aalborg (DK) winner
Gianmaria Socci (IT)
Via dei Tornei 13
architect - urban planner
60020 Offagna, Italy
Andrijana Sekulic (ME)
T. +39 3356915714
architect
info@gianmariasocci.com www.gianmariasocci.com
48 Das Andere Team point of view With the multiplicity, heterogeneity and variety of interests involved in city making today, any uniform, top-down action is unsustainable, and is better replaced with a process of continuous negotiation. In parallel, citizen empowerment and participation in decision-making opens the way to an exciting application of direct democracy. Instead of answers, therefore, municipalities will be given questions. Questions in built form. Local interventions are set out like bait following empirical opportunities, revealing hidden potentials and possibilities. A dialectical process of negotiation is then initiated, based on Negotiative Plans. These will evolve through iterative adaptation to changing needs, inspiring people’s imaginations and influencing the physical transformation of the Vestbyen area.
Quotidian Vestbyen / Exceptional Vestbyen
Jury point of view The project has a strategic value and approach. It proposes a discursive process, not based on consensus, but rather on friction and agonistic reasoning that embraces conflict. The project manages to formulate a strategy of asking questions through built form. The proposed tool of architectural Baits challenges current expectations about the future development of the Vestbyen area. Architecture is used to create spatial conditions, suggesting and triggering new types of unexpected use.
Snapshot 2025: from the Baits to the Negotiative Plans