The Cities in Placemaking programme is a city-to-city learning programme to build awareness and develop the skills and knowledge to drive systemic change by unleashing the full potential of placemaking for the long term improvement of their cities.
Composed of 8 milestones, structured to progressively achieve the ultimate objective of creating a roadmap to implement placemaking systemically.
Setting a baseline for the programme and shared understanding of what makes a great place, and how we create better cities together with the communities through placemaking, and identifying the current state of placemaking in the participating cities.
Understanding and diving deeper into the challenges that cities face and could be addressed by placemaking on three scales: macro-challenges, place-based challenges and organisational challenges.
Identifying the main organisational hurdles of city governments in placemaking pro- cesses, and exploring potential solutions to enhance their effectiveness, using the Placemaking Embeddedness Scale.
Exploring cross-departmental collabora- tion and discussing how to enhance the strengths and overcome the weaknesses; identifying weak and strong links of particular aspects of working across departments, such as sharing the same goals and knowledge, having the resources, contributing to the long-term strategies.
Discussing the implications of shifting from short-term placemaking interventions to a more strategic, long-term and comprehen- sive approach and analysing the transfor- mative potential of placemaking in regard to its value in each time cycle; exploring methods for effectively measuring and defining impact in a way that signifies meaningful and valuable change.
Deepening into the process of planning and implementation of a city-wide level placemaking strategy and developing the key priorities for the global agenda on making placemaking systemic through exploring the key principles for commitments, supported by stakeholder mapping, and a discussion on the organi- sational changes needed to implement the agenda’s action points.
Developing the key commitments to be included in the Placemaking Agenda that would enhance rethinking traditional approaches, re-framing statements to encourage cross-disciplinary thinking and collaboration, finding loopholes or workarounds within existing frameworks accommodate interculturally inclusive, forward-looking urban development, and exploring how to push for policy changes or adaptations to accommodate forward-looking urban development.
Finalising the proposed methods for integrating placemaking into governance, policies, and planning systems, establi- shing it as an ongoing process embedded in the city’s DNA and developing a comprehensive action plan for integrating placemaking in each participating city
