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ENCOUNTERPOINTS The Design of Tactics is an exhibition presenting the projects awarded after a research-based call for ideas ensuing from the EU funded research project En/counter/points (Re)Negotiating Belonging through Culture and Contact in Public Space and Place: a three-year interdisciplinary study on 'public space' exploring possibilities, effects and the significance of encounters between people and culture in such places within increasingly diverse societies.
The ENCOUNTERPOINTS Design Ideas Competition invites architects and prospect architects, designers, planners, activists to submit proposals for design-driven (re)activation strategies of neglected and marginal spaces. Our objective is to prompt and gather innovative ideas on how public space design can promote, enable, and encourage processes of encounter and re-appropriation in and to official and unofficial urban public spaces, fostering senses of belonging and attachment and eventually contributing to the construction of a more resilient, cohesive, and equal urban future.

For any questions feel free to contact us at encounterideas@polimi.it

The ENCOUNTERPOINTS The Design of Tactics exhibition and the Design Ideas Competition were organised by the research team based at Politecnico di Milano, DAStU (Jacopo Leveratto, Francesca Gotti, Cristina F. Colombo and Francesca Lanz) with the participation of ATELIER MOB, BRUIT DU FRIGO, COLLECTIF ETC, WAREHOUSE, CONSTRUCTLAB, GRAVALOS DI MONTE, ORIZZONTALE, RAUMLABOR