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(Exploring) Identity: Inner Landscapes and Collective Imaginaries
Friday September 25, 2026 11:45am - 1:00pm CEST
Żyjnia / Lifery
This interactive session delves into the role of identity in placemaking. It explores how we as individuals and collectives formulate imaginaries: the stories and visions we build to make sense of who we are, how we relate to others, and how we see the world. The session provides an open and creative space for us to imagine our inner landscapes, characterisations of the self and interactions with others as we form assemblages. Through a series of short exercises, we will explore how imagining our identities can be empowering, motivating, and representational, while untangling issues of power, perception, and unity when our imaginaries, and our identities, collide.
Through this session we aim to provide a means to explore identity in placemaking, exploring imaginaries as ways to address inclusion in participatory spaces and to unpack ourselves and our own capacities. To do so we will not present a formal framework but rather engage in activities that place ourselves within the assemblage, requiring us to step outside our assumptions about representation and interpret imaginaries through our feelings as participants. In the session, we will create and blend imaginaries together and reflect on our sensory experience to examine how our physical, emotional and communal sensations change when we imagine our identities.
Speakers
avatar for Samir Amin

Samir Amin

Project Manager, Institute for Urban Excellence
Samir Amin is a Project Manager at the Institute for Urban Excellence with a background in Metropolitan Studies. His work focuses on community mobilisation, social justice, and inclusive policy co-design. He works across European research and public outreach contexts, seeking to develop... Read More →
avatar for Lenka Kuricová

Lenka Kuricová

Grant and project manager, Academy of Fine Arts and Design Bratislava
Lenka is an interdisciplinary curator, cultural strategist and practitioner from Slovakia working at the intersection of culture, public space and placemaking. Her work explores how cultural practice can cultivate curiosity, strengthen belonging and contribute to long-term transformation... Read More →
avatar for Mariana Binder

Mariana Binder

Senior Project Officer, Institute for Urban Excellence
Mariana Binder is an urban planner and architect from Argentina. She is a Senior Project Officer at the Institute for Urban Excellence, working across European research projects. Her work focuses on knowledge dissemination, sustainable urban development, nature-based solutions and... Read More →
Friday September 25, 2026 11:45am - 1:00pm CEST
Żyjnia / Lifery Świdnicka 2-4, 50-067 Wrocław, Poland
  Building Belonging, informal community session
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