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Crafting Utopias: Storytelling and Service Design for Placemaking
Thursday September 26, 2024 16:15 - 17:30 CEST
Keilepand Inspiratie (Ground Floor)
Join us for a workshop that combines the speculative power of storytelling with the hands-on perspective of service design, introducing a narrative-driven approach to placemaking.

In this session, you'll explore a fictional future neighborhood through the daily lives of its inhabitants—humans, plants, animals, and insects. Inspired by the children’s storybook format, participants will design their own story books encouraging radical participation in their own fictional scenarios and imagining what would make our heroes’ utopian lives fulfilling and happy.

As we dive into these stories, insights about community life will emerge, highlighting potential issues and opportunities for improvement. Combining sketching and storytelling with a systemic approach, we will explore how the crafted stories intertwine, making the multiple factors involved in placemaking emerge, and highlighting potential action points. What resources, activities, and connections, are necessary to make the narratives become reality? What systemic changes are required?

This workshop explores the complexity of community-based placemaking processes, weaving storytelling and design-driven methodologies to generate systemic change towards a collective sense of place.
Speakers
avatar for Sıla Kartal

Sıla Kartal

Architect, Roof Coliving
ZA

Zeynep Aybüke Mutlu

Project Assistant, Roof Coliving
avatar for Alexandra Coutsoucos

Alexandra Coutsoucos

Service designer for urban development, self employed
With a BA in Industrial Product Design from Politecnico di Milano and an MSc in Strategic Product Design from TU Delft, I have over six years of experience as a service design practitioner in international contexts. Alongside my academic role as a design researcher at DESIS Lab (Milan... Read More →
avatar for Marco Finardi

Marco Finardi

Service Designer & Researcher, Freelance
EG

EMRE GÜZEL

Founding Director & Social Designer, Roof Coliving
Thursday September 26, 2024 16:15 - 17:30 CEST
Keilepand Inspiratie (Ground Floor) Keilestraat 9f, 3029 BP Rotterdam
  Placemaking Essentials, Workshop

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