The FURNISH consortium is pleased to announce the selected teams from the open call for digitally fabricated urban elements adapting public spaces to COVID-19 today on the project website! https://furnish.tech/selection/

FURNISH organized an open call to select 4 teams throughout Europe which will digitally fabricate and deploy urban elements for the purpose of adapting temporary public spaces to meet the new challenges and opportunities presented by the COVID-19 crisis. The open call began accepting applications on September 10, and closed on September 25 after receiving many high quality proposals from all throughout the continent.:

FURNISH aims to merge the challenge of gaining more public space through ‘tactical urbanism’, which can reconfigure a street to expand the area for pedestrians and leisure, with local digital manufacturing. The call was open to Fab Labs, research groups, designers or makers able to produce rapid solutions to the urgent spatial problems and opportunities posed by the novel coronavirus. Interested teams submitted their qualifications between September 10 and September 25, along with evidence of having sought a letter of support from an institution (e.g. municipality, cultural centre, university, etc.). The objective is to develop the designs and prototypes in collaborative workshops featuring all the selected FURNISH teams, therefore it was not necessary to have a design prepared to apply. Pilot installations will be installed and tested by December. Each selected team will receive 10.000€ to fund the fabrication and implementation of their prototypes. All designs developed under the FURNISH project will be documented in an open-source format, enabling replication anywhere in the world. To learn more or register for automatic updates, please visit: www.furnish.tech.