euPOLIS Bogotá Team @ICUD 2024 Conference
Juan Pablo Rodriguez, a euPOLIS expert from the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá participated recently in the ICUD 2024 Conference where he presented the euPOLIS methodologies through a poster, on the topic: Feasibility methodology for selecting and locating urban Nature-based solutions considering socio-economic criteria.…
euPOLIS Technologies and Lessons Learned – Experts’ Training Session in Łódź
The euPOLIS consortium is proudly inviting you to register and join us for the second euPOLIS Experts’ Training: Technologies and Lessons Learned – taking place in Łódź (PL) on the 20th of June 2024, from 13:00-15:00. We are happy to invite all four pilot cities representatives…
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,…
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,…
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…
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,…