Milestone 7: Twisting the Rules
This meeting landed the key commitments of the Placemaking Agenda and define strategies to overcome barriers through flexible, innovative, and cross-disciplinary approaches.
Milestone 6: From Project to Strategy
From June 19-21, 2024, programme participants gathered in Trenčín, Slovakia, for the sixth milestone of the programme: From Project to Strategy. This working session focused on shifting from project-based placemaking efforts to a more strategic, city-wide approach.
Inclusive City
InclusiveCity aims at rethinking placemaking and the 15-minute city concept through the lens of social inclusion, diversity and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals
Reggio Emilia 2025
Rotterdam 2024
The festival Placemaking Week Europe is an annual festival that brings together 500+ placemakers, urbanists, city officials, and community leaders from across Europe and beyond. Placemaking Week Europe is created […]
Regreeneration
Regreeneration aims to operationalize greening and renaturing solutions across Europe
Milestone 5: From short term to long term
The aim of the meeting was to discuss the implications of transitioning from short-term placemaking interventions to a more strategic, long-term, and comprehensive approach. Over the course of these three days of workshops, we examined various timeframes and time cycles within which we operate.
Milestone 4: How to work across departments
The aim of this meeting was to understand the organisational structure in which we are embedded, to define the skills, competencies and mindsets that enable us to work more effectively across departments, and to explore strategies for effective collaboration and coordination of efforts across different departments and stakeholders within city councils and beyond.
Milestone 3: Organisational Bottlenecks
On September 26, the participants of the programme met in Strasbourg, France, for the third step of the programme. The title of this working session was “Organisational Bottlenecks”. The aim of this Milestone was to identify the main organisational hurdles of city governments in placemaking processes, and explore potential solutions to enhance their effectiveness.
Milestone 1: Essentials of Placemaking
A three-day peer-to-peer learning experience to provide a comprehensive introduction to placemaking, its application in the context of urban governance and its implications for long-term systemic change.
