Start the morning off feeling grounded. Ping will give a short introduction to meditation before guiding you through a 30-minute practice. The perfect way to begin a day of exploration ahead!
Specialities:1. Strategy: Destination, City and Organisation Culture.2. Urban Rejuvenation - Economic Grant Creation and Implementation, Placemaking and CurationI am passionate about people and places. My area of focus is in the intersection between Leadership, Placemaking, Organisation... Read More →
Wednesday September 25, 2024 09:00 - 09:45 CEST
Katoenhuis Terrace Picnic Tables51.907499, 4.430716 Nieuw Mathenesse, Rotterdam, Netherlands
This session reports on a project that challenges the orthodoxy of property densification, following investigation of the future of the city centre in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK and Newcastle New South Wales, Australia. During the covid period, urban design literature asserted that city centres need more public places and particularly green spaces. However, there is little evidence of a change in strategy in the post-covid era. This project explores alternatives to increasing densification, to enhance people’s mental and physical health, and enjoyment of city centres, while mitigating the effects of climate change. This is in the context of the fourth industrial revolution and reduced demand for commercial and retail buildings. The session will use visual information, from the two Newcastles, and other cities in Europe and the Americas, to explore what is happening in densification trends following the pandemic. It will explore the principles involved in city centre transformation that establish any particular strategy, but most importantly creating place and making it last. There will be a short presentation of findings that poses questions for discussion among the participants, enabling them to express issues that are important to them. The discussion could include environmental, social, political and economic perspectives.
If we want to create meaningful impact in the field of climate change mitigation, public participation and sustainable and circular urban development there is an urgent need to bridge small scale civic initiatives (in placemaking) with larger infrastructure and area development initiatives and enable participation and civic development in these projects. While civil society initiatives are increasingly being recognised in the field of place-led development, civil society actors and initiatives in the area of infrastructure still receive too little acknowledgement and support. But what can we learn from these initiatives and what (regulatory) framework do they need? In this session we will take a closer look at one of the most interesting area development projects in Rotterdam (Keilekwartier / Merwe-Vierhavens) and learn from international best-practice examples. We will investigate how civic infrastructure initiatives (e.g. energy communities) can foster resilient area development and create benefits and a just transition for the local community. How can these large scale developments still include citizen initiatives in a meaningful and just way? Can we develop good overarching frameworks for these developments?
Celebrate Keilewerf’s 10th anniversary with an exclusive tour during Placemaking Week Europe. This tour offers a comprehensive overview of our past, present, and future. Explore the creative workspaces, learn more about the makers and their projects, and discover how we are shaping our future. We look forward to welcoming you and taking you on an inspiring journey through our unique creative community. Date: Wednesday, September 25 , time TBC Location: Keilewerf 2, Keilestraat 5A, Rotterdam Cost: Free, but registration required Note: Limited to 20 participants
This dynamic session features city mayors from across the continent in a roundtable discussion that will spotlight mayoral perspectives on the role of placemaking in urban governance and approaches to public space policy. Mayors and municipal representatives from cities across Europe will share their insights on fostering community-centric cities, integrating placemaking into policy, and the ways in which leadership in transforming urban landscapes can help to create better cities for everyone. This is a fantastic chance to hear from top municipal leaders who are on the front lines of creating liveable, resilient cities through innovative and sustainable placemaking strategies.
Deputy Mayor of Wroclaw, President of METREX, Municipality of Wrocław
Born 21.05.1977 in Wrocław.Graduate of the University of Economics (former the Academy of Economics) in Wrocław from 1995 to 2000 and University of Wrocław, Faculty of Law and Administration, from 1997 to 2002. Participant in numerous training courses.Professional experience:25... Read More →
As part of Placemaking Week Europe, HBS; New Lab, Stichting Tussentuin, and Aktiegroep Oude Westen are transforming a 26 m² concrete outdoor space into a vibrant green facade garden.
Want to join in? Roll up your sleeves, help turn this paved area into a lush, inviting spot, work together with local Rotterdam residents, and give something back to the city.
