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Co-urbanism 2019: inclusive urban development | Įtraukus miesto vystymas

18 March 2019 pirmas komentaras

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LT: Praktinis seminaras Co-urbanism kasmet suburia viešųjų erdvių vystymo praktikus ir bendruomenių lyderius apsikeisti patirtimi: kaip įtraukti įvairias gyventojų grupes į kaimynijų vystymą per kūrybines veiklas? Kaip užtikrinti iniciatyvų tvarumą? Kaip kurti dialogą su institucijomis? Šiemet mūsų svečiai – bendruomenių lyderiai, miesto erdvių gaivinimo praktikai iš Rygos, Talino, Kauno ir Venecijos :) Įėjimas nemokamas, darbinė kalba – ANGLŲ (be vertimo), kuratorius: Laimikis.lt, palaikymas: Britų Taryba. Kviečiame registruotis: https://bit.ly/2VLCVSS

ENG: Practical seminar “Co-urbanism” brings together urban practitioners and communities leaders for sharing the methods and cases in inclusive urban development (since 2o15). Join our fantastic guests from Riga, Tallinn, Kaunas and Venice to learn about ongoing initiatives and methods! :) Free entrance. Working language: English. Venue: Miesto laboratorija at Sapiegos park (at the main entrance from Antakalnis str keep left), Antakalnis 17. Launched by Laimikis.LT, supported by the British Council. Program & registration link: https://bit.ly/2VLCVSS

• March 21 d., Thursday | 11.oo – 15.oo (16.oo) | Kovo 21 d., Ketvirtadienis;
• Venue: Miesto Laboratorija, Sapiegos Park , Antakalnio str. 17 (Goda, mob. +370 614 35692)
• Annualy organized by: Laimikis.LT – urban games and research Lab (Jekaterina, mob. +37067407382)

Guest organisations:
Lasnamäe community (EE) • Rīgas Apkaimju alianse (LV) • Kaunas 2022, Fluxus Labas (LT) • Association Venti di Cultura (IT) • Cities on Water (IT) • Linnalabor (EE)

PROGRAM
11.00
Intro to Co-urbanism 2019

11.15 – 12.15 – 13.15
Inclusive development and cultural revitalization of the neighbourhoods in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
presented by urbanists and community leaders from Tallinn, Riga, Kaunas and Vilnius.

11.00
INRO to CO-URBANISM 2019 – inclusive urban development
Jekaterina Lavrinec, Laimikis.LT – urban games & research (LT)

11.10 – 11.25
MIESTO LABORATORIJA – GREEN COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER created by COMMUNITY PEOPLE
Goda Sosnovskienė, Miesto laboratorija (LT)

11.25 – 11.40
OPEN-AIR THEATER PLAY – a WAY to ENERGIZE the NEIGHBOURHOOD
Inese Auzina, Rada Brasa, Riga (LV)

11.40 – 11.55
TEMPORARY USE in RIGA: CASE of D27 / Dzirnavu iela 27
Jāzeps Bikše, Free Riga (LV)

–drinks & discussions–

12.10 – 12.25
COMMUNITY BUILDING in the PANEL HOUSING AREAS
Polina Lyasheva, Anton Kuunal, Lasnaidee, Tallinn (EE)

12.25 – 12.40
FLUXUS LABAS! – a NETWORK of COMMUNITY FACILITATORS in KAUNAS
Greta Klimavičiūtė-Minkštiminenė, Kaunas 2022 (LT)

12.40 – 12.55
COMMUNITY WORK IN THE ”DEPRIVED” NEIGHBOURHOOD OF RAADIKU
Maria Derlõš, Linnalabor / Lasnaidee, Tallinn (EE)

12.55 – 13.10
CIEKURKALNS – FROM TACTICAL URBANISM TO STATE LEVEL DISCUSSIONS
Kaspars Spunde, Board of Ciekurkalns neighbourhood / Rigas Apkaimju Alianse (LV)

–drinks & discussions–

13.20 – 13.40
A GAME for the VENETIAN ARSENALE
arch. Francesco Calzolaio and Marta Moretti
Association Venti di Cultura (www.ventidicultura.it), ITALY

13.40 – 13.50 (short pitch)
MILITARY LAND RECLAIMING PROCESS through COMMUNAL GARDENING
Rūta Lukošiūnaitė, Evelina Šimkutė, Šilainiai project, Kaunas (LT)

13.50 – 15.00 – 16.00
Lunch Break & Discussions, followed by a SHORT TOUR to Sapiegos park / Tech park, led by Goda.
The seminar is followed by the working group for the Baltic MeetUp – planning the cooperations and the next meetings.

