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Workshop: Co-Creation in Graz

November, 26 2015

The co-creation briefing trail continues to Graz, where the Austrian Human Cities partners FH Joanneum, Department of Exhibition Design are scheming to creating an array of creative initiatives in the Jakomini Neighbourhood throughout 2016.

Human Cities Digital Catalogue

November, 23 2015

The design and concept for this app – which will be available to download from April 2016– was developed by three creative minds from Graz. Miriam Derler, Andrea Hutter and Miriam Weiss,

We are co-creating in Cieszyn!

November, 12 2015

Its focus on Poland this week, where the fabulous Human Cities partners Zamek Cieszyn are opening up for rather ambitious ideas to reconnect with the city’s history as a market town for the whole region.

The Open Mile: promoting making in London

October, 21 2015

Clear Village’s urban experiment for “Human Cities, Challenging the City Scale” kicked off on the evening of 21st September 2015 with the Open Mile. The Open Mile offered a trail of open studios,

Workshop: Co-Creation in Milan

October, 17 2015

Its autumn, its Milan and its just magic. Far from the usual design trail, our Milanese partners have put their minds to a square in one of the City’s south districts.

Recode the City Festival- London

September, 17 2015

The Recode the City Festival takes the Human Cities programme to London from 21st to 23 September 2015. Organised by Clear Village in collaboration with the Machines Room and Lime Wharf,

Co-Creation Briefing #3 – Helsinki. Happy together vs melancholy of loneliness.

September, 16 2015

> Challenges, potential and possible scope for the experimentation: Use optimization of the built environment through the project “School as a Service” at Aalto University’s campus in Otaniemi, Espoo (Finland). It consists of the creation of a new temporary school in Otaniemi for those schoolchildren whose own school is under reparation,

Workshop: Co-Creation in Helsinki

August, 30 2015

We sealed off the summer with a couple of beautiful days in Helsinki: Human Cities partners Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture hosted two days of scheming on how to challenge the city scale in Helsinki.

Ljubljana co-creation briefing

August, 02 2015

reported by Ljubljana Human Cities Team   The first co-creation briefing of Human Cities-Challenging the city scale took place on the 18th and 19th of June 2015 in Ljubljana. This was an occasion for the Human Cities Ljubljana team to meet the local community of Bratovševa ploščad,

Workshop: Ljubljana co-creation briefing

August, 02 2015

reported by Ljubljana Human Cities Team   The first co-creation briefing of Human Cities-Challenging the city scale took place on the 18th and 19th of June 2015 in Ljubljana. This was an occasion for the Human Cities Ljubljana team to meet the local community of Bratovševa ploščad,

Co-Creation Briefing #1- Ljubljana

June, 15 2015

The Ljubljana Human Cities team is opening the second stage of Human Cities project: EXPERIMENTING in the urban territories with citizens. What is experimentation process in the Human Cities project? Experimentation is a speculative method,

My Favourite Boutique by Carton Plein & B.E.A.U.

March, 16 2015

(www.myfavoriteboutique.wordpress.com) is an initiative mounted by Carton Plein and B.E.A.U. for participants of the Crossroads 2015 programme during Human Citie: Challenging the City Scale – organised by Cité du Design in Saint-Etienne,

My Favourite Boutique by Carton Plein & B.E.A.U.

March, 16 2015

(www.myfavoriteboutique.wordpress.com) is an initiative mounted by Carton Plein and B.E.A.U. for participants of the Crossroads 2015 programme during Human Citie: Challenging the City Scale – organised by Cité du Design in Saint-Etienne,

How B.E.A.U. & Human Cities Can Revive an Entire District

March, 13 2015

Human Cities counts many European and local partners – among which Saint-Étienne-based Carton Plein plays an important role.  During the International Design Biennale Saint Etienne and “Crossroads 2015” workshop, 16 to 17 March 2015,

How B.E.A.U. & Human Cities Can Revive an Entire District

March, 13 2015

Human Cities counts many European and local partners – among which Saint-Étienne-based Carton Plein plays an important role.  During the International Design Biennale Saint Etienne and “Crossroads 2015” workshop, 16 to 17 March 2015,

Banc d’essai, Experimenting with Urban Furniture in Public Space

March, 13 2015

During the International Design Biennial Saint-Etienne, Banc d’essai provides an opportunity for designers, companies and publishers to test their life-size imagination and produce urban objects – comparing them to the public space and offer users – visitors,

People Olympics for Healthy and Active Living

March, 12 2015

Conceived by ESoCE Net (the European Society of Concurrent Engineering, non profit association focusing on Collaborative Social Innovation) president Roberto Santoro, the People Olympics is an international initiative and disruptive approach,

Human Cities: State of the Art

March, 09 2015

With State of the Art as its first theme, Human Cities: Challenging the City Scale aims to set up a common ground in tackling the issue of how people challenge the urban scale and flow in Europe today.”

Workshop Crossroads 2015. Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Etienne

March, 09 2015

‘Crossroads 2015. Human cities_challenging the city scale’ is a creative workshop organized by Cité du design for the Human Cities program during the Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Etienne 2015. Focused on the conversion of vacant shops and ground floor premises in the Jacquard district,

Design Pool: Kaspar Hamacher

August, 28 2014

Kaspar Hamacher showed a monoxyl installation of his Ausgebrannt collection as well as a series of pieces which were conceived and produced for his first solo exhibition held at Design Pool in Paris,

Human Cities 2014-2018 Challenging The City Scale

2014-2018

HUMAN CITIES Challenging the City Scale 2014-2018, founded by Pro Materia, co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, now led by Cité du Design from Saint-Etienne, is significantly different in scale compared to the previous editions.