Placemaking Week Europe 2024 - Rotterdam: Full Schedule

Welcome to Placemaking Week Europe 2024 - Rotterdam Edition!

11:45 CEST

Making Place for a (Water) Resilient Urban Future: Reflections on Learnings & Practices from Latin American Cities

Wednesday September 25, 2024 11:45 - 13:00 CEST

In this session, participants will explore water-sensitive urban development challenges and strategies from UrbanShift Latin American cities, including San José, Belém, Florianópolis, Mar del Plata, Teresina, and Salta. These cities will demonstrate how they integrate local communities in planning urban spaces that address climate risks while promoting socio-economic benefits.

The session will feature an interactive panel discussion focused on three key scenarios: river basin management, waterfront and coastal development, and sustainable urban drainage. Each city will present its specific issues and approaches, with opportunities for the audience to engage through questions, reactions, and polls via a digital platform like Menti.

Participants will also participate in a hands-on exercise, collaborating with experts and city representatives. Divided into three groups, each addressing one of the scenarios, they will use maps and tools to co-create solutions. This exercise will emphasize balancing community needs and socio-economic benefits with building urban resilience.

The session will conclude with an open discussion on the groups' results, providing a platform for exchanging knowledge, testing tools, and showcasing best practices. This collaborative session will offer a unique opportunity for the Placemaking Week Europe participants to connect with Latin American experts and cities, fostering dialogue and future collaborations across regions.

Speakers

Pablo Lazo

Urban Development Director, WRI

Miriam Miranda

Project Coordinator, TEVU

Marcela Aboim

Project Director, CITinova

Maria José Leveratto

Ciudades Sostenibles, Urban Planning Coordinator

Bruno Hernandez Incau

LAC Regional Coordinator, WRI

Eillie Anzilotti

Communications Lead, UrbanShift

Diana Chavez Acosta

Grants and Finance Specialist, World Resources Institute

Wednesday September 25, 2024 11:45 - 13:00 CEST
Katoenhuis White Hall

Climate Adaptation, Panel

14:30 CEST

Empowering Communities for Climate Resilience and Green Cities: Bottom-Up Approaches, Technology, & Inclusion

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

Katoenhuis White Hall

In a rapidly changing world, it is crucial to empower communities and public administrations with a comprehensive understanding of collaborative climate adaptation efforts. This session delves into grassroots initiatives, institutional strategies, and technology integration to offer participants insights into diverse approaches to addressing climate change and fostering community resilience.

We will explore case studies from:
- Italy, where we will reflect on how active community participation can influence, from the bottom up and in a collaborative manner, the effective achievement of the administration's objectives;
- France, where we will focus on how through community-driven actions you can tackle intersectional struggles: climate adaptation and gender sensitive public space.
- Romania, where we will share models and best practices of multi-stakeholder involvement in the lives of local communities from different perspectives (tight-knit communities, communities with a lot of seniors, communities with a lot of tenants, etc).

The final part of the session will present results from a recent study on citizen-led urban greening initiatives, discussing priorities and sustainable practices. We will highlight technological innovations crucial to smart city development, including IoT, AI, and big data analytics, demonstrating their application in urban planning. Participants will gain an understanding of how these technologies enhance city functionality and help mitigate neighborhood inequalities in combating climate risks.

Speakers

Eleni Oikonomaki

Architect, Urban Designer, Urenio Lab

Eleni is an Architect, Urban Designer, and Analyst, currently pursuing a Ph.D. specializing in smart cities, innovation ecosystems, big data analytics, and artificial intelligence within urban environments. She graduated with distinction from UC Berkeley, California, holding a master’s... Read More →

Giulia Sicignano

Architect and Urban Planner, STIPO, AMAT

Johanna Musch

Co-founder - social design lead, Umarell

Johanna Musch is a social designer, independent researcher and cultural practitioner based in Pantin, France. With a background in cultural and digital studies, specializing in the redistribution of commons, she has spent seven years working in cultural institutions such as Palais... Read More →

Iris Ursea

Head of Community, DearNeighbour

Experienced in community management, I currently lead community initiatives at DearNeighbour, advise on digital skills training for vulnerable groups with The World Bank, and have a background in advancing digital education and refugee support in different NGOs across Romania.

