Placemaking Week Europe 2026

Creating better cities together.

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10:00am CEST

Thursday Morning Plenary Plenary Room - Wroclaw Congress Center (RCTB)

11:45am CEST

Belonging Begins with Her Time Room - Czasoprzestrzeń / SpaceTime From Exhibition to Conversation: Let’s Shape Placemaking Development Together WUWA Living Room - Lower Silesia Regional Chamber of Architects How we use public spaces? Practical workshop on data-driven placemaking Iglica - meeting point Mapping Home: What Makes Us Feel We Belong? Space Room - Czasoprzestrzeń / SpaceTime Placemaking Poland: Meet, Connect & Carry It Forward Fred Kent Room - Wroclaw Congress Center (RCTB) Placemaking with Local, and Global, Networks Plenary Room - Wroclaw Congress Center (RCTB) Waves & Words: Co-designing Belonging at the World's Most Unlikely Place Kathy Madden Room - Wroclaw Congress Center (RCTB) How to shape a good place – and not f*ck it up Jane Jacobs Room - Wroclaw Congress Center (RCTB) The Playable, Resilient City: Co-Creating Urban Futures with the Next Generation Klub Łącznik Turning Back to Water: How to Reclaim Public Spaces for Everyday Life? William H. Whyte Room - Wroclaw Congress Center (RCTB) Dancing to the Algorithm: A Digital Storytelling Toolbox for Organisations and Practitioners Otwarta Przestrzeń Kultury St. John of Nepomuk Church in Szczytnicki Park

1:00pm CEST

A Placemaking Picnic: Meet the Placemaking CEE Network! Foyer - Wroclaw Congress Center (RCTB)

2:15pm CEST

Local Challenge 3: Under the Great Island Avenue Entrance of the Wroclaw Congress Center (RCTB) - meeting point

2:30pm CEST

Building Bridges II: Regional Placemaking Networks and Beyond WUWA Living Room - Lower Silesia Regional Chamber of Architects From plot to place: How co-created urban green spaces build community across difference Time Room - Czasoprzestrzeń / SpaceTime Street cARTS: Design, Build & Deploy WUWA exhibition model The Way of Water: Listening, Walking, Sensing Iglica - meeting point Creating Data Led Placemaking Towards Inclusive Approach Kathy Madden Room - Wroclaw Congress Center (RCTB) From Ownership to Stewardship - Mobilizing Stakeholders and Partners for Long-Term Change Plenary Room - Wroclaw Congress Center (RCTB) From Temporariness to Permanence: Three Foundations of Sustainable Placemaking William H. Whyte Room - Wroclaw Congress Center (RCTB) From Primal to Powerful: Neuroscience-Based Placemaking Jane Jacobs Room - Wroclaw Congress Center (RCTB) Make Space for Nature: Co-creating Resilient Urban Futures Space Room - Czasoprzestrzeń / SpaceTime Prove It Green: Using KPIs to Win the Budget Battle Fred Kent Room - Wroclaw Congress Center (RCTB) From Urban Experiments to Lasting Change: Otwarta Przestrzeń Kultury St. John of Nepomuk Church in Szczytnicki Park Gamifying Urban Participation with Minecraft WUWA Small room - Lower Silesia Regional Chamber of Architects On-site Workshop: Come and Help Build a Place Led Development Strategy for Social Square in Wroclaw! Museum of Architecture

4:15pm CEST

Building Belonging: The Unexpected Journey Plenary Room - Wroclaw Congress Center (RCTB) Building Inclusive Cities: Intercultural Placemaking in Action Fred Kent Room - Wroclaw Congress Center (RCTB) Layers of Place: exploring and mapping wellbeing in urban spaces Iglica - meeting point Sharing Stories & Roots of belonging Space Room - Czasoprzestrzeń / SpaceTime UnBrexit : Celebrating Unity WUWA Living Room - Lower Silesia Regional Chamber of Architects How to design, plan, and produce podcasts for placemaking and community participation Time Room - Czasoprzestrzeń / SpaceTime Beyond the Opening Day: Designing for Intergenerational Stewardship Kathy Madden Room - Wroclaw Congress Center (RCTB) AI Tools For Placemaking—Without Losing Its Soul William H. Whyte Room - Wroclaw Congress Center (RCTB) New European Bauhaus: the pathway to building resilient cities through culture and collaboration? Jane Jacobs Room - Wroclaw Congress Center (RCTB) Using upcoming technologies to spark placemaking WUWA Small room - Lower Silesia Regional Chamber of Architects You Have 4 Minutes: The Art and Science of Saving a Life WUWA exhibition model

6:00pm CEST

Thursday Evening Plenary Train Depot - Czasoprzestrzeń / SpaceTime

8:00pm CEST

Thursday evening program Ruska 46

Placemaking Week Europe 2026

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