Mexican Team Wins Young Designers Open Call with Repurposed Traffic Mirror Concept
Circularity, enhanced visitor experience, and community empowerment were the focus of the first edition of YDOC. In a truly global online gathering, the Young Designers Open Call Final Night featured young designers from Ethiopia, Ecuador, the United States, Mexico, Turkey, France, Belarus, Georgia, and New Zealand, competing for one of three awards, alongside two teams based in the Czech Republic.
Young Designers Open Call
The Young Designers Open Call (YDOC) is an opportunity for emerging architects and designers to manifest their talent in front of a renowned jury, get their idea built and put in use in a popular Prague location, within only a few weeks. The first three awarded projects get a financial prize. Deadline April 4th, 2025.
Five Talks On Using Design for Social Impact
Socially conscious designers leverage economic, environmental, political and cultural factors and consider them in their efforts to improve the livability of the built environment.
Six Talks on Designing Cities to Include Greenspace
Cities benefit tremendously from the incorporation of greenspace, a connection to nature that is an arena to cultivate community.
Top Picks from the 2023 Venice Biennale: The Laboratory of the Future
Leslie Lokko looks towards a “more equitable and optimistic future” as the curator of this year's Venice Architecture Biennale entitled the "Laboratory of the Future."
Four Talks on Smart Cities: Do They Enhance or Weaponize our Environment
Technology is embedded in contemporary cities. From surveillance cameras to street lights, architects, scientists, planners, and engineers are finding new ways to streamline urban environments to improve the quality of life. Yet, some worry that increasing reliance on technology could lead to its potential abuse, especially when it comes to personal privacy.
Women Make Cities: Five Talks by Women Who Are Shaping the Urban Environment
Within the fields of architecture and urban planning, women are making their case for creating built environments that serve all genders. To close the gap of gender inequality and make spaces more inclusive and safe for women, the unique perspective provided by these speakers is essential to augmenting our idea of design. To move towards more inclusive cities, women must be at the forefront of change.
Venice Architecture Biennale: How Will We Live Together with Hashim Sarkis in Conversation with Greg Lindsay
Part two of our Design and the City episode covering the long-awaited 17th Venice Architecture Biennale to explore the question “How will we live together?” and features curator Hashim Sarkis in conversation with Greg Lindsay along with British and Austrian pavilion curators as they explore accessibility on many levels.
Venice Architecture Biennale: How Will We Live Together with Manijeh Verghese + Madeleine Kessler
Part two of our Design and the City episode covering the long-awaited 17th Venice Architecture Biennale features British pavilion curators, Manijeh Verghese and Madeleine Kessler as they explore accessibility and our increasingly privatised public spaces, in the United Kingdom and beyond. Photo by Cristiano Corte © British Council
Venice Architecture Biennale: How Will We Live Together with Peter Mörtenböck + Helge Mooshammer
Part two of our Design and the City episode covering the long-awaited 17th Venice Architecture Biennale featuring the Austrian Pavilion curators, Peter Mörtenböck + Helge Mooshammer on platform urbanism and what that means for the future of our cities.
Venice Architecture Biennale U.S. Pavilion: American Framing with Paul Andersen + Paul Preissner
reSITE is back with a special two-part Design and the City episode covering the long-awaited Venice Architecture Biennale to explore the question “How will we live together?” Part-one covers the U.S, Pavilion curators, Paul Andersen and Paul Preissner as they reexamine humble softwoods and their place as the literal bones for American homes in their exhibition entitled “American Framing”.
Venice Architecture Biennale Nordic Pavilion: What We Share with Siv Helene Stangeland + Reinhard Kropf
reSITE is back with a special two-part Design and the City episode covering the long-awaited Venice Architecture Biennale to explore the question “How will we live together?” We spoke with exhibitors of the Nordic Pavilion, Siv Helene Stangeland and Reinhard Kropf, entitled What We Share about the inspiration behind their co-living experiment in Stavanger, Norway, which they not only designed, but also occupy, along with 65 other tenants.
Venice Architecture Biennale: There Are Walls That Want to Prowl, Lukas Feireiss + Leopold Banchini
reSITE is back with a special two-part Design and the City episode covering the long-awaited Venice Architecture Biennale to explore the question “How will we live together?” with curators Lukas Feireiss and Leopold Banchini to discuss their definitions of shelter, application of wood structures, degrowth models and retrospectives to rethink how we will live together.
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Over one thousand visitors attended reSITE 2017: In/visible City on June 22-23 in Prague. Architects, municipal leaders, city planners and investors in the audience were blown away by lectures from the universally heralded Kazuyo Sejima from SANAA, Deputy Mayor of Paris Jean-Louis Missika, Winy Maas from the envy of the architecture world, and many more.
Jean-Louis Missika on Reinventing Paris
Deputy Mayor of Paris, Jean-Louis Missika, explains the project of Réinventer Paris and its focus on updating and developing the city’s future in a more innovative and inclusive manner, putting a precedent on sustainability over profit. With 23 sites open for redevelopment proposals, the city has welcomed winning projects selected based on the innovativeness and adaptability.
Alfredo Brillembourg on How We Can Tackle Urban Poverty
Alfredo Brillembourg, founding partner of Urban-Think Tank in Zurich, discusses incomplete urbanization and service deprivation in poor city areas and what can be done to tackle urban poverty.
How a City Can Have Control Over its Destiny | Urban Panel
Panel members Henry Foy, Carl Weisbrod, Omar Koleilat, Pavel Streblov, Ivan Duškov, and Jarmir Hainc discuss city planning for the future. They focus on project development and management of urban design and city planning as well as the struggles associated with building in a metropolitan area.
