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09:00 CEST

Welcome: Placemaking, Where Do We Stand?

Representatives from Project for Public Spaces, STIPO, Placemaking Plus, Pakhuis de Zwijger, and the City of Amsterdam offer a warm welcome, and lay out the goals for the conference.

Moderators

Minouche Besters

Managing Partner, STIPO

Minouche Besters is partner and urbanist at STIPO team for Urban Development. She is an experienced designer and facilitator of collective processes.

Presenters

Bregje Bleeker

Author

Bregje is an Amsterdam-based author. At the end of the eighties and the nineties she studied history and political science at the University of Amsterdam. In 2007, she made her writing debut with Walrus, which was named by the NRC as one of the best debuts of the year. In adition... Read More →

Stefan Bödecker

Director & Placemaker, Placemaking Plus

Hans Karssenberg

Partner / Board Member, STIPO / Placemaking Europe

Hans Karssenberg (1970) is founding partner of STIPO, an interdisciplinary team for better cities. He leads complex urban area development towards human scale, great public space, mixed use, sustainable and inclusive quality, always in close co-creation with all stakeholders. He is... Read More →

Fred Kent

Founder & President, Project for Public Spaces

Fred Kent is a leading authority on revitalizing city spaces and one of the foremost thinkers in livability, smart growth and the future of the city. As founder and president of Project for Public Spaces, he is known throughout the world as a dynamic speaker and prolific ideas man... Read More →

Charlot Schans

Project Leader, New Europe: Cities in Transition, Pakhuis de Zwijger

Charlot Schans is an urban sociologist and programme maker at Pakhuis de Zwijger in Amsterdam, a platform for the creative industries and social innovation in urban development. She is project leader of the platform New Europe - Cities in Transition, a European network of active citizens... Read More →

Thursday October 12, 2017 09:00 - 09:45 CEST
PDZ Floor 2: Grote Zaal (Great Hall) Pakhuis de Zwijger, Piet Heinkade 179, 1019 HC Amsterdam, Netherlands

Plenary

09:45 CEST

Plenary: Local Placemaking Roundup

Amsterdam is well-known as a hotbed of placemaking and urban innovation. In this fast-paced plenary session, you'll find out why!

Six Amsterdam placemakers share their exciting work in a series of rapidfire presentations. More details coming soon!

Moderators

Minouche Besters

Managing Partner, STIPO

Minouche Besters is partner and urbanist at STIPO team for Urban Development. She is an experienced designer and facilitator of collective processes.

Hans Karssenberg

Partner / Board Member, STIPO / Placemaking Europe

Presenters

Simon van Dommelen

Director, LOLA

Simon is a quaternary and connects and works on various projects in the field of culture and urban development. He is, with Floor Ziegler founder of the Noorderpark Trust, a neighborhood venture that is fully experimented with bottom-up developments, from an umbrella license for... Read More →

Nadia Duinker

Co Owner, Vrijland Festival

Jesse Jop Jorg

Urban Creative, WeTheCity

Urban creative Jesse Jop Jorg is involved in many projects that are designed to shape and color the city. He worked for several departments at the city of Amsterdam including the Bureau Art Factories, Placemaking Oosterpark and Art & Culture Amsterdam North, before becoming project... Read More →

Lourens Loeven

Director, Project Management Agency of Amsterdam

Luud Schimmelpennink

Chairman, Ytech Innovation Centre

Luud is a Dutch social inventor, industrial designer, entrepreneur and politician. Luud is the person who set the pattern for city bike projects in Amsterdam back in the sixties with the 'white bikes'. Since the mid 1960s Schimmelpennink has been active as an industrial designer... Read More →

Katusha Sol

Co-Founder, Studio Placemakers

Katusha is one of the founders of Placemakers and shares her knowledge and experience of cities – their energy, citizens and initiatives – by doing research, writing and teaching. She iteratively uses social scientific knowledge in Placemakers projects and inserts empirical experiences... Read More →

Thursday October 12, 2017 09:45 - 10:30 CEST
PDZ Floor 2: Grote Zaal (Great Hall) Pakhuis de Zwijger, Piet Heinkade 179, 1019 HC Amsterdam, Netherlands

Plenary, Roundup

10:30 CEST

Keynote: Ben Hamilton-Baillie

Shared space is more than a Dutch traffic engineering technique; it's a public space philosophy that emphasizes trust, civility, and humanity.

