Within the H22 CITY EXPO, Placemaking Europe and The City of Helsingborg are co-organising

Placemaking as a city wide endeavour: How municipalities can create successful places and strengthen communities.

Taking place June 15 -16th, 2022, we will  centre on placemaking as an embedded and integral strategy for cities to motivate great public space and quality of life.

Thematic Pillars:

• Creative Bureaucracy - investigating innovative best practices to embed placemaking into and across municipal frameworks and methods to empower users.
• Place-led & City-centre development: exploring placemaking within urban development and place branding ethically for a lively and local city core, especially considering the pandemic. 
• Physical activity & Play: exploring play through placemaking in our urban public sphere as a mechanism to promote well-being, health, democratic leisure and safety.

Programme:

Wednesday June 15th

9:00 Placemaking Europe Annual Leader's Meeting (closed session)

13:30 Keynote Opening with: Moa Sundberg, Cecilia Fredriksson, Charlot Schans and Ethan Kent

14:30 City Centres in a Post-Covid World: How can we tap into place-led & city centre development putting people and planet above profit, while dealing with covid? (+ Workshop w/Future Place Leadership) with: Clémentine Robert, Elise Perrault and Ryan Smolar.

18:00 Break

19:00 City Tours (People’s Walk Tour //  Tunnel Tour  // Söderscen Tour)

Thursday June 16th

9:00 Tour of DM (Do More) an unique urban farming and market place project initiated by IKEA in Helsingborg

10:30 How can we collaborate with municipalities for inclusive civic engagement and agile civil servants?

including the representatives of the municipalities of Helsingborg (Sweden), The Hague (Netherlands) and Pontevedra (Spain):.

12:30 Lunch & Networking

13:30 Rapid Inspirations from the Placemaking Europe Network

15:00 Outdoor tactical workshop on play, physical activity and safety & tool application (Exploring Helsingborg's Tunnels) with: Viviana Cordero, Anna Bradley, Giulia Sicignano and Todor Kesarovski

17:00 Break

18:00 Plenary Closing Words - followed by celebrations & bites

19.00 Dinner Date with Placemakers!

Tickets for 2 Day Full Access Event: 75 Euros. Reserve your ticket via H22 under this link.

More About Our Event & H22 City Expo:

Our joint event is filled with engaging peer to peer sessions, activities, and workshops. We have the goal to bring placemaking methods and frameworks forward as an imperative consideration across all levels of municipal departments and link city makers and civil servants on complementary skill sets.

The event (Placemaking as a city wide endeavour) takes place during Helsingborg's grand city expo - named H22 - which aims to lead the way to smarter, more sustainable urban life and planning. H22 City Expo will showcase the most exciting development work, the important questions and the best approaches, ideas and solutions. These will be discussed and taken forward by both decision-makers and other visitors to the expo. The H22 city expo is between 30 May - 3 July. So take the opportunity to extend your stay at least one day before or after our placemaking meeting so you do not miss out what the expo has to offer. Find out more about the programme and how to book your trip here: https://www.h22cityexpo.com/

From Placemaking Europe, we are eager to connect this locally relevant and globally oriented event to our European network of placemakers - civil servants, project managers, urbanists, designers, researchers, developers, community leaders, etc.  The connection between both the Placemaking Europe network and the Helsingborg network will operate bi-directionally: Leaders and participants from the Placemaking Europe network are able to actively contribute to the programme, as well as absorb the lessons from the Helsingborg team and network. Certainly, we will also facilitate the sessions to catalyse networking and relationship building with a look towards future opportunities for continued cross-dialogue and collaborations. We will also invite expert speakers working at the nexus of public space activation and our thematic topics with a placemaking consideration.

Cover Photo by Maria Eklind