"This workshop will be an opportunity to experience first-hand and discuss an inclusive, hybrid (digital-physical) workshop format, empowering citizens to co-design their neighborhoods and make their voices heard in planning processes, while enabling professionals and municipalities to automatically …

Placemaking Week Europe is an annual festival that brings together 700+ placemakers, urbanists, city officials, and community leaders from across Europe and beyond. Placemaking Week Europe is created in the spirit of collaboration and inspiration and it has proven to be a vital platform to share best …

How to navigate your way through an era that is increasingly referred to as an era of poly-crises, where disparate crises interact in such a way that the overall impact far exceeds the sum of each part (WEF, 2023)? Some of the social, environmental and security risks described in the 2023 World Economic …

Vacant land can provide social and ecological benefits to cities as they are informally used by people and spontaneously populated by animals and plant-life. However, planners and policy makers often frame vacant land as ‘empty’, ‘blank’ spaces, making it difficult to acknowledge informal and more-than-human …

Dit rapport is het resultaat van praktijkgericht onderzoek naar de betekenis van het innovatieve woonproject Woldwijk (Ten Boer) voor zowel de inwoners als de omwonenden. Het onderzoek biedt inzicht in de waardencreatie van Woldwijk vanuit sociale en fysieke aspecten. Door enquêtes en diepte-interviews …

‘Het atelier’ is in de kunstgeschiedenis meermaals doodverklaard – eerst door de opkomst van conceptuele kunst, later door de digitale revolutie. Maar wie naar de hedendaagse kunstpraktijk kijkt, ziet dat kunstenaars en cultuurwerkers hun werkruimtes onverminderd hard nodig hebben. Ook beleidsmakers …

Comprehensive understanding of the merits of bottom-up urban development is lacking, thus hampering and complicating associated collaborative processes. Therefore, and given the assumed relevancies, we mapped the social, environmental and economic values generated by bottom-up developments in two Dutch …

This chapter takes a closer look at the case of Amsterdam as a particular manifestation of a film festival city. Drawing from a new dataset on festivals in the Netherlands, the data supports the view of film festivals as a highly dynamic cultural sector: Internationally acclaimed film festivals exist …

The role that the physical environment plays in value creation is changing. Place is becoming an ever more critical role in people’s willingness to come and spend time in a given environment. There are vital linkages between place-making and place maintenance. This session will discuss the emergence …

De gemeente Den Haag zet zich de komende jaren in voor het ontwikkelen van een Haagse placemakingaanpak. Het doel hiervan is om partijen in positie te brengen om hun eigen woon- en leefomgeving te verbeteren, waarin ze zich thuis voelen, en (informeel) eigenaar zijn van de publieke ruimte die ze gebruiken. …