The Open City Stewardship Awards
Celebrating excellence in holistic long-term care of the urban realm.
Applications are now closed for the inaugural Open City Stewardship Awards.
The shortlist was announced along with the Open House festival programme in August. To stay in touch, and hear about upcoming public programming exploring the nature and practice of urban stewardship, sign up to our mailing list.
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Urban Stewardship
Long term care of the urban realm is the most important, but least celebrated aspects of contemporary city making. While many awards programmes endorse exciting new buildings, public spaces and infrastructure, the critical ongoing work of repairing, refurbishing and maintaining the city goes unrewarded.
As the need to reduce carbon emissions across the construction sector challenges all urban professions, leadership in outstanding urban stewardship is increasingly essential for confronting climate change and cultivating thriving communities.
The Open City
Stewardship Awards
For 30 years, Open City has celebrated the finest historic and contemporary architecture, infrastructure and landscapes in the world. We understand that great city-making is not just about creating new buildings, but how existing places are cared for, improved and enhanced.
Now, in partnership with Construction Declares, Open City is launching a new programme specifically recognising industry leaders in ongoing, long-term, strategic urban care: The Open City Stewardship Awards.
Partnership Opportunities
Support pioneering design and align your brand with the Awards to benefit from a year round association with the Open City Stewardship Awards programme. We can tailor an opportunity to your company, be it headline, partnering on a specific award category or something more bespoke.
For details of all sponsorship opportunities contact Mil Vukovic-Smart, Head of Development at mil@open-city.org.uk
Stewardship Awards Categories
Entry fee per category:
£180 standard/£50 reduced
Outstanding Estate Management
Great estates managers lead complex buildings and open spaces, working with numerous designers, contractors and users to deliver sustainable, vibrant places in which workers and structures are well cared for. This award is given to the manager of a building or multiple buildings in recognition of outstanding work over a five or more year period. The award can be given to an individual, company or team, employed by a land owner or operators such as a housing association or university campus.
Material and Resource Management
Recognising ambitious delivery of circular economy principles and circular design in built projects. Winners will have managed whole life low carbon strategies and demonstrate long term resource planning. The award will take into account embodied and in-use carbon of structures, reuse of materials and components, inventive retrofitting tactics, material supply chain management and consideration of how the project impacts and positively intersects with the wider economy.
Post-occupancy in Practice
Awarded to projects where considered post-occupancy evaluation has led to successful and informed adjustments following the completion of a new or newly refurbished building. These adjustments will have been made in the pursuit of social and environmental sustainability.
Open Space Stewardship
This award recognises the value of continual care and cultivation required to ensure an enduring and successful public open space. It is open to the custodians of open green space such as parks and gardens, managers of hard and wet landscapes such as market squares, canals and streets and welcomes entries by local authorities, private groundskeepers, community groups or others.
Social Stewardship
Meaningful long term engagement with the local community, working with residents, businesses and community stakeholders to build trust in new projects, is often the most important factor in the ongoing success of any urban project. This award recognises strategic leadership in community engagement which enfranchises local voices and evolves with time.
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Judges
The Open City Stewardship Awards are supported by a network of professionals from across the built environment sector.
PARTNERS
Peabody are one of London’s largest and oldest housing associations and draw on nearly 160 years of history and expertise championing social housing in London. They are the latest stewards of Thamesmead New Town, which includes a landscape including 240 hectares of blue and green space.
Construction Declares is a global coalition uniting all strands of construction and the built environment. Construction Declares is active in 27 countries with over 1,000 signatories among British architecture practices alone.
Public Practice is a not-for-profit company founded in September 2017 by the Greater London Authority and seed funded by six founding Partners from across the public, third and private sectors.
For press enquiries, information about the programme, and sponsorship opportunities
please contact Rhea Martin: rhea@open-city.org.uk