Clara J. Reich holds a master’s degree in Development, Environment and Cultural Change at the University of Oslos and wrote her thesis about placemaking in Oslo. She is an expert in hosting participatory workshops on sustainability topics, participatory and qualitative research methods and worked in a variety of research projects with the aim to create more sustainable (urban) futures. Her passion is to create spaces for exchange and dialogue and to enable youth to participate actively in creating a more liveable future. She is an expert on sustainable consumption, urban development and placemaking.
Which additional experience/skills can people of Placemaking Europe reach out personally to you for?
I am happy to share my experience on youth engagement, qualitative research, sustainability and creating inclusive public meeting places.
Describe one of the projects you are most proud of
We conducted research on the use, needs and wishes of a local high school with many minority youth in Oslo with youth researchers. The young researchers found out that students were interested in more sitting places, colours and plants. A year later they could be part of a collaboration on creating pop-up furniture contributing to realising the needs and wishes they had discovered before.
