European City Tour: Imagining Tomorrow's Cityscape in Europe

"""European City Tour: Imagining Tomorrow's Cityscape in Europe"" was a multinational project, composed of countries from northern Europe (Denmark), southern Europe (France, Italy), eastern and central Europe (Hungary, Germany). Some of these countries acted as founding fathers for the European Union (Germany, France, Italy) while others integrated it more recently, but all with a common European heritage and a shared future. It was meant to make students aware of this common European heritage and shared future. Its very last Learning Activity took place a week before European Elections for the European Parliament. Have we succeeded in making our students feel more European? Are they still that estranged from each other or have they grasped the common ground of our urban architectural heritage? Has teamwork enabled them to feel closer to each other and ready to get involved in what Europe will be tomorrow? For two years, students and teachers have worked together in English, discovering the various strategies at work yesterday and today in cities' urban design. They have met and listened to architects explaining them the key notion of sustainability and living together, in community, no matter your generation or your social class, they have visited different parts of cities across Europe and made a photo exhibition out of these visits, and it led them to imagine what a train station and its neighborhood in Budapest, or anywhere, could look like in a near future. What they have in mind for the future is very similar, no matter their nationality, their origins or their social background."