Scaling up – New international networks in City Making

New Europe, Re:Kreators, City at Eye Level and ECF’s networks are thinking alike in promoting community-driven city making. Together with other organisations we want to: Exchange knowledge,  (help) create new ideas, turn ideas into reality. During the conference we will use the proaction cafe format to explore possibilities to strengthen international cooperation and work towards a European agenda. 

During the European Summit in Amsterdam in May 2016 city makers from all over Europe came together to formulate a joined Urban Agenda for the EU. Pakhuis de Zwijger started this New Europe, Cities in Transiton Movement. On May 17-21, 2017 a new summit will take place in Athens, and continue the European City Makers movement that came together in Amsterdam this year.

The Re:Kreators network is an international network bringing together parties working on areas such as Holzmarkt in Berlin and ZOHO in Rotterdam. These are parties varying from cultural change-makers to public developers, thinkers and do-ers, who take initiative in new forms of area development and city making that comply with the 21st century participatory approach. Re:Kreators aim is to extend the network to 200 members in Europe. Stipo is one of the founders of the Re:Kreators network. The power of the network can stimulate having an impact both on the level of the individual city, but also nationally and on a European scale.

The City at Eye Level is a network of professionals in dozens of cities from all over the world, working on a better streets, squares and plinths. The City at Eye Level combines academic research and practical implementation. The City at Eye Level works internationally but is via Stipo also involved in many projects in Rotterdam, varying from Schouwburgplein Rotterdam and ZOHO to Oostplein.

The European Cultural Foundation (ECF) bridges communities and cultural change-makers across wider Europe. ECF initiates and supports cultural exchange and creative expression across Europe around topics of the commons, public space and culture & economy. By identifying, connecting, nourishing and illuminating a network of local cultural change-makers, ECF fosters the growth of new visions of Europe that are the result of bottom-up action and creativity.

Workshop host: Minouche Besters (STIPO)
Time: 13.30 – 15.00 uur
Location: depart from the Schouwburg, on foot