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Dear
Placemaking Europe community and readers,
When we started working on this monthly issue, we were hiding at home from the storms of Eunice, Dudley and Franklin and we decided that the March newsletter would
be dedicated to the theme of Urban Resilience. This theme is the red thread running throughout the newsletter. We share about the
IPCC report regarding climate emergency,
the Lutkemeerpolder (the last fertile soil and garden of the city threatened by developments),
the City at Eye Level training 2022, our leaders' projects and lastly our recommended podcast and events.
However, with the war in
Ukraine and the fact that nowadays it is in cities where wars are fought, we feel the need to address this issue as well. Placemaking Europe is an international organisation whose part
of work is to organise spaces for meeting, dialogue and cooperation. That is why we want to share with you initiatives that help deal with the humanitarian crisis caused by war. In this newsletter we write about initiatives responding to the challenge of providing
housing for people fleeing Ukraine.
Enjoy the reading!
Are you interested in sharing your project in the upcoming edition? Please
reach out!
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February truly marked a tipping point in regards to violent climatic episodes and coincided with the publication of the second document of the sixth
Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC).
The just published report seems so far one of the most worrisome, for the reason being that at this particular point cities will have to deal with more catastrophic
short-term events rather than focussing on cutting emissions to a zero-net. This is because climate change is “widespread, rapid and intensifying”, especially in the global South. Therefore,
the main message conveyed by the IPCC report is that there is an absolute need for urgent action taken in regards to
climate adaptation,
mitigation and on the
cutting of CO2 emissions. Lastly, the core themes of the sixth IPCC will revolve around
indigenous knowledge, social justice
and sustainable development. As urbanisation rates seem to only intensify, cities play a vital role not only for mitigating natural and human-made disasters, but to prevent
them, too. You can read more about the section about the role of cities over
here!
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An ongoing campaign is dedicated to saving the last fertile clay soil located in the middle of Amsterdam's
only organic farm: the Lutkemeerpolder. A beautiful green area with historical value, in between Amsterdam Osdorp and Schiphol.
The cause stands against the recent greenfield developments proposed for the fertile area, which unfortunately constitutes a very profitable part for the municipality to invest in.
The Lutkemeer biopolder's intrinsic value to make food production visible and accessible for citizens, keeping food production sustainable, bio and at KM zero, while conserving the local biodiversity. Moreover, the Lutkemeer Polder is a place for people to
gather, recreate and learn about agriculture and many other aspects of food distribution.
If you would like more information about this cause, or know more about how to help, please check this
website. A
video is also available in English if you are curious about the story and the future of the Lutkemeer!
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The founder and public developer of STIPO Hans
Karssenberg participated in a seminar about the importance of placemaking as part of city expo Malaysia, specifically about the importance of 'return of investment' (ROI) and the
value of placemaking for large development projects in the Malaysian context. To learn more about the widespread benefits and values of placemaking check the recording of the seminar over
here!
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Our colleague
Giulia Sicignagno participated as a guest at the 3rd edition of the "Future
Design of Streets" webinar, all about 'Livable Streets'. You can watch the streaming of the webinar over
here!
We are even more excited to announce the official start of STIPO Italy!
More news coming out soon!
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Laura
Martinez Izquierdo manages
Nabolagshager's portfolio of national and international research and innovative projects that aim to achieve sustainable and participatory urban development.
One of Laura’s latest projects is a youth program called "Academy for Urban Green City Life". The aim of the project is to facilitate young people become change agents for sustainable
urban development. During the project, a team of youth researchers have explored how young people perceive city life around Grønland and Tøyen in Oslo. The results that arose from the participatory research underlined a littering problem, which is being tackled
by some young researchers in collaboration with local actors in the form of an environmental campaign and various actions of tactical urbanism. Here
you get a glimpse into the work they do!
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Katherine Peinhardt is
currently working in the ARCH project,
which is funded by the European Union and works to boost the resilience of historic areas to climate change and other hazards. Katherine is also concurrently working on a fairly new initiative called
NetZeroCities, which supports the European Commission's Mission "100 Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities by 2030", the project will "assist cities to overcome the current structural, institutional and cultural barriers they
face in order to achieve climate neutrality by 2030."
Read more about Katherine here!
