Scaling up: The City at Eye Level & Placemaking in the EU

Creating good plinths and turning good spaces into great places, these are the focus points for ‘The City at Eye Level’. For this session STIPO has invited some of their lead partners to join them in Rotterdam and explore the next steps in their European cooperation. Explore methods and projects from all over Europe. Go out on the Schouwburgplein and Kruisplein and build on international examples in exploring possibilities how to improve these squares.

In the last year we see the emerge of a European City at Eye Level / Placemaking Network. KTH in Stockholm, DIT in Dublin, the city and Roma 3 University in Rome, the city of Thessaloniki, the Academy of Urbanism, PPS, Gehl and Stipo are some of the parties involved. During het Stadmakerscongres we have the opportunity to invite some of the lead partners to join us in Rotterdam and explore the next steps in the European cooperation on the City at Eye Level

If you look at content placemaking it’s taking the next step.
– We make the combination between placemaking and placemanagement: Not only can we create good places, we are getting better in organising the management to make the improvement sustainable
– We combine placemaking with street management: For instance : KTH is organising a program about main streets
– We combine placemaking with area and city planning: The city of Thessaloniki will use placemaking as one of the key strategies
– We combine policy making and academic research with implementation and management; This will also be on the agenda of the Summit in Athens in 2017

During the session:

1 – We present the City at Eye Level method and projects from the UK (John Worthington), Stockholm (Rosa Danenberg), Greece (Vivian Doumpa), the Netherlands (Sander van der Ham, Stipo) and Dublin (Ciaran Cuffe).

2 – We act together with our international guests and the Vereniging Verenigd Schouwburgplein and the City of Rotterdam we go out on the Schouwburgplein and Kruisplein and explore possibilities to improve the squares, learning from international examples. Guests:  Jeroen de Leeuw (7 Square Endeavour), Mattia Stanijic (gemeente Rotterdam)

Workshop hosts: Jeroen Laven ( STIPO) – Bert Determann (Rotterdamse Schouwburg)
Time: 10.15  – 12.30 uur
Location: depart from the Schouwburg, on foot