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news | ecosistema urbano ecosistema urbano tv blog portfolio contact well-nigh us ecosistema urbano sitemappublishNo Access news September 25, 2018 posted by Ecosistema Urbano Comments: (0) Nordic Urban Spaces | Exhibition in Berlin Category: ⚐ EN+events+news If you overly wondered how the North builds, this exhibition is for you.  The “Nordic Urban Spaces” shows examples of Nordic tracery and urban planning once implemented that make life in the municipality better. The Nordic weather tends to be quite extreme, stuff either a unexceptionable and hot summer or a very long and unprepossessed winter, so weather particularly affects tracery and urban planning. This exhibition shows successful, innovative and participatory examples of Nordic construction and planning. The projects not only bring summer into the municipality (for example, with urban swimming spots) but moreover provide light and verisimilitude in winter (for example with brightly colored subway stations). They moreover try to demonstrate that functionality and sustainability, consideration and elegance are not mutually exclusive. We are happy to signify that our project Dreamhamar is displayed in the exhibition until the 28th of September. The redesign of the Stortorget Square in Hamar, Norway, through participation and a network design process, took place during Fall 2011. Citizens took part in a joint creative process that helped us shape the future of the square. Our tideway was supported by workshops, lectures, urban actions, communication, and participation tools. Dreamhamar was awarded as BEST PRACTICE by the United Nations-HABITAT program in 2014. If you are in Berlin and want to trammels it out, go to The Felleshus. This towers is the cultural part-way and event venue of the five Nordic embassies (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden). Exhibition: Nordic Urban Spaces. Inspirationen für Stadt und Raum Date: Until 28 September 2018 Place: Felleshus, Nordic Embassies, Berlin, Germany Find out more: www.nordischebotschaften.org/ausstellungen/nordic-urban-spaces June 17, 2018 posted by Ecosistema Urbano Comments: (0) On Cities Workshop by the Norman Foster Foundation Category: ⚐ EN+city+events+news Tags: belinda tato+ecosistema urbano+event+josé luis vallejo+Norman Foster Foundation+On Cities Workshop+Workshop Belinda Tato and José Luis Vallejo will be participating in the On Cities Workshop, organised by the Norman Foster Foundation, which will take place this week (18 to 22 June 2018) in Madrid. The workshop will focus on Autonomous Innovative Communities, selecting a district in Madrid as a case-study for a research project that will be ripened throughout the week. The On Cities Workshop will include seminars, lectures, one-to-one tutoring and urban architectural tours to learn increasingly well-nigh the context of Madrid and it’s districts. During the undertow of the workshops, participants will have the opportunity to engage with the Norman Foster Foundation’s gazetteer and research projects. Can each polity locally produce all of the energy, food, and wipe water needed for vital living—requiring no centralised infrastructure? Can humans transition from ownership to sharing, while living and working in compact, agile, supportive environments? This workshop explores the premise that emerging urban innovations can dramatically reduce resources consumed by cities while simultaneously creating increasingly livable, entrepreneurial communities. ‘We are living in an era of lattermost urbanisation and rapid global warming’, states workshop mentor Kent Larson. ‘The challenges of both undeniability for increasingly than mere incremental adjustments.’ After reviewing applications submitted by hundreds of candidates from virtually the world, the selection committee awarded ten scholarships to students from the pursuit universities and institutions: American University of Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, United States; London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile; Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark; Technische Universiteit Delft, Delft, the Netherlands; Tongji University, Shanghai, China; Tsinghua University, Beijing, China; Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, Barcelona, Spain and University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. These ten students will engage with a group of