\nThe Challenge targets a strong impact for participating cities, governmental organisations, schools, designers, architects, and resident communities:<\/p>\n
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- The revitalisation and regeneration of the urban neighbourhood and community, focusing on collaborative creativity, social empowerment and cohesion, and authenticity<\/li>\n
- An innovative form of inclusive cross-cultural learning and creativity<\/li>\n
- The leveraging of community heritage and identity<\/li>\n
- Greater awareness and use of digital technologies, tools, prototyping and open, collaborative methodologies in the design of innovative, sustainable and desirable urban design solutions<\/li>\n
- Growth of \u201corganic\u201d understanding and collaboration between designers, resident communities and policy makers; the designer as a creative agent and mediator<\/li>\n
- Greater exchange and understanding within cultural diversity: shared and complementary creative perspectives on a global scale<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Across cultural, social and professional layers:<\/strong><\/p>\n
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- The international teams apply their own \u201ccultural\u201d perspective and experience to the local urban design issues<\/li>\n
- Collaboration with local residents and policy makers gives the challenge local \u201croots\u201d to ensure relevance, ownership and a shared vision of a desirable, feasible, and sustainable future urban community, landscape and experience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
The Challenge so Far\u2026<\/strong>
\nThe Challenge, devised and run by Creative Cooperative, \u201ckicked off\u201d in Amsterdam in September 2010, and is already in its fifth year. In all Challenges to date, the international designers have produced highly innovative, practical yet poetic \u201csmart\u201d urban designs, which have demonstrated diverse cultural perspectives together with acute awareness of the need to create socially inclusive urban solutions with shared identity and ownership. International participation has been growing steadily, with teams from the UK, Netherlands, France, Austria, Italy, Finland, China, Russia and India to date.<\/p>\nESDC WINNERS 2016<\/strong>
\nHumanising a radically expanding suburban landscape, Montreuil<\/strong><\/p>\nOf all the districts within Seine-Saint-Denis in the eastern suburbs of Paris, which we have visited with the ESDC to date, the commune of Montreuil displays the greatest degree of \u201cmixit\u00e9\u201d \u2013 a mixture of old French residential and industrial architecture, new apartment blocks, private and social housing, large parks and green areas, commercial and rural (agriculture, horticulture) development. The commune comprises several districts, each of which has its own identity. There is a marked difference between Bas (Lower) Montreuil and Haut (Higher) Montreuil. Bas Montreuil borders with the 20th arrondissement of Paris \u2013 therefore an attractive, slightly cheaper alternative to living in the city itself \u2013 and hosts several large-scale corporations and national organisations (UbiSoft, international banks, CGT, the trade union organisation). There is much attractive renovated housing in the area, and old factories, which have been renovated by modern enterprises. Nevertheless, the area still contains many old areas, in need of renovation, particularly to the north of the \u201crue de Paris\u201d.<\/p>\n
The winners of the 2016\u00a0Troph\u00e9e du Conseil G\u00e9n\u00e9ral de Seine-Seine-Denis were\u00a0Colab \/ AUT, New Zealand. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nESDC WINNERS 2015<\/strong>
\nDigital and community in the new urban village, Bagnolet<\/strong><\/p>\nWithin the framework of the Futur en Seine festival, the ESDC celebrated its fifth anniversary in Seine-Saint-Denis. In 2015, the ESDC ran from the 10th to 14th June under the heading \u201cDigital and community in the new urban village\u201d. We focused efforts on the commune of Bagnolet, in the eastern suburbs of Paris (5.2 km from the centre) and bordering the 20th arrondissement. Bagnolet has a rich industrial past, and a strong drive for sustainable future urban and cultural development. Particular attention was given to the \u201cquartiers\u201d of La Noue and Les Malassis, both areas with diverse multi-cultural communities, a desire for \u201cgreen\u201d park integration and community redevelopment ambitions.<\/p>\n
The first prize, the Troph\u00e9e du Conseil G\u00e9n\u00e9ral de Seine-Seine-Denis was awarded to the\u00a0Design Schools of Rome, Italy for their design proposal\u00a0\u201cBagnolet \u2013 Un jardin en devenir\u201d.
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\nDesigning community cohesion, inclusion, creativity and quality of life in Bondy<\/strong><\/p>\nThis summer, the European Street Design Challenge focused on Bondy, with its rich diversity of cultural, environmental, demographic and architectural perspectives. Bondy is a commune in a state of dynamic development. The provision of adequate and attractive housing for a rapidly expanding and diverse community is a priority, in addition to cultural and social initiatives, aimed at promoting civic cohesion and wellbeing. Despite intensive and committed efforts by local government, Bondy remains a \u201cZone Humaine Sensible\u201d (a sensitive, delicate and complex human area) due to such factors as its geographic position, history, diverse demography, and relative poverty. Questions such as community identity, empowerment, civic engagement and sense of belonging are complex and challenging<\/p>\n
The challenge in Bondy was to create new and innovative connections across this diversity, in order to improve community cohesion and inclusion, creativity and quality of life.<\/p>\n
The design proposals presented by the international teams after several days of intensive work were innovative and diverse, reflecting the complex nature of the challenge. \u00a0Against evaluation criteria such as innovative, scalable, authentic, socially cohesive, feasible and sustainable, the international panel of judges awarded the 1st prize, the Troph\u00e9e du Conseil G\u00e9n\u00e9ral de Seine-Seine-Denis to the team from the National Design Instiute of India with “BonBondy”. Read more …<\/a><\/p>\n