The City at Eye Level and Placemaking Training 2024 (Dutch)

Training days on Thursday 14, 21 and 28 March 2023

Cities around the world each face their own social and economic challenges that can contribute to the quality of public space. But how do we create great streets and places where people want to be? Join our City at Eye Level training and learn how to improve cities, streets and places by developing a people-centered approach to placemaking. Learn more about analyzing places with the place game, develop specific strategies using the City at Eye Level toolbox and get inspired to create amazing streets and places for and by people.

Are you an urban planner, project manager, designer, developer, investor, city maker, place maker, community leader, manager or property owner working to make your city more inclusive, interactive, sustainable or functional on a human scale? Do you want to learn by doing to create beautiful streets, places, parks, squares, playgrounds and other public spaces in areas? Places built around social life, where the users feel at home, involved in co-designing and programming the place and also helping to build community? Then we have a fantastic training for you!

FOR WHOM?

Improving cities, creating beautiful streets and places for people are increasingly on the global agenda. But how can we organize this properly in practice? Join the City at Eye Level & Placemaking training, where you will learn together with other Dutch participants about public space on a human scale, placemaking and place management, bicycle-friendly cities, tactical urbanism and how to implement long-term strategies for cities.

STIPO previously organized City at Eye Level & Placemaking masterclasses, workshops and place games in Vancouver, Barcelona, ​​​​Stockholm, Thessaloniki, Rome, Bratislava, Darmstadt, Kuala Lumpur, Lebanon, The Hague, Utrecht, Groningen, Dordrecht and Delft. In addition to these on-site activities, we also organize these masterclasses in Amsterdam, of which this is the first edition that is completely Dutch!

The training days will take place on three Thursdays in March 2023.

• Day 1 will take place on March 14
• Day 2 will take place on March 21
• Day 3 will take place on March 28

Elements in the training

• The City at Eye Level: creating human-sized streets with interaction between buildings and streets.
• Learn the mechanisms to create great plinths and thriving public spaces.
• Placemaking: turn public space into pleasant places where people feel at home.
• Placemaking as part of a systemic and long-term approach: the development of placemaking towards place-led development, place management and the placemaking business case for system change.
• How can you involve the community in an inclusive and sustainable way in the co-creation of public space?
• Learning-by-doing: hands-on tools to immediately apply the new knowledge through the Eye Level Game and the Place Game. Apply the tools to inspiring cases in Amsterdam.

Day 1: AMAZING STREETS – The City at Eye Level & The Eye Level Game in public space

Day 2: GREAT PLACES – Placemaking & The Place Game in public space

Day 3: YOUR GREAT PRACTICE – Bring lessons into your practice and work on your challenges together

Stay tuned for the full program.

Taal

This is the Dutch version, taking place on March 14, 21 and 28, 2024.

Practical information

• This is a Dutch edition! The training will therefore be given in Dutch.
• Deadline for registration: February 29, 2024.
• Lunch, coffee, snacks are provided all three days.
• On day 1, a group dinner is organized and provided.
• On day 3, snacks and drinks will be provided for the conclusion of the group.
• Location: Amsterdam West. The specific location will be announced later.
• The training will take place on three Thursdays in March 2023, 14, 21 & 28.
• The program is every day from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• Receive an official certificate of completion.
• Ticket prices excl. VAT: Early Bird Reduced Ticket (€800), Early Bird Regular Ticket (€1100), Reduced Ticket (€950), Regular Ticket (€1250) *

* Conditions to qualify for an (Early Bird) Reduced Ticket:
– You work for a smaller, more socially oriented organisation
– You work as an independent freelancer
– If you are unsure whether you qualify for a Reduced Ticket, please send an email to olga.sowa@stipo.nl

€800-€1250