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Research Urban Policies

Cultural Creative Spaces and Cities: Urban Regeneration Knowledge Base

Urban regeneration is a broad and multi-faceted issue; it brings together multiple stakeholders and actors across governance levels and professional disciplines of city making. It impacts on us all;…

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2020
Client

Trans Europe Halles
Partners

Cultural Creative Spaces & Cities / CreativeEurope programme

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Action Planning Coproduction Research Stakeholder Engagement Training Urban Policies Workshops

Greater London Authority Social Integration Design Laboratory

We were commissioned by the consultancy of the New Economics Foundation, NEFC, to lead the policy work stream of a year-long Social Integration design laboratory, in partnership with the London Met…

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2020
Place

London, UK
Client

NEF Consulting (New Economics Foundation)
Patners

Snook / London Metropolitan University / Mayor of London

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Action Planning Coproduction Research Stakeholder Engagement Urban Policies Workshops

Cultural Creative Spaces and Cities: Timișoara Urban Lab, Ambasada

How can we advance a more participatory process of urban development? What are the means to enable communities to engage in meaningful way with local urban policies, intiatives, and projects? We…

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2019
Place

Timișoara, Romania
Client

Ambasada
Partners

Cultural Creative Spaces & Cities / CreativeEurope programme

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Coproduction Participatory Research Strategic Planning Workshops

Remix(c)ity: A Participatory City-(re)making Game

Remix(c)ity was developed in partnership with Konzulát Studios for the programme of MakeCity 2018 festival in Berlin as a participatory city-making tool in the form of a board-game. Players are taking…

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2018
Place

Berlin, Germany
Partners

Konzulat / MakeCity Berlin

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Masterplanning Participatory Research Strategic Planning Training Urban Design Workshops

Transforming the (re)public: An Urban Laboratory on Public Space

From a small provincial town of no more than ten thousand people in the 1830s, Athens has transformed itself into one of the largest and most densely urbanised metropolises in Europe, now home to nearly…

Year

2017
Place

Athens, Greece
Partners

Urban Environment Lab, School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens / Vryssaki, Living space of Art and Action / Greek Union of Architects / Technical Chamber of Greece

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Masterplanning Participatory Research Strategic Planning Training Urban Design Workshops

Overbooking the City: An International Urban Design Workshop

Within an ever-more interconnected world the impacts of the transient flows of global tourism on urban societies, economies, nature, and the built environment, are both more intense and more diverse.…

Year

2017
Place

Dubrovnik, Croatia
Partners

Placa Collective for Spatial Research / Institute for Spatial Planning Dubrovnik-Neretva County / City of Dubrovnik / Dubrovnik Architects Association / University of Split, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Geodesy

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Public Events Publishing

The Urban Transcripts Journal

We launched The Urban Transcripts Journal in Spring 2017 as an independent, not-for-profit, open-access publication, driven by a vision of an open and public exchange of knowledge and ideas on urban…

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2017 - present

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Masterplanning Participatory Research Strategic Planning Training Urban Design Workshops

On the Sea Edge: An International Urban Design Workshop

Exploring Chania as an urban laboratory on the sea edge the workshop brings into focus a number of issues common to medium-scale coastal cities in Greece, the Mediterranean, and beyond: abandoned places…

Year

2015
Place

Chania, Crete, Greece
Partners

KAM Center of Mediterranean Architecture – Chania Municipality / Chania Architects Association / Technical University of Crete, School of Architecture / Technical Chamber of Greece, Department of Western Crete

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Strategic Planning Training Workshops

Operative Territories: Re-designing the landscapes of tourism

The growth of tourism in a global scale has economic, social and physical impacts, in turn creating both benefits and disadvantages; while it generates economic growth and raises the incomes of individuals…

Year

2015
Place

Sithonia, Chalkidiki, Greece
Partners

Municipality of Sithonia / Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

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Masterplanning Strategic Planning Urban Design

Trenčín, City on the River

It is not often that urban design interventions have the potential to transform a city far beyond the project’s immediate space and to decisively shape its future long term development. We approached…

Year

2014
Place

Trenčín, Slovakia
Client

The City of Trenčín

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Masterplanning Urban Design

Neapoli Coastal Zone

Awarded 2nd prize in national competition (Greece) The Harbour Management Organisation of Monemvasia called for proposals for the revitalisation of the town of Neapoli,…

