Placemaking Week Europe 2024

Every year at Placemaking Week Europe, placemakers from around the world come together to present expertise and ideas, share projects, discuss placemaking strategies and methodology.

Placemakers work together with city municipalities to launch new initiatives in-situ. It is the most embedded urban festival in Europe with the distinct mission of creating better cities, together.

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What is placemaking? 

Placemaking is the approach of building communities around a place, and places by communities. People are invited to reimagine and reinvent public spaces collectively. Placemaking connects economic and social well-being, as well as, quality of life strategically. Builds on the human need for prosperity, sociability and security. The movement builds on more than 50 years of experience in more than 50 countries.

The festival’s co-host city for 2024 is Rotterdam!

In Rotterdam, during Placemaking Week Europe 2024, you can explore the hidden forces in placemaking and aspects of the process that are vital for innovation. 

Engage in inventive thinking and explore how this can contribute to making your city a more inclusive, resilient, and dynamic urban environment. In this quest we team up with local heroes who sometimes navigate beyond existing power structures to create a sense of place. 

Next to that we invite you to join the discussion on how to acknowledge and ensure placemaking in the systemic reality.

Join us, let’s create space to make a lasting place!