Leading international placemaker and traffic engineer Ben Hamilton-Baillie will reflect on "shared space"—replacing excessive signage, separation and markings on our streets with social interaction—and how this philosophy can transform the relationship between people and the places they share.

Presenters

Ben Hamilton-Baillie

Director, Hamilton-Baillie Associates

Street design. Shared space. Traffic in towns. Driver psychology. Place-making as a means to change driver behaviour. Risk, safety and accidents. Self-driving cars and cities. Urban regeneration. High streets/Main streets. Major schemes such as "Laweiplein, Drachten"; Exhibition... Read More →

Thursday October 12, 2017 10:30 - 11:00 CEST
PDZ Floor 2: Grote Zaal (Great Hall) Pakhuis de Zwijger, Piet Heinkade 179, 1019 HC Amsterdam, Netherlands

Plenary, Keynote

11:15 CEST

Short Talks: Cultures & Contexts

From a look at challenges facing Telok Ayer Park in Singapore to a discussion of placemaking in the Russian context, this session of short presentations explores the role of culture and context in placemaking.

Featuring:

From Space to Place in Rural Africa
Elizelle Cilliers (Potchefstroom, South Africa)

Siberian Public Spaces: Life in Any Weather
Katya Goldberg (St. Petersburg, Russia)

Placemaking in the Asian Tropics
Adib Jalal (Singapore)

Design the Right of Play for Children, by Children
Ying-Tzu Lin (Taipai, Taiwan)

Seating for Socializing
Francesco Rossini (Hong Kong)

Bringing Cak Markeso Back to Life
David Sagita (Surabaya, Indonesia)

Transforming La Marina de Valencia
Ramon Marrades Sempere (Valencia, Spain)

Moderators

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 →

Presenters

Elizelle Cilliers

Professor Urban Planning, North-West University

Elizelle is the chair of Urban and Regional Planning at the North West University. She has an established publication record and currently 3 PhD students working on "place-making" for Africa.

Katya Goldberg

Partner, Orchestra Design

Katya has been leading a few major place-making and cultural regeneration projects in Russia. She is currently working on the concept and programme for the new creative cluster at Octava microphone factory in Tula that will be devoted to the theme of new productivity in cities. She... Read More →

Adib Jalal

Director, Shophouse & Co

Everything related to placemaking! Some topics: Placemaking in Asia, Place Activation, Business Improvement Districts, Placemaking Strategy, Impact Measurement, Running a Placemaking Consultancy.

Ying-Tzu Lin

Editor and co-founder, Eyes on Places

Editor and co-founder of mandarin media website focus on public space issue advocate 'Eyes on Places'. Guest editor at Architecture In Development. Currently PhD researcher at University of Amsterdam.

Ramon Marrades

Chief Strategy Officer, La Marina de València

Ramon is an urban economist and activist turned a creative bureaucrat and placemaker. He is currently the chief strategy officer at La Marina de València, Valencia’s waterfront redevelopment agency and a board member of the Worldwide Network of Port Cities (AIVP). Ramon is co-editor... Read More →

Francesco Rossini

Assistant Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Francesco is an architect, urban designer and Assistant Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). In 2014 he completed his PhD at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). He participated in different research programmes, collaborating with the Department of Urbanism... Read More →

David Sagita

Public Space Specialist, United Cities and Local Government Asia-Pacific (UCLG ASPAC)

I'm an architect and lecturer in the architecture department of University 17 Agustus 1945 Surabaya. Currently, I'm working at UCLG ASPAC as Public Space Specialist. My latest project is making small public space in Kampung Ketandan Surabaya, East Java. At present, I working two... Read More →

Thursday October 12, 2017 11:15 - 12:30 CEST
PDZ Floor 2: Grote Zaal (Great Hall) Pakhuis de Zwijger, Piet Heinkade 179, 1019 HC Amsterdam, Netherlands

Breakout, Pecha Kucha Roundup

12:30 CEST

Lunch

Lunch will be provided.

Thursday October 12, 2017 12:30 - 13:30 CEST
PDZ Floor 2: Grote Zaal (Great Hall) Pakhuis de Zwijger, Piet Heinkade 179, 1019 HC Amsterdam, Netherlands

Other

13:30 CEST

Short Talks: Data & Research

From an experiment exploring how psychological ownership relates to perceptions of publicness, to a look at the effects of crowds on the sociability of public spaces, this session of short presentations on data and research will dive deep into metrics and analysis of public spaces and placemaking.

