Placemaking Week: Full Schedule

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11:15 CEST

The PPS Placemaking Clinic

Do you need advice on your current placemaking project? Someone to bounce ideas off of? A shoulder to cry on?

Drop by our Placemaking Clinic table or make an appointment to speak with a friendly, knowledgeable member of the Project for Public Spaces staff, with specializations in markets, transportation, innovation, inclusion, and more.

Thursday Agenda:

11am–12:30pm: Elena Madison, Vice President, PPS
12:30–1:30pm: Philip Winn, Vice President, PPS
1:30–3pm: Anna Siprikova, Senior Project Associate, PPS
3–4:30pm: Mark Plotz, Vice President, PPS
4:30–6pm: Daniel Latorre, Senior Fellow, Digital Placemaking, PPS

Presenters

Daniel Latorre

Senior Fellow, Digital Placemaking, Project for Public Spaces

Daniel set up PPS’ Digital Placemaking program starting in January of 2010. He set up this practice at PPS to authentically marry Placemaking with current online civic engagement best practices and build the right staffing mix to communicate it. Since February of 2013 Daniel moved... Read More →

Elena Madison

Director of Projects, Project for Public Spaces

Elena Madison is a vice president at PPS, an urban planner with rich experience in the planning and design of parks, plazas, campuses, civic and cultural spaces. A veteran of placemaking, Elena has a passion for working with people in communities to create the public spaces they love... Read More →

Mark Plotz

Vice President & Director, National Center for Bicycling and Walking, PPS

Mark Plotz is Program Director of the National Center for Bicycling &Walking (NCBW), which became part of Project for Public Spaces in 2011. Mark beings nearly a decade of experience in bicycle and pedestrian planning and advocacy to PPS: he has extensive experience in Safe Routes... Read More →

Anna Siprikova

Senior Project Associate, Project for Public Spaces

I am an urban planner specializing in placemaking, community engagement, and translating public input and human behavior analysis into urban design. At Project for Public Spaces, I am a core team member for Southwest Airlines Heart of the Community Grants Program, an innovative and... Read More →

Philip Winn

Vice President, Project for Public Spaces

Philip Winn is a Vice President at Project for Public Spaces and core team member for the Southwest Airlines Heart of the Community program. He has helped develop, design, manage, and implement multiple “Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper” projects at PPS including Belle Isle Summer Saturdays... Read More →

Thursday October 12, 2017 11:15 - 17:30 CEST
PDZ Floor 2: Foyer Pakhuis de Zwijger, Piet Heinkade 179, 1019 HC Amsterdam, Netherlands

Other, Activation

10:30 CEST

The PPS Placemaking Clinic

10:30am–12pm: Steve Davies, Executive Vice President, PPS
12–1pm: Meg Walker, Vice President, PPS
1–2:30pm: Kathy Madden, Director of Education & Training, PPS
2:30–4pm: Gary Toth, Senior Director, Transportation Initiatives, PPS

Presenters

Steve Davies

Co-Founder & Executive Vice President, Project for Public Spaces

Steve Davies joined Project for Public Spaces in 1978 and has guided the development of the organization for more than 35 years. Davies is an advocate for livable communities and his work has taken him around the world as a consultant, facilitator and speaker.With over 500 major projects... Read More →

Kathy Madden

Co-Founder & Director of Education & Training, Project for Public Spaces

Kathy Madden is an environmental designer who has been at PPS since its inception in 1975. During this time, Kathy has been involved in all aspects of the organization’s work. She has directed over 300 research and urban design projects along with training programs throughout the... Read More →

Gary Toth

Executive Vice President, Project for Public Spaces

Gary Toth has helped to lead a national movement to integrate land use and transportation issues as a means to creating more livable, walkable communities and streets. During his 34 years of project management experience with the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT), Gary... Read More →

Margaret Walker

Senior Vice President, Pratt Institute

A registered architect and licensed planner, Meg Walker was the senior vice president of Project for Public Spaces in New York and is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute, where she teaches in the graduate program of Urban Placemaking and Management. Over her... Read More →

Friday October 13, 2017 10:30 - 16:00 CEST
PDZ Floor 2: Foyer Pakhuis de Zwijger, Piet Heinkade 179, 1019 HC Amsterdam, Netherlands

Other, Activation

10:45 CEST

Activation: The New Virtual Reality of Public Space

Virtual Reality is showing potential as an exciting and useful technology for architects, urban designers and many other fields of research. With the currunt generation head mounted displays - with high level of reality, immersion, gesture-based input and introduction at prices aimed at consumers- heralds a new era of VR-use. Join us in the conference venue to experience an urban design before it is implemented. We will give u the oppertunity to have a virtual walk through a public space from a user's point of view.

Presenters

Bart Haazen

Architect/Urban Designer, BFAS Architecture and Urbanism

Ioanna Tsakalakidou

Intern, STIPO

Sven Volkers

Junior Architect & Virtual Reality specialist, BFAS Architecture and Urban Planning

In February 2017 I attended the Dutch Housing Studio of the TU Delft. In my graduation research, I studied with the help of virtual reality how people perceive a street and how dwelling design influences this perception. Since then, I have been able to develop this knowledge at BFAS... Read More →

Friday October 13, 2017 10:45 - 12:00 CEST
PDZ Floor 2: Foyer Pakhuis de Zwijger, Piet Heinkade 179, 1019 HC Amsterdam, Netherlands

Other, Activation