Events

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Placemake Earth

APRIL 18-27, 2020

Join Placemakers around the world by producing a local placemaking action in your community around the topic of climate resiliency.

Similar to Placemaking Europe's Tool Test Days, we are hoping to inspire Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper actions in cities across the globe to bring awareness to how neighbors and everyday people are going to be the ones to solve the climate crisis.

It's no coincidence the Placemaking movement and Earth Day were founded by the same person. Let's honor Fred Kent and our Earth by taking action this Earth Week.

Placemaking Weekend Philadelphia

MAY 15-17, 2020

Join Placemakers for a visit with old public spaces that have been given new life through collaborative placemaking and a mastery of iterative processes. We're working with local placemakers like Nate Hommel (University City District), Ian Litwin (city planner), Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman (urban anthropologist) and other districts and community partners to bring together a cohort of practitioners for an engaging best practices tour of America's most revolutionary city.

Portland Convergence

MAY 30 - JUNE 3, 2020

Portland, Oregon has a century-long legacy of making some of the best planning decisions in our country. They hired Olmstead Brothers to design their parks, fought off a Robert Moses freeway plan and were the first US city to remove a freeway, created an urban growth boundary to fight sprawl while densifying responsibly, embraced biking such that ridership is twice that of any other US city, their warehouse Pearl District revitilization led to adaptive re-use ordinances everywhere, the food cart revolution started here and the local invention of the "brewpub" helped cradle today's ubiquitous craft beer movement. Join us this June for a deep-dive into one of America's most dynamic towns and see what all the fuss is about. More info coming soon!

SoCal Foodways Summit

SEPTEMBER 2020

SoCal Foodways Summit is a farm-to-table focus on placemaking as seen through the lens of one of our country's most dynamic foodscapes. From neighborhood farms to hidden gardens, famous chefs to food equity — join us for a full week of talks, tastes and tours of good food practices in Southern California. We're going to be learning how the food makes the place from those leading some of the most advanced policies and neighborhood-level work happening in the world. More info coming soon!

Global Calendar 2020