Participation Forum: WeMe

WHAT?

Participation Forum. WeMe: I Create a Dream City!

Participation. A word we have been learning to say since the beginning of the war. And more and more people around are already used to its essence: participation. The community participation in decision-making regarding its future development.

We invite you to join the WeMe participation form: I Create a Dream City!, where we will, in particular, focus on the practices of community participation in creating spaces around us.

Goal:

to define the essence and world practices of participation;
to consider participation cases: what, how, and where is my role?

FOR WHOM?

We are not limited to a professional audience of architects and restorers.

It is important that the residents of the communities – each of us – have the possibility to understand the essence of the opportunities that participation provides.

Therefore, we are waiting for you! Everyone who cares what your city or town will be like!

Residents of communities, cities, and towns
Public figures
Initiative groups
Representatives of municipalities
Architects
Sociologists
Developers
Business people
And everyone who is just interested in understanding their role in the reconstruction of Ukraine and not being left out!

The first Participation Forum. WeMe: I Create a Dream City!

has been held in Kharkiv, July 07, 2023, in a blended mode: offline+online

Program of Participation Forum: WeMe 2023

14.00 Greetings

14.10-14.30: “A story of how design is not a one woman’s (or man’s) job”, Indre Kalinauskaite, Owner & Independent consultant on transdisciplinary collaboration and inclusive design, @IK UX, PhD, Assistant Professor, Utrecht, Netherlands.

14:30-14:50: “The Importance of participatory practices in the rebuilding of our cities“, Sergiy Ilchenko, a practicing architect who teaches and researches the city, Kharkiv, Ukraine.

14.50-15.10: “(Re)making the city is an ongoing process: two cases from Belgium & The Netherlands“, Silvia Cazacu, PhD Researcher & Designer @KU Leuven, Belgium on the topic of Value Co-creation in Urban Data Ecosystems.

15.10-15.30: “Mykilska slobidka – a prototype of the future. Community as a customer“, Olga Kleitman, architect, head of SBMstudio, head of NGO “Through the War”, Kharkiv, Ukraine.

15.30-15.50: Coffee break, networking

15.50-16.10: “Collaborative city-making: Co-creating a vision from dream to prototype“, Hugo Pilate, a franco-american designer specialized in the creation of collaborative experiences with a fascination for the past, present, and future of city-making, Eindhoven, Netherlands.

16.10-16.30: “Kharkiv. Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. Or how do we dream about the city. Communities of Kharkiv“, Max Rozenfeld, architect, city researcher, member of “Foster Group”, “Kharkiv Now”, “Kharkiv Media Hub“, Kharkiv, Ukraine.

16.30-16.50: “Open competitions for the development of architectural projects. Participation of stakeholders in setting the tasks“, Anna Bondar, People’s Deputy of Ukraine, architect, Kyiv, Ukraine.

16.50-17.10: “Digital tool for the participation of stakeholders in the development of architectural projects. Rebuild Ukraine: Participatory Architecture Platform“, Alina Zubkova, leader of the Rebuild Ukraine project, co-founder of the Business Architecture Lab, PhD, associate professor of National Technical University “KhPI“, Kharkiv, Ukraine.

17.10-17.50: Panel discussion: Participation as a good habit. What are the prerequisites and limitations of its formation?

The panel discussion will be joined by:

Oleksandr Popov, architect, founder of Superspace Studio, co-founder of archimatika company, Kyiv, Ukraine.

Arsenii Kuznetsov, architect, partner at UAU collectiv architectural bureau, Hasselt, Belgium.

17.50-18.30: Networking over coffee.

Moderator of the event: Philip Dykan, journalist, historian, and presenter of TV and radio programs, Kharkiv, Ukraine.

The organizers: