Tytuł projektu: HUMAN CITIES_CHALLENGING THE CITY SCALE

Tytuł projektu: HUMAN CITIES_CHALLENGING THE CITY SCALE
Obszar grantowy: Projekty Współpracy Europejskiej (kategoria II – granty na większą
skalę)
Lider projektu: EPCC Cité du design - Ecole supérieure d'Art et de design (FR)
Polski beneficjent projektu: ZAMEK CIESZYN
Pozostali partnerzy projektu:
AALTO-KORKEAKOULUSAATIO (FI)
ASSOCIATION DESIGN WEEK (RS)
CLEAR VILLAGE CHARITABLE TRUST (UK)
ESTONIAN ASSOCIATION OF DESIGNERS (EE)
FH JOANNEUM GESELLSCHAFT M.B.H. (AT)
ISTANBUL KÜLTÜR SANAT VAKFI (TR)
POLITECNICO DI MILANO (IT)
PRO MATERIA (BE)
URBANISTICNI INSTITUT REPUBLIKE SLOVENIJE (SI)
Czas realizacji projektu: 01.10.2014 – 30.09.2018
Wysokość dofinansowania: 1 880 000 EUR
Całkowity koszt projektu: 3 760 000 EUR
Opis projektu:
Human Cities is shaped as a multidisciplinary European network composed of various
profiles: universities, design centers and design weeks, ICT platforms, service design and
creative design consultancies. Led by Cité du Design de Saint-Etienne [FR], the partners
share their know how in innovating with people in the urban space using design as a
creative and sustainable tool. The focus of Human Cities Network (2014-2018) will be to
analyze, test and implement the process of engaging people in co-creating and “challenging
the City scale and Flow space in Europe today”. People are the key to design change in a
network society and to respond to the growth of ‘flow space’, which is both physical and
digital. To go beyond planning practices on the urban territories, the partner cities are
enhancing unplanned activities within a frame of 13 shared values: empathy, wellbeing,
sustainability, intimacy and conviviality, mobility and accessibility, imagination and leisure,
aesthetics, sensoriality, solidarity and respect. Those values applied to everyone follow an
intergenerational equity. We are here on a subjective territory where ‘an alternative
environment’ is sought. By rejecting 'specialities' and compartmentalised disciplines, this
interdisciplinary and multicultural European partnership brings together designers,
architects, urban planners, researchers, sociologists, philosophers, psychoanalysts,
translators, artists, historians and art historians, bloggers... The State of the Art, which is
enriched by Experimentation Labs, Users experiences and testing, Interaction and
Exchange workshops in order to assess and implement sustainable results within the
European urban territories, is coupled to Masterclasses and a ‘work in progress’ exhibition.
Through applied research and co-creation, Human Cities Network appears as a continuous
human-driven cultural programme questioning the position and status of people in
relationship to their city and ever-changing flow space(s).