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,…
BioValue Angle – Improving Food Biodiversity Using New Recipes and Food Products
Since the 1900s, more than 75% of the genetic diversity of food has been lost. One of the reasons for this is the cultivation of uniform crops on large arable areas and deforestation, which reduced genetic differences within varieties. As a result of this homogenization,…
Urban Planning Gamification by euPOLIS
As part of creating and developing tools and methodologies to level up urban planning, creating sustainable, livable, and resilient cities for the future – now, a euPOLIS expert, Ioannis Kavouras from the National Technical Univesity of Athens, made a demo version of the euPOLIS urban…
euPolis, GoGreenRoutes, IN-HABIT, and VARCITIES presented their joint Manifesto during the EU Green Week at the Network Nature Event
The EU Green Week 2023 has begun! Europe’s biggest annual event on environmental policy gathers over 250 partner events organized across Europe and beyond, allowing everyone to be part of the debates. EuPolis, GoGreenRoutes, IN-HABIT, and VARCITIES, the four European projects that designed the Manifesto,…
NetworkNature Taskforces Cluster Meeting and Annual Event
The NetworkNature Taskforces Cluster Meeting of 7th June will aim at showcasing the main results, tools, and products from the Taskforces, as well as from the NBS projects, enabling exchanges and dialogues on how projects’ experiences and results can be strengthened and directed towards better…