1st Conference on "Participatory Design: City, environment and climate change. Experiences, challenges & potentials"

1st Conference on "Participatory Design: City, environment and climate change. Experiences, challenges & potentials" 

The conferenceParticipatory Design: City, environment and climate change. Experiences, challenges & potentials” is taking place onNovember 19, 20, 21, atSerafio City of Athens, at a time full of challenges for the future of participatory design as a methodology and practice of planning and policy-making. 

Participatory design methods need to be further tested and developed to respond to the tangible effects of climate change on everyday life in cities, the unprecedented experience of the pandemic, as well as the economic and social impact of austerity policies on regional and local government. Within that context, the conference aims to create a space for dialogue on the democratization of urban planning processes by scaling the active participation of local authorities, communities, groups and organizations. Drawing on experiences from Greece and abroad, the conference aims to showcase examples and good practices, which highlight methods, structures, tactics, as well as possibilities and limitations set by the current policies and procedures in planning at the local and regional level.

The conference will bring together a wide group of professionals from design practitioners, researchers, representatives of local government agencies, etc. 

Attendance is free in person or online.

Read more:https://www.participatorylab.org/conference

With the support of:

• National Technical University of Athens

• University of West Attica, Department of Surveying and Geoinformatics Engineering

• National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of History and Philosophy of Science

• Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Spatial Planning and Development

• Agricultural University of Athens

The conference is hosted at the Serafio of the Municipality of Athens (19 Ehelidon & 144 Piraeus).

The conference is an action of the project"participatory LAB"funded by the Green Fund under Priority Axis 3: Citizen Participation "Innovative actions with citizens" of the funding program "Natural Environment & Innovative Actions 2020".

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1st  Participatory Planning and Climate Change Challenges Conference 

The 1st conference "Participatory Planning: City, Environment and Climate Change. Experiences, Challenges and Opportunities»November 19, 20, 21, Serafion of the Municipality of Athenstakes place at a time full of challenges for the future of participatory planning as a planning and policy making methodology. 

The effects of climate change that are experienced more and more strongly in daily life in the urban environment, the unprecedented experience of the pandemic as well as the economic and social consequences of austerity policies in the functioning of regional and local self-government institutions shape the conditions in which they are tested and the new methodologies for urban participatory planning are developed. In light of the above, the conference aspires to open a dialogue around the democratization of urban planning processes and the broadening of the participation of local communities, agencies and interest groups of the population. Drawing from international and domestic experience, examples and good practices are going to be presented as well as the character, the possibilities opened up and the limits set by the current institutional processes for planning at the local and regional level.

The conference is attended by planning professionals, researchers, representatives of local self-government bodies Ms. 

Watching is free live or online.

Read more:https://www.participatorylab.org/conference

With the support:

National Technical University of Athens

Department of Surveying and Geoinformatics Engineering, University of West Attica

Department of History and Philosophy of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Department of Spatial Planning & Development, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Agricultural University of Athens

The conference is hosted at the Serafion of the Municipality of Athens (Eheliden 19 & Piraeus 144).

The conference is an action of the project"participatory LAB"is financed by the Green Fund within the framework of priority axis 3: Citizen Participation "Innovative actions with citizens" of the financing program "Natural environment & innovative actions 2020"