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Final Human Cities,
Challenging The City Scale Event
@ the 13th Tallinn Design Festival!
Dear partners, guests and Human Cities friends,
This summer all Human Cities's partners are preparing for the final event. After the 11 experiments have been fruitfully implemented in the 11 European cities and 9 exhibitions in as many European cities, this September, the final Human Cities Challenging the City Scale 2014-2018 event will be held in Tallinn during XIII Tallinn Design Festival. In fact Human Cities is this year's theme of the festival. On top of that, the second Human Cities' Challenging the City Scale book, Journeys in People Centred Design, will be launched.
The XIII Tallinn Design Festival will be held from 10 to 16 September 2018. For a week, the unique festival which centres on different parts of Tallinn, will activate - the historic Baltic Station Departure Pavilion, the new building of EAA, Museum of Architecte, Architectural and Design Gallery, Viru Centre, Telliskivi, Alexela Concert Hall, Solaris, Kadriorg Tennis Hall and dozens of satellites in various locations.
Designers, architects, urbanists, and planners are committed to ensuring a more sustainable and human-friendly urban environment. Insights and testimonials from other cities can be seen at exhibitions and the conference which marks the successful end of the four-year Europe-wide project "Human Cities - Challenging the City Scale". We are looking forward to presenters from several architectural bureaus and other distinguished visionaries such as Mark Kingwell (Canada), Liam Young (UK) and Chantal Vanoeteren (Belgium, initiator of the Human Cities project). Those interested in urban development can see projects from 11 different countries, including innovative projects of Politecnico di Milano and Aalto University.
The Estonian team will present the relaxation capsule HÄLO (read HERE more). The works of the nominees of Germany's renowned design award IF will complement the exhibition from the perspective of the students. "Human Cities", a music piece by Villu Veski and Laura will bring the project to an upstanding end.
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Available soon: Challenging the city scale, Journeys in people centred design
human cities book vol. II
Since 2014, the Human Cities network has been working on Challenging the City Scale: a pan-European project led by Cité du design Saint-Étienne and supported by the Creative Europe programme to question the urban scale and investigate cocreation in cities. The Human Cities partners have carried out urban experimentations in 11 European cities empowering citizens to rethink the spaces in which they live, work and spend their leisure time.Through conversations with people involved, the book examines how bottom-up processes and their design, tools and instruments generate new ideas to reinvent the city. It offers inspiration and insights to everyone, from practitioners and politicians to designers and active citizens, eager to try out new ways to produce more human cities together.
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Shaping Human Citiesgraz
In the beginning of May 2018, the exhibition Shaping Human Cities took place. It was designed by students of the Master‘s programme Exhibition Design at the University of Applied Sciences, FH JOANNEUM. It illustrated the eleven human centred experiments with minigolf installations. See HERE for more.
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Now available: Challenging the City Scale, Investigation
human cities book Vol. I
The printed version was launched on 4th May 2018 in Graz, during the event organized by FH JOANNEUM included in the programme of the Festival Design Month. You can now download it in digital, open access version HERE.
The book “Investigation” is a collaborative research work, made from more than 80 case studies collected by the partners in Europe. Read HERE more about it.
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You missed our previous events?
Nine Human Cities/Challenging the City Scale events with exhibition-labs, inspirational conferences and workshops, long lasting exchanges with local stakeholders and international networks took place. Find here some of the catalogues of all the past events. Click on the image to open each catalogue.
     
Milan (IT) - Working Promesse, Saint-Etienne (FR) - Helsinki (FI) - Public space for local life, Ljubljana (SI) - Shaping Human Cities, Graz (AT) - Sharing Human Cities, Kragujevac (RS)
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You can't get enough?
You can now watch the Human Cities YouTube Channel. The Human Citizens have selected and created a reviewing playlist of the different events and activities that took place in the last four years. They illustrate methods, projects and the environments the experiments. Find HERE our channel.
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Human Cities only in Europe?
Human Cities is breaking out of its European Boarders. Mid September, most of the European partners are spreading the human centred design approach in the city of Seoul during the Seoul Design Cloud at the Human Cities Conference on 17 September at Dongdaemum Design Plaza.
For more info do contact our team in Saint-Etienne via Camille.VILAIN@citedudesign.com or seouldesigncloud@seouldesign.or.kr.
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