Featuring:

Liberty Bell: A Field Audit for Cyclists
Conor Cahill (Dublin, Ireland)

Baltimore, YNOT!
Jennifer Goold (Baltimore, MD, USA)

Measuring Social Placemaking, One Conversation at a Time
Philippa Hughes (Washington, DC, USA)

Urban95: If you could experience a city from an elevation of 95cm, what would you do differently?
Ardan Kockelkoren (The Hague, Netherlands)

Psychological Ownership of Public Spaces
Hanna Negami (Toronto, ON, Canada)

The Soundscape Approach to Placemaking
Antonella Radicchi (Berlin, Germany)

Turtles & Rabbits of the City: How Do Different Types of Pedestrian Movement Affect Sociability of Public Spaces?
by Shaghayegh Tavakoli (Stockholm, Sweden)

Moderators

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 →

Presenters

Conor Cahill

Social Innovator, Fluidedge Innovation

With a diverse background in digital user experience, industrial design and a passion for bicycling advocacy in Dublin, Conor is the social innovator behind Liberty Bell - a smart city bicycle bell which is helping inform the conversation about bicycling and public spaces.

Jennifer Goold

Executive Director, the Neighborhood Design Center

Jennifer Goold joined the Neighborhood Design Center in 2012 after more than a decade of work in cultural resources management, historic preservation, development and planning. At NDC, she directs all aspects of the center’s operations including staff, programs, outreach, and fundraising... Read More →

Philippa Hughes

Social Sculptor & Creative Strategist, Philippa Hughes

Philippa P.B. Hughes is a Social Sculptor and Creative Strategist who produces art-fueled projects that spark humanizing and compassionate conversations between people who might not normally meet. She has designed and produced hundreds of creative activations since 2007 for curious... Read More →

Ardan Kockelkoren

Research Analyst, Bernard van Leer Foundation

Hanna Negami

Doctoral Candidate, University of Waterloo

Hanna is a PhD candidate in cognitive neuroscience working at the Urban Realities Laboratory at the University of Waterloo. Her research interests include how built environments can induce awe, as well as how people perceive and interact with public and private spaces.

Antonella Radicchi

IPODI-Marie Curie fellow, Technical University of Berlin

I am a registered architect, PhD in Urban Design and soundscape researcher, currently working on my project "Beyond the Noise: Open Source Soundscapes" which investigates the concept of quietness and how it impacts on placemaking in cities, by applying the citizen science paradigm... Read More →

Shaghayegh Tavakoli

Student and researcher, The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and Gemeente Amsterdam

Shaghayegh conducted her masters thesis in the field of sustainable urban planning. She studied in KTH Stockholm and worked for Gemeente Amsterdam for her research. She has an engineering bachelor in built environment from KTH, and has studied in Milan, Italy and researched in Amsterdam... Read More →

Thursday October 12, 2017 13:30 - 14:45 CEST
PDZ Floor 2: Grote Zaal (Great Hall) Pakhuis de Zwijger, Piet Heinkade 179, 1019 HC Amsterdam, Netherlands

Breakout, Pecha Kucha Roundup

15:00 CEST

Panel: Funding the Future of Placemaking

You have a great placemaking idea, but how will you pay for it?

Placemaking projects can help transform parks, squares, streets, waterfronts and so many other places, but these projects cannot get off the ground without covering capital costs, and cannot sustain themselves without an operating budget.

Join a panel of experts to learn how you can use strategies like value-capture mechanisms, philanthropic and corporate giving, and crowdfunding to make your placemaking dreams come true!

Presenters

Maria Adebwole-Schwarte

Cities & Place Strategist, Living Space Project

Maria is a cities, place, and urban renewal strategist focusing on inclusive place led prosperity, green spaces, cross-sector collaboration, and participation. Maria has over twenty-five years of hands-on and strategic expertise in national and international organisations with a... Read More →

Rinske Brand

Founder; Facilitator, BRAND The Urban Agency; Placetesting Amsterdamse Poort

Rinske Brand founded BRAND The Urban Agency in 2007 with the vision of helping businesses, brands, organisations and local governments to create impact in the city and its communities. With unrivalled insights into the preferences and needs of urbanites, the BRAND-team delivers compelling... Read More →

Katharine Czarnecki

Senior Vice President, Community Development, Michigan Economic Development Corporation

Katharine Czarnecki is Senior Vice President at the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) where she oversees operations and management of the Community Development unit. Throughout her diverse career in economic development, Katharine Czarnecki has sought to bring people... Read More →

Theo Stauttener

Partner, Stadkwadraat B.V.

