OPEN UP! Creative Placemaking Festival
The two-day event will examine the concept of creative placemaking, a process in which public and private sector along with community activists and experts use culture and the arts to economically revive localities, cities and regions.
The festival will be divided into several parts including a public conference in DOX in Prague, evening in Papírna in Pilsen and workshops dealing with concrete aspects of creative placemaking. Among the confirmed speakers are:
– Ann Markusen, Director, Arts Economy Initiative University of Minnesota
– Daniel Latorre, Senior Fellow, Digital Placemaking, Project for Public Places
– Jiří Sulženko, Program Director, Plzeň 2015
– Martin Sturm, OO Kulturquearzier Linz
– Petr Koudela, Executive Director, Dolní oblast Vítkovice
– Juan Carlos Belloso, Founder, Future Places
– Ragnar Siil, Head of European Union Expert Group on Cultural and Creative Industries
– Igor Marko, Founder, Marko and Placemakers
– Marek Adamov, Stanica Zilina-Zariecie
– Matus Vallo, Partner, Vallo Sadovsky Architects
– Zora Jaurova, President, Creative Industry Forum
– Marta Smolikova, Executive Director, Vaclav Havel Library
The two-day event will examine the concept of creative placemaking, a process in which public and private sector along with community activists and experts use culture and the arts to economically revive localities, cities and regions.