specialists through a series of seminars and lectures culminating in a five day workshop led by the Atelier mentor, Kent Larson, Director of MIT Media LabMunicipalityScience Group and Initiative, and his team. Nicholas Negroponte, Co-Founder and former Director of MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, United States will act as the Chief Advisor of the workshop tutoring the students through the research process. The Academic Body spans a wide range of practitioners working in variegated fields interrelated with the City, including: Beatriz Colomina, Director of Graduate Studies, School of Architecture, Princeton University, Princeton, United States; Luis Cueto, General Coordinator for the Mayor in Madrid, MadridMunicipalityHall, Madrid, Spain; Anupama Kundoo, Principal, Anupama Kundoo Architects, Madrid, Spain/Auroville, India; Winy Maas, Co-Founder and Director of MVRDV and Director of the Why Factory, Delft, the Netherlands; Tim Stonor, Managing Director of Space Syntax, London, United Kingdom; Leonor Tarrasón, Director of Environmental Solutions, Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Oslo, Norway; Belinda Tato and José Luis Vallejo, Founders and Directors of Ecosistema Urbano, Madrid, Spain/Miami, United States. May 21, 2018 posted by Ecosistema Urbano Comments: (0) Ecosistema Urbano at Milano Arch Week Category: ⚐ EN+architecture+ecosistema urbano+events+news Tags: 2018+ecosistema urbano+event+josé luis vallejo+lecture+Milano Arch Week+talk+Triennale di Milano Next Sunday 27th May José Luis Vallejo will be giving a lecture at the Milano Arch Week 2018. This important event, this year under the title “Urbania“, is promoted by the Comune di Milano, the Politecnico di Milano and the Triennale di Milano in collaboration with Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, and includes a rich program of conferences, workshops, installations, exhibitions, performances, events unshut to citizens to reflect together on the future of the municipality and the dynamics of trendy architecture. Date and time: May 27th, 19:00 h. Location: Palco giardino – Viale Alemagna, 6, Milano See full program at the website November 21, 2017 posted by Ecosistema Urbano Comments: (0) Atmospheres for Social Interaction | Workshop and lecture in Helsinki Category: ⚐ EN+architecture+city+events+news Tags: Aalto University+architecture+atmosphere+ecosistema urbano+Helsinki+josé luis vallejo+lecture+social+Workshop Next Thursday 23rd and Friday 24th José Luis Vallejo will be giving an unshut lecture and leading a workshop at the Aalto University Department of Architecture. The workshop will develop the topic “Atmospheres for Social Interaction”. How can we, as architects or urban planners, support the minutiae of the social speciality of urban life? Location: Lecture Hall A1 at the Lecture Graduate Centre, Aalto University Lecture: November 23rd, 17:00h Workshop: November 24th, 10:00-18:00h Original call: www.groupxaalto.fi November 20, 2017 posted by Ecosistema Urbano Comments: (0) Lecture in Aalborg Category: ⚐ EN+events+news Tags: Aalborg University+Copenhagen+ecosistema urbano+josé luis vallejo+lecture Tomorrow José Luis Vallejo will be giving a lecture at the Utzon Centre in Aalborg, Denmark, as part of the Utzon(x) Lecture Series). Since 2010 the international Utzon(x) Lecture Series have serried lectures and symposiums with the participation of Jacob van Rijs (MVRDV), Juhani Pallasmaa, Mathias Kohler (ETH Zürich), Sigrid Adriaenssens (Princeton University), Dirk van Gameren (TU Delft/Mecanoo), Yoshiharu Tsukamoto (Bow-Wow,9 Jenny Osludsen (Snøhetta) and Nanne de Ru (Berlage Institute) among others. Location: Utzon Centre, Aalborg, Denmark Date: November 21st, 2017 Time: 16:00 h September 22, 2017 posted by Ecosistema Urbano Comments: (0) Jose Luis Vallejo, keynote speaker at New Generation Festival in Rome Category: ⚐ EN+ecosistema urbano+events+news Tags: tracery vs rest of the world+ecosistema urbano+josé luis vallejo+lecture+new generation festival+Rome Next Tuesday September 26, Jose Luis Vallejo will be lecturing as keynote speaker in Rome on the occasion of the Fourth Edition of New Generation Festival.Increasinglyinformation about: DAY 1 – Programme of Sunday 24 September 2017 DAY 2 – Programme of Monday 25 September 2017 DAY 3 – Programme of Tuesday 26 September 2017 Among other experts and architects that will take part to the event, there are: ENORME Studio (ES), FosburyTracery(IT), Luca