• Event’s photo-album by Rokas Jundulas at Laimikis.LT FB page
• Presentations PLAYLIST by Tadas Botyrius at Laimikis.LT YOUTUBE channel.

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• LT: Co-urbanizmas buvo įkurtas 2014 metais kaip atvira platforma, suburianti miesto praktikus ir politikos formuotojus, dalintis iššūkiais, metodais ir modeliais, skirtais sukurti sąlygas gyventojų įsitraukimui į miestų vystymo procesus. Iniciatorius: Laimikis.LT – miesto žaidimų ir tyrimų laboratorija, šiais metais kartu su Britų Taryba.

• ENG: Co-urbanism was launched in 2014 as an open platform for urban practitioners and policy-makers to share the challenges, approaches, and models in participatory urban development. Initiator: LAIMIKIS.LT, urban games and research lab, in cooperation with British Council.

Co-urbanism 2019
Photo by: Rokas Jundulas

Photo by: Laimikis.lt, Open code urban furniture, 2015
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Co-Urbanism: Citizen Participation

Annual meeting of innovative city makers Co-Urbanism run by Laimikis since 2014. It has started from a collaborative project "Citizen Participation in Urban Governance: Tools and Cases", launched in the end of 2014 by Laimikis.lt and Minsk urban platform, which aimed to develop a regional network of NGOs and active citizens, involved into the development of urban spaces and local communities.

Co-urbanism: bendradarbiavimo jungtys mieste - serija kasmetinių renginių, skirta sąveikų tarp skirtingų interesų grupių ir institucijų paieškai, siekiant kartu vystyti bendruomeniškas miesto erdves. Rengiama nuo 2o14 kartu su Minsko urbanistine laboratorija. Kuratorė Lietuvoje: dr. Jekaterina Lavrinec.

Laimikis Networks

• Starting from 2o2o: BSR Hubs for Cultural Planning (FI, PL, LV, LT, DK, DE); • Starting from 2o16: Citizens Lab European network of local actors of change. Growing & ongoing.
• Starting from 2o16: Culturability (Culture + Sustainability), platforms that brings together culture actors from the Baltic Sea Region. Ongoing.
• Starting from 2o14: the Baltic House platform, hosted by Nadbałtyckie Centrum Kultury w Gdańsku / The Baltic House Lab (Gdansk, Poland).

Our Partners / Clients / Services

• Kaunas 2022, ECoC: Kaunas Beast game (opening and following events);
• Kaunas 2022, ECoC: community programme workshops for the communities leaders from Kaunas and Kaunas region neighbourhoods (2019-2020);
• Goethe-Institut Litauen: workshops in mapping the cultural potential at Šalčininkai, Jašiūnai, Tauragė, Marijampolė (2019-2021);
• Engage Liverpool: Urbingo game for Liverpool (2018);
• Cartierul Creativ Carolina: Urbingo Centenar game for Alba Iulia (2017);
• Stirling municipality: Web0 communication platform for Stirling and navigation for the city center at “Urban Ideas Bakery” (2010);

ECF Research & Development Grant

2o15: "Co-Design Workshops: Urban Furniture for Sharing" (aka Open Code Urban Furniture) brings together urban practitioners and active representatives of local neighbourhoods for developing open source design solutions for public spaces. The project is a part of creative cluster, formed with radarq.net & European Alternatives.

Interreg: Baltic Sea Region / Nordic Council of Ministers

• 2019 Jan – 2021 Dec: Urban Cultural Planning (Cultural Planning as a method for urban social innovation). As asociate partners, we cooperate with Vilnius TECH, Faculty of Creative Industries and contribute to the development of the urban games and routes that focuse on the green potential of the courtyards in the post-soviet districts. Also, we start developing methodology for non-formal education in cultural planning.

• 2017 Sept – 2018 Aug: BSR Cultural Planning: “Cultural Planning as a BSR Tool for co-creating collaboration and innovation among citizens and between citizens and authorities, on inclusive sustainable development of city space” (Seed Project). Laimikis conducts participatory research at Visaginas on maping local cultural potential and builds the interconnections between the cultural organizations in Visaginas and with the cultural organisations in BSR.

• 2018 – Nordic Council of Ministers has enabled us to develop a design-based tool for participatory urban research and cooperative development of the visual identity of the place, based on studies of Visaginas. As a set of methods it can be universally applied for studying the visual identity of the places.

Grundtvig / Erasmus+ partnership projects:

• 2o18 Sept-2o21 June: I_Improve: enabling people of Europe sharing stories and experiences. Leader: Intercult. Developed storytelling tool "UPĖ - stories flow" for the communities and active residents who seek to revitalise the river banks and a "Method Roulette" -- a methodology and a tool for cultural innovations that enable organisations to find out their hidden resources and to explore new methods. It helps to define targets, goals, and resources, matching them with the participatory approaches.

