This September will see the 8th edition of the Oslo Architecture Triennale - an event covered by our media patronage, whose slogan is "Mission Neighborhood - (Re)forming Communities." Today, OAT organizers announced an Open Call - a call for projects and ideas that will contribute to the development of more diverse and better functioning neighborhood spaces. Selected proposals will become part of the exhibition of this year's Triennial.
What kind of projects can be submitted? It doesn't matter whether it's a small-scale intervention or an entire master plan, a physical or social project, a completed project or a vision. The most important thing is creativity, whether in architectural, cultural or social form.
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The organizers are encouraging a variety of submissions - planning and architectural projects, new urban practices, as well as academic and political perspectives on the neighborhood. They have also identified some interesting topics - Streets with (new) meaning; Public performances; Social infrastructure; Ways of living, ways of sharing; Transformation, adaptation, reuse; Nature - wilder and greener; Production and commercial diversity; Rethinking processes and management.
Photo credit: Mikkel Eye, SLA
The Open Call provides an opportunity to share knowledge, experience and ideas about neighborhood development and to contribute to expanding research and discussion around the theme of this year's Oslo Architecture Triennale.
The submitted proposals (works can be submitted until March 18 this year) will be evaluated by an international jury consisting of: Giovanna Borasi - director of the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Matevž Čelik - founder and program director of Future Architecture Platform, Camilla van Deurs - Architect of the City of Copenhagen, Jenny B. Osuldsen - partner at Snøhetta studio and professor of landscape architecture at NTNU, and Christian Pagh - director and curator of OAT.
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The projects selected by the jury will be presented at the Triennale, which will begin as early as September 21 this year, and a larger selection of submissions will be collected in Neighborhood Index, an international digital index of visionary neighborhood projects, practices and perspectives.
Detailed information can be found on the Neighborhood Index website. You can read more about the theme of this year's Triennial in an interview with its curator, Christian Paghem HERE.