Year

2014
Place

Neapoli, Greece
Client

Port Authority of Monemvasia

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Participatory Research Public Events Training Urban Design Workshops

Berlin Unlimited

Berlin holds a reputation of a city where everything is possible, where its own scars and voids become a playground for creativity and experimentation for everything from the arts to politics and from…

Year

2014
Place

Berlin, Germany
Partners

CollageLab / Guerilla Architects / Universität der Künste Berlin / Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik / VMZINC

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Masterplanning Strategic Planning Training Urban Design Workshops

Volos in the Extremes Urban Design Master Class

As the predominant model of development, in Greece and around the world, is severely challenged, we are presented with a unique opportunity to re-invent it: to shift from growth to sustainability, from…

Year

2013
Place

Volos, Greece
Partners

Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly / Magnesia Architects Association / Thessaloniki Architects Association / Greek Union of Architects / Municipality of Volos, Municipal Center for History and Documentation

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Masterplanning Strategic Planning Urban Policies

Calp 2020, a strategy for sustainable tourism

The great tourism-oriented development wave that swept Spain’s Costa Blanca coast from the 1960s onwards has radically changed the city of Calp and its environs. What used to be a prominent urban…

Year

2013
Place

Calp, Spain
Client

Ayuntamiento de Calp

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Participatory Research Public Events Training Workshops

London, the (n)ever-changing city

London has a reputation of a vibrant, dynamic city constantly reinventing and transforming itself, a highly adaptable organism that embraces change and like an astute tradesman turns it to its own advantage.…

Year

2012
Place

London, UK
Partners

Performance Space / UCL Urban Lab / ICN Gallery / 17 Screens

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Participatory Research Public Events Training Workshops

Rome, the accidental city

Beyond the imagery of an unchanged and unchangeable old town, the realities of the city of Rome finely weave themselves through an everlasting conflict between the remote past, the recent yesterday,…

Year

2011
Place

Rome, Italy
Partners

Dipartimento di Studi Urbani, Roma Tre / Provincia di Roma / Urban Center - Minicipio Roma XI / ESC Atelier / Facolta di Architettura, Roma Tre

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Public Events

Urban Transcripts 2010: Athens: urban (r)evolution through individual spontaneity in the absence of planning

From a small provincial town of no more than 10.000 people in the 1830s, Athens has transformed and reinvented itself into one of the greatest and most densely urbanised territories in Europe, home…

Year

2010
Place

Athens, Greece
Partners

booze cooperativa

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Cultural Creative Spaces and Cities: Urban Regeneration Knowledge Base

Greater London Authority Social Integration Design Laboratory

Cultural Creative Spaces and Cities: Timișoara Urban Lab, Ambasada

Remix(c)ity: A Participatory City-(re)making Game

Transforming the (re)public: An Urban Laboratory on Public Space

Overbooking the City: An International Urban Design Workshop

The Urban Transcripts Journal

On the Sea Edge: An International Urban Design Workshop

Operative Territories: Re-designing the landscapes of tourism

Trenčín, City on the River

Neapoli Coastal Zone

Berlin Unlimited

Volos in the Extremes Urban Design Master Class

Calp 2020, a strategy for sustainable tourism

London, the (n)ever-changing city

Rome, the accidental city

Urban Transcripts 2010: Athens: urban (r)evolution through individual spontaneity in the absence of planning

Cultural Creative Spaces and Cities: Urban Regeneration Knowledge Base

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Greater London Authority Social Integration Design Laboratory

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Cultural Creative Spaces and Cities: Timișoara Urban Lab, Ambasada

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Remix(c)ity: A Participatory City-(re)making Game

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Transforming the (re)public: An Urban Laboratory on Public Space

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Overbooking the City: An International Urban Design Workshop

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The Urban Transcripts Journal

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On the Sea Edge: An International Urban Design Workshop

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Operative Territories: Re-designing the landscapes of tourism

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Trenčín, City on the River

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Neapoli Coastal Zone

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Berlin Unlimited

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Volos in the Extremes Urban Design Master Class

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Calp 2020, a strategy for sustainable tourism

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London, the (n)ever-changing city

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Rome, the accidental city

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