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| 28.05.2022 / |
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#urban_innovation
#urban_regeneration
#training
Speakers: Andreea Iager-Tako, Gerard Lohuis, Francesco Campagnari, Olga Rudak
What are the best methodologies to train professionals of urban innovation?
On what type of content should the curriculum focus?
How should professionals be trained to foster collective ownership of planning projects?
In the last 18 months, the EUREKA project tackled these questions across four EU countries, involving practitioners, students, universities, and public officials. On the basis of their answers, we are now designing an interdisciplinary and practice-based EU-wide curriculum that will be tested in 2022 and 2023. In this session we would like to hear the feedback of you all – professionals, thinkers and activists – on the first draft of curriculum. Think about sharing your good and bad experiences in your own urban interventions or in your engagement with institutional urban planning projects.
Andreea Iager Tako has a diverse background in both studies and practices in different organisations. She loves to discover unwalked paths searching for social impact and she stubbornly wants to connect people, ideas, projects and efforts. In her teenage years she co-founded PLAI festival (a 100% volunteer based festival, promoting diversity and community forming), then AMBASADA (the first Romanian member of TransEuropeHalles) and, more recently, FABER – together with smaller and larger teams from the local community. During the start of the pandemic and following the work done within Cultural and Creative Spaces and Cities, she has co-founded building.a.community – a hybrid space that hosts creatives and social impact driven business. Now she is actively working on both building.a.home (affordable and inclusive temporary housing solutions), ONE.shirt (an inclusive upcycling textile social business) and joining efforts locally with peers in generating sustainable solutions. At an European level PLAI is part of EUREKA, Subtopia and, more recently, BioDivercities projects.
www.plai.ro
Gerard Lohuis is since 2000 managing-director of cultural venue P60 NL, a citizens initiative which opened in 2001. P60 is situated in an area with a lot of urban planning till 2027: A bigger highway in a half tunnel with green traverses for gardens, parks, bikes, pedestrians and art sculptures; a new cinema (7 halls/1200 seats), an upgrade of the city square and extension of the cultural building (in which are the city theatre, music and dance school and P60). He is often facing fake participatory processes (politicians/civil servants like to keep their plans and don’t like to get disturbed) which is a threat for common ownership of finished urban projects. This causes a gap between authorities and citizens, with reduced participation in democratic processes.
Francesco Campagnari is Research fellow at Università Iuav di Venezia, in the framework of the Erasmus + project EUREKA – European Urban Regenerators Knowledge Alliance. His research explores the innovation dynamics of citizen initiatives, their translocal learning processes and participatory governance structures. He also inquires and practices new forms of planner activism for urban innovation.
Olga Rudak is Communications Manager at Trans Europe Halles. Trans Europe Halles (TEH) is a Europe-based network of grass-roots cultural centres based in abandoned buildings with 140 members in 40 countries. TEH has existed since 1983 and since then has grown from an underground initiative to a well-established and globally recognised organisation with almost 40 years expertise in urban regeneration, community-engagement and DIY spaces. TEH is part of the EUREKA project and contributes with their hands-on insights and multinational overview.
