Inclusive City: Reclaiming Urban Spaces Through Care, Reflection, and Connection
What does it mean to design an inclusive city? Is it about adding more benches, planting trees, or creating bike lanes? While these elements matter, InclusiveCity reminds us that inclusion […]
Designing Public Life After Dark: Helsinki’s Tactics for the Dark Season
Read about the five-day takeover summary from Timo Hämäläinen regarding public space in northern cities on the winter season
Public Space and Inclusion in Oslo: The Unseen City Walks
What makes a public space inclusive? Inclusion is a central topic in EU discourse and planning. Public space is one of the main arenas where social cohesion can be fostered […]
Philippe Aghion and the caring city
When innovation and inclusion meet: notes on the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics
Design to Connect x Placemaking Europe: A Week of Reflection on Healing and City-Making
Many of the cities we live in today are shaped by worldviews built on separation, control, and extraction. These ways of thinking have influenced not only how we design, but how we see ourselves, each other, the world around us, and the relationship we hold with all three.
Making change from inside city hall? Join the European partnership reimagining how cities plan, collaborate, and care
At Placemaking Europe, we support the people who make cities more human. Practitioners who work with communities, listen, test, translate, and build bridges between daily life and public institutions. Increasingly, […]
In memory of Kathy Madden (1947 – 2025)
Honouring the woman who taught us to see, and care for, public life
2+4 Days in Népszínház street – Educational Experiments on Inclusion
Mobile, site-specific installations in Budapest invited people to pause, connect, and reflect. A simple water feature became a shared space, turning everyday settings into moments of community, collaboration, and collective care.
Reggio Emilia turns local challenges into global lessons
Placemaking Week Europe turned Reggio Emilia into a living laboratory, with 600+ participants co-creating solutions in five neighborhoods. Through Local Challenges, locals and internationals tested ideas—from quick actions to long-term strategies—showing how participatory approaches make cities more liveable, inclusive, and resilient.
Placemaking Week Europe 2025: a symphony in Reggio Emilia
What to expect from the plenaries and the festival ahead