• 2o13-2o15: "Inside Views - Fieldwork Methods of Social Anthropology to Promote Civic, Cultural and Intercultural Education". A training session for cultural adn social actors was arranged in Castelo de Vide.

• 2o11-2o13: "InterContexts - Contributions of Civic and Cultural Education in Disadvantaged Local Contexts". Local project: developed a set of communication tools designed for the strengthening of participation in the neighbourhoods [see here]. A short guidebook "Community and neighbourhood development: Informal Communication tools and cases" is published in collaboration with the partners. Recognized as a star project [European shared treasure].

Baltic Audience Links

2o16-2o17: "Baltic Audience Links" is a network project that aims to strengthen the interconnctions between cultural organisations in the Baltic Sea Region. Partners: River//Cities platform, Laimikis.lt, Intercult. Co-financed: the Baltic Sea Unit at Swedish Institute in Stockholm.

Gatvės Laimikis | Vilnius street people

Portraits and talks with passers-by (since 2oo7)
Praeiviai: pokalbiai ir portretai (nuo 2oo7).

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Events [lt/eng]

• 2o18, March 22-24, Espoo/Helsinki: Nordic Urban Laboratory. Jekaterina runs a workshop in urban games.

• 2o18, Feb 15 - Riga, Culturability meeting on Cultural Planning (Poland-Germany-Denmark-Finland-Lithuania-Latvia-Norway).

• 2o18, Jan 28 - Feb 3 - London, Manchester, Belfast: UK study tour "Arts and social inclusion", British Council.

• 2o17, Dec - Jekaterina Lavrinec is awarded with Vilnius Bee sign for the works for Vilnius and its communities. Public award.

• 2o17, Dec 8-17 - Shenzhen (China), Bi-city Biennale for Urbanism and Architecture. Laimikis.lt presents an exhebition "Urban patchwork", devoted to the wooden Šnipiškės.

• 2o17, Dec - Riga, Culturability meeting on Cultural Planning (Poland-Germany-Denmark-Finland-Lithuania-Latvia-Norway)

• 2o17, Sept 17 - School of Citizen Artist at Šančiai Library, Kaunas;

• 2o17, July 5 - 13 / August 29 - Septmeber 2: Urbingo game for Liverpool. Hosted by Engage Liverpool;

• 2o17, June : Culturability: cultural planning & games seminar;

• 2o17, June 8-9: Reaktor: cultural planning workshop, Visaginas;

• 2o17, May 25-28: TEH83: Sharing Communities, ROJC, Pula, Croatia;

• 2o17, May 20-21: Coordinate System, the Urban Art Platform of Eastern Europe, Forum, Berlin;

• 2o17, May 17-20: Baltic Audience Links - "Urban Participation" Seminar & Workshop, hosted by the Baltic Sea Cultural Center, Gdansk;

• 2o17, April 7-8: Co-urbanism, hosted by Laimikis.lt, Vilnius;

• 2o17, March 8-11: CitizensLab meeting in Brussels;

• 2o17, March 1-3: Culturability working group on Cultural planning at Pori, Finland.

• 2o17, Feb 21-23: Conference Audience Links Xchange. J. Lavrinec as a key speaker: presenting the research on Baltic Audience Links. The moderator of the Baltic NGOs session.

• 2o17, Jan 17-22: Urbingo workshop for Cartierul Creativ Carolina, Alba Iulia, Romania (CitizensLab).

• 2o16, Oct 26: Forum "Culture and Sustainable Development", paper: Creativity and social innovation for community development (Jekaterina Lavrinec).

• 2o16, Sept 24-27: Spatial Development Forum, Xtreme Urbanism. St. Petersburg, Russia. Crash-course in DIY urban culture and pannel for the Baltic DIY culture, dr. J. Lavrinec (Laimikis.lt) as one of key-speakers.

• 2o16, June 23-26: Citizens Lab: 12 European cities, 36 neighbourhoods. MitOst e.V., Berlin.

• 2o16, June 16-17: Policy Area Culture, Warsaw

• 2o16, June 10-11: Baltic Sea NGO Forum, Gdansk. Key speaker for the topic "Meaning of the culture for the cooperative urban development".

• 2o16, May 27-30: City Makers Summit, Amsterdam. Laimikis.lt is a City Embassy for Vilnius:)

• 2o16, April: Culturability meeting, hosted by Ars Baltica, Rendsburg‬.

• 2o16, March 30: "Vietos kultūra". Pranešimas: Bendruomeninės kūrybinės iniciatyvos kaip vietovės gaivinimo įrankis. Utena.

