International Earth Day in Trebinje: Cleaning the City and Planting Trees
On the occasion of the International Day of the Planet Earth, the traditional action of beautification of the city took place in Trebinje – our Follower City, organized by the City of Trebinje, and the Municipal Company. Stevan Bekan, director of the “Ecology and Safety” JU, said that…
Permaculture – Micro-tactics and a Lesson in Unlearning: Ivana Momčilović Dramaturge & Jelena Šaletić Agronomist
The innovative permaculture reconversion experience of the “Orangeries de Bierbais” park (Belgium), an English garden that contained monumental tropical greenhouses during the 19th century (1828). After the intervention of brutalist architects in the 1970s, a few years back, Orangeries became a “third place”, experimental, self-managed, and…
Creating the Sense of Community and Place in Belgrade’s Neighborhood Cerak
In Belgrade’s neighborhood Cerak Vinogradi, on the outskirts of the Serbian capital, citizens worked hand in hand with the Utility Company “Gradsko Zelenilo” (City Greenery) to plant dozens of new trees across the local meadows and plaines. All photos: Nataša Đurić In the previous period,…
Transforming Bogotá City through Temporary Urbanism
Bogotá, one of the Follower Cities of the euPOLIS project, which is represented by the Urban and Renewal Company of the city (RenoBo, formerly known as ERU) and Universidad de los Andes, under the leadership of Renobo, is making significant efforts to improve human well-being…
The Cleaning of the Trebišnjica River in our Showcase City Trebinje
The euPOLIS Follower-City partner, the City of Trebinje and its Department for Communal-Inspection Affairs, and the “Ecology and Safety” for World Water Day organized a large-scale action to beautify the city and raise awareness of environmental protection. Photo: radiotrebinje.com As in previous years, more than…
vertical farm institute @FoodPrint Exhibition
ALINA – a prototype by our euPOLIS partner, the VFI, as an essential component of the FoodPrint Exhibition, initially showcased at the Technisches Museum Wien in 2002, followed by an exhibition in DASA Dortmund the subsequent year, remains on display at Parque de las Ciencias…
euPOLIS Philosophy for Planning Humane Megacities
One of the euPOLIS key experts, professor emeritus at the Imperial College London, Čedo Maksimović, the technical coordinator of the euPOLIS project, on 30th November presented the project methodology and its applicability in China with the outlook to other cities in and outside of Europe. At…
euPOLIS Participatory Methodology @Urban Recycling Panel in Belgrade
As part of the fifth exhibition of the Women’s Architectural Society called “Revival”, recently opened in Belgrade’s “Silos”, a series of panels were held that dealt with issues of revitalization and reactivation of neglected and urban cores, circularity in built environments, and awakening the general public about…
Stamatis: We Still Don’t Feel Like Citizens
-Certainly, the mindset and character of a city are intertwined, akin to performing in a personal theater daily, with the city as the stage. Unfortunately, this understanding is often overlooked. When we shut our doors, everything beyond becomes an indistinct “outside,” contrasting with the inside,…
Hybrid Solutions for Modern Life, Work, Exchange, and Play
The exhibition “Young Balkan designers: Here and Now” – in cooperation with one of the euPOLIS partners, the Mikser organization, and the furniture manufacturer NUNC from Slavonia was held in mid-October at the Faculty of Forestry hall in Belgrade, as a result of the competition…