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Cities
- art

‎Art and Creativity for theCities of the Future

From its inception, Foundation Metropoli has cooperated closely with the arts as the creative forces of innovation. Its Cities Art Program, led by Ana Gorroño Arrizabalaga enables FM to work with artists as essential partners in innovative design projects.
Cities Art is a program which aims to involve the role of the arts as the engine of creativity and innovation in the design of the built environment. The program believes in the great possibilities that arise from the fusion of architecture, urbanism, landscape, painting, sculpture and new technologies in order to build and design the future of cities and regions.

Matter
Matter
Benjamin Cano

Gestures, traces, material, qualities, and artist techniques intermingle with extraordinary mastery. Plaster, gauze, cotton, resin, steel, and pigments, paper or found objects, are some of the elements composed and assembled by the artist who extracts the maximum expression from them. These physical alterations also bear with the countless wounds. The subtle use of fabrics and stitching materialize this process filled with the light, healing, and pain that once reveals compassion and redemption.

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Knowledge
- sharing

Fundación Metropoli is an ‘intellectual capital institution’ which aspires to contribute to the innovation and development of cities and regions from a global perspective. It aims to achieve its goal through knowledge creation and sharing, the key to innovation in its view.
Thus the Fundación Metropoli is proactive in creating strategic partnerships by harnessing its extensive network of institutional, strategic and knowledge partners which comprise an increasing number of cities, universities and other research institutions.

/ ‎Mayor’s Institute & Mayor’s Summit

Fundación Metropoli considers it essential to cooperate with mayors in developing spatial strategies. Convinced that both mayors and urbanists would benefit from a dialogue, Fundación Metropoli set up a Mayors’ Institute, a platform for exchange of political leadership and urban policy.
This would enable all interested parties to gain a better understanding of each other’s’ vision of the city. Its brief is to provide mayors with opportunities to interact with professionals and other organisations of city stakeholders.
The Mayors’ Summits provide an effective forum for dialogue between politicians and professionals of the built environment.

/Fellowships

FM Advanced Research Fellowship was created to bring talented young professionals to the Fundación Metropoli in Madrid for the purposes of knowledge creation and sharing. The Fundación Metropoli, at its headquarters at the Ecobox in Madrid, provides an international platform for young professionals to learn and research different eco-urban and innovative design methodologies in a multidisciplinary professional environment. Candidates in the program will engage in learning, sharing and researching the methods necessary to influence the creative transformation of the territory and of future cities in innovative and sustainable ways.

Candidates will be exposed to:
– New projects and global sites for researching
– Professional & practical experience
– International networking
– Investigation | Innovation | Incubation Methodology
– International recognition
– Visiting lecture series:
Learning from Cities
Learning from Practice
Learning from Universities

The FM Advanced Research Fellowship is open to international applicants who hold a Masters degree (its equivalent) or higher in fields related to City and Regional Planning and Design. Applicants should have completed their advanced degree in the following areas of study; City and Regional Planning, Urban Design, Architecture, Urban Planning & Landscape Architecture.

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Publications

/ Knowledge Creation and Sharing

Fundación Metropoli attaches great importance to knowledge sharing to which it attributes considerable resources. Its publications constitute its main instrument to disseminate its ideas and its projects. Most publications are produced with knowledge partners and protagonists of the projects initiated by Fundación Metropoli, which presents its work also at international events and in academic settings.

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Awards

/‏‏‎ Cities Awards for Excellence

Fundación Metropoli Cities Awards for Excellence highlight the strategic importance of cities and regions, and recognize the “world class” achievements made by individuals, institutions, or cities in advancing the field of urbanism. The award aspires to be the one of the highest distinction that can be internationally awarded in the field of urban planning. The prestige of the award is not derived from its economic value, but rather from the rigor, neutrality, and the capacity of the institutions that make up the Proyecto Cities initiative to identify innovative projects.

The Cities Award seeks to identify and internationally disseminate the most relevant and innovative contributions in the fields of urbanism, city and regional planning. The candidates for the award will be individuals, institutions, cities, or regions that have made significant contributions to the world of cities, and whose work can be considered as a world-class international reference. The award aspires to identify and celebrate those contributions that are singular, relevant, and internationally recognisable as world-class references for their contribution to, and improvement of, our collective efforts in the field of cities and regions.

/ Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize

For several years Fundación Metropoli has been a knowledge partner of the Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize. Fundación Metropoli’s role along its participant years has been to nominate, select candidates and evaluate the nominees for this biennale.

The Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize is a biennial international award that honours outstanding achievements and contributions to the creation of liveable, vibrant and sustainable urban communities around the world. The Prize is awarded to cities and recognises their key leaders and organisations for displaying foresight, good governance and innovation in tackling the many urban challenges faced, to bring about social, economic and environmental benefits in a holistic way to their communities.

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