Montuori (Deputy Mayor for Urban Planning at the Municipality of Rome, IT), Orizzontale (IT), Olga Polishuk (Chief Operating Officer of Strelka Institute, RU), SET Architects (IT), Jean-Benoît Vetillard (FR), U67 (DK), and WikiSpazioPubblico (IT). Moreover, the second day of the festival on Monday, September 25, will be sealed by the keynote speech of Koert van Mensvoort (Next Nature, NL).Well-nighNew Generation Festival: The 4th edition of the New Generations Festival – Architects VS Rest of the World – proposes an intense programme of discussions, workshops and cultural activities, involving numerous international guests, gathered to reflect on the profession of the technie from multidisciplinary points of view. After successful events in Milan (2013), Florence (2014) and Genoa (2015), Rome will host the fourth edition of the New Generations festival with the aim of creating a polity of architects and experts from variegated disciplines, in order to redefine the role of tracery in trendy society. The relation between the new generations of architects and other disciplines is a wholesale field of discussion that will be addressed via three umbrella topics: (a) Urban Vocabulary & Public Space, (b) New Economies & Values, and (c) Digital Infrastructure & New Media. These 3 topics will be at the part-way of the debate during the Festival, inviting young architects, municipality makers, sociologists, economists, public & private institutions, startups, liaison and digital media experts, web developers, programmers and many others professionals to discuss and mart ideas. The discussion will see the participation of representatives from the wide network of the New Generations Platform, which counts increasingly than 80 young practices and increasingly than 500 international experts. URBAN VOCABULARY & PUBLIC SPACE: cities are waffly at a fast pace, is the profession and the way we squatter urban problems keeping up with this rapid developments? New Urban Vocabulary looks at the way architects are increasingly and increasingly rhadamanthine mediators in ramified urban processes, proposing new ways of thinking not just in terms of urban planning methods, but ways of working with communities, re-activating and re-claiming public space. NEW ECONOMIES & VALUES: how did the economic slipperiness of 2008 stupefy the profession? What do we midpoint when we talk well-nigh successful, sustainable and collaborative economic models in relation to the diamond field? Collaborative Economies proposes an investigation of the economic models overdue successful, emerging and innovative architectural practices. The aim is to analyse the trendy workscapes with a specific sustentation to economic sustainability, unveiling challenges and opportunities of the trendy workfield. DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURES & NEW MEDIA: New Technologies and Digital Media are waffly the way we work in an unprecedented way, but what is the impact of those changes on the architectural profession? Which new figures and experts need to be involved in this highly ramified process? Digital infrastructures looks at how seamlessly integrated technological systems run in the preliminaries of our cities but have the power to fundamentally transpiration both the tideway to tracery and the way we wits spaces, creating a wiring for innovation. See you in Rome! June 5, 2017 posted by Ecosistema Urbano Comments: (0) Ecosistema Urbano is recognized as a 2017 SocialDiamondCircle Honoree by the Curry StoneDiamondPrize Category: ⚐ EN+design+ecosistema urbano+news+urban social diamond Tags: award+basurama+belinda tato+collectif etc+curry stone diamond prize+ecosistema urbano+exyzt+interboro+josé luis vallejo+raumlabor+social diamond circle+urban deportment We are honored to signify that Ecosistema Urbano has been recognized as a 2017 SocialDiamondCircle Honoree by the Curry StoneDiamondPrize. What is the Curry StoneDiamondPrize? The Curry StoneDiamondPrize is awarded each year to honor innovative projects that use diamond to write pressing social justice issues. Supported by the Curry Stone Foundation, the Prize highlights and rewards projects that modernize daily living conditions of people in communities virtually the world. The Prize acknowledges work that is considered emerging in the professional and public consciousness. What is the SocialDiamondCirle? This year, in honor of the 10th anniversary, the Curry StoneDiamondPrize assembled a group of 100 of the most compelling social diamond practitioners of the last decade, a project called The SocialDiamondCircle. As the organizers of the prize refer: These are practices which have wrapped and inspired us over the years, as we’ve built a global polity of visionaries, activists and game changers. The SocialDiamondCircle project gives answer to what are specified to be the 12 most urgent questions in social diamond practice. Each month a new topic is adressed through a new unshut question. Answers come from variegated practicioners among the 100 winners.  