Placemaking Week Europe 2024 - Rotterdam: Full Schedule

Welcome to Placemaking Week Europe 2024 - Rotterdam Edition!

14:30 CEST

Waterfront Worldbuilding: Playful Placemaking for Critical Futures

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

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

14:30 CEST

Supporting Living Infrastructures: Co-Designing Nature Based Solutions for Waterfront Protection

Friday September 27, 2024 14:30 - 15:45 CEST

Keilepand Mezzanine (Main Hall)

Citizen involvement in Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) creation improves societal effect. Citizen participation in NbS production is understudied, despite evidence that it may shift behaviour, raise awareness, and encourage sustainable solutions.

Attendees will use human-driven 3D printing to build concrete structures that can sustain reed growth and merge human and environmental demands. This DIY activity will address aquatic nature-based solutions and alternative public engagement methods. The concrete structures can be installed in freshwater lakes as shore protective units to enhance biodiversity and support ecological systems and to understand how active engagement can change community values.

At the end of the workshop, attendees can take home a pre-made scale model of the structure they helped manufacture as a token of their participation. The role of this token in creating value from the experience will be addressed in the concluding survey questions.

Speakers

Placemaking Week Europe 2024 - Rotterdam

14:30 CEST

Tess Redburn

Rosanna Vitiello

Gemma Jones

14:30 CEST

Ádám Szabó

Maria Karyda

Brooks Alexandra Kaiser