SYMPOSIUM STRATEGIES FOR A EUROPEAN CITY

In 2008, tog­e­ther with our office in War­saw, we initia­ted an inter­na­tio­nal sym­po­si­um with the the­me “Public Space — Bar­ce­lo­na, Seville, Lyon, Kraków, Wars­za­wa — Stra­te­gies for an Euro­pean City”. The main objec­ti­ve of the event was to dis­cuss stra­te­gies and con­cepts for the design of public space in Euro­pean cities. For this pur­po­se, expe­ri­en­ces and examp­les from dif­fe­rent cities, inclu­ding Bar­ce­lo­na, Seville, Lyon, Kraków and War­saw, were pre­sen­ted and ana­ly­zed.

The sym­po­si­um attrac­ted about 150 par­ti­ci­pan­ts and was held in coope­ra­ti­on with Poli­tech­ni­ka Wars­zaws­ka and IFBau Stutt­gart to pro­vi­de a broad per­spec­ti­ve and inter­di­sci­pli­na­ry exch­an­ge. A field trip on “Public Space in War­saw” was also orga­ni­zed as part of the sym­po­si­um to pro­vi­de par­ti­ci­pan­ts with prac­ti­cal insights into inno­va­ti­ve spa­ti­al design projects.The 2008 sym­po­si­um crea­ted a plat­form for pro­fes­sio­nal dia­lo­gue and know­ledge exch­an­ge, pro­vi­ding new impe­tus for the fur­ther deve­lo­p­ment of public space in War­saw and other Euro­pean cities.