The Project
Shaping the City: a Forum for Sustainable Cities and Communities
Shaping the City is a forum organized by the European Cultural Centre – Italy as part of the public programming of the ECC Venice Architecture Biennial Exhibition titled Time Space Existence.
The forum tackles contemporary urbanization and key issues in the city, presented and debated through the perspectives of a group of academics, urban planners and designers, architects, policy makers, and scholars. Through diverse presentations and panel discussions, the forum confronts the fundamental topics of shaping the cities in the world.
This project is conceived to exchange ideas about the urban future of cities. The evolving discussions recognize the significant role urban planning and design play in molding the interaction of people with their cities and their wellbeing. The forum sets forward new thoughts around the rights to the city, through a spatial, pragmatic, yet inclusive and sustainable approach.
Shaping the City: a Forum for Sustainable Cities and Communities
Shaping the City is a forum organized by the European Cultural Centre – Italy as part of the public programming of the ECC Venice Architecture Biennial Exhibition titled Time Space Existence.
Shaping the City tackles contemporary urbanization and key issues in the city, presented and debated through the perspectives of a group of academics, urban planners and designers, architects, policy makers, and scholars. Through diverse presentations and panel discussions, the forum confronts the fundamental topics of shaping the cities in the world.
This forum is conceived to exchange ideas about the urban future of cities. The evolving discussions recognize the significant role urban planning and design play in molding the interaction of people with their cities and their wellbeing. The forum sets forward new thoughts around the rights to the city, through a spatial, pragmatic, yet inclusive and sustainable approach.
Shaping the City Forum is expanding to other cities in different countries and continents investigating new thematics related to the urban future of cities.
About Us
European Cultural Centre Italy is based in Venice, Italy and carries out numerous activities about art, architecture and design. Venice represents the cradle of the event holding two successful editions in 2018 and 2021 in parallel to the Venice Architecture Biennial exhibition.
The historic city with its lagoon represents an emblematic lieu to experience the rising global issues of climate change, resiliency, urban space, and people’s movements.
