Events

A Webinar organized by the C40, the City of Rome and its partner FS Sistemi Urbani on April 24 to get updates on the five sites proposed by Rome for the Reinventing Cities competition

Join the Webinar organized by C40 and the City of Chicago's Department of Planning and Development for Pre-Bid Information on the Reinventing Cities competition. This initiative has been developed through a collaboration with representatives from C40, City of Chicago, Alderman Sophia King (4th Ward), Chicago Park District, Chicago Public Libraries, Chicago Transit Authority, Chicago Loop Alliance, and South Loop Neighbors. Public feedback has been gathered via a survey and a community meeting from earlier this year.

In the current exceptional circumstances of world health emergency, Madrid City Council and C40 want to publicly express their full commitment to the second edition of the Reinventing Cities program and their decision to carry the competition out successfully, to foster proposals that can help to economically stimulate and revitalize our city when the situation returns to normal.

Join the Webinar organized by the C40 and the City of Cape Town to get updates on the four sites made available by Cape Town for the Reinventing Cities competition.
To join the session, you must register in advance. Click here to register, and you will receive a personal link with instructions to connect.
We invite you to submit your questions in advance so we can best prepare the answers that will be shared during the webinar. You can ask questions through the 'question box' on the page dedicated to each site on the c40reinventingcities.org website.
We look forward to seeing you there!

Be part of a like-minded group of experts, researchers, students, planners, thinkers... Get regular updates on Reinventing Cities, contribute and share thoughts, relevant articles and pieces of knowledge!

Join this unique event organised by Madrid Municipality with the participation of C40. You will have the occasion to visit two sites, learn more about the competition, attend the workshop and network with other stakeholders. If you have an idea, you want to participate to the competition or look for partners to complete the team, do not miss this meeting!

Join the Meet up in Rome to learn more about the Reinventing Cities competition and the five sites in the city of Rome!

Hélène Chartier, C40 Cities Senior Advisor and project manager for the global Reinventing Cities competition, will discuss the goals and format of the innovatively structured competition, which is open to architects and bid teams worldwide. The deadline for first-round submissions from interested teams is May 31, 2018. She will be joined by Ilias Papageorgiou, partner of SO-IL, who will talk about SO-IL’s Place Mazas project in Paris, a winner in the Reinventing Paris competition that provided inspiration for the current competition.

1/ The conference Reinventing Cities, on Wednesday 14th March in the Main Room, Palais 3 from 11.15 to 12.00.
The speaker line-up includes:
Anne Hidalgo, the Mayor of Paris and C40 Chair
Raymond Johansen, Governing Mayor of Oslo
Giuseppe Sala, Mayor of Milan
David Chipperfield, Architect
Lina Ghotmeh, Architect

2/ Reinventing Cities Meet-up, on Wednesday 14th March in the Grand Verriere Audit from 6.30 to 8pm
Please join this event to meet city representatives, architects, and developers, as well as the C40 Reinventing Cities team. This will be a perfect place to meet others who are interested in the competition, and to build up your teams!

Attend this meeting to learn more about the three sites that Reykjavik has made available through the Reinventing Cities competition, and to meet possible collaborators for your team.

The Deputy Mayors of Madrid, Paris and other cities will present the sites offered to the competition and provide you with the information about Reinventing Cities, and lead the visit for the 4 sites of Madrid.

Attend this informational meeting to learn more about the two sites that Chicago has made available through the Reinventing Cities competition, and to meet possible collaborators for your team.
This event is organized by the City of Chicago in partnership with C40, and with promotional support from AIA Chicago, Illinois Green Alliance (formerly USGBC-Illinois), Urban Land Institute, and Landmarks Illinois.

Reinventing Cities was at the World Efficiency solutions, in Paris.
Brian Kilkelly (Climate KIC) animated a high-level panel session in the plenary session to present and discuss theReinventing Citiescompetition.
A dedicated workshop was also organised, later on, to specifically present the sites of the competition. 
Key note speakers were composed of Marion Waller (City of Paris), Manal Rachdi (Oxo Architects), Hélène Chartier (C40), Polly Potter (Carbon Trust), Demetrio Scopelliti (City of Milan) and Nicolas Ledoux (Algoe Consultants). Lessons learnt and feedbacks from theReinventer Parisinitiative were shared. Climate challenges that are crucial to the Reinventing Cities competition were also discussed.

