Placemaking Week Europe 2026

Creating better cities together.

Helene Gallis

Placemaking Norway / MiA - Museums in Akershus

Founder (PMN) / Head of green place development and social sustainability (MiA)

Oslo

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Head of Green Place Development & Social Sustainability (placemaking!) at MiA by day, leader of Placemaking Norway by night. It’s all about cultivating kindness!

Placemaking Norway focuses on community empowerment, arts, sustainability, and using placemaking to strengthen “the commons”, participation, and democracy.

6:00pm CEST

Opening Event Piekarnia Żywa Kultura / PIEKARNIA Living Culture

10:00am CEST

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

11:45am CEST

For the Public - Arts in Placemaking The Global Garage: a case study for memory and belonging

2:30pm CEST

Local Stewards: Do you even know who cares about the place you intend to design? Time Room - Czasoprzestrzeń / SpaceTime Strong placemaking organisations for building long term trust and local resilience. Jane Jacobs Room - Wroclaw Congress Center (RCTB) Traces & Places: How Placekeeping Reveals Community Treasures (Hands-On Outdoor Workshop) Czasoprzestrzeń Outdoors Urban Prosthetics: A Child-Scale City Lab Iglica - meeting point Windows to Utopia: Urban envisioning through cocreation and crafting WUWA exhibition model

4:15pm CEST

One Hundred Thousand Wrocławs: Mapping a City Through Stories WUWA Small room - Lower Silesia Regional Chamber of Architects Who Get's a Seat at the Table? Deconstructing Power and Cultivating Radical Empathy Through Urban Role-Play Space Room - Czasoprzestrzeń / SpaceTime Sandbox to System: How Urban Experiments Scale and Endure Time Room - Czasoprzestrzeń / SpaceTime

6:00pm CEST

Wednesday Evening Plenary Plenary Room - Wroclaw Congress Center (RCTB)

8:00pm CEST

Wednesday evening program Ruska 46

2:30pm CEST

Street cARTS: Design, Build & Deploy WUWA exhibition model 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) From Urban Experiments to Lasting Change: Otwarta Przestrzeń Kultury St. John of Nepomuk Church in Szczytnicki Park

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 New European Bauhaus: the pathway to building resilient cities through culture and collaboration? Jane Jacobs Room - Wroclaw Congress Center (RCTB)

10:00am CEST

Friday Morning Plenary Upstairs Cinema Hall 9 - Cinema New Horizons

11:45am CEST

Beyond the pop-up: Inclusion and belonging in daily life Upstairs Cinema Hall 9 - Cinema New Horizons Types of Placemaking Wrocławski Dom Literatury / House of Literature Classrooms Without Walls: Placemaking Through Education for Community Recovery and Resilience in Wartime Ukraine CUKR Fundacja Ukraina / Foundation Ukraine

2:30pm CEST

Creating warm public spaces in a cold region CUKR Fundacja Ukraina / Foundation Ukraine Stiching belonging Small Room - PRZED·POKÓJ Living Heritage: From Activation to Stewardship Barbara Guild Assembly: Weaving Regenerative Futures Mediateka (-1 floor)

4:15pm CEST

City Safari: Wrocław Through the Eyes of Children and Youth The White Stork Synagogue Commoning the Neighbourhood Mediateka (-1 floor) Making place across borders Upstairs Cinema Hall 9 - Cinema New Horizons Co-Created Visions for Caring and Inclusive Cities ODLOT. / Local Community Center

6:00pm CEST

Friday evening program Ruska 46