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Challenging the City Scale
23 April, 2018

Shaping Human Cities/ Graz 

 

Dear partners, guests and Human Cities friends,

After Design & Conflict in Cieszyn, all Human Citizens fly to Graz for the Shaping Human Cities event. 

In the Shaping Human Cities exhibition, the urban experiments, that were conceptualized and realized by designers, initiatives, activists, students and residents in the last four years in eleven European cities, are open for discussion. In an interactive exhibition the possibilities and challenges of getting involved are to be discovered.

Find here the press release.



Join us on

FRIDAY MAY 4th

17:00-19:00// Exhibition opening 

“SHAPING HUMAN CITIES” at GrazMuseum and Gotische Halle with on the agenda the book launch of  “2014 – 2018 HUMAN CITIES CHALLENGING THE CITY SCALE - INVESTIGATION”


SATURDAY MAY 5th

12:30 – 14:30//  “WANNA TASTE?“ Workshop at GrazMuseum and Gotische Halle

15:00 – 16:30// Benches at Jakomini district (Workshop)

Inscriptions for both workshops are required via anke.strittmatter@fh-joanneum.at

Opening hours exhibition from 5 May - 24 June: Wed-Mon, 10 am – 17 pm, GrazMuseum, Sackstraße 18, 8010 Graz, Austria

7 Human Cities Events
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Human Cities/Challenging the City Scale events with exhibition-labs, high quality conferences and workshops, good exchanges with local stakeholders and international networks took already place. Find here the catalogues of all the past events. Click on the image to open each catalogue.



Just released: Human Cities / Challenging the City Scale 2014-2018 / Investigation


a human cities bookWe are very glad to report that the printing house just delivered the prints of the Human Cities State of the art book! 

The book arrived freshly printed in Ljubljana on 20th April and it will be launched in Graz on 4th May 2018. Read here more about it.

The press conference will be held by and at the GrazMuseum on 3rd of May at 10:30h. For more info please contact: anke.strittmatter@fh-joanneum.at



 

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Transforming our cities together, this is one of the missions of the project Human Cities_Challenging the City Scale.

Beyond the European area, this topic is concerning cities around the world. That’s why, since the creation of the project, the Cité du design Saint-Etienne, its leader, has decided to use its rich international network of partners to share knowledge and experience. During the Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Etienne 2017, the Cité du design decided to invite Detroit, USA, as its Guest of Honour...

STAY TUNED FOR THE NEXT EVENT
ASSOCIATION OF ESTONIAN DESIGNERS in Tallinn organises the closing event from 10th to 16th September 2018 with a conference and launch of the Human Cities/ Challenging the City Scale publication during Tallinn Design night desainoo.

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This Newsletter reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.