Placemaking

Welcome to our next episode of the Henny Millie podcast in the framework of the Inclusive City project.

We have this research project about public spaces and inclusivity and the critical placemaking.

We are doing this project together with the Angewandte, the Applied Arts University, and with Utopian and Superwin and I'm co-hosting this wonderful podcast with my friend Vivian Montera from Placemaking Austria.

And in this episode, we're going to talk about an inclusive city for generations.

So a city rarely looks like the same to a child, a teenager or an adult and an elderly person.

Yet urban planning has historically designed for a narrow, able-bodied, in-between age.

Inclusive placemaking means taking different life stages experiences seriously and building a real trust in participation process with different groups of different ages.

We are here today with Julia Robiger.

You meet so many interesting people and actually they are great fun.

Yeah, Vivian is a planner and a geographer who is very passionate about placemaking and participatory planning and connecting people, culture and urban spaces.

And you will hear about that in our conversation today.

She's also the founding board member of Placemaking Europe and the co-founder of Stipo Greece.

We'll get to that.

We'll get

to placemaking and your work.

But tell us a little bit, what is your first memory about city life? When was the first time when you, in your life, found public spaces exciting? Do you remember that?