Europan 17 sites. In this sense, the program of the Forum supports a common exploration of potentialities. It animates us to explore further the added values of the Europan project-process. 

It is a great pleasure for Europan Österreich to host this Forum in Wien who has been a loyal and committed partner for more than 20 years. As well, Wien has successfully implemented several large Europan projects! This is why the visit of two Europan implementations will enrich the Forum’s program, offering a special “in-situ experience”. Moreover, the Forum’s first day is open to the public, enriching the program with burning questions through which Europan tackles acute concerns that fundamentally have been challenging our role and action, now and in the future. 

In the name of Europan Österreich I would like to say a big THANK YOU to all the people, partners and organizations who have been supporting the making of this ambitious agenda. Without their generous help, this Forum would not have happened in Wien. 

A great WELCOME to all of you: I wish you a Forum of exciting discoveries!

Bernd Vlay, President of Europan AT

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The Cities and Juries Forum is a strategic event in the running of a Europan session. It brings together the representatives of the 51 sites and the members of the 11 juries for the 17th session of the competition, at a moment when all the juries have already met at the national level to make an initial preselection of around 27% of the projects, that is 237 projects out of the 816 submitted.

These juries include eminent experts in the fields of architecture, landscape and urban design, who have the tough task of assessing the submitted projects according to the specificity of each context, but also according to the competitors ideas on how to design Living Cities; living thanks to the reactivation of the natural dynamics of the territories, but also socially, to revitalise the districts.

The major challenge for Europan, together with cities and young professionals, is how to create a new deal between the urgent need to regenerate natural sites and the need to revitalise the social environment in the Europan 17 sites. This new alliance reexamines architectural, landscape and urban design and development practices.

One of the interests of this forum is to transcend the borders between North and South, East and West Europe and across the diversity of cultures in order to seek out shared visions of the city and to rediscover what we have in common.

I would like to thank all those who have contributed to the organisation of this Forum, the secretariats of the 12 countries participating in Europan 17, as well as the sponsors who have made this Forum possible.

I am delighted that more than 250 people will be in Vienna on 10 and 11 November 2023 and wish you all a very good forum!

Manuel Blanco, President of Europan Europe
To coincide with the Europan 17 Cities and Juries Forum, Europan Europe has prepared two exhibitions to accompany the Forum's work and debates.

The first exhibition exhibits the 237 shortlisted projects from the 17th session on the theme of "LIVING CITIES", gathered around the 3 main thematic site families: "Let the birds sing!", "Imagine a second life!" and "Think tabula non rasa!"For obvious reasons of confidentiality, this exhibition will only be open on Saturday 11 November.

The second exhibition is linked to the theme of Friday 10 November and the notion of PROJECT-PROCESS, i.e. the transition from the ideas of the selected projects to the implementation processes. The exhibition presents 34 processes, gathered around themes providing a better understanding, particularly for the new participating cities, of what the Europan competitions should lead to in terms of transformation at different scales and in a wide variety of contexts.

CITIES & JURIES FORUM - Wien (AT)
Selecting IDEAS-PROJECTS & turn them into PROJECT-PROCESSES

Organized between the 2 meetings of the 11 National Juries who evaluate the 815 entries of the Europan 17 session on the theme “LIVING CITIES”, the Cities & Juries Forum, as its name suggests, is a European event where the actors –site representatives, jury members and organizers– meet together - at the European scale - to debate on the first preselection of projects made by the juries at the national level. 236 projects are still in the process.

The first day starts with presentation and discussion on what a project-process is in Europan from the winning idea to the implementation. During the second day, participants will exchange and around emblematic preselected projects on a large diversity of sites.

How do the competitors take the climate question into account? How do they take care of the inhabited milieux? How do they imagine potential inclusive and adapted fabrication processes for their projects?…

Through the working-groups with the sites representatives, the different juries will debate on what are the shared criterias so that after the Forum, they each can make their national selection of Winners, Runners-Up and Special Mentions.Through the debates the different juries will exchange on collective criterias so that after the Forum, they each can make their national selection of Winners, Runners-Up and Special Mentions.

The forum will take place in Ariana Event
Christine-Touaillon-Straße 4, 1220 Wien, Österreich

Friday 10 November 2023
PROJECT-PROCESS
Day open to external participants
13:15 — LUNCH-COCKTAIL
Lobby
16:45 — COFFEE BREAK
Lobby
18:30 — COCKTAIL
A glass of wine or beer to relax and end the first day of the Forum
Saturday 11 November 2023
CONTEXT-IDEAS
Day open to the Europan 17 actors only
13:00 — LUNCH-COCKTAIL
Lobby
Participants of different nationalities are kindly invited to mingle
16:45 — COFFEE BREAK
Lobby
20:00-23:00 — CLOSING PARTY
Kuppelsaal TU Wien (Resselgasse, 1040 Wien)