Cultural Planning and Place Making in Stockholm

Noema has joined the Gehl Architects team (Copenhagen) in an international competition to design a new neighbourhood for Stockholm. The team has used the principles of Cultural Mapping to propose a new vision for sustainable living. See the Brief for the competition at Link

Cultural Planning and Cultural DNA: A Sustainable Approach to Placemaking

A large gathering of members of the Union of Baltic Cities took place in Turku (Finland) on the 24th to the 27th of September 2008. The main subject of the event was the discussion of how to find the cultural DNA of places. Inspired by Lia Ghilardi, participants (mainly from the planning and urban development disciplines) spent two days documenting the distinctive character of Turku. The results of this work will be disseminated in a report which will be ready in December.
For information, please contact: Samuli Saarinen, Environmental and City Planning Department,
Master Plan Office,Turku
samuli.saarinen@turku.fi

Cultural Planning in Norwich

Noema has been working with Norwich Culture Office and the Local Strategic Partnership on a series of workshops to train key stakeholders to use Cultural Planning as a tool for finding creative ways of improving the delivery of services.

I have invited Marion Catlin (Cultural Development Officer, Norwich City Council) to present the results of the work done in Norwich to my students of the MA in Cultural Policy and Management at City University, London.



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Gävle Conference

The auditorium was full on the opening day of Konstcentrum’s seminars on cultural planning and art in public space. Artists and people working in cultural fields from all over Sweden mixed with interested local residents and international guests.
Lia Ghilardi, founder and director of Noema Research and Planning Ltd in London, talked about her method of mapping places from a cultural perspective. She began by cautioning against large architectural flagship projects which are often at risk of becoming " a second-life architecture for fantasy cities"...

Read more at: www.gavlekonstcentrum.se

Creative Cities Forum, Peking University

Abstract: This paper deals with the issues associated with the use ofculture in urban regeneration and place-shaping and, through the use of practical examples of implementation, discusses cultural planning as a method for the delivery of integrated and sustainable cultural and urban development policies.

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Cultural Planning

This is my brand of cultural planning

Cultural Mapping

This is a short explanation of what is cultural mapping and how to do it