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

Climate Adaptation, Panel

16:15 CEST

Regenerative Placemaking - Community Resilience Building Via Living Labs

Wednesday September 25, 2024 16:15 - 17:30 CEST

Katoenhuis White Hall

This session will demonstrate the core principles of regenerative placemaking, giving several concrete examples of (un)successful interventions. Regenerative development is increasingly considered a possible way forward in the current era of poly-crises, enabling capacity building to be meaningful, place specific and adaptable to all places and people is critical.

A living lab setting often makes multi-year placemaking trajectories possible. It is a place-based collaboration in which residents, universities (research and education), municipalities, (social) entrepreneurs, activists, visitors, Nature and other stakeholders are given a voice. This is achieved via a set of co-design processes aimed at supporting the time and conversation needed for the activities to be planned, implemented, tested, adapted, learned from and shared.

We will share the story of over 20 projects and how they all resulted in the potential of this according. Tools will be shared such as starting from values, how to engage community and how to hold space through conflict – sharing one of our favorite tools how to see anger as caring loudly.

Speakers

Roos Gerritsma

associate professor Urban Leisure & Tourism, Inholland UAS

Projectleader Field Lab Amsterdam North Urban SociologistLecturer at Bachelor Creative BusinessTopics: Leisure, Tourism, Inclusive City, City makers, innovation, community building.Working always in a network construction of students, city makers, entrepreneurs, municipality etc... Read More →

Dominique Hes

Wednesday September 25, 2024 16:15 - 17:30 CEST
Katoenhuis White Hall

Climate Adaptation, Panel

14:30 CEST

Co-Designing Climate-Resilient & Inclusive Neighbourhoods

Thursday September 26, 2024 14:30 - 15:45 CEST

Keilepand Center Stage (Main Hall)

How can we engage and ensure citizens, including the less commonly heard voices, shape how their neighbourhoods are redesigned to be healthier, more climate resilient and great places to live?

During our discussion and to try and answer this, you will hear about challenges and best practices from 3 European projects, and from Paris to Asia we’ll learn how cities are bringing nature to streets, squares and schools, all with a common objective to co-design more climate resilient and inclusive neighbourhoods. The session will share how to reconnect cities with nature, improve health and wellbeing and how these practices are helping communities to adapt and prepare for extreme climate events.

You will have the opportunity to ask questions to the panellists focused on the different ways each project is trying to respond to this question! From focusing on co-designing spaces with less heard voices, using proximity planning to address citizens needs and dreams, using citizen science to create more resilient spaces in cities, neighbourhoods and schoolyards, to embedding health and wellbeing into the design process.

Representing projects ReGreeneration, LIFE CRITICAL, UP2030, and OASIS Schoolyards, City representatives from Bradford, UK, Thessaloniki Greece, and Dordrecht, the Netherlands, as well as C40 Cities and Resilient Cities Network will be present.

Note: This session will use headphones for audio

Speakers

Dimitra Zouni

Climate Urbanist, Placemaker, STIPO Greece

Aurora Lokita

Manager, Programs and MEL, Resilient Cities Network

SAIRA ALI

TEAM LEADER, CITY OF BRADFORD METROPOLITAN DISTRICT COUNCIL

Özlem Bozkurt

Project leader, Özlem Bozkurt

I am is currently working as a projectleader of an EU LIFE funded project LIFE CRITICAL at the municipality of Dordrecht (NL). I am part of the Green-Blue City team whose focus lies on biodiversity, climate adaptation and a healthy living environment.I have a master’s in Biomedical... Read More →

Stephanie Patterson

Project Manager for Urban Regeneration, C40 Cities

Thursday September 26, 2024 14:30 - 15:45 CEST
Keilepand Center Stage (Main Hall) Keilestraat 9f, 3029 BP Rotterdam, Netherlands

Climate Adaptation, Panel