human cities

Human Cities Symposium & Festival

Coming in Spring 2010, Brussels

A final Human Cities symposium and related events festival will be organized in Brussels (Belgium) in Spring 2010, bringing together pioneering institutions from all over Europe. All of them are actively developing new methods and approaches of urban design as a kind of promise for a better and more human-oriented environment. They will share the differentiated ways in which they respond to today's challenges, bringing forward the lessons learned from their most successful experiences.

Human Cities symposium and related events festival aim at reaching the largest number of people as possible and at fostering public commitment right in the prominent public spaces and through socio-cultural institutions that are running relevant Human Cities projects in locations such as streets, city squares and gardens, inner-city parks, busy thoroughfares or hidden alleyways, disused industrial sites... Real life installations and productions will challenge the unpredictable and informal human interventions. Human Cities could hopefully become the European reference for an upcoming Human Cities Design and Hacking Culture. It would become part of the urban regeneration process as well as it would propose alternative renewal strategies for the community through creative places to be.

Full programme around December 2009

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Upcoming actions

may 2010 Human Cities Festival Brussels

spring 2010 Exhibition (more info soon) Glasgow, Lubjana, Milan

spring 2010 Publication of Human Cities Book

Past actions

Oct. 2009 Call for Entries : Places to be

Nov. 2008 Public design competition Saint-Etienne

May 2007 Colloquium : Sustainable urban design Brussels


Become a partner of the festival

This Festival will provide a unique opportunity for cultural institutions, artists, individuals and a wide range of different urban actors and activities to take part to this multidisciplinary event. We are motivated by each kind of collaboration that would enhance the concept of Human Cities. If you have a proposal and you are motivated to join the programme of the Human Cities Festival, please feel free to fill in the document below and send it to info@humancities.eu