Announcement! 21 winning projects of the "Future City Awards 2024"
After nearly a year, the results of the Future City Awards 2024 are finally going to be announced.
From the project solicitation, voting, roadshows, preliminary evaluation, to the successful shortlisting of 38 projects, and then to the final review to select 21 winning projects for 12 annual individual awards, this year's awards took a longer time, and participants such as judges and project applicants also invested more time and effort.
During this year, many major events have taken place, affecting the progress of the future and the whole world. Almost everyone has felt greater pressure and uncertainty because of this. Looking back on the process of the Future City Awards, we especially feel that this year's awards are even more precious.
At this moment, we are even more curious: What will the world and cities of the future look like? How should we respond?
Fortunately, there have always been many people exploring the future direction and creating certainty to push the world forward. This includes all relevant people involved in the more than 160 application projects of the "Future City Awards 2024".
During the roadshows and on - site visits of the participating projects, some trends regarding future spaces can be observed:
- Digitalization and Intelligence: Through technologies such as the Internet of Things, big data, and artificial intelligence, on the one hand, optimize space management and resource allocation, and on the other hand, build multi - dimensional online and offline living circles.
- Human - centered and Livable: Pay more attention to the living needs and experiences of residents, including building more public service facilities, improving living conditions, optimizing street spaces, and paying more attention to the construction and reasonable distribution of urban green spaces to increase residents' participation and sense of gain.
- Functional Mixing and Vitality Enhancement: Break the traditional functional zoning model, encourage mixed - function layouts, integrate functions such as living, working, commerce, and leisure, reduce the separation between work and residence, and increase the vitality and diversity of urban spaces.
- Cultural Bond and Localization: Explore local characteristic cultures, and increase the cohesion and sense of belonging among groups through the construction of cultural facilities and the organization of cultural activities.
- Integration and Integrity: Overall planning is carried out among different regions to form complementary advantages. The spatial attributes and functional carriers within the same region are becoming more abundant and diverse, and the integrity is getting stronger.
In addition, some previously relatively closed spaces such as municipal spaces have also become more open. The scope of activities of ordinary people is expanding.
These evolutionary changes are highly consistent with the four basic evaluation quadrants of the Future City Awards, namely "Intelligent, Sustainable, Friendly, and Local", providing inspiration for the construction and development of future cities.
According to the review of the above four quadrants and 39 dimensions, as well as online voting, a total of 21 projects have won the annual individual awards in the Future City Awards 2024.
They are:
List of Winning Projects
On April 18th, the "Award Ceremony of the Future City Awards 2024" will be held at the Xiaojie Library of Vanke Times Center in Chaoyang District, Beijing, to commend the winning projects. At the same time, it is also hoped to gather more industry wisdom for exploration and practice to make cities and the future better.
There are 25 limited - entry spots available at the event site. Welcome to sign up.
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The Future City Awards 2024 takes "Confidence and the City" as the annual theme. It is jointly hosted by 36Kr Future City Lab (CityLab) and the World Urban Planning Education Network (WUPEN) led by Academician Wu Zhiqiang. The Smart City Team of China Academy of Urban Planning & Design (Beijing), the Zhuji Project of China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, and the Urban Development Planning and Research Institute of Tsinghua Tongheng Urban Planning and Design Institute provide technical support. The aim is to find new technologies, new applications, and new models that can stimulate urban vitality and improve the quality of life of urban residents, promote social attention, and encourage public participation to jointly celebrate confidence and the city.
Event Agenda
See you in Beijing on April 18th!