Pakhuis de Zwijger\u2019s project New Europe \u2013 Cities in Transition was funded with the support of the European Union under the Programme \u201cEurope for Citizens<\/a>\u201c, measure 2.2: \u201cNetwork of Towns\u201d.<\/h3>\n\n![\"City](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/admin.citiesintransition.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/270516_CITYMAKERS-19_bewerkt.jpg?w=1170&ssl=1\")
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City Makers Summit \u00a9 Michiel Landeweerd<\/div>\n<\/div>\nA total of 5 activities were carried out\u00a0as part of\u00a0New Europe \u2013 Cities in Transition under the Europe for Citizens programme.<\/p>\n
\n- The Metropolitan Field Trip Lisbon<\/strong>\u00a0that took place in Lisbon, Portugal on 12-15 March, 2015<\/li>\n
- The Metropolitan Field Trip London<\/strong> that took place in London, United Kingdom on 11-14 June, 2015<\/li>\n
- The Metropolitan Field Trip Berlin<\/strong> that ook place in Berlin, Germany on 8-11 October, 2015<\/li>\n
- The City Makers Summit<\/strong> that took place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on 27-30 May, 2016<\/li>\n
- The Metropolitan Field Trip Bucharest<\/strong> that took place in Bucharest, Romania on 6-9 June, 2016<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
All the activities that were realised with funding of the Europe for Citizens programme are listed and described below. In addition,\u00a0Pakhuis de Zwijger was able to expand the network and its activities by connecting all 28 capital cities, and organize 6 more Metropolitan Field Trips<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0two City Maker Pre-summits on 25 June, 2015<\/a> and on 4 and 5 February, 2016<\/a>. Furthermore, Pakhuis de Zwijger organised the \u00a0New Europe City Makers Summit<\/a>\u00a0with participants from 150 European cities instead of just the 5 cities of the partners within\u00a0the Europe for Citizens collaboration.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
New Europe \u2013 Cities in Transition<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe New Europe \u2013 Cities in Transition network and online platform www.citiesintransition.eu has grown into a Europe wide network, connecting the 28 capital cities of the European Union, through partner organisations \/ local platforms that hold the title City Embassy and connect City Makers in their cities and internationally. With the help of the Europe for Citizens grant we have managed to develop activities that frequently bring together partner organizations from the cities Berlin, Bucharest, London, Lisbon and Amsterdam. This frequency and recurrence of the activities allowed for the development of a sustainable base for the New Europe \u2013 Cities in Transition network.<\/p>\n
We have not only achieved our\u00a0initial plans, but have grown\u00a0beyond our own expectations. Without the help of the Europe for Citizens grant we would not have been able to plant the seeds for a sustainable and ever expanding European network, with which we are working on the continuation of the platform and many future activities.<\/p>\n
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Metropolitan Field Trip Lisbon, 12-15 March, 2015<\/b><\/h3>\n\n![\"Metropolitan](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/admin.citiesintransition.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MFT-Lisbon-e1426875223306.jpg?w=1170&ssl=1\")
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Metropolitan Field Trip Lisbon \u00a9Charlot Schans<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe full programme<\/a> and report<\/a> of the\u00a0Metropolitan Field Trip Lisbon are available on citiesintranstion.eu. The field trip involved 200 citizens, including:<\/p>\n\n- 2 participants from the city of Bucharest, Romania<\/li>\n
- 2\u00a0participants from the city of London, United Kingdom<\/li>\n
- 2\u00a0participants from the city of Berlin, Germany<\/li>\n
- 3 participants from the city of Amsterdam, The Netherlands<\/li>\n
- 1\u00a0participant from the city of The Hague, The Netherlands<\/li>\n
- 1 participant from the city of Utrecht, The Netherlands<\/li>\n
- 1 participant from the city of Rotterdam, The Netherlands<\/li>\n
