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Who owns the city? Expert seminar
In a half a day workshop, experts from the Maastricht region and beyond will exchange their experiences with regional urban cooperation. They will be challenged to make explicit underlying choices and approaches and to think about how these have affected the city.
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Presentations:
Wim van den Bergh | Felix Madrazo | Dominique Nijssen | Nol Reverda | Lucila Obando | Somik Lall
The programme of the workshop was as follows:
9 AM: brief welcome and coffee by Ton Wanders, Municipality Maastricht and Huub Mudde, workshop facilitator
9.45 – 12.15 AM: discussions in two working groups each around 2 cases: 1 case from the Maastricht Region and another case from beyond Europe
Working group 1: People, on socio-cultural projects and programmes
Working group 2: Infrastructures, on physical and technical infrastructures
12.15 – 12.45 PM: Clustering and prioritising the actions
Lunch
How do we design and manage attractive urban settings which stimulate an active and engaged citizenship?
There are many ways to conceive an urban region that is able to counter trends of ageing and depopulation, that is seen as a hub of cultural innovation and that cherishes diversity and economic prosperity. This involves conscious as well as unconscious choices about the way emerging infrastructures are to be used, and by whom.
What would a city, neighbourhood, region look like if it relied on the active participation of its citizens rather than on urban planners’ assumptions?
Can experiences from other places in the world inspire us? How do participatory initiatives work in practise and how successful are they? In other words: who owns the city?