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Meet all the other leaders on Placemaking Europe's
website!
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7th annual CITY AT EYE LEVEL & PLACEMAKING TRAINING
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Improving cities, creating great streets and places for people are more and more on the agenda
worldwide. But how can we organise them in practice? Learn the HOW TOs firsthand. Join the
City at Eye Level & Placemaking Annual Training June 20-22 2022
in Amsterdam with international participants to explore the world - learning by doing - of human scale public space, placemaking and place management, bike-friendly cities, tactical urbanism and on how to implement long term strategies for cities.
Are you interested in our upcoming training, taking place in Amsterdam June 20-22, 2022? Would you like to stay in the loop about the upcoming info and updates related to this? Please let us know by filling in this
form.
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'Future Design of Streets' Webinar
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In relation to the monthly theme of
Urban Resilience, we are happy to feature the last episode of a series of seven online webinars called “Resilient Public Spaces”,
with the last episode dedicated to the theme of “City Responsive Administrations” which will take place online on the
9th of March, so:
save the date!
The Webinar Series “Resilient Public Spaces” is part of the dissemination product of a World Bank consultancy from Superwien, Participatory Urban Design, held in three cities (Dhaka in Bangladesh, Maputo in Mozambique, and Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic).
The main objective of this webinar series is to open-up a conversation about key topics in urban design followed by the question on how to promote more resilient and sustainable urban futures. Moreover, it constitutes a meeting ground for public servants,
practitioners and educators; where academic and popular knowledge can be bridged.
All sessions are free of charge, and you can find full info and the event link here!
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The CLAIRO (CLear AIR and CLimate Adaptation in Ostrava) research project is organizing an online
event around livable and climate resilient European cities on March 22.
The conference will present new information and forward-looking trends that will help cities become
more resilient to climate change. The conference language will be English and the participation is free of charge. You can find more information over here.
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We are very excited and happy to welcome our two new interns in the
Placemaking Europe team!
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Julia Clément
👉 She is a French urban strategist whose skills
lie at the intersection of urban governance and ecological transitions. After a multi-disciplinary Bachelor in social and political sciences, she has acquired extensive knowledge in both urban environmental challenges and urban governance through a Master
Degree at Sciences Po in Paris.
🌱As part of the Placemaking Europe team, she will
be involved in connecting passionate practitioners working toward making healthy, resilient and inclusive cities for people.
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Alice
Bazzica
🌏 She graduated from a BsC degree in Cultural Anthropology
and Development Sociology, with an emphasis on urban issues and how these are inexorably linked to the human and climatic ones. Therefore, her interests lie in the social aspects of urban development. She sees cities as potential engines for transformations
and experimentation, especially with regards to global issues, inclusivity and climate justice.
🔎 Moreover, by having an anthropological perspective
one of Alice’s strong points lies in having a holistic perspective and reading across different disciplinary silos.
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Over the past few days, thousands of people have been fleeing the war in Ukraine. According to
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, by 2 March, more than one million people had left their homes in search of safety (not counting internal displacement), mainly to neighbouring
countries. Providing a home for people fleeing the war in Ukraine is a fundamental challenge these days in host countries. Temporary bottom-up solutions are a big help in a crisis situation
when the aid infrastructure
is not yet ready.
A number of initiatives stem from the need to do more than just donate money. One of them was initiative in Poland, a country that has so far taken in over 550.000
people. „Mapa mieszkań - pomoc dla Ukrainy” (ang. Map of flats - aid to Ukraine) is Google map where you can offer to host people in your home. Registration is via a website (in Ukrainian
and Polish)
ukrainesupport.net where you can leave a short message, contact details and the number of people you can host. The map has started to extend beyond the borders of Poland. A similar initiative has been launched by
Tech To The Rescue. SOS
UA is an AirBnB-type platform built jointly by several tech companies and non-governmental organisations.
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In order to remain true to our theme of Urban Resilience, we propose this podcast for our March edition.
In the proposed podcast series the two hosts Corina Angheloiu and Chiara Tomaselli discuss various key themes for urban resilience practitioners, policy makers and researchers.
Give it a listen
here!
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We hope to 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. See you next month for
more exciting adventures!
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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 newsletter! You can get in touch with us by emailing
te...@placemaking-europe.eu for more details.
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