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In July 2012, 72 Hour Urban Action is coming to Stuttgart to work together with local cultural activists. The world's 1st real-time architecture competition will be the kick-off of a series of major urban interventions. All around the site of the largest urban redevelopment in Europe - Stuttgart 21 - the center of a 30 year heated public debate.

 

72 Hour Urban Action is the world's first real-time architecture competition, where 10 international teams have 3 days and 3 nights to design and build projects in public space in response to local needs.

72 Hour Urban Action is working together with local partner, Kunstverein Wagenhallen after a major public protest around the development and re-purposing of the Stuttgart 21 area.

The Post 21 program suggests a series of events in response to the local planning crisis and the ongoing public outcry that were the result of the Stuttgart 21 plan. Through it we seek alternative approaches to city planning and different tactics for engaging residents in place-making.

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THE FIRST EVER 72HUA COMPETITION
URBAN HISTORY IN THE MAKING

The first 72 Hour Urban Action competition took place in September 2010 as part of the Bat-Yam Biennale of Landscape Urbanism. The Bat-Yam Biennale is a unique civic action model that encourages activist action in public space in collaboration with the local authorities.

 

Sites and missions varied from an invaded plot that was transformed into a garden, to a sculptural object that acted as gateway to the neighborhood. The interpretations the teams gave to the briefs lit life in the street and filled it with moments of true spark.

Out of this first event, an extensive network emerged, facilitating exchange and expansion of the project to other communities and settings.

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