By Ares Kalandides Rostock is a German city of 200,000 inhabitants at the Baltic Sea, one of the few cases of former East German cities that are thriving today. Inpolis Urbanism was called upon to assist the city council in its ambitious plan to support the local cultural and creative economy. The term cultural and […]

The Institute of Place Management at Manchester Metropolitan University has initiated a new series of online seminars around Citizen Participation in place development. Aim of this series is to consolidate an existing network of experts, collect ideas, methods and best practices of Citizen Participation internationally, but also to discuss both conceptual and institutional limitations in […]

Proposed interventions in Syntagma square, Athens. by Prof Ares Kalandides Recently, a municipality in the state of Berlin invited residents to choose the trees they would like to see planted in their street, as part of a new tree planting programme. The meeting took place in a neighborhood cafe that gave them space; residents were […]

More than six weeks have passed since WHO declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. While we are all trying to cope with our everyday lives, some in more critical conditions than others, there are already discussions about how we shall live together “the day after” – in particular conversations about the future of public space. […]