Placemaking Week Europe 2024 - Rotterdam

Capacity: 20 people (first come, first served)

Starting Point: In front of Keilepand

Celebrate Keilewerf’s 10th anniversary with an exclusive tour during Placemaking Week Europe. This tour offers a comprehensive overview of our past, present, and future. Explore the creative workspaces, learn more about the makers and their projects, and discover how we are shaping our future. We look forward to welcoming you and taking you on an inspiring journey through our unique creative community. Date: Wednesday, September 25 , time TBC Location: Keilewerf 2, Keilestraat 5A, Rotterdam Cost: Free, but registration required Note: Limited to 20 participants

Capacity: 20 people (first come, first served)

Starting Point: HBS New Lab

Middelland is a real city neighborhood in Rotterdam West with residents from 172 cultures, rich and poor, low and highly educated, young and old. This diversity is an enormous wealth. At the same time, this diversity does not immediately make a community. 13 very different places in Middelland offer space for meeting and connecting in their own way, through which the richness, the energy of the community can be tapped and accessed. The tour takes you along these places for meeting, such as the Wijkpaleis or the Spoortuin, but also along places that, thanks to the community, have acquired a new form and meaning in the neighborhood.

Capacity: 25 people (first come, first served)

Starting Point: Gemaal op Zuid 

Art without a story is just an object. But can an object become art with the right story? Welcome to The Museum of Unintentional Art, the museum with the largest exhibition space in the world: the world itself.
We turn the museum walls inside out and elevate the mundane into art.Our curious museum director takes you on a one-and-a-half-hour tour and transforms you into an unintentional art connoisseur.  

Capacity: 25 people

Starting Point: Gemaal op Zuid 

The Afrikaanderwijk has its own strengths and challenges: it has the highest unemployment rate of Rotterdam, but it also has a lot of values, in Culture, Creativity and Craftmanship. These talents are deployed by the neighborhood cooperative in order to keep the benefits local. We'll walk through the neighbourhood, visiting the circular recycling station on the market which is run by the neighbourhood cooperative, and we'll visit the community garden. What does it mean to self organize in a gentrifying area? 

Capacity: 20 people (first come, first served)

Starting Point: Roodkapje Garage

Important note: In order to participate in the PodWalk activity, it is necessary to bring your own mobile phone with headphones/earbuds and a working internet connection. We do not provide any equipment ourselves.

Join in on a guided PodWalk Tour, hosted by Sander Ummelen from the Holy Houses Rotterdam Organisation!

Holy Houses and Placemaking in the City: Podwalk Cool Zuid investigates the urban development in Rotterdam's Cool-Zuid neighbourhood, where thousands of additional homes will be built, and new residents will move into the area soon. Amid this urban development, there are four varying church buildings. What role do these buildings play in the neighbourhood, and how will their role change in the face of this development?

Heilige Huisjes Rotterdam is creating a PodWalk that tells the story of these places in a changing urban landscape and gives the listener the chance to experience the neighbourhood of Cool Zuid in a new way. Composed of interviews and contemplative commentary, the PodWalk will be presented through a publicly accessible neighbourhood tour.

Podwalk: Holy Houses and the City - Heilige Huisjes Rotterdam

Capacity: 15 people (first come, first served)

Starting Point: Roodkapje

Flat rooftops offer a wealth of underutilised, high-potential space in urban environments worldwide. In Rotterdam, both temporary and permanent initiatives have begun to transform these spaces into vibrant hubs of urban sustainability. The cultural organisation 'Rotterdam Rooftop Days' explores this potential through creative programming showcased in their eponymous annual festival. During this tour, we will visit several rooftop sites where temporary cultural programming and permanent (green) redevelopment come together to maximise sustainable impact. Expect great insights and spectacular views as you experience the city from above. 

Accessibility info: Participants must be able to walk up stairs