Премия вручается за лучшие проекты общественных пространств, реализованные в период с 2018 по 2021 годы на территории стран-членов Совета Европы, куда входит Россия и многие страны СНГ. Претендовать на награду также могут проекты, которые находятся в стадии реализации. Цель премии – продемонстрировать значимость общественных пространств, как катализатора городской жизни, а также отметить выдающиеся достижения в этой области.
The European Prize for Urban Public Space is an initiative of the Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB) which, since 2000 and on a biennial basis, recognizes the best interventions of creation and transformation in the public spaces of European cities.
The Prize has an honorary nature, is awarded jointly to the authors and promoters of works carried out in the 47 countries that make up the Council of Europe and gives the maximum dissemination to the selected works through the network of European collaborators and partners of the project.
The Prize offers a unique perspective on European cities and aims to become a space of reference to discuss the challenges of urban public space, in collaboration with experts and architectural, academic, and cultural institutions from all over the European territory.
Throughout its 22-year history and 10 editions, 2,206 works have been submitted to the Prize and 19 prizes and 35 mentions have been awarded. A selection of the best 357 works from all editions is published on the project's website (www.publicspace.org).