Placemaking Week Europe 2026

Creating better cities together.

4:00pm CEST

CityBoats - A Unique Wrocław Cruise Departing from Dunikowski Boulevard Xawery Dunikowski Boulevard Wrocław Old Town - A Walking Tour for Connoisseurs Barbara

6:00pm CEST

Opening Event Piekarnia Żywa Kultura / PIEKARNIA Living Culture

7:00pm CEST

Exhibition: Joey Holder - The Woosphere Piekarnia Żywa Kultura / PIEKARNIA Living Culture

10:00am CEST

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

11:45am CEST

Beyond the Building: Can Developers Build Community? Fred Kent Room - Wroclaw Congress Center (RCTB) Informal exchange: Meet the Place Led Development Working Group and the ULI European Placemaking Council! Klub Łącznik Meet the German network! WUWA Living Room - Lower Silesia Regional Chamber of Architects Quests - discovering local treasures Iglica - meeting point Use Is Visible, Meaning Is Not - A storytelling workshop that reveals the city's hidden layers WUWA exhibition model After the Global Summit: New Pathways for Placemaking (and a Focus on Place-Led Development) Jane Jacobs Room - Wroclaw Congress Center (RCTB) It takes sharing to build a village Kathy Madden Room - Wroclaw Congress Center (RCTB) Street by Street: Reimagining the Future Together William H. Whyte Room - Wroclaw Congress Center (RCTB) The "Crisis Brigade": Cultural Practitioners as the Missing Link in Urban Synchronization and Community Bridging Plenary Room - Wroclaw Congress Center (RCTB) PLAY, PLACE, CHANGE: from local action to global impact Time Room - Czasoprzestrzeń / SpaceTime Playing with Food as Placemaking Infrastructure WUWA Small room - Lower Silesia Regional Chamber of Architects Public Space as Symbolic Redress: Placemaking and the Memories of Colombia’s Armed Conflict Space Room - Czasoprzestrzeń / SpaceTime Creating Places For Life Otwarta Przestrzeń Kultury St. John of Nepomuk Church in Szczytnicki Park Color as a Catalyst for Placemaking Teki - Miasteczko Studenckie "Wittigowo" Politechniki Wrocławskiej The Global Garage: a case study for memory and belonging For the Public - Arts in Placemaking

2:30pm CEST

European best practices in Place Led Development: Nordsø Copenhagen and Kenniskwartier Tilburg Fred Kent Room - Wroclaw Congress Center (RCTB) Teenagers create public spaces: India, Mexico, Poland, Egypt Space Room - Czasoprzestrzeń / SpaceTime Children as Experts of Their Neighbourhoods: Co-Creating Better Mobility and Places Kathy Madden Room - Wroclaw Congress Center (RCTB) 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 Care‑Based Networks: How Regional Placemaking Learns, Shares and Sustains Itself WUWA Living Room - Lower Silesia Regional Chamber of Architects Neighbourhoods as Living Labs: Communities Experimenting with Urban Futures William H. Whyte Room - Wroclaw Congress Center (RCTB) Urban Prosthetics: A Child-Scale City Lab Iglica - meeting point Windows to Utopia: Urban envisioning through cocreation and crafting WUWA exhibition model Local Challenge 1: The Market Hall Market Hall Local Challenge 2: The Triangle Square Centrum Aktywności Lokalnej