Theo Stauttener (1967) leads projects, conducts negotiations and takes care of strategic development at location development. His focus is in financial management and risk management in developing new areas or restructuring. In addition, he works as a professor of various courses... Read More →

Thursday October 12, 2017 15:00 - 16:15 CEST
PDZ Floor 2: Grote Zaal (Great Hall) Pakhuis de Zwijger, Piet Heinkade 179, 1019 HC Amsterdam, Netherlands

Breakout, Panel

17:45 CEST

Networking Dinner

Pakhuis de Zwijger hosts a massive sit-down dinner, a great communal setting to chat and meet other placemakers.

Featuring "The Universal Language of Food," an opening short talk by Jérôme Glad (Pépinière & Co, Montreal, Canada).

Presenters

Jérôme Glad

Co-founder, La Pépinière | Espaces collectifs

Jérôme Glad is the co-founder of La Pépinière, a placemaking non profit organization that draws on a multidisciplinary team to develop innovative collective urban projects, from the design phase to business plan development, programming, and site management. He is behind projects... Read More →

Thursday October 12, 2017 17:45 - 19:00 CEST
PDZ Floor 2: Grote Zaal (Great Hall) Pakhuis de Zwijger, Piet Heinkade 179, 1019 HC Amsterdam, Netherlands

Other

20:15 CEST

Screening: Citizen Jane: Battle for the City

This feature-length documentary tells the story of how writer and activist Jane Jacobs—one of the forerunners of the placemaking movement—fought to save historic New York City during the ruthless redevelopment era of urban planner Robert Moses in the 1960s.

In 1961, Jane Jacobs’s book The Death and Life of Great American Cities sent shockwaves through the architecture and planning worlds, with its exploration of the consequences of modern planners’ and architects’ reconfiguration of cities. Jacobs was also an activist, who was involved in many fights in mid-century New York, to stop “master builder” Robert Moses from running roughshod over the city.

This film retraces the battles for the city, as personified by Jacobs and Moses, as urbanization moves to the very front of the global agenda. Many of the clues for formulating solutions to the dizzying array of urban issues can be found in Jacobs’s prescient texts, and a close second look at her thinking and writing about cities is very much in order. This film sets out to examine the city of today through the lens of one of its greatest champions.

Free for conference attendees.

Thursday October 12, 2017 20:15 - 23:30 CEST
PDZ Floor 2: Grote Zaal (Great Hall) Pakhuis de Zwijger, Piet Heinkade 179, 1019 HC Amsterdam, Netherlands

Other, Film

09:00 CEST

Plenary: Global Placemaking Roundup

Today our movement is global. While placemakers operate in their own unique local contexts, they also scale up their impact by learning, networking, and organizing globally.

Six placemakers from around the world share their exciting work in a series of rapidfire presentations, focusing on how placemakers are connecting the local and the global. Some speakers are organizers, building a regional or global network. Others are practitioners, who have benefitted from ideas and support from around the world. Each has their own take on how the placemaking movement hits the ground in real places.

Moderators

Ethan Kent

Executive Director, PlacemakingX

Ethan Kent works to support public space and placemaking leadership around the world, to grow the global placemaking movement. In 2019 he co-founded PlacemakingX to network and accelerate placemaking for global impact, growing 18+ regional placemaking networks that he helped init... Read More →

Presenters

Maria Adebwole-Schwarte

Cities & Place Strategist, Living Space Project

Guillermo Bernal

Founder & Director, Lugares Públicos

Guillermo is the founder of Mexico City base Lugares Públicos, He obtained the degree on Master of Science in Urban Studies from the University of Brussels, University of Vienna, University of Copenhagen and the Complutense University of Madrid. He is partner in México for PPS in... Read More →

Mariana Alegre Escorza

Director, Ocupa Tu Calle

Mariana Alegre has a Master Degree in City Design and Social Science from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and is a Chevening scholar. She studied a Bachelor degree in Law in the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) and when she got her Master... Read More →

Lucinda Hartley

CEO and CoFounder, CoDesign Studio

Lucinda is an urban designer, placemaker and social entrepreneur. After spending two years working with slum communities in Asia she cofounded CoDesign Studio. Six years later, CoDesign is one of Australia’s largest and most recognised placemaking firms, having delivered over 50... Read More →

