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Planting Democracy
Cairo - second prize
Jury report: '...the project seizes a vital feature of the site: a connection which goes beyond symbolical geometries and designed boundaries. It's a landscape proposal with a remarkable botanical report that reminds the earthly garden, the reconciliation place par excellence. The tree is the unit, democracy a garden to look after.' Our idea is to give to Tahrir Square the shape of what it represents today and what it can be tomorrow. An icon to the critical role that open spaces play in revolution and post-revolution era. It symbolized the revolt, and now it deserves to symbolize the rebirth of a democratic Egypt. As a new icon and space for interaction New Tahrir will play a role in consolidating a common cultural-historical background which creates an underlying identity of a community.