4:15pm CEST

Meet the French network! WUWA Living Room - Lower Silesia Regional Chamber of Architects One Hundred Thousand Wrocławs: Mapping a City Through Stories WUWA Small room - Lower Silesia Regional Chamber of Architects Revitalising Rural and Smaller Communities Plenary Room - Wroclaw Congress Center (RCTB) Skate the City: Youth-Led Placemaking in Public Space Iglica - meeting point Which came first, the chicken or the egg, when you think about public space? An exploration of space, asking whether it is people who create space to meet their need for movement, or whether it is space itself that makes us want to be active. WUWA exhibition model From Consultation to Understanding: A Methodological Layer for Area Development William H. Whyte Room - Wroclaw Congress Center (RCTB) From Neighbourhood to City: Scaling tactical urbanism to design resilient public spaces Fred Kent Room - Wroclaw Congress Center (RCTB) Who Get's a Seat at the Table? Deconstructing Power and Cultivating Radical Empathy Through Urban Role-Play Space Room - Czasoprzestrzeń / SpaceTime Placemaking for Socially Resilient and More-than-Human Friendly Neighborhoods Kathy Madden Room - Wroclaw Congress Center (RCTB) Help Shape the Future of Cultural Spaces Jane Jacobs Room - Wroclaw Congress Center (RCTB) Sandbox to System: How Urban Experiments Scale and Endure Time Room - Czasoprzestrzeń / SpaceTime Through Young Eyes - Reimagining Cities Together Otwarta Przestrzeń Kultury St. John of Nepomuk Church in Szczytnicki Park

5:00pm CEST

Nowe Promenady: Creating a TRUly Liveable Place Milosza 1 - Nowe Promenady

6:00pm CEST

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

8:00pm CEST

Wednesday evening program Ruska 46

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

10:00am CEST

Friday Morning Plenary Upstairs Cinema Hall 9 - Cinema New Horizons

11:45am CEST

(Exploring) Identity: Inner Landscapes and Collective Imaginaries Żyjnia / Lifery Beyond the Door: The Changing Place Living Lab. Engineering Dignity and Belonging in Urban Spaces 2nd floor near bar - Cinema New Horizons Beyond the pop-up: Inclusion and belonging in daily life Upstairs Cinema Hall 9 - Cinema New Horizons Returning to the Garden of Eden. An embodied exploration of belonging within the City ODLOT. / Local Community Center Signs of Life in Urban Space The White Stork Synagogue 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 Resilient Cities in Action: From Preparedness to Recovery Yoga Room - PRZED·POKÓJ Placemaking Assessment Tool: Evaluating Places, Empowering Practitioners Small Room - PRZED·POKÓJ The Nightlife Crisis: The Night Is Dead, Long Live The Night? Barbara The Urban Hunt: The City as Your Playground Plac Nowy Targ

12:00pm CEST

Zajezdnia Popowice – tożsamość miejsca w okresie przejściowym

2:30pm CEST

Creating warm public spaces in a cold region CUKR Fundacja Ukraina / Foundation Ukraine Disturbing Normativity: Queering & Counter-Mapping Wrocław Mediateka (-1 floor) Moving Beyond the City as a Machine: Reframing City-Making as a Moral and Spiritual Process ODLOT. / Local Community Center Stiching belonging Small Room - PRZED·POKÓJ Symphony of the Senses: A Walk Through the Rhythms of City Life The White Stork Synagogue Living Heritage: From Activation to Stewardship Barbara Public Space Assessment Framework - An Interactive Activity Mediateka (-1 floor) 👀 Fresh Eyes on Wrocław: The Results of a Collective Challenge with Europe’s Placemaking Community! Upstairs Cinema Hall 9 - Cinema New Horizons Guild Assembly: Weaving Regenerative Futures Mediateka (-1 floor) Inclusivity Quest: A gamified approach to gender-inclusive public spaces Plac Nowy Targ Paneuropean methods - the how of the how Wrocławski Dom Literatury / House of Literature Local Challenge 4: Kościuszki Square Yoga Room - PRZED·POKÓJ

4:00pm CEST

Zostaw swój ślad! - Kafelki, relacje i nasze miejsce MOST - Młodzieżowy Ośrodek Spotkań i Twórczości “Sztama – a happening of neighborhood communities” Ruska 46

4:15pm CEST

City Safari: Wrocław Through the Eyes of Children and Youth The White Stork Synagogue In search of the invisible community Barbara Placemaking en español: building a shared digital platform Żyjnia / Lifery 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 Hit the street: transition experiments in action CUKR Fundacja Ukraina / Foundation Ukraine Pigeons and other strangers Plac Nowy Targ

6:00pm CEST

Friday evening program Ruska 46

Placemaking Week Europe 2026

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