Hamdan Abdul Majeed

Executive Director, Think City

Hamdan Abdul Majeed is a Director at Khazanah Nasional Berhad (KNB), the investment arm of the Malaysian government. He leads KNB’s regional office in the northern region of Malaysia with the mandate to seek out strategic investment opportunities to catalyze growth and development... Read More →

Mark Ojal

Graduate Urban Designer, Placemakers

Mark is an urban enthusiast and an activist. His work spans the urban design practice spectrum - from policy and technical advisory to advocacy and grassroots activism. He works with Placemakers, a Dutch non-profit consultancy and design studio that promotes strong communities by... Read More →

Friday October 13, 2017 09:00 - 10:30 CEST
PDZ Floor 2: Grote Zaal (Great Hall) Pakhuis de Zwijger, Piet Heinkade 179, 1019 HC Amsterdam, Netherlands

Plenary, Pecha Kucha Roundup

10:45 CEST

Short Talks: Community Process

From embracing serendipitous encounters to resolving paradoxes to arts-based brainstorming techniques, this session of short presentations is all about engaging communities in new ways.

Featuring:

Place to Meet Friends in Mexico City
Guillermo Bernal (Mexico City, Mexico)

Smart Cities Can Still Be Dumb
Adam Green (San Francisco, CA, USA)

Empowerment in Public Space
Leonardo Brawl Márquez (Porto Alegre, Brazil)

Big Change by Small Encounters: Field Notes from Placemakers
Païvi Raivio (Helsinki, Finland)

From Trash Alley to Alley Garden
Emilie Roell (Yangon, Myanmar)

Reimagining Public Spaces through Ping Pong
Renée Miles Rooijmans (Vancouver, BC, Canada)

What Can Placemakers Learn from Paradox Scholars?
Ieva Rozentale (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Moderators

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 →

Presenters

Guillermo Bernal

Founder & Director, Lugares Públicos

Adam Green

Founder, Public Recreation

As a passionate urbanist and project lead for Rebar Group and the Exploratorium, Adam has worked with a broad range of disciplines to realize projects of all scales existing at the intersection of art, science, design, and education to make cities more emotionally and socially sustainable... Read More →

Leonardo Márquez

Co-founder, TransLAB.URB

I’m a musician, social activist and also a architect & urban planner, co-founder of TransLAB - Research Institute for Social Innovation, developing projects inside of TransLAB.URB, a group focused on urban research, mapping, gentrification, occupations, hacker urbanism, urban acupuncture... Read More →

Päivi Raivio

Urban Designer, Placemaker, Founding Partner, RaivioBumann, Parkly

Päivi Raivio is an urban designer, artist and placemaker. She is a Placemaking Europe Leader.Päivi is the co-founder of RaivioBumann and Parkly - two companies which operate in Helsinki but also work internationally.RaivioBumann is a creative studio for placemaking, urban co-creation... Read More →

Emilie Roell

Founder & Co-Director, Doh Eain

Emilie Röell is a development consultant and social entrepreneur based in Yangon since 2013. An anthropologist by training, she is interested in creating solutions that make use of and preserve cultural and natural capital while creating sustainable community impact. Emilie is the... Read More →

Renée Miles Rooijmans

Co-founder, frida&frank

Renée Miles Rooijmans, anthropologist and gardener, originally from the Netherlands, is one of the founders of frida&frank. She is currently involved in several placemaking projects in Vancouver with a focus on seasonal effective design. Renée has previously set up placemaking... Read More →

Ieva Rozentale

Co-founder, nēbetjā

Ieva is the co-founder of placemaking team "nēbetjā" and a researcher at Amsterdam Business School. Ieva's professional experience and interests combine strategic management, particularly in beyond-profit settings, with topics related to creativity, design, and urban planning... Read More →

Friday October 13, 2017 10:45 - 12:00 CEST
PDZ Floor 2: Grote Zaal (Great Hall) Pakhuis de Zwijger, Piet Heinkade 179, 1019 HC Amsterdam, Netherlands

Breakout, Pecha Kucha Roundup

13:00 CEST

Short Talks: Ethics & Equity

From the shaping of public spaces by private interests in Cape Town to transforming slums from “zones of danger” into “zones of peace” in Venezuela, this session of short talks focuses on topics that relate to ethics, equity, and inclusion in placemaking.

