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Welcome to Placemaking Week Europe 2024 - Rotterdam Edition!
Thursday September 26, 2024 11:45 - 13:00 CEST
A dynamic session combining 'walkshop' and 'human library' experiences offering tools and strategies for fostering public participation and leadership in creating gender-inclusive, movement-friendly public spaces.

Explore parks, playspaces, market squares, and streets, using a free public tool to assess their quality, inclusivity, and movement-friendliness. Along the way, 'check out' books from our human library to gain insights from personal stories and professional experiences:

• STEPS TO CHANGE by Karen van de Spek, Municipality of Rotterdam, discusses how to improve walkability and safety for women by integrating gender perspectives and local insights.
• EMPOWERMENT AT PLAY by Lore Cuypers, Vital Cities HOWEST, and BRAVE explores how action research and co-creation can empower girls to transform public spaces for sport and leisure.
• FEMINIST PLAY by Nourhan Bassam, author and founding director of "The Gendered City," shares insights from her global work on feminist spatialities and the Women After Dark Project.
• A TACTICAL GAME by Laska Nenova, BG Active and Placemaking Europe board member, highlights temporary, low-cost methods to create vibrant public spaces that encourage movement.

Matt Roebuck from the Netherlands' Knowledge Center for Sport and Exercise will host the session, introducing the Center’s ‘Building Blocks for Movement-Friendly Environments’ and the 'Inclusive Movement-Friendly Environment Scan'.
Speakers
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Lore Cuypers

Head of research Vital Cities, Co-founder of BRAVE
Lore her expertise lies in socio-spatial research, focusing on how physical and social environments affect behavior and healthy choices, especially in the context of the use of public space for sports, physical activity and leisure.In 2018, she founded the Vital Cities research group... Read More →
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Laska Nenova

Board Member for Placemaking Europe, Placemaking Europe, BG Be Active
Laska Nenova - managing director of BG Be Active Association Bulgaria with over 25 years of experience in marketing, campaigns, social impact, and advocacy across multiple sectors and countries
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Nourhan Bassam

Founding Director, The Gendered City
"Nourhan Bassam is a feminist urbanist and architect with a Ph.D. in Urban Design and Placemaking. She is the founding director and author of The Gendered City, which began as a book and has grown into an organization dedicated to building gender-equal cities through feminist pla... Read More →
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Matt Roebuck

Specialist in Movement Friendly Environments, Kenniscentrum Sport en Bewegen (Knowledge Center for Sport and Physical Activity - Netherlands)
Matt takes academic research, policy and practical examples and turns them into accessible, applicable knowledge resources for professionals across the Netherlands. Originally from the U.K. Matt has a background across healthy place shaping, sport for development, public health, research... Read More →
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Karen van der Spek

program coordinator Rotterdam Walks, City of Rotterdam
Thursday September 26, 2024 11:45 - 13:00 CEST
Keilepand Outdoor Point 1 Keilestraat 9f, 3029 BP Rotterdam

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