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 projects in The Hague (NL) in collaboration with the New World Campus and INBO Architects. Since her arrival in Vancouver she has worked at City Farmer as a gardener and with Project for Public Spaces (NY) during the Placemaking Week in September 2016. Alongside she also volunteered with the Vancouver Public Space Network and did freelance work with Happy City. Renée is interested in exploring and creating connections between people as well as between people and places and strongly believes that stronger social ties can transform the cities we live in.