• 2o16, March 18: UNESCO: Kultūrų raiškos įvairovė – darnesnės visuomenės link | Diversity of Cultural Expressions, speaker. Vilnius.Convention | Press.

• 2o16, Feb 4-5: City Makers Pre-summit, at De Zwijger, Amsterdam: video. • 2o15, Sept: Interdisciplinary exhibition "City close to the water". Object "Komoda nr 3". The Baltic House Lab exhibition. Gdansk, Poland.

• 2o14, Nov 23-25: the Baltic networks meeting: the Baltic House program. Gdansk, Poland.

• 2o14, Nov 7-8: InsideViews meeting (Life Long Learning Programme) in Liege, Belgium.

• 2o14, Nov 2-3: Caucasus Cultural Initiatives Network's event and conference "Community Art as an Impulse for Intercultural Dialog", Speaker. Tbilisi, Georgia.

• 2o14, Oct 28-29: Baltic urbanists network meeting at Riga (@Goethe-Institut Riga & Urban Institute Riga). Participantion in the round table.

• 2o14, Oct 27: Public discussion "Vilnius: a Public Space?" with the architect R. Palekas, urban anthropologist J. Lavrinec, and Vilnius mayor A. Zuokas at "Inconvenient Films Festival" (Nepatogus kinas), Vilnius.

• 2o14, Oct 23-25: Idea Camp 2014, European Cultural Foundation, Marseille.

• 2o14, Sept 10-15: Contemporary art festival "Survival Kit", Riga. Urban furniture workshop by Jekaterina Lavrinec at Liksnas 26, symposium "Urban Utopia: Art and Culture as a Tool for Exploring and Researching a City" (Latvian Center for Contemporary Art | Urban Institute, Riga) & round table on the Otherness (Fargfabriken).

• 2o14, July 25-27: Summer school "Creative and social practices in public space", St.Petersburg. Tutorship.

• 2o14, June 20-21: Hosting an international Grundtvig partnership seminar-workshop "Participatory and Arts-based Research Approaches: the engaging tactics of collecting and communicating ethnographic data", Vilnius.

• 2o14, June 13-20: Public lecture & training session for the participants of the Kaukas summer school "Reanimation of public space", Kaunas.

• 2o14, April 17-18: A training session and consultancy for regional active citizens groups, NVO's, municipality and elderate workers "Regeneration of public spaces: urban design principles and cases", Utena district. LT: Viešųjų erdvių tvarkymo planavimas: dizaino principų taikymas ir geroji patirtis, Utenos raj., Utenos regiono vietos veiklos grupė.

• 2o14, Feb 21-March 8: Laimikis.lt takes part in running a winter school in Critical Mapping, curating workshops, which focuses on the wooden Šnipiškės.

• 2o14, Jan 28-Feb 2: Visiting InsideViews partners in Paris. Host:

• 2o13 Nov 24-28: Visit to Fargfabriken, Stockholm. The Baltic meeting on art tactics, promoting citizen participation.

• 2o13 Nov 7-8: Presenters at "Social Entrepreneurship for Liveable Cities" Forum, Riga, Latvia

• Starting from Oct 27: Street blogging session by and in Coffee Inn at Pilies str., Vilnius

• 2o13 Oct 26: "Contemporary Diaries": presentations on Street Blog and Cabinets of Curiosities (Cinema Book workshop)

• 2o13 Oct 2-4: Strategies of preserving the old and creating the new in the urban spaces: Cases of the Baltic region Countries (New Urban Topologies, the Center of Contemporary Art and Urbanism Fargfabriken & TOK), Saint Petersburg, Russia

• 2o13 May-October: Street Mosaic workshop, Guided tours, Developing alternative playground, Neighbours' meetings in the wooden neighbourhood of Šnipiškės.

• 2o13 June-August: public debates on the reconstruction of public spaces (Lukiškės sq.) in Vilnius and citizen participation on radio & in press. Micro-protest action.

• 2o13, June 12: Colloquium Vilnense session V: Civil Society? Public Spaces of Memory: presentation "Building Community Spaces in Šnipiškės neighborhood".

• 2o13, May 17-20: Inter-Context meeting in Riga. Laimikis team presented a work in progress in Šnipiškės neighbourhood.

• 2o13, May 3-5: "Išeik į aikštę" (Come to the square!) festival at Cathedral sq., Vilnius.

• 2o13, April 24-28: Laimikis team visits their colleagues in Berlin and explores community gardens initiatives.

• 2o13, Jan 23 - Feb 2: Laimikis team visits their Portuguese colleagues (ICE), who develop a regional project, focused on actualization of historical memory and cultural heritage. Castelo de Vide school, Instituto Politécnico de Portalegre, Ferreira do Alentejo municipality and several museums and galleries around the region are involved.

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