4th IABR Squat city Competition

Squat in the Open City

The 4th IABR 'Open City' is committed to display projects that negotiate between the integrating and segregating forces and enable people of diverse cultures and lifestyles to connect and interact. ,Squat City' is part of the Rotterdam Biennale and deals with the increasingly common phenomenon of informal urban developments all over the world. If 'squatting' can be understood as the process of appropriation by which excluded local actors gain access to the territory and resources of a city, then a new type of activism should focus on the strategies and techniques that allow these informal processes to develop in a more inclusive and sustainable way.
The projects submitted for the Squat City Competition should contribute the agenda of the 'Open City' by proposing inventive design strategies and techniques pertaining to informal urban development.

The call goes out to projects from the fields of architecture and urban design that are based on or that support bottom-up practices and that encourage the self-empowerment of local actors, and that help formalize and legalize such developments.

They qualify by being:
- economically sustainable, e.g. by creating jobs and supporting.

- ecologically and energetically sustainable, e.g. by reducing waste. or energy and material consumption.

- socially sustainable, e.g. by creating education facilities and enabling communities to become self-reliant.

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bron: IABR

International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam

Type Prijsvraag

Doelgroep Everybody

Meer informatie Jörg Stollmann

Prijs The first prize is $2'000, the second $1'000 and the third $500

Prijsuitreiking 23 juli

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