Feel free to join in whenever you like, stay as long as you want, and help us plant some greenery during our time at HBS @ New Lab!
Join us for an insightful session on the Elephant Recovery Project, where we explore how collaborative, cross-sector efforts between University of the Arts London, local businesses, and London’s Elephant and Castle community are fostering growth and resilience. Participants will gain valuable knowledge around creative placemaking, digital marketing, branding, and community engagement—key components of the project’s success. This session will delve into how the initiative, in partnership with Elephant and Castle Business Forum and The Means, worked alongside small businesses and community groups facing challenges following the closure of the historic shopping centre, post-Brexit and post Covid-19.
We’ll explore how to navigate the complexities of urban regeneration while celebrating and preserving the unique cultural identity of Elephant and Castle. Opening up discussions to share strategies around how to engage diverse communities, ensuring inclusivity and sustainability in redevelopment efforts.
This is a must-attend for anyone interested in community-driven urban planning, Higher Education placemaking and civic practice, the power of collaboration, and the future of small businesses in changing urban landscapes. It will also be of interest to creative students looking to understand how to connect their practice locally.
Middelland is a real city neighborhood in Rotterdam West with residents from 172 cultures, rich and poor, low and highly educated, young and old. This diversity is an enormous wealth. At the same time, this diversity does not immediately make a community. 13 very different places in Middelland offer space for meeting and connecting in their own way, through which the richness, the energy of the community can be tapped and accessed. The tour takes you along these places for meeting, such as the Wijkpaleis or the Spoortuin, but also along places that, thanks to the community, have acquired a new form and meaning in the neighborhood.
Urban arts are often used in placemaking projects to promote social change, improve the physical environment, boost local economies, and empower residents to take ownership of their communities.
But what type of urban art are we talking about? What should be its role, if any? And who has the right to create art in the city?
In this session, we will explore these questions collaboratively and answer them by creating a community mural. You will not only examine these questions theoretically but also experience a participatory artistic process.
On Wednesday, you can share your insights on urban arts as you pass by our central station at Katoenhuis. Later in the afternoon, we will have our workshop, where we will delve deeper in the questions in small groups and craft a large collage based on the collected responses.
Throughout Thursday and Friday, all conference attendees are invited to contribute to the evolving mural, adding their own perspectives to it.
Come share your insights about arts and placemaking and witness the transformative power of community art in action!
The official launch of PLING explaining why and for whom we are there. Make placemaking an integral part of all phases and forms of area development and not something temporary.
When it comes to placemaking in area development, the challenge lies with the users of the area. With new construction, it is often not clear at the outset who the ultimate users will be (residents, entrepreneurs and passers-by). And with an area transformation or urban renewal you are dealing with existing users who may or may not return after the development and new users who, just like with new construction, are often difficult to map.
The complex issue behind placemaking in area development is therefore what are the wishes of current and future users with regard to the public space and the plinths before, during and after development.
Using concrete cases, PLING demonstrates the value of placemaking in area development. By sharing success factors and setbacks, we make the lessons learned accessible to participants for inspiration and motivation.
We think we have launched a valuable concept with PLING. But we are still at the very beginning. We would like to discuss with the participants how we can help and inspire municipalities, corporations and developers with PLING.
How can we work together to make placemaking an integral part of area development and what is required for this? And what role can PLING play in this?
Bureau Buitendienst is a creative agency for urban change that is located in the Netherlands.We are experienced in tactical urbanism, playful interventions, urban research, temporary use and strategic placemaking projects regarding urban change.
Join us for an interactive walkshop where we invite you to critically explore placemaking community engagement potentials through the lens of degrowth. We invite you to take a walk around the Katoenhuis area and exchange views on the challenges faced by placemaking practitioners, exploring solutions for more sustainable and just urban futures. Our goal is to identify challenges and solutions to the socio-ecological transformations of public spaces through everyday experiences. We will critically reflect on potential risks associated with placemaking such as gentrification and greenwashing. Lastly, we will consider how placemaking practices could be informed by concepts of degrowth and reflect on solutions that can benefit the participants’ practices in their local cases and examples. We hope that participants will take away useful insights and meaningful connections, and an overall understanding of the degrowth main concepts.