Book your visit for Roma Tuscolana on the site's page. Registration is required and places are limited

In view of the measures adopted by the Government relating to the epidemiological emergency by COVID-19 with Decree Law no. 18 of 17.03.2020, updated and amended by the subsequent Decree Law no. 23 of 08.04.2020, it is necessary and appropriate to further suspend the time limits for the presentation of Expressions of Interest relating to the International Call for Proposals C40 Reinventing Cities. The final deadline for the presentation of the Expressions of Interest concerning all the sites is therefore extended to the 6th of July 2020.

Plus que jamais nous avons besoin de projets créatifs et ambitieux pour impulser un développement urbain bas carbone, écologique et inclusif à Montréal!
La Ville de Montréal et le C40 vous invitent à la séance d’information pour tout savoir sur l’appel à projets international Reinventing Cities et sur le site 4000 rue Saint-Patrick proposé par la Ville de Montréal.

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More than ever, we need to spur the best ideas and solutions for low-carbon, ecological and inclusive urban development in Montreal!
The City of Montreal and the C40 invite you to an information session webinar to learn all about the Reinventing Cities call for proposals and about 4000 Saint-Patrick Street site proposed.

Join the Webinar organized by the C40, the City of Rome and its partner FS Sistemi Urbani to get updates on the five sites proposed by Rome for the Reinventing Cities competition. To join the session, you must register in advance. Click this box to find more information and the registration link. We look forward to seeing you there!

Recording of the webinar organized by C40 and the City of Chicago on May 12th, 2020, for Pre-Bid Information on the Reinventing Cities competition and on the Downtown Loop site made available by the City of Chicago

Reykjavik participates to Reinventing Cities for the second time. The city organises the Meet-up event to present the new sites, the competition and the winning projects of the past edition. There will be a visit to the sites after the event too. Contact rebekka.gudmundsdottir@reykjavik.is to register. Join to learn more!

The City of Milan hosts the Reinventing Cities meet-up event. Giuseppe Sala, Mayor of Milan, together with C40 and city officials of Milan and Rome, will present the competition, the main challenges for participants and the 7 sites in Milan.

ATTEND THE REINVENTING CITIES ANNOUNCEMENTS!
C40 and EIT Climate-KIC invite you to join the Reinventing Cities session that will take place at the Urban Future Global Conference (UFGC) on May 22nd from 4 to 6pm at the Kulturkirken Jakob venue in the City of Oslo.
During this session, the Mayors of Madrid, Milan, Oslo, Paris and Reykjavik will unveil the winners of this global competition for the most innovative and ambitious development proposals in their cities. If you want to join the conference, please contact us by May 14th at this email: reinventingcities@c40.org.

AFTER, JOIN US AT SALT TO SHARE A CONVIVIAL DRINK!
After the Reinventing Cities announcements, C40 and EIT Climate-KIC are delighted to invite you to a social event to share a drink and a convivial moment. This will take place after the session, on May 22nd at 7.30pm at the great nomadic cultural venue of Oslo called SALT. Please click on this posting to register.

ONLY THREE WEEKS REMAIN to submit your team’s expression of interest for an innovative proposal to transform 1.5 acres of centrally located property in the False Creek Flats through the C40 Reinventing Cities Competition.
City of Vancouver staff will be available onsite on Monday, June 4th, 2018 from 1 to 2 pm to provide an overview of the process and answer any last minute questions your team may have. For those individuals intending to submit by the June 15th deadline it is strongly recommended that you join us.

The information session will include a brief overview of the competition, a quick walking tour of the site, followed by a question and answer period for competition teams.

Panuku Development Auckland will be here at this event to discuss about Reinventing Cities!
They will have a dedicated information stand to present the two sites that Auckland has made available through the Reinventing Cities competition.