The questions up to date asked are: Should designers be outlaws?   Is the right to housing real? Can diamond rencontre inequality? Can diamond prevent disaster? Can we diamond polity engagement? Can diamond reuse public space? Ecosistema Urbano has been included in the category “Can diamond reuse public space?” of the Circle, together with other colleagues and collectives as Asiye eTafuleni, Basurama, Collectif Etc., EXYZT, Interboro,  Interbreeding Field, Studio Basar, KounkueyDiamondInitiative, Y A + K and Raumlabor Berlin. Here follows the report of the jury regarding our work: We honor Ecosistema Urbano particularly for their progressive ideas on polity participation. The group has worked to update the very notion of “community participation” through the minutiae of online tools which encourage global participation on local projects. The group has ripened several apps to collect polity input throughout the diamond process. New technologies work to unravel lanugo barriers which traditionally inhibited the full participation of community. Many of our ‘communities’ today are in fact digital, so the idea of polity participation must be updated as well. In a physical space, the group is weightier known for their untried projects like Ecobulevar – a project of ‘air trees’ in the Madrid suburb of Vallecas. The project is intended to be temporary, but creates the same sort of polity space that one would find in an old growth allée. The air trees are made from repurposed industrial materials such as recycled plastic, greenhouse fabric, rubber tires. They contain rooting vegetation and atomizers that tomfool and moisten the air in the cylinder and virtually it (8oC to 10oC potation than the rest of the street in summer). The cylinders can be used for public gatherings, and solar panels provide electricity for lighting when needed (excess energy is sold when to the grid and helps fund the maintenance of the structures). This and other sustainability projects like Ecopolis in Madrid speak to a shared sense of polity responsibility and interaction. Moreover, an interview we gave for the occasion together with our colleagues of Interboro constitute the episode 24 and 25 “Tools for urban action” of the SocialDiamondInsight podcast. You can listen to episode 24 here, while the episode 25 will be shared on Thursday June 8 on Curry StoneDiamondPrize webpage. Stay tuned!   April 27, 2017 posted by Ecosistema Urbano Comments: (0) Ecosistema Urbano wins West Palm BeachDiamondCompetition! Category: ⚐ EN+⚐ ES+⚐ IT+architecture+city+competitions+design+ecosistema urbano+news+sustainability+urbanism+work in progress Tags: bioclimatic design+competition+ecosistema urbano+Florida+Miami+shore to core+Van Alen Institute+waterfront+West Palm Beach We are very happy to signify that our projectUnshutShore is the winning proposal of Shore to Core, the international diamond competition to reimagine downtown West Palm Beach as a dynamic, resilient waterfront city! We are thrilled with the unconfined reception that the project has had, and eager to protract its minutiae side by side with the people and the institutions of West Palm Beach. Ecosistema Urbano |UnshutShore | Rain Plaza Here we share the printing release from Van Alen Institute: Van Alen Institute and the West Palm BeachPolityRedevelopment Agency (WPB CRA) today announcedUnshutShore by Ecosistema Urbano as the winning proposal for the Shore toCadrewaterfront diamond competition. The Shore toCadrecompetition invited international designers, planners and architects to envision what the future of the West Palm Beach waterfront could squint like over the next 20 to 30 years, taking factors including populations, economies and the environment into account. The winning proposal will serve as a “vision board” for the city’s future, providing a starting point and framework to help the municipality