- an extra 42 invited participants joined the conference together with more than 150\u00a0local partners,\u00a0organisers, City Makers and other involved persons from the city of Lisbon, Portugal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Metropolitan Field Trip Lisbon programme booklet<\/a><\/p>\nCommunity building as a form of resilience<\/strong><\/p>\nThe economic crisis has brought, especially in recent years, serious difficulties for the Portuguese society. Basic needs such as food, housing, health or education are being jeopardised, and people do not\u00a0have any other choice than to rely on each other, and organize themselves. This has given rise to communitarian initiatives, whose main objectives are to address the existing social gaps. Whereas the city may face high unemployment rates, disproportionate costs for livelihood and the consequential increasing wariness towards local politics, a vital community of active citizens is trying to make a change.<\/p>\n
Local partner Academia Cidad\u00e3<\/a> (The Citizenship Academy) believes\u00a0that where politics are sometimes difficult to change, much can be done to empower citizens to take matters into their own hands. Their main goal is to boost active citizenship and promote growth and development with principles of social, economic and environmental sustainability.<\/p>\nWith a broad perspective on transition and social innovation in urban development we studied Lisbon as a city and a metropolis. We met local City Makers, professional peers, residents, entrepreneurs, to study the small-scale, often informal urban interventions. During a four-day programme full of on-site visits to inspiring initiatives and community organisations, industrial heritage sites and co-working spaces, cultural events and a conference for Lisbon City Makers, we aimed: to understand how building and organising community improves the conditions of everyone\u2019s lives to learn and analyze innovative tools for building and organizing community. What is the meaning of active citizenship and community participation in addressing poverty and exclusion? How do citizens\u2019 initiatives enhance solidarity among people, give them a voice, empower them, and therefore make them more resilient? These and many more questions were addressed during the Metropolitan Field Trip to Lisbon!<\/p>\n
Metropolitan Field Trip London, 11-14 June, 2015<\/b><\/h3>\n\n![\"London](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/admin.citiesintransition.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/London-Cityscape-%C2%A9-Davide-D%E2%80%99Amico.jpg?w=1170&ssl=1\")
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London Cityscape \u00a9 Davide D\u2019Amico<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe full programme<\/a> and report<\/a> of the\u00a0Metropolitan Field Trip Lisbon are available on citiesintranstion.eu. The field trip involved around 180 citizens, including:<\/p>\n\n- 2 participants from Bucharest, Romania<\/li>\n
- 3 participants from Lisbon, Portugal<\/li>\n
- 2\u00a0participants from Berlin, Germany<\/li>\n
- 3 participants from Amsterdam, The Netherlands<\/li>\n
- 1\u00a0participant from Wageningen, The Netherlands<\/li>\n
- 1 participant from Brussels, Belgium<\/li>\n
- an extra 38 invited participants joined the conference together with more than 130 local partners, organisers, City Makers and other involved persons from London<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
15.06.11 Metropolitan Field Trip London programme<\/a><\/p>\nHighlighting the economic potential of community-led enterprises and the limits of a city in transition<\/strong><\/p>\nTogether with Locality<\/a>, the London based national network of ambitious and enterprising community-led organisations working together to help neighbourhoods thrive, we studied the transition of this European financial capital. \u00a0The London Metropolitan Field Trip aimed to demonstrate\u00a0the limits of a city in transition. Where tensions of ensuring a well-functioning and affordable city are felt on a daily basis and the public, private and voluntary sector all play a role. The role of the voluntary sector has become more substantial over the last years, but is actually rooted in a long tradition of community-led and owned enterprises in London and beyond. This renewed focus on the responsibility and potential for the voluntary sector is flanked by government attempts to facilitate the movement and alternative structures to traditional economic structures.<\/p>\nUrban transition in London is characterized by community-owned and led enterprises whose main objective is to improve the social, economic and environmental conditions in their community and are very successful in doing so. Alongside this movement you will find alternative structures that harness the collective power of the public to either go beyond the monetary economy or traditional funders.\u00a0One of the government acts that England is perhaps most known for in Europe is the 2011 Localism Act, promoting community asset ownership, community managed local services, community-led development and neighbourhood planning.<\/p>\n
