At the end of July, we had the chance to visit the exhibition "Now The Impulse is to Live" organized by Tranzit.ro within the framework of the C4R project, in the offices of the Order of Architects, in Bucharest. All the exposed projects (realized in Eastern Europe) showed a new collective imagination, new directions of action for resilient and poetic, solidary and creative ways of life ... and, sometimes, even utopias in the process of realization! Congratulations for this exhibition which should circulate widely in Europe and be enriched with experiments and projects from other countries.

At the end of July, we had the chance to visit the exhibition "Now The Impulse is to Live" organized by Tranzit.ro within the framework of the C4R project, in the offices of the Order of Architects, in Bucharest. All the exposed projects (realized in Eastern Europe) showed a new collective imagination, new directions of action for resilient and poetic, solidary and creative ways of life ... and, sometimes, even utopias in the process of realization! Congratulations for this exhibition which should circulate widely in Europe and be enriched with experiments and projects from other countries.

At the end of July, we had the chance to visit the exhibition "Now The Impulse is to Live" organized by Tranzit.ro within the framework of the C4R project, in the offices of the Order of Architects, in Bucharest. All the exposed projects (realized in Eastern Europe) showed a new collective imagination, new directions of action for resilient and poetic, solidary and creative ways of life ... and, sometimes, even utopias in the process of realization! Congratulations for this exhibition which should circulate widely in Europe and be enriched with experiments and projects from other countries.

The FieldTrip / Worskhop C4R in Bucharest was continued by the roundtable discussion « From local to planetary : changing the way of life » where participated Gilles Clément, Constantin Petcou, Doina Petrescu, Stefan Pop, the Tranzit.ro team and a large public. The introduction by Raluca Voinea noticed the importance of this kind of open discussion as part of the C4R project. Doina Petrescu and Constantin Petcou presented the evolution of a driven-citizens ecological transition strategy (R-Urban) in a global environnemental context which is quickly deteriorating (summaries of the GIEC report were published the previous day). Gilles Clément demonstrated the importance of water for organisms at different scales, as well as the cultural stereotypes that must be overcome by professionals who want to fight against an excessive anthropization of the planet. A discussion with the audience allowed us to explore some ways of thinking grounded in the local context. Many thanks to the Tranzit.ro team for this perfect planning and to all the participants (despite the Covid and the heatwave!) !

A public event: Gilles Clément in dialogue with Civic Movement R-Urban 27 July 2021, 6 pm Casa Filipescu-Cesianu, Calea Victoriei 151, Bucharest “As planetary gardeners, we depend on all the biological diversity that we harness for a living. We must preserve it to ensure a future. What kind of model do we want to develop, to allow both the exploitation of diversity for the benefit of an expanding world population, and the preservation, in quality and quantity terms, of that diversity on which we depend? We must respond to this question as quickly as possible if we are not to succumb to the inevitability of irreversible forces of destruction, but rather to develop in every conceivable field a mental territory of optimism – a garden.” (Gilles Clément, 2021) Gilles Clément is a French gardener, landscape designer, botanist, entomologist and writer. He is the author of several groundbreaking concepts in the framework of landscaping, such as “moving garden” (jardin en mouvement), “planetary garden” (jardin planétaire) and “third landscape” (tiers paysage). For his many landscape projects including the André Citroën Park, the Quai Branly Garden or the Henri-Matisse Park in Lille, he has received the “Grand Prix du paysage“ in 1998. Doina Petrescu and Constantin Petcou (atelier d’architecture autogérée) develop ecological projects carried out with/by citizens, nomadic devices and urban strategies. For their projects (which include EcoBox, Passage 56, R-Urban, Wiki Village Factory, Vision 2030 Seine Saint Denis) they have received a number of international awards including Resilient Building Prize 2018 and European Political Innovation Prize in Ecology 2017. Constantin Petcou and Doina Petrescu represent R-Urban, a civic movement which supports the emergence of alternative models of living, producing and consuming between the urban and the rural. The event in Bucharest is organised by tranzit.ro/ Bucuresti and AAA as part of the project C4R. Jardin Arche de la Défense. Gilles Clément Agrocité Biodiversité, 2014. R-Urban, aaa