transmute and make the most of the waterfront. Ecosistema Urbano |UnshutShore | Rain Plaza Ecosistema Urbano |UnshutShore | Plan Selected from a pool of over 40 international teams and two finalists, Ecosistema Urbano’s winning proposal envisions a healthier and increasingly resilient downtown and waterfront for West Palm Beach—a keystone municipality in southern Florida with a growing population of people in their 20s and 30s, as well as large Black and Hispanic populations. The competition proposals imagine new suavities that reflect the city’s emerging populations, and Shore to Core’s organizers believe that diamond is a crucial tool for tackling these evolving needs. The initiative included public consultation, and this input played a role in the jury’s decision-making process. Ecosistema Urbano |UnshutShore | Strolling on the Waterfront Ecosistema Urbano |UnshutShore | Aerial View Ecosistema Urbano |UnshutShore | Flagler Drive and the Cloud Forest Habitat Plaza Ecosistema Urbano’s winning diamond answers Shore to Core’s undeniability for a comprehensive, forward-thinking urban plan to make West Palm Beach’s waterfront a year-round destination for locals and visitors alike. The proposal includes what could be the first public bioclimatic domes in the U.S. ornate with hanging gardens. These domes create climatically well-appointed spaces 365 days a year, thereby supporting a increasingly socially cohesive city. The proposal moreover illustrates how the city’s Banyan Garage could be upcycled into a mixed-use towers with both public- and private-sector roles featuring adaptive climates suitable for a range of activities, including a farmers market, coworking spaces, and skyline viewing platforms. Additional suavities include vibrant thematic alleyways—with such features as a waddle climbing wall, interactive exhibition space, and immersive foliage—that harness the cultural values and experiences unique to West Palm Beach, while moreover providing shade and introducing new elevated programming spaces     Ecosistema Urbano |UnshutShore | Level 4UnshutAir Plaza at Banyan Hub Ecosistema Urbano |UnshutShore | Farmers Market day at Banyan’s ground floor Ecosistema Urbano |UnshutShore | Social untried space at Banyan Hub overlooking the downtown Ecosistema Urbano |UnshutShore | Banyan Hub | Section Ecosistema Urbano will present their proposal to the WPB CRA workbench in May 2017. The CRA workbench will identify priority projects within the Banyan Garage and downtown alleyways, and then contract with Ecosistema Urbano. This process will be followed by outreach to the polity well-nigh the individual elements that are scheduled for possible implementation in late 2017 or early 2018. “The Shore toCadrecompetition and resulting proposals truly offered insights into how we can plan a strong and vibrant future for our city,” said Jeri Muoio, Mayor of theMunicipalityof West Palm Beach. “Ecosistema Urbano’s diamond was applauded by all as enhancing the waterfront and creating new, iconic experiences that incorporate our natural resources, cultural spaces, and inclusive urban atmospheres.” “Ecosistema Urbano’s proposal addresses social cohesion in a compelling way by integrating locally responsive systems with a welcoming public space that will remoter diversify the city,” said David van der Leer, Executive Director of Van Alen Institute. “We’re thrilled that West Palm Beach is looking to the future and rethinking how to create a downtown that is uniquely theirs— a downtown that enhances the wellbeing of residents and visitors alike. The runner-up diamond finalist, Perkins + Will, created a proposal focusing on community-building with a continuous waterfront park, extendedUnconfinedLawn, and the Banyan Garage revitalized as a multi-use societal space. Van Alen has synthesized the work of the finalist teams into a key findings document, “A Shore Thing: Key Findings from the Shore toCadreCompetition,” that summarizes the shared insights from all three proposals. The Shore toCadrecompetition has parallel research and diamond tracks: The aim of this structure is to understand how waterfront cities like West Palm Beach can wilt healthier, and to create diamond strategies that will make them increasingly responsive to rising sea levels. The winning research team, Happier by Design, focused on how specific types of public spaces may increase the wellbeing of people who use them, and conducted a pilot study analyzing the