The 2021 Reimagining the Experience of Public Transportation in a Post-pandemic Metropolis competition invites students to rethink the use of public transport, metro, bus, and tramway, in a sustainable city.
The competition is part of a joint research initiative. The Concordia University Chair of Integrated Design, Ecology, and Sustainability for the Built Environment and the Canada Research Chair in Architecture, Competitions, Mediations of Excellence at Université de Montréal are working together to mobilize the creativity of young designers of the built environment to “stimulate debate on the renewed experiences of public transportation for increased urban resiliency.”
This ideas competition seeks to gather narratives of renewed experience of public transportation, design idea(s) for encouraging the use of public transportation, and series of design principles for implementing a renewed experience of public transportation. “Public transport has been impacted through the pandemic in ways that have considerably changed its experience. The notion of time, the experience of the city, the experience of the everyday, have all changed in 2020. We adhere to the principle that public transport is an essential and safe part of the ecological transition of our cities. If citizens shift from public transport back to private vehicles, we can predict a drastic degradation of environmental and traffic conditions ? a situation to be averted,” says the organizer...