Name: Waterfront Worldbuilding: Playful Placemaking for Critical Futures
Start: 2024-09-25T14:30:00+0200
End: 2024-09-25T15:45:00+0200

Welcome to Placemaking Week Europe 2024 - Rotterdam Edition!

Wednesday September 25, 2024 14:30 - 15:45 CEST

Keilepand Outdoor Point 2

Drawing tools from the world of speculative design and filmmaking, join us to gaze out across the water, imagining a world on the shores of a distant future where the waterfront shapes new ways to experience nature and culture in the city.

The built environment as a sector often fails to take a critical long-term view on placemaking, designing for ‘here-and-now’, developing places which can become redundant as soon as they’re built. Waterfront placemaking will be hit especially hard, as sea-level rises impact billions around the world.

We will introduce placemakers to the value of building long term futures-thinking into their process, providing you with tools to become more critical, confident, and imaginative.

The session combines a workshop and a walk. Drawing from tools from our work on Collective Place Futures, we’ll share our unique ‘worldbuilding blueprint’ to create a palette of future places, characters, artefacts and rituals from which you create a news report from the future waterfront. We will then take a walk along the waterfront, to play out our future news report on-location.

While place foresight is serious business, our process takes us there through serious play!

Speakers

Tess Redburn

Creative Strategist, The Place Bureau

Rosanna Vitiello

Bureau Chief, The Place Bureau

Founder of research, strategy and design studio The Place Bureau, Rosanna is a creative director and urban strategist focusing on public places, cultures and experience design. Her work unlocks the power and potential of place through cultural insights and narrative-led design, partnering... Read More →

Gemma Jones

Futures, Culture, Semiotics, The Place Bureau

Wednesday September 25, 2024 14:30 - 15:45 CEST
Keilepand Outdoor Point 2 Keilestraat 9f, 3029 BP Rotterdam

Living With Water, Workshop

Placemaking Week Europe 2024 - Rotterdam

Tess Redburn

Rosanna Vitiello

Gemma Jones

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