How can placemaking contribute to actions and processes rooted in sharing and caring?
How can these actions and processes drive radical sustainable changes?
Hey there! I am Annita! I have a background in architecture and interaction design and I am currently based in Malmö, Sweden. I'm drawn to local communities, valuing social connections. My focus hovers at the intersection of technology and architecture, with a strong belief in creating... Read More →
This session will focus on community-driven co-creation processes that engage youth in urban transformation. Our interdisciplinary panel will discuss different approaches to youth engagement drawing from three international case studies, Learning Scapes/Co-Design Studio, Youth-centered Participatory Action (YoPA), and Four+ architects youth projects.
Facilitating an open and inclusive discussion we will delve into youth involvement of different age groups, participatory approaches, challenges, and methodologies for empowering youth in spatial transformation. Our panel will compare differences in approaches while situating the discussion in real-world engagement. Interactive in scope, questions will touch on what connects us, what disconnects us, what we can learn from one another, and how we may expand youth engagement and empowerment in our future work. Focusing on how (rather than why) we engage with youth, this panel will establish the groundwork for a subsequent workshop which will expand on our discussion through hands-on ideation and collaborative system mapping.
Have you ever gone out on the water in the historic LeuveHaven of Rotterdam to look at and find out all about bridge keepers' houses? And in the meantime give something good back to the people of Rotterdam? Join this session!!
During the discovery tour by boat, we will show you the beauty of the small vacant heritage, some of which have been (sustainably) repurposed and others are still in use or are empty. We meet the initiators and can ask them anything.
We start at ‘de Lage Erfbrug - where it all started for our foundation by Lotti Hesper. Then we continue by metro and get off at the historic ‘Leuvenhaven’ of Rotterdam. At the Maritiem Museum we hop on the bus boats and meet the initiator of KleanUpKlup 'Sterker door Schoon', they keep the water of Rotterdam clean. We sail further on the water to explore some other bridgekeeper houses in the Rotterdam port area from the boat and we tell you about the past, present and future of the tiny properties. And while we are having fun, we ask the participants to do a Harbor Clean Up, so we leave a clean trail.
Since 2012, the Bridge Keepers' Houses Foundation has built up various expertise in the field of knowledge center, projects and management and aims to give empty bridge keepers' houses in the Netherlands a new and sustainable purpose.
Join us as we explore a compelling placemaking project that brought together the initiator, policymakers, and residents to create a community swing, designed to bridge generational gaps.
This presentation will highlight how these diverse stakeholders collaborated to transform an idea into a vibrant public space that fosters social interaction and community spirit.
We'll delve into the challenges and triumphs faced during the project Ring of Swings, offering insights into the processes that made this initiative become reality. Whether you're interested in urban planning, community engagement, or innovative public spaces, this session will provide valuable perspectives on creating inclusive environments that connect people of all ages. Don't miss this opportunity to learn how a shared vision can bring a community together!
Why are private and public entities investing in spaces and places for children and families? Two case studies will be presented by teams from Dublin and Madrid. They will demonstrate different approaches while highlighting shared themes such as – the effectiveness of listening to children and caregivers; the economic and social benefits of supporting families to spend time together; the wider impact of child-centric design on neighbourhood improvement. Presentations will be followed by a panel discussion and interactive workshop to further unpack themes with expertise and insights drawn from the panel members and the audience.
This workshop builds upon the foundation laid in our previous panel, which focused on the diverse ways we engage youth in participatory urban transformation. We expand on our discussion through hands-on ideation and collaborative systems mapping, leveraging (professional) practice to reimagine the many roles involved in community planning and design.
Through dissociating roles and responsibilities from professional practice, this workshop aims to extract the specific tasks and actions needed from all stakeholders to effect sustainable, systemic change in the urban environment. This enhances engagement amongst youth and adult stakeholders and facilitates participatory design and decision-making through a redistribution of roles across the action group.
