Co-Creating the City

June 21th

09:30 - 12:30 Morning programme 
In the plenary opening practitioners and city representatives exchange experiences in co-creation and participatory democracy in their city.

Anne Sinnemäki (Vice Mayor - City of Helsinki), Maria Vassilakou (Vice Mayor - City of Vienna), Catherine Veyrat-Durebex (Project officer - City of Nantes), Elena Papalabrou (Special Advisor to the Mayor - City of Athens) and Karl-Filip Coenegrachts (Strategic Coordinator - City of Ghent) will share best practices and lessons learned. 

Ethan Kent (Senior Vice President - Project for Public Spaces) speaks about placemaking as an inherently co-creative practice in the design and management of public space. 

Toni L. Griffin (Design for a Just City - Harvard University) and Jerry Afriyie (Founder - Nederland wordt Beter) explore the necessary preconditions to inclusive city-making, towards a just city. 

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch 

13.30 - 17.15 Break-out sessions 

First round: 13:30 - 15:15 
- Co-Creative Democracy and Decision-Making 
With a.o Catherine Veyrat-Durebex and Annet van Otterloo (Right to Challenge) 

- Placemaking, Co-Design and Place-Led Governance 
With a.o. Ethan Kent and Jeroen Laven (European Placemaking Network - Stipo)

- Co-Financing and New Financial Instruments 
With a.o. Levente Polyak (Founder - Eutropian), Daniela Patti (Founder - Eutropian), Christian Grauvogel (Founder - re:Kreators), Hans Karssenberg (Partner - Stipo) 

 - Workshop by Toni L. Griffin - A Just City Index for Amsterdam Neighborhoods 
With neighbourhoods: Delftlandpleinbuurt, Reigersbos, Bijlmer Oost & Wildemanbuurt 
[Note: This workshop starts at 13.00.]


Second round: 15:30 - 17:15 
- Who is the ‘we’ in We Make the City? 
With a.o. Jerry Afriyie (Founder - Nederland wordt Beter - Amsterdam), Diana Krabbendam (Founder - The Beach - Amsterdam), Ahmed Omar (We Are Here), Peter Silva (Amsterdam City Rights), Tiago Mota Saraiva (Partner and architect - Ateliermob - Lisbon) & more to be announced 

- Online Platforms for Participatory Democracy 
With a.o Elena Papalabrou (SynAthina - Athens), Róbert Bjarnason (Citizens Foundation / Better Reykjavik - Reykjavik), May-Britt Jansen (Stem van West - Amsterdam) and Aline Muylaert & Wietse van Ransbeeck (Citizenlab - City of Ghent) 

- Commoning the City 
With a.o. Christian Iaione (LabGov Bologna) and Sheila Foster (Professor of Law and Public Policy University of Georgetown) 

[ENG] 
The Màster universitari en Arquitectura (MArq) will promote ateliermob open lecture on "The Right to the City".
It will be on May 22nd, 11.00, at the "Sala d'actes de l'ETSAV".

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[ENG] 

It's really an honour to be within this group of authors and thinkers we admire so much. Thanks to Flavien Menu for all his efforts to organise it.
The book will be launched on Friday at the AA Bookshop and it is published by the Spector Books.

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[PT] 
Terras da Costa nos 25 finalistas do European Prize for Urban Public Space 2018

Este prémio, criado em 2000 e organizado por sete instituições europeias, pretende, de dois em dois anos, distinguir intervenções de requalificação e defesa do espaço público. O júri é presidido por Olga Tarrasó (nomeada pelo Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona - CCCB), e composto por Peter Cachola Schmal (director do Deutsches Architekturmuseum – DAM), Matevž Čelik (director do Muzej za Arhitekturo in Oblikovanje – MAO), Hans Ibelings (crítico de arquitectura e historiador), Ewa P. Porębska (directora da revista Architektura-Murator), Francis Rambert (director da Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine em Paris), Katharina Ritter (curadora do Architekturzentrum Wien – AzW), Ellis Woodman (director da The Architecture Foundation (AF) em Londres) e David Bravo (secretariado do Prémio).
Este projecto levado a cabo pelo ateliermob e pelo colectivo warehouse tem como objecto o trabalho desenvolvido no bairro das Terras da Costa entre 2012 e 2017, com o apoio da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian e Câmara Municipal de Almada. Depois da cozinha comunitária (2014) desenrolam-se diversos processos ao nível do espaço público o mais importante dos quais o de preparação para o realojamento - mapeamento, levantamento das condições existentes e futura localização do bairro. O processo de realojamento encontra-se suspenso, aguardando-se que as novas medidas de apoio à habitação possam servir para promover uma solução urbanística para as Terras da Costa que não passe pela desarticulação da comunidade que ali habita e que reconheça o seu vínculo com a Costa de Caparica.

[ENG] 
Terras da Costa shortlisted for the European Prize for Urban Public Space 2018

This prize, created in 2010 and organised, every two years, by seven European institutions aims to release projects that promote and recognise the important role of public space. The jury is presided by Olga Tarrasó (on behalf of Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona - CCCB), having as members: Peter Cachola Schmal (director of Deutsches Architekturmuseum – DAM), Matevž Čelik (director of Muzej za Arhitekturo in Oblikovanje – MAO), Hans Ibelings (architectural historian and critic), Ewa P. Porębska (architect and editor-in-chief of the magazine Architektura-Murator), Francis Rambert (director of Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine em Paris), Katharina Ritter (exhibit curator of Architekturzentrum Wien – AzW), Ellis Woodman (director of The Architecture Foundation (AF) in London)  and David Bravo (secretary on behalf of Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona - CCCB).
This project lead by ateliermob and colectivo warehouse represents the work developed in Bairro Terras da Costa, between 2012 and 2017, with the support of Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian and Câmara Municipal de Almada. After the Communitary Kitchen (2014) other processes developed in this public space. The most important was the one focusing in their rehousing - mapping, diagnosing their current conditions and their future location. The rehousing process is now on hold while new national housing policies are being released. What one can wish is that a new urban reality can be drawn for Terras da Costa that does not presupposed the community dismantling, thus the full recognition of its strong link with Costa da Caparica.

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