euPOLIS Urban Lab – Designing Cities to Fit the Citizens
The all-day program of the Urban Lab at the recently concluded Mikser festival gathered more than 60 experts from various fields applied to the designing and improving of cities and public spaces aimed at the health and well-being of citizens. With euPOLIS and HEART experts,…
JOIN URBAN LAB @ MIKSER FESTIVAL 2024
Urban Lab is an all-day international think tank within the Mikser Festival 2024, which brings together local experts from all around Europe, Asia, and Latin America, of various profiles around the topic of improving the application of nature-inspired solutions and citizen participation in shaping our…
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,…
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…
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…
The Implementation of the euPOLIS philosophy: The Technology And The Mindset
During the past two months, the euPOLIS local teams in each Front Runner City (Gladsaxe, Lodz, Belgrade, and Piraeus) have taken the first steps toward the implementation of the NBS technologies. This means closer than ever collaboration with the local citizens who will be wearing…
The euPOLIS: Belgrade Blue-Green Regeneration
As part of the euPOLIS project dedicated to improving the quality of the city’s environment by introducing solutions based on nature in public areas, the local team in Belgrade started their first „tangible“ work on creating a micro-climatic park. The process begins by planting 20…
Nature Enriches Speech and Language Skills In Kids
Literacy, communication, and language skills continue to be a main Early Years priority, with 10% of UK children having long-term speech, language, and communication needs (NHS England, 2020). Effects of the COVID pandemic are still evident, with pupils displaying delays in speech and language progress,…
euPOLIS Meets The Citizens – You Are An Expert, Too!
The Belgrade euPOLIS experts’ team recently facilitated the fourth workshop with citizens and passers-by of the demo location on Danube Quay. Having good weather “working” for the Belgrade team on Saturday, October 29th, there were over a hundred participants expressing interest and readiness to join…