Science Café - Tactical Urbanism

4. 6. 2024, 18:30 – 22:00

Pilar VUB - Bd de la Plaine 2, 1050 Ixelles

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About

In the contemporary world, where cities are constantly growing and developing, it is crucial to focus on creating environments that are inclusive and sustainable for all their inhabitants. Tactical urbanism represents an innovative approach to the rapid and effective transformation of public spaces with the aim of creating cities accessible to all residents regardless of their age, gender, abilities, or social status. It has thus become an important tool for the swift and flexible transformation of public spaces to create barrier-free cities. How can tactical urbanism contribute to the inclusive and sustainable development of cities and help overcome the limitations that urban residents face? 


Speakers

Kristina Ullmannová

Kristina Ullmannová

Office of Public Space at Prague Institute of Planning and Development

Kristina is the Head of the Public space office at Prague Institute of Planning and Development. As an architect and urban planner, she holds a PhD. from Czech Technical University in Prague. After a career in the private sector and international experience from Catalonia and the U.S., she currently leads the Public space office in its efforts to create liveable and walkable public space, adapting the city for climate change and focusing on a sustainable solution in a city environment with a wide range of interests.

Marie Joja

Marie Joja

Architect & Researcher & Founder of Archipop

Marie is an academic at the Faculty of Architecture at Brno University of Technology, with a research focus on the temporary use and activation of abandoned spaces. In addition to her academic pursuits, she is the founder of studio Archipop, an architectural practice dedicated to placemaking and transient interventions.

Lieve De Cock (moderator)

Lieve De Cock (moderator)

Architect Urban Planner and LiPS Founder

Lieve De Cock is an architect urban planner and LiPS founder (bridging Life.People.Space). Lieve enjoys building bridges to purify the relationship between life, people and space when formulating innovative and future-oriented quality proposals that provide answers to diverse social challenges - of today and tomorrow. For the first 15 years of her career at Eurostation, the former Belgian Railways engineering office responsible for stations and their surroundings in Flanders and Brussels, she worked first as a project officer, then as director of Urban Development to final CEO.



6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Debate with Kristina Ullmannová & Marie Joja

Moderated by Lieve De Cock

7:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Q&A
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Networking with light refreshments