This workshop will take the Masterplan for the Merwehaven neighborhood of Rotterdam as the point of departure for identifying local development goals. Attendees to the Placemaking Week are considered community members and stakeholders of responsible, representative, and sustainable urban transformation. Together, we will brainstorm opportunities for youth to drive urban transformation by taking leading roles in its reimagination and civic experience.
This session aims to encourage dialogue and knowledge sharing among practitioners, enhancing our understanding of placemaking's impact on a regional scale. We will examine how to expand placemaking efforts to achieve broader regional effects.
Through interactive discussions with PlacemakingX and placemakers from Sweden, Finland, Norway, Iceland, and Denmark, we will explore how these countries, individually and collectively, can address challenges such as policies and regulations, harsh weather conditions, and community engagement. Additionally, we will discuss steps toward fostering regional collaboration among the Nordic countries.
Päivi Raivio is an urban designer, artist and placemaker. She is a Placemaking Europe Leader.Päivi is the co-founder of RaivioBumann and Parkly - two companies which operate in Helsinki but also work internationally.RaivioBumann is a creative studio for placemaking, urban co-creation... Read More →
Senior Advisor on social sustainability, Fragment AS
Helene Gallis is a Norwegian awardwinning entrepreneur, environmentalist and placemaker. Her work focusses on green public spaces that facilitates diverse stakeholder interaction while increasing urban biodiversity. Her experience includes international research projects, consultancy... Read More →
Ethan Kent works to support public space organizations, projects, and leadership around the world to build a global placemaking movement. Ethan has traveled to more than 1000 cities and 60 countries to advance the cause of leading urban development with inclusive public spaces and... Read More →
Library Duo with DöggDögg Sigmarsdóttir project manager for civic participation and Martyna Daniel, the intercultural specialist at the Reykjavík City Library, have been guiding the participative process in projects like Stofan - A Public Living Room. Someone once called us the... Read More →
NEW MEETING POINT: We will start the Walkshop at the 'beginning' of the Nieuwe Binnenweg - at the Eendrachtsplein. We will meet at the sculpture of the Gnome aka the buttplug
The Stories of a Street Walkshop invites you to participate in unconventional archiving; walking, collecting and drawing the longest shopping street in the Netherlands. With Stories of a Street, the collaborative effort of researchers Leyla Hepsaydir and Rebekka Schächer, you will enter the chaotic and beautiful world of the Nieuwe Binnenweg in Rotterdam’s West. This diverse street exists as a complex ecosystem, catering to varied needs and communities at risk from incoming gentrification.
The walkshop is physical and practical, existing in three parts: 1. Walking the full 1.8km of the street 2. Observing the street and collecting stories from street inhabitants 3. Translating these stories into drawings for the unconventional archive
The Walkshop harnesses graphic storytelling to archive the collected oral histories, documenting the street’s people, places, and objects through memories, daily issues and future hopes. Tangible results in the form of your own illustrations will be added to the unconventional archive.
Stories of a Street aims to develop an interdisciplinary method of architectural research, proposing an alternative role for the architect as listener and carer. Leyla and Rebekka aim to open up a conversation on the importance of diverse inner-city areas amongst an interdisciplinary audience, from inhabitants to policy-makers.
Join us for a Placemaking Club Night with Live DJ Kostrok! Since 2010, Kostrok has been making an impact on clubbing culture. From the creation of his own events, to continuous music releases on labels like Parlophone, Mushroom Pillow or TheBasementDiscos, touring around the world in spots like Space Ibiza, Sisyphos Berlin or Fabrik Madrid and shifting his base of inspiration between Valencia, Madrid, Berlin and currently in CDMX. In 2021, Kostrok entered live in the metaverse to communicate a whole new world through a small character, represented with big glasses and an intrinsic joy that perfectly represents his music: joy, a referential meta-journey halfway between house-disco, italo disco, breaks, electronica, sythnwave and above all, a lot of energy focused on the dance floor.