health benefits of increasingly ramified and engaging urban landscapes. By testing environmental psychology principals with tactical urban interventions, Happier byDiamondfound that public space designs that uplift feelings of fascination foster wellbeing. The research team moreover recommended that designers focus individuals’ sustentation on nature and create spaces that are both well-appointed and interactive, including such features as movable seating and willowy lookouts that frame the landscape. The team’s recommendations underpin the dynamic and engaging designs proposed by Ecosistema Urbano. The combination of innovative research and original diamond in Shore toCadrereflects Van Alen’s mission to use research and diamond to inform the planning of new societal spaces.   To read the final reports, see: Key Findings | Van Alen InstituteUnshutShore | Ecosistema Urbano (Design Winner) Happier byDiamond| Happy City, University of Virginia, StreetPlans and Space Syntax (Research Winner)Transmuteto Thrive | Perkins + Will (Design Finalist)   Competition Jury: Raphael Clemente, Executive Director, Downtown West Palm Beach Colin Ellard, Associate Professor, University of Waterloo, Department of Psychology Patrick Franklin, President and CEO, Urban League of Palm Beach County David van der Leer (Jury Chair), Executive Director, Van Alen Institute Jeri Muoio, Mayor,Municipalityof West Palm Beach Penni Redford, Sustainability Manager,Municipalityof West Palm Beach Manuel Clavel Rojo, Clavel Arquitectos (substitute for Terry Riley, K/R Architects) Jon Ward, Executive Director, West Palm BeachPolityRedevelopment Agency Lilly Weinberg, Director ofPolityFoundations, Knight Foundation Claire Weisz, Founding Principal, WXY Studio Nancy Wells, Professor, Cornell University, College of Human Ecology,Diamondand Environmental Analysis Department Ecosistema Urbano Team: A multidisciplinary Madrid and Boston-based team comprised of principals Belinda Tato and Jose Luis Vallejo; Marco Rizzetto, Carlos León, Antonella Marlene Milano, Luisa Zancada, Jorge Toledo, Marta Muñoz, Pablo Santacana, Lola Pouchin, Maria Vittoria Tesei, Andrea Bertrán, Ana Patricia Maté, Lucía De Retes Cascales, Cristina Rodríguez, Elizabeth Kelleher, Lorena Tselemegkou, Luana Scarpel, Silvia Sangriso, Daniela Menendez, Julia Casado, Constantino Hurtado, Andrés Walliser.   To view high-resolution images for this project, including work by the winning team, click here To view turned-on images of Ecosistema Urbano’s proposal, have a squint here March 15, 2017 posted by Ecosistema Urbano Comments: (0) ecosistema urbano: undeniability for collaboration for a research project Category: ⚐ EN+⚐ ES+colaboraciones+convocatorias+ecosistema urbano+news Tags: ecosistema urbano+EU GPP+maintenance of public space+open undeniability OFF/AFP / Getty Images As we mentioned in our previous post, Ecosistema Urbano is working with the Joint ResearchPart-wayof the EuropeanLegationin Seville for a research project focused on the topic of maintenance of public space, aiming to pinpoint the EUUntriedPublic Procurement (GPP) Criteria for Public Space Maintenance. In this framework we are currently seeking a starchy engineer, construction engineer, towers engineer or  architect, with proven expertise in the field of construction and maintenance of public space to start a collaboration in this research project. Chosen candidate will work on the topic of maintenance of public space side by side with ecosistema urbano. The official language of the project is English and all the documents to be produced should be in English.       Requirements: + Graduate in starchy or construction engineering  + Professional proficiency of written and spoken English and Spanish + Expertise in the sector of public works and maintenance of public space   + Well organised person and proven research methodology +Vitalknowledge of European Union untried policies + Strong understanding of environmental issues + High topics to work independently and respect deadlines   Candidates should submit their cv to am@ecosistemaurbano.com.   — Ecosistema Urbano está buscando un ingeniero starchy o de construcción, arquitecto o arquitecto técnico con experiencia probada en el campo de la construcción y mantenimiento del espacio público para iniciar una colaboración en un proyecto de investigación que se está desarrollando dentro del marco de políticas públicas sostenibles de la Comisión Europea. El candidato elegido trabajará sobre el tema del mantenimiento del espacio público junto con ecosistema urbano. El idioma oficial del proyecto es el inglés y todos los documentos de proyecto se producirán en inglés. Requisitos: + Licenciado en ingeniería starchy o de construcción o arquitectura técnica + Máxima competencia profesional de inglés y español + Experiencia en el sector de obras públicas y mantenimiento del espacio público + Persona bien organizada y tenancy de metodología de investigación probada + Conocimientos básicos de las políticas sostenibles de la Unión Europea + Fuerte comprensión de las cuestiones ambientales + Alta capacidad para trabajar independientemente y respetar los plazos   Los interesados pueden enviar su cv  am@ecosistemaurbano.com Las entrevistas serán en inglés.   March 10, 2017 posted by Antonella Milano Comment: (1) Ecosistema Urbano is working with the EuropeanLegationin EU GPP Criteria for Public Space Maintenance Category: ⚐ EN+ecosistema urbano+news+research+sustainability+work in progress Tags: ecosistema urbano+EU GPP+european commission+maintenance of public space+sustainability We are glad to signify our recent collaboration with the Joint ResearchPart-wayof the EuropeanLegationin Seville for a research project focused on the topic of maintenance of public space. The project aims to pinpoint the EUUntriedPublic Procurement (GPP) Criteria for Public Space Maintenance. But.. what is exactly EU GPP? Here there is a short unravelment coming directly from the EuropeanLegationofficial webpage.UntriedPublic Procurement (GPP) is specified in theLiaison(COM (2008) 400) “Public procurement for a largest environment” as “a process whereby public authorities seek to procure goods, services and works with a reduced environmental impact throughout their life trundling when compared to goods, services and works with the same primary function that would otherwise be procured.”  GPP is a voluntary instrument, which ways that Member States and public authorities can determine the extent to which they implement it. Public authorities are major consumers in Europe: they spend approximately 1.8 trillion euro annually, representing virtually 14 % of the EU’s gross domestic product. By using their purchasing power to segregate goods and services with lower impacts on the environment, they can make an important contribution to sustainable consumption and production.Untriedpurchasing is moreover well-nigh influencing the market. By promoting and using GPP, public authorities can provide industry with real incentives for developing untried technologies and products. In some sectors, public purchasers writ a significant share of the market (e.g. public transport and construction, health services and education) and so their decisions have considerable impact. EU GPP is an important tool as it can contribute to the stimulation of the market for environmentally-friendly goods, works and services and to contribute to the minutiae of a increasingly resource-efficient economy in the EU. TheLegationhas ripened EU GPP criteria for virtually 20 variegated product groups. Here the well-constructed list of 20 product groups considered for EU GPP Criteria, and as you may notice the range is really wide, from OfficeTowersDesign, Construction and Management, to Transport or Computer and monitors, to mention a few. We are now working on the first phase of the project for the minutiae of the EU GPP Criteria for Public Space Maintenance. One of the very first document produced is a Stakeholder Questionnaire aiming to pinpoint the scope. The questionnaire has been sent to several identified stakeholders from the supply side (Providers of maintenance services, equipment, public furniture, etc), demand side (public and non-public procurers) and other stakeholders, such as national or local policy makers, environmental organizations, urban planners and designers, citizens organizations, etc. The scoping questionnaire is misogynist at the pursuit link for all interested parties to contribute: http://susproc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/Public_space_maintenance/documents.html If you are interested in participating please express your opinion through the questionnaire, and submit it to the email write JRC-PUBLIC-SPACE-MAINTENANCE@ec.europa.eu before the 17th March 2017.Remoterquestions or registration by sending an email to JRC-PUBLIC-SPACE-MAINTENANCE@ec.europa.eu   Page 1 of 612345...»Last »