THINK public SPACE

This year the Think Space Programme is returning to you in form of a Special Edition under the topic „THINK public SPACE“. We are shifting from our well known cycle format of Competitions to a single public, anonymous conceptual architectural Competition that will focus on urban public spaces.

On this occasion Think Space has teamed up with the City of Zagreb in an ambitious and comprehensive project of revitalization of public spaces in the City of Zagreb – „Zagreb for Me“, which is being executed by the Zagreb Society of Architects in cooperation with the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Zagreb and the City Acupuncture initiative. “Zagreb for Me” is a project that comprises 17 architectural – urbanistic design Competitions aiming at raising the quality of public spaces within an urban landscape through integrative architectural interventions engaging the public, experts as well as institutions within the process.
In this context Think Space will strive to seek out solutions for present-day public spaces on conceptual and theoretical levels. As the public space of a city is a key place of conflict of economical and political paradigms of the society the task is to respond to the question of architecture’s ability (as a specific discipline) to intervene in this process. What is actually the support and function of architecture in times of growing economical and political instability and its repercussions on public space? Is architecture forced to rely on its own knowledge, its own form in these times, or, and how to include other disciplines in co-creating the public sphere?


In accordance with the premises of THINK SPACE founded in 2010 by the Zagreb Society of Architects, progressive thinking about space and architecture is expected of the Competitors conducted through spatial-social experiments, which might be used as a bases for future research, studies, projects and realizations, possibly within Zagreb for Me project, erasing the limits between architecture and associated disciplines Following the start of the Competition we will be launching a Call for Papers soon after and will brief you on subjects and deadlines.

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Think Space Team

Drustvo arhitekata Zagreba (DAZ)

Zagreb Society of Architects

Trg bana Jelacica 3/I

HR - 10 000 Zagreb

Croatia

tel. +38514816151; fax. +3851481619

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