New Generation Dialogue. Young Architects – Planning for the Future

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It is a challenging task for young architects to establish their own office. Due to bureaucratic hurdles in competitions and prize offers, the necessary reference projects or annual turnover are frequently lacking to be allowed to qualify for the tendered procedures at all. Investors often only hire well-known offices. On the other hand, the generation of the “Fridays for Future” movement, in particular, has remarkable new ideas and, through the intensive study of climate change, is highly motivated to introduce necessary changes in planning and building into society.

Following the presentation of the results of the EUROPAN competition 2022 in Graz, together with invited guests, we want to discuss how the ideas of young planners can be incorporated into the development of future urban planning projects more strongly. The young, up-and-coming architects dealt with the urban integration oft he CITYPARK shopping center in Graz. The focus of the task moreover concerned the following questions: How can we structurally counteract climate change and the social, economic, ecological, and cultural inequalities caused by humans?

PROGRAMME

Welcome
Beate Engelhorn, Director HDA – House of Architecture
Introduction
Iris Kaltenegger, Secretary General EUROPAN Austria

Lecturers & Panel guests
Alexandra Würz-Stalder, Municipal Councillor, Committee for Transport, Urban and Green Space Planning, among others, City of Graz
Robert Piechl, Head of Urban Planning Dept, City of Klagenfurt
Raquel Ruiz, EUROPAN 16 Award Winner
Elisabeth Merk, City Planning Councillor Munich, Head of the Department for Urban Planning and Building Regulations Urban Development and Housing (ret.) Berlin

First Row Respondents
Wolfgang Walder Weissberg, Department of Urban Planning, City of Graz
Wilfried Krammer, Department of Urban Development and Construction, City of Graz
Gernot Kupfer, Chamber of Civil Engineers Styria/Carinthia, Board Member
Artem Kitaev, KOSMOS Architects, Vienna, EUROPAN 16 award winner
Julia Fröhlich + Jomo Ruderer, das wohnlabor
Silvester Kreil, architectural theorist, urban researcher
EUROPAN Award Winners Graz: René Dapperger, Pedro Pitarch Alonso, Raquel Ruiz, Monica Lamela Blazquez
Theresa Reisenhofer, architect, EUROPAN 16 Submitter

The discussion will take place within the framework of EUROPAN and the EU's LINA - Learning, Interacting and Networking in Architecture programme.

EUROPAN is a European cooperation project launched in 1988 by nine European countries - Belgium, the Federal Republic of Germany, France, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland and Spain. It was modelled on the PAN competitions held in France in the mid-1970s. PAN stands for Programme Architecture Nouvelle and was aimed at the young generation of French architects. The aim was to translate new lifestyles and changed living concepts into forward-looking architecture.
The great national success of this format gave rise to the idea of calling on young architects and planners throughout Europe to articulate their ideas on urban planning and architecture. Since 1988, the competition has developed into one of the world's largest think tanks for these fields. To date, 25 countries and well over 600 cities and municipalities have participated in the competition. EUROPAN supports cities, municipalities and investors in their search for innovative approaches to urban and settlement development and offers an international platform for experimentation and knowledge transfer. Please add link to website.
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LINA is a network of European cultural institutions, festivals, universities and event platforms that promotes young architects and creatives and offers them an international platform. The network includes 25 institutions from 23 countries, such as the Fondazione Maxxi in Rome, SAM in Basel, Copenhagen Architecture Festival, Dani arhitekture Sarajevo, Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa, Kosovo Architecture Foundatio, and many more.
The LINA programme is based on the idea of a future-oriented platform that presents proposals from young experts, researchers and designers for managing ecological change in Europe and the world. LINA is coordinated by the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia together with its founder Matevž Čelik Vidmar (State Secretary at the Ministry of Culture Slovenia and former director of MAO – Museum of Architecture and Design Ljubljana).
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