With a broad perspective on transition and social innovation in urban development we studied\u00a0London as a city and a metropolis. We met with local City Makers, professional peers, residents, entrepreneurs, and study the small-scale, often informal urban interventions.<\/p>\n
Metropolitan Field Trip Berlin, 8-11 October, 2015<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n![\"Metropolitan](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/admin.citiesintransition.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/holzmarkt.png?w=1170&ssl=1\")
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Metropolitan Field Trip Berlin \u00a9Holzmarkt<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe full programme<\/a> and report<\/a> of the\u00a0Metropolitan Field Trip Lisbon are available on citiesintranstion.eu. The field trip involved around 235 citizens, including:<\/p>\n\n- 2 participants from Bucharest, Romania<\/li>\n
- 2 participants from Lisbon, Portugal<\/li>\n
- 2\u00a0participants from London, United Kingdom<\/li>\n
- 1 participant from Newcastle, United Kingdom<\/li>\n
- 1 participant from Southampton, United Kingdom<\/li>\n
- 8 participants from Amsterdam, The Netherlands<\/li>\n
- 2 participants from Tilburg, The Netherlands<\/li>\n
- 1 participant from Zaanstad, The Netherlands<\/li>\n
- 2 participants from Maastricht, The Netherlands<\/li>\n
- 1 participant from Zwolle, The Netherlands<\/li>\n
- 1 participant from New York City, United States of America<\/li>\n
- an extra 59 invited participants joined the conference together with more than 150 local partners, organisers, City Makers and other involved persons from\u00a0Berlin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Metropolitan Field Trip Berlin programme leaflet<\/a><\/p>\nAn in-depth insight in the cooperative models of urban development in Europe\u2019s creative capital<\/strong><\/p>\nLocal partner\u00a0M\u00f6rchenpark e.V.<\/span>\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0aimed to demonstrate that Berlin\u2019s turn of the century bankruptcy spurred a rise in local civic initiatives unlike any other European city. This outburst of creativity quickly granted Berlin with the sounding label of the Creative Capital of Europe. However, soon this delivered the desired effect of returning investment and a thriving tourism industry, with hipsters flocking the notorious club scene. In popular gentrifying districts such as Kreuzberg and Neuk\u00f6lln housing prices are on the rise, with the risk of displacing the artists and immigrant communities that contributed to its attractiveness in the first place. In the midst of the real estate boom that Berlin faces today, creative entrepreneurs are implementing cooperative models of urban development. They generate turnovers that allow them to compete with the big guys, but strive to build a radically different city, that is more inclusive, sustainable and creative. Holzmarkt<\/a>, the 18.000 m2 urban village on the Spree waterfront, is perhaps one of the best examples of the cooperative area development that is taking place in Berlin.\u00a0M\u00f6rchenpark e.V.<\/span>\u00a0<\/a>, one of the founders of Holzmarkt<\/a>, hosted the participants of the four-day Metropolitan Field Trip to show us around to meet Berlin\u2019s City Makers, the creative entrepreneurs as well as policy makers.<\/p>\nWith a broad perspective on transition and social innovation in urban development we will study Berlin as a city and a metropolis. We met with\u00a0local City Makers, professional peers, residents, entrepreneurs, and studied the small-scale, often informal urban interventions. The field trip organizers hosted the City Makers \u2018Players of Change\u2019 Conference on 10 October as part of the programme, with keynotes, panel discussions and workshops.\u00a0\u00a0It served as a platform for\u00a0unusual urban projects from Berlin who discussed their ideas, plans and obstacles in several pitch camps with experts, city officials as well as creatives to get inspiration and build networks.<\/p>\n
Metropolitan Field Trip Bucharest, 6-9 June, 2016<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n![\"Metropolitan](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/admin.citiesintransition.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Deschis-.jpg?w=1170&ssl=1\")
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Metropolitan Field Trip Bucharest via facebook.com\/DESCHISGastrobar<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe full programme<\/a>\u00a0of the\u00a0Metropolitan Field Trip Lisbon are available on citiesintranstion.eu. The field trip involved around 200 citizens, including:<\/p>\n\n- 4 participants from Bucharest, Romania<\/li>\n
