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 (Braga), 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

  • NEWS Porto do Son soil work photo by Catherine Yang

    It’s over! Photo by Catherine Yang

    A new edition of the NERU international summer school closes with the sunset in Porto do Son

    After a first experience in Bulgaria, this year we moved to the region of Barbanza, located in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula. For 10 days (Sep 5-14), a group of 40 international students, under the guidance of international tutors such as Space Transcribers, Landra, Elisa Gallego-Picard, and Pablo Gallego, developed proposals around four themes relevant to Barbanza: food, forestry, soil and water. 
    The University of A Coruña (Spain) and the University of Minho (Portugal) were responsible for the organization, with the support of the RIA Foundation (Spain), one of our project’s experts.

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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