Attend this informational meeting to learn more about the four sites that Salvador has made available through the Reinventing Cities competition, and to meet possible collaborators for your team.

Participants are encouraged to visit the locations independently prior or after the meet-up event (visit the webpage of each site to book a visit).

Attend this informational meeting to learn more about the two sites that Houston has made available through the Reinventing Cities competition, and to meet possible collaborators for your team.

Friday, March 9, 2018
3:00 - 4:30 pm
Houston City Hall, Legacy room. 901 Bagby St.

Attend this informational meeting to learn more about the two sites that San Francisco has made available through the Reinventing Cities competition, and to meet possible collaborators for your team.

The webinar will take place on 14th May 2020 at 2pm local time in Rekjavik. During this webinar the C40 and the City of Reykjavik will provide some updates on the sites and answer your questions. To join the session, you must register in advance. Click to register.

In the exceptional circumstances of the current world health emergency (with its associated movement restrictions and interaction challenges), and after requests in this regard, the City of Cape Town has extended the deadline for submission of Expressions of Interest in order to give participating teams more time to prepare their project submissions. The new deadline to submit an Expression of Interest is now Friday 12 June 2020 - 5pm local time in Cape Town (UTC +2).

Tuscolana Site Visit of the 06/03 is now cancelled due to situation related to Covi-19 and organisational provisions of the FS Italiane Group. New date TBC soon

Past Rome Site Visits:
Ex Mira Lanza 2020.02.24
Ex Filanda 2020.02.25
Vertunni 2020.02.28

Considérant la situation sanitaire actuelle, la Ville de Montréal et le C40 a décidé de reporter à l'automne 2020 les séances d'information du nouvel appel à projets international Réinventer Montréal 2020-21.

We would love to hear the opinion of the local communities of the Cape Town sites in competition. Please complete the Community Survey. You can remain anonymous or provide your contact. The survey answers will be aggregated and only used for generalised research purposes, but results will be shared with potential bidding teams in order to be incorporated into project proposals.

Learn more about the City of Chicago’s plans and the C40 international design competition seeking redevelopment proposals for underutilized, City-owned property at Plymouth Court and Van Buren Street adjacent to Pritzker Park.

Join the information session hosted by the City of Cape Town to learn more about the C40 Reinventing Cities competition, the four sites in Cape Town and the City’s commitment to innovative and sustainable urban development.

Join us at the Bukit Timah Fire Station for a site visit and information session on 14 January 2020 or 15 January 2020 at 3.30PM (UTC +8)! The session will include a brief overview of the competition and a quick walking tour around the site. 

Una mattinata di confronto tra la città e i tra i team finalisti. Sono in particolare invitati a partecipare le associazioni e i comitati che, grazie alla conoscenza delle realtà del proprio territorio, potranno fornire preziosi contributi per la definizione delle proposte che saranno presentate dai team nella seconda fase del bando. Gli interessati, anche se non presenti, potranno inviare il proprio contributo via mail all'indirizzo reinventingcities@comune.milano.it, entro il 9 dicembre 2018

After Madrid has held several events to showcase the 4 locations that it made available through the Reinventing Cities competition, this time they call for architects, developers, cultural managers, innovators (with regards to entrepreneurship or social economy), but also artists and urban designers, ecologists and associations who are interested in the area located in the industrial estate of Villaverde.

On 19th March, members of the Order of Architects PPC of Province of Milan will be able to introduce themselves and their competence, experience and willingness to collaborate in the issues proposed in the call. The aim of the Order is to foster direct relations between architects, operators and consultants, matching profiles and encouraging and facilitating the creation of project teams. Participation is open to all project stakeholders. Real estate operators (property developers, building firms, estate agents etc.) are invited to take part on teammiup day, to dialogue with the participants and in project team building.

The City of Portland has joined the C40 Reinventing Cities initiative and invites you to compete for an opportunity to transform the Clinton Triangle, a prime central city site, into a beacon of sustainability and resiliency.
Please join us to learn more about Reinventing Cities and the Clinton Triangle, and meet potential collaborators for your team.

Book your visit for Scalo Lambrate on the site's page. Registration is required and places are limited.