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Welcome to October's Newsletter of Placemaking Europe!
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Dear Placemaking Europe community and readers,
We hope you embraced the last rays of summer sun these past weeks, and are now ready to enjoy cosy fall afternoons as the days are getting shorter and we are slowly
adapting to the shift in the atmosphere. We are happy to share with you a handful of news and stories from our network, events and webinars to participate in, resources to study and benefit from, and book recommendations for times to get cosy.
Let’s stay creative and active this October, especially as we celebrate two important days, which are:
World Mental Health Day on October 10th
and World Cities Day on October 31st.
We are curious to look at how we can support the creation of spaces that are inviting, people-friendly and full of life in all weather conditions and in all
seasons. This is likely crucial in creating healthy environments, which can later contribute to the well-being for all of us.
Please enjoy and take a look at October’s Newsletter! :)
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Call
for Winter and Pandemic Proof Placemaking!
As we notice many fellow placemakers and cities are
looking for alternative means of practicing social proximity at physical distance, and considering the darker months ahead of us, we are tasked with the challenge to make use of innovative
tools and practices. Therefore, Placemaking Europe is excited to announce a new focused project open to the entire network -
Winter & Pandemic Proof Placemaking!
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From the inspiring nominations put forward, Placemaking Europe will share the collection with the network. We are
so excited to explore and combat the wintertime conditions and the pandemic as a community.
We welcome you to share your nominations, ideas, and innovative tools to combat the pandemic distancing measures and/or wintertime
together here until November 6th.
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Meet the Placemaking Europe Leaders
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Meet all the other leaders on Placemaking Europe's
website!
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Charles
Landry
Charles Landry, the founder of the Creative Bureaucracy Festival, is an urban sociologist and an international authority on the use of imagination and creativity
in urban change. He is currently a fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin. He invented the concept of the Creative City in the late 1980’s. Its focus is how cities can create the enabling conditions for people and organizations to think, plan and act
with imagination to solve problems and develop opportunities. The notion has become a global movement and changed the way cities thought about their capabilities and resources.
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Jon
Aguirre Such
Jon Aguirre Such is an architect-urbanist specialized in Urban Planning and Environment. He is a founding partner of the office of urban innovation Paisaje Transversal,
a consultancy on urban and territorial planning processes from an integrated, ecological and participatory perspective. Jon is an expert in participatory and community engagement processes related to Sustainable Urban Development, integrated urban regeneration
& planning, collaborative design of public spaces and regional planning.
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Stay tuned! More Working Group pages will be coming soon. Questions about getting
your Placemaking Europe Working Group up on the website? Please email anna.b...@stipo.nl
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PlaceCity Symposium
Placemaking as a tool for urban regeneration
Over the summer, the
PlaceCity team held a dynamic symposium, led by
Superwien, of multi-day webinars followed by an offline explorative citywalk for the attendees in Vienna. Main questions posed by the symposium were: In times of COVID-19, how can we extend the public spaces in need in
order to enjoy our cities better? ; And further, how can we use placemaking in this pursuit for a more caring and resilient urban future?
Check out the stories full recorded videos from
DAY 1,
DAY 2, and
Explorative Walk in Vienna from the symposium on our Placemaking Europe
website!
Photo below: Explorative Walk in Vienna © Superwien, 2020.
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Nordic CityMaking Week
In the mid September, over 1500 city makers from all around the world gathered together to discuss what is Nordic in our cities, what do we mean with city making,
and how can we as city makers create better ways of working and thinking together to make our cities better.
Many of our Placemaking Europe leaders joined the
Nordic CityMaking Week
to share their knowledge and experiences in the educational and inspiring sessions. All the recordings can be found
here and check out the full story from Nordic CityMaking Week on our Placemaking
Europe website!
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Creative Bureaucracy Festival
The
Creative Bureaucracy Festival, an event celebrating the outstanding innovations in the public sector, and further, its contribution to a better, more sustainable, and more just world, took place from September 28th until October 2nd and provided
us with very inspirational seminars, among which many of our Placemaking Europe Leaders had a chance to share their knowledge. All recordings will be available
on the Creative Bureaucracy Festival website.
Check out the full story from Creative Bureaucracy Festival on our Placemaking
Europe website, which includes the responses and videos from our PE members
on how we imagine the City After Covid!
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The Suitcase
Behind the enigmatic term "the suitcase" lies a simple DIY (Do It Yourself) concept
: an easily transportable, attractive and readable ensemble that enables the visualisation of a project, evolves with it, and facilitates the involvement of people (co-makers, stakeholders) in the project's development. All of this, in nothing more than a
box with handles.
Read more and download the manual from our
Toolbox.
By: Eva Zemmour, Nazaket Azimli, and Djina De Bruin ; created by Guido de Jong and Sander van der Ham
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Placemaking
in the Nordics
We invite you to delve into the new handbook -
Placemaking in the Nordics, published by the
Future Place Leadership - a Nordic management consultancy specialising in the development, innovation and marketing of places.
It is a guide to co-creating safe and attractive public spaces in the Nordic region, which comprises analysis, tools and case studies to mobilise, create and manage the creation of public spaces.
This study also includes interesting examples of actions to activate space in sunless months, and the advice contained in it can be easily considered as universal and applicable in various contexts. You can download the handbook from
here.
Thanks to
Elise Perrault for sharing!
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Designing Disorder
by Pablo Sendra and Richard Sennet
In recent months, we have witnessed unpredictable events, drastic changes, and hence also challenges related to the need to adapt to new conditions as quickly as
possible. At the same time, a tendency to over-programme and over-design spaces is clearly visible and noticeable in cities around the world, which Pablo Sendra and Richard Sennet contest in their book “Designing Disorder”. Stating that rigid and overdetermined
forms are smothering the modern city, they are proposing a reorganisation of how we think and plan the social life of our cities. Sounds like a perfect read in the present days, doesn’t it? You can find it
here.
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Toward the Healthy City
People, Places and the Politics of Urban Planning
by Jason Corburn
Recognising city environments, and planning processes that shape them, are powerful determinants of population health. As such, urban planners today have to take
on the added challenge of revitalising neglected urban neighbourhoods in ways that improve health and promote greater equity. Corburn’s book provides a detailed account of how city planning and public health practices can reconnect and address health disparities
and offers a new decision-making framework called “healthy city planning” that helps to reframe the traditional planning and development issues. More information
here.
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H22 SUMMIT
2-6 November 2020
H22 Summit will be a springboard for innovation and a platform for accelerating the work being done to co-create smarter cities. The global challenges we face together
need to be solved locally – together. Join us for a 5-day open house where you can pop in for a little inspiration or stay all week to see what’s new and exciting in sustainable urban development – top speakers, lively discussions, or why not take part in
a hackathon? You can find more information
here.
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I hope we inspire you to continue generating change! Thank you for taking this journey
with us and, as always, a very warm welcome to all the new placemaking companions.
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Do you have any stories, projects, practices or events that you want to share with our
network? We are more than willing to include them in next month's newsletter! You can get in touch with
Marta for more details.
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