new
ruralities

new
ruralities

New Ruralities (NERU) is an Erasmus+ Cooperation partnerships program (2022-2025) aiming at reconceptualizing rural territories beyond the current opposition city-countryside, which we deem at the root of our current climate crisis. It gathers six design units within the universities of ULB (Brussels), POLITO (Torino), UDC (La Coruña), UMinho (Guimarães), UACEG (Sofia) and ETH (Zürich).

Partners

  • ULB Faculty of Architecture La Cambre – Horta
  • POLITO Department of Architecture and Design (DAD)
  • UACEG University of Architecture Civil Engineering and Geodesy
  • UDC Department of Architectural Projects, Urban Planning and Composition (DPAUC)
  • UM School of Architecture, Art and Design (EAAD)
  • ETHZ Chair of Architecture and Urban Transformation (NEWROPE)
  • IdeaConsult – external expert
  • Sonian Wood Coop – external expert
  • Fundación RIA – external expert

Activities

  • Rare Earths
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  • Seminar Week: Baltic Ti(d)es
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  • Ghosts on the Zwin Polder
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  • Atelier 2A Territory: Searching potentials for new ruralities. Entre o Rio Ave e a Citânia de Briteiros, Guimarães
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  • Compulsory 2A Territory: Searching potentials for new ruralities. Entre o Rio Ave e a Citânia de Briteiros, Guimarães
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  • Seminar Week: Transhumance in Spain
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  • Unlocking Devices
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  • Summer School at Bratsigovo and Kuklen (Bulgaria)
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  • Rural Urbanity I first & second
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  • Atelier 1A Landscape: Approaching the new takescapes of rurality Portela-Extremo, Arcos de Valdevez
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  • Compulsory 1A Landscape: Approaching the new taskscapes of rurality Portela-Extremo, Arcos de Valdevez
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  • Ghosts on the North Sea
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  • Rural Transformations I
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  • Riabitare Genzano di Lucania
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  • Progettare le Alpi di domani
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  • Between the ‘Wester Hoek’ and the French Ardennes
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  • Rural Planning Project
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  • Integrated and Landscape Planning Project
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  • Regional Planning Project
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  • Atelier 2A Territory: Tracing the persistence of rurality Veiga de Creixomil, Guimarães
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  • Compulsory 2A Territory: Tracing the persistence of rurality Veiga de Creixomil, Guimarães
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  • Urban Laboratory: Tracing the persistence of rurality Veiga de Creixomil, Guimarães
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  • Valle d’Aosta
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Latest news

  • Image announcement competition

    We are thrilled to announce the winning projects of the NERU Architecture Competition

    First and foremost, we would like to congratulate all participants for their proposals and the thought-provoking topics they presented.

    On the occasion of the Shifting Ruralities symposium, which will be held in Brussels on July 3rd and 4th, 2025, the awarded projects will be on display at the symposium venue.

    Below the awarded projects for each site:

    ALPEGGIO OURTY, ITALY

    First Prize: 405JPN – Jakob Bittner; Pascal Müller; Nathalie Peeters

    Second Prize: V1R8E1 – Catherine Yang

    Third Prize (ex aequo): SS0909 – Jun Hanajiri

    Third Prize (ex aequo): 84GAPE – Eric Antohi; Alessandro Costabello; Paolo Francesco Marino; Alice Morena; Greta Simonato

    BOUÇA DA LAGE, PORTUGAL

    First Prize: M04J03 – Jakob Bittner; Moritz Hahn

    Second Prize: MN2411 – Noah Lenz; Maja Furmaniak

    Third Prize: LO2025 – Eduarda Silva

    LISSEWEGE, BELGIUM

    First Prize: M8S3L1 – Dunia Alyssar, Yang Catherine

    Second Prize: BLS838 – Quentin Michel; Clément Piazza; Pedo Vanaken

    Third Prize: A04M08 – Lecocq Manon; Kimbimbi Audrey

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Funded by the European Union
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Distribution of the population
Number of inhabitant per 1km2
20km resolution

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata/grids