Sustainability 3.0 – i.e. what is placemaking
In June about 400 placemakers met in Valencia for Placemaking Week Europe 2019. Placemaking Week Europe is Europe’s biggest conference and festival celebrating the impact of placemaking on the urban fabric. In this article, Beata Patuszyńska...Read more
CitC Antwerp: Reflections on Placemaking and Co-creation
Irene Quintáns was the moderator of the Parallel Session on Placemaking and Co-creation during the Child in the City International seminar in Antwerp. In this article, she provides a summary of the presentations and ideas...Read more
Kids choose our cars and clothes – why not their own space?
Based in Warsaw, Beata Patuszyńska is a PR professional with 15 years’ experience in the real estate sector. She works on planting ideas of sustainable development among grown-up players on the real estate market, as...Read more
Antwerp welcomes the Child in the City international seminar
On Monday, over a hundred academics, practitioners and children’s rights experts from across the globe were a part of the first day of the Child in the City (CitC) international seminar in Antwerp. This third...Read more
Children are our future, and the planet’s. Here’s how you can teach them to take care of it
As the global climate crisis accelerates, early childhood teachers and researchers are considering whether and how to approach the issue with children. Should we talk openly about the crisis and encourage children to change their...Read more
Experience the city from a child’s perspective
Arup and The Bernard van Leer Foundation (BvLF) have partnered and developed a virtual reality experience that allows users to ‘virtually’ halve in size and become 95cm tall, the height of a 3-year-old. They have...Read more
Meet the chairwomen of the CitC Antwerp Seminar
For each day of the Child in the City International Seminar in Antwerp, there will be a different chairwoman present to oversee the proceedings of the day. Meet the chairwomen for the seminar ‘Children in...Read more
The city of Antwerp is ‘taking sustainability seriously’
Jinnih Beels is Antwerp’s Alderwoman for Education, Youth and Integration. In this interview, she outlines the city of Antwerp’s plans and policies regarding sustainability and child friendly practices. Beels also argues, the city of Antwerp...Read more
Shaping sustainable cities for children
The countdown to the Child in the City International Seminar in Antwerp continues. With that in mind, we present the second part of our interview with keynote speaker, Jens Aerts. In this article, Aerts discusses...Read more
Meet Leo Van Broeck, the Flemish Government Architect
Leo Van Broeck is a civil engineer and architect and co-founder of the Brussels architecture office Bogdan & Van Broeck. On 1 September 2016, the Flemish Government appointed Leo as the Government Architect for the...Read more
4 Ways local solar projects can benefit cities
When a city decides to transition from fossil fuels to clean energy, headlines follow. But the work has only just begun. Cities have many options for generating and purchasing renewable electricity, each of which comes...Read more
Challenging the vertical sprawl
To understand the major barrier to making our cities more sustainable and environmentally friendly places, just stand in the centre of almost any Australian city and look up. The chances are you will be in...Read more
Meet Annika Skoglund keynote speaker at CiTC Antwerp seminar
It is with great pleasure that we will welcome Annika Skoglund as one of our keynote speakers at next month’s Child in the City International Seminar. She is an Associate Professor at Uppsala University, Sweden...Read more
Our cities fall short on sustainability, but planning innovations offer local solutions
Australia’s sprawling cities present many challenges to sustainability, but planning innovations can help achieve at least half of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Thirty years after the landmark Brundtland report, the debate on urban sustainability...Read more