Featuring:

Open Streets Cape Town: Joys and Challenges
Marcela Guerrero Casas (Cape Town, South Africa)

Gigantic Micro-Interventions: Public Spaces in Venezuela
Vanessa Catalano (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Yu Lok Lane: Hong Kong Top-Down or Bottom Up?
Judy Chan (Hong Kong)

Inclusive placemaking at the Ceuvel in Amsterdam North: Production of Build & Design Sessions and How to Measure their Impact
Roos Gerritsma (Amsterdam)

Excavating Place: Indigenous Place Making
Sam Mukwa Kloetstra (Toronto, ON, Canada)

Placemaking When Black Lives Matter
Annette Koh (Honolulu, HI, USA)

"Sit-ability": Have you ever seen a Living Room without a Couch?
Jenny Leuba (Zurich, Switzerland)

Is this park for US?
Joe Sikora (New Jersey, USA)

Moderators

Annah MacKenzie

Director of Communications, Project for Public Spaces

Presenters

Marcela Guerrero Casas

Co-Founder & CEO, Open Streets

Marcela is passionate about cities, public space and most importantly, people. Her personal and professional drive emanates from connecting with others and contributing to improve the place where she lives. Born and raised in Bogota, Colombia, Marcela lived in the US for most of... Read More →

Vanessa Catalano

Vanessa is a Venezuelan architect based in the Netherlands since 2012, where she graduated with an MA in the Design Cultures program. In both capital cities, Caracas and Amsterdam, she has collaborated with spacemakers and has been involved with playful teaching programs. Her subjects... Read More →

Judy Chan

Community Placemaker / Event Organizer, Sai Wan Concern / Community Cinema

Roos Gerritsma

Researcher and Lecturer, University of Applied Sciences Inholland

Projectleader Field Lab Amsterdam North Urban SociologistLecturer at Bachelor Creative BusinessTopics: Leisure, Tourism, Inclusive City, City makers, innovation, community building.Working always in a network construction of students, city makers, entrepreneurs, municipality etc... Read More →

Sam Mukwa Kloetstra

Indigenous Youth Advisor & Co Founder, Indigenous Place Making Council

Sam Mukwa Kloetstra is an Indigenous Anishinaabe youth from Mattagami First Nation in what is now known as Canada. He is a strong advocate for the creation of Indigenous spaces, cultural revitalization, and community wellbeing. His passion in place making began when he moved from... Read More →

Annette Koh

Ph.D. candidate / lecturer, University of Hawai'i at Manoa

Annette is a Ph.D. candidate in urban planning with a research focus on temporary placemaking, urban commons and equity and engagement in planning.

Jenny Leuba

Project Manager, Swiss Pedestrian Association

Jenny is fascinated with how people use public spaces, especially by foot, and specialised in qualitative methodologies, particularly while walking through the cities. She is a geographer and also studied medias, working mainly for the French speaking part of Switzerland.

Joe Sikora

President, Sikora Wells Appel

Joe's work involves iterative placemaking design to help activate underutilized urban public spaces and guide more permanent future improvements. Successful experiments include Roosevelt Plaza Park in Camden, NJ, Philadelphia Pop-Up Pool Projects, and City Hall Courtyard, Philadelphia... Read More →

Friday October 13, 2017 13:00 - 14:30 CEST
PDZ Floor 2: Grote Zaal (Great Hall) Pakhuis de Zwijger, Piet Heinkade 179, 1019 HC Amsterdam, Netherlands

Breakout, Pecha Kucha Roundup

14:30 CEST

Short Talks: Public Sector, Public Space

From the need for a better planning process in booming Silicon Valley to the innovative reuse of Montreal’s Olympic Park, this session of short presentations will focus on placemaking with, within and without government.

