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ZUS. 18 Years in the Unfinished R’dam

ZUS. 18 Years in the Unfinished R’dam

Two decades of creativity and activism in the "city of the permanent temporary." Zones Urbaines Sensibles chronicles a lifetime of placemaking. The emblem of their philosophy is the Luchtsingel, the yellow bridge symbolizing a Rotterdam in constant redefinition. They arrive in Turin with a new project.
Rotterdam, port of Europe, with its constantly changing spaces and an atmosphere of incompleteness, is the “city of the permanent temporary.” At least for those who have spent a lifetime rethinking its spaces and creating new places.
Utopian Hours brings to Turin the experience of ZUS – Zones Urbaines Sensibles, a studio active since the 2000s with many experimental placemaking and architectural projects. The best known and most eye-catching is a pedestrian bridge, a 400-meter walkway capable of reconnecting, and regenerating, three areas just on the edge of the city center.
The Luchtsingel, that is the name of the project, has many qualities that make it unique: it is the first public infrastructure financed through a crowdfunding campaign, it is made of wood, and it is colored bright yellow.
The intervention is a success and shows well the unconventional philosophy, at play between public and private, ready to adapt to the evolutions of the space, brought by the studio of Elma van Boxel and Kristian Koreman.
Recently, the firm’s 18 years of activism and design came together in a book, City of Permanent Temporality: Incomplete & Unfinished. The co-founder comes to Utopian Hours with a new project.
Info

16/10

h 16.45

Typology

talk

Duration

45 min

Language

English

Featuring

Kristian Koreman

Co-founder / ZUS [Zones Urbaines Sensibles]
Rotterdam (Netherlands)

Kristian Koreman is one of the founders of ZUS [Zones Urbaines Sensibles]. Since 2001, ZUS has been working on architecture, urban planning and landscape design, going beyond the normal boundaries that exist between these different domains.

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