Featuring:

Les Jardineries: Reinventing an Olympic Park
Maxim Bragoli (Montreal, QC, Canada)

New York City’s Public Plaza Program: Transforming streets for people
Donovan Finn (New York, NY, USA)

The Paradox of Limitations
Jia-Ping Lee (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)

Democratizing Place Policy
Robin Abad Ocubillo (San Francisco, CA, USA)

A Placemaking Policy for Thessaloniki
Maria Sitzoglou (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Baby Steps in #SiliconValley
Kirk Vartan (San Jose, CA, USA)

Connecting Departments & Communities in Skawina
Maciej Zacher (Skawina, Poland)

Moderators

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 →

Presenters

Maxim Bragoli

Co-founder, La Pépinière | Espaces collectifs

Maxim Bragoli co-founded La Pépinière, a placemaking non-profit organization that draws on a multidisciplinary team to develop innovative collective urban projects, from the design phase to business plan development, programming and site management. Over the past three years, he... Read More →

Donovan Finn

Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University

Donovan Finn is an urban planner and Assistant Professor of Environmental Planning, Policy and Design in the Sustainability Studies Program and School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook University. He studies urban policies related to sustainability, resilience, climate... Read More →

Jia-Ping Lee

Program Director, Head of Corporate Communications, Think City

Jia Ping is the Programme Director for Think City Sdn Bhd, a community-based urban rejuvenation organization, and a subsidiary of Khazanah Nasional Berhad (the strategic investment fund of the Malaysian government). Think City’s main goal is to create more liveable and resilient... Read More →

Robin Abad Ocubillo

Citywide Permits Ombuds, City of Oakland, San Francisco Bay Area, California

Robin Abad Ocubillo has worked for over a decade in civic innovation in public space design, planning, evaluation, and policy. He is currently Senior Planner and Urban Designer with the San Francisco Planning Department, where he leads Places for People, the first placemaking legislation... Read More →

Maria Sitzoglou

Consultant for Participatory Planning and Community Engagement, 100 Resilient Cities - Resilient Thessaloniki, Municipality of Thessaloniki

Maria Sitzoglou is an Architect - Urban Designer, currently working as a Consultant of Urban Resilience within the program “100 Resilient Cities pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation” for the City of Thessaloniki,Greece. Her specific focus is on Participatory Planning projects... Read More →

Kirk Vartan

Problem Solver, A Slice of New York

Kirk Vartan is a native New Yorker, NBC technologist, former hi-tech professional, community activist, and founder of two pizza shops in San Jose/Santa Clara and Sunnyvale. Kirk is a strong advocate of smart urban developments, transportation solutions, and is currently helping... Read More →

Maciej Zacher

Mobility Urbanist, Municipality of Skawina

Maciej is a mobility urbanist at Municipality of Skawina. He thinks that the best mobility plan is a good land use plan, and works with local communities empowering them and promoting placemaking as strategy. Within his department they try to work out of the silo and across other... Read More →

vartan 2017 Baby Steps in #SiliconValley final pdf

Friday October 13, 2017 14:30 - 16:00 CEST
PDZ Floor 2: Grote Zaal (Great Hall) Pakhuis de Zwijger, Piet Heinkade 179, 1019 HC Amsterdam, Netherlands

Breakout, Pecha Kucha Roundup

16:00 CEST

Plenary: Placemaking & the Future of Cities

A panel of leading placemakers discuss the urban challenges that will test the Placemaking Movement over the coming decades, and where we go from here.

Moderators

Emily Silverman

Director, the Urban Clinic, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

I head the The Urban Clinic in Jerusalem, where we develop tools for more equitable cities, especially in community development, urban regeneration, and, of course, placemaking. We learn alongside local and international practitioners, 'co-producing knowledge' for local implementation... Read More →

Presenters

Cecilia Andersson

Public Space Program, UN-Habitat

Neil McInroy

CEO, CLES

CEO of the Centre for Local Economic Strategies

Gil Penalosa

Founder & Chair, 8 80 Cities

Gil Penalosa is passionate about cities for all people. He advises decision makers and communities on how to create vibrant cities and healthy communities for everyone regardless of age, gender and social, economic, or ethnic background. His focus is on the design and use of parks... Read More →

Lynn Richards

President & CEO, Congress for the New Urbanism

Friday October 13, 2017 16:00 - 17:15 CEST
PDZ Floor 2: Grote Zaal (Great Hall) Pakhuis de Zwijger, Piet Heinkade 179, 1019 HC Amsterdam, Netherlands

Plenary, Panel

17:15 CEST

Declaration of Amsterdam: Next Steps for the Global Placemaking Movement

A group of Amsterdam placemakers and city officials lead a plenary crowdsourcing session about big takeaways from the conference and next steps.

In this closing session, we will crowd source everyone's ideas around two central questions:

- What is your placemaking ambition you take away from Placemaking Week?

- What is the next step in the short term you will take in your placemaking practice?

Amsterdam, as the host city, will kick off this closing session.

Moderators