- 2 participants from Lisbon, Portugal<\/li>\n
- 1 participant from London, United Kingdom<\/li>\n
- 1 participant from Bristol, United Kingdom<\/li>\n
- 9 participants from Amsterdam, The Netherlands<\/li>\n
- 2 participants from The Hague, The Netherlands<\/li>\n
- 2 participants from Berlin,\u00a0Germany<\/li>\n
- 1 participant from Antwerp, Belgium<\/li>\n
- 1 participant from Calgary,\u00a0Canada<\/li>\n
- 1 participant from Milan, Italy<\/li>\n
- an extra 20 invited participants joined the conference together with more than 160 local partners, organisers, City Makers and other involved persons from\u00a0Bucharest and the Embassy of the Netherlands<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Programme2016_Bucharest metropolitan field trip3<\/a><\/p>\nTransition and oasis in the South<\/b><\/p>\n
Local partners Zeppelin<\/a> and Eurodite<\/a>\u00a0aimed to give an insight into the\u00a0local consequences of the dramatically changed political landscape in Bucharest. The national elections in November 2014 led to mass protests that led to the resignation of the Prime Minister of Romania, Victor Ponta. Not only Bucharest\u2019s political landscape is changing, reflected in many people beginning to take responsibility and action for a better city. The number of urban interventions and events that take place throughout the city become more visible every year. During\u00a0the Metropolitan Field Trip Bucharest we explored the developments that take place in the southern part of the city: new initiatives, cultural and social businesses, transformed industrial spaces and protected species in a green delta on an abandoned and forgotten land. \u2018Bucharest South\u2019 traditionally has a more negative image than the prosperous and better developed northern part of the city. On the field trip we visited some of these urban initiatives that create value for the neighbourhood. We were introduced to initiatives\u00a0that reveal that the south side of the city is being discovered and explored by creative minds and young entrepreneurs. With a broad perspective on transition and social innovation in urban development we studied\u00a0Bucharest as a city and a metropolis. We met with\u00a0local City Makers, professional peers, residents, entrepreneurs, and study the small-scale, often informal urban interventions. As part of the programme, local partners Zeppelin<\/a> and\u00a0Eurodite<\/a> organized a networking event for the Creative industries and a permormance of In Search of Europe<\/a>, by Lucas de Man.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
New Europe City Makers Summit in Amsterdam, 27-30 May, 2016<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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A total of 5 activities were carried out\u00a0as part of\u00a0New Europe \u2013 Cities in Transition under the Europe for Citizens programme.<\/p>\n
- \n
- The Metropolitan Field Trip Lisbon<\/strong>\u00a0that took place in Lisbon, Portugal on 12-15 March, 2015<\/li>\n
- The Metropolitan Field Trip London<\/strong> that took place in London, United Kingdom on 11-14 June, 2015<\/li>\n
- The Metropolitan Field Trip Berlin<\/strong> that ook place in Berlin, Germany on 8-11 October, 2015<\/li>\n
- The City Makers Summit<\/strong> that took place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on 27-30 May, 2016<\/li>\n
- The Metropolitan Field Trip Bucharest<\/strong> that took place in Bucharest, Romania on 6-9 June, 2016<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
All the activities that were realised with funding of the Europe for Citizens programme are listed and described below. In addition,\u00a0Pakhuis de Zwijger was able to expand the network and its activities by connecting all 28 capital cities, and organize 6 more Metropolitan Field Trips<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0two City Maker Pre-summits on 25 June, 2015<\/a> and on 4 and 5 February, 2016<\/a>. Furthermore, Pakhuis de Zwijger organised the \u00a0New Europe City Makers Summit<\/a>\u00a0with participants from 150 European cities instead of just the 5 cities of the partners within\u00a0the Europe for Citizens collaboration.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
New Europe \u2013 Cities in Transition<\/strong><\/h2>\n
The New Europe \u2013 Cities in Transition network and online platform www.citiesintransition.eu has grown into a Europe wide network, connecting the 28 capital cities of the European Union, through partner organisations \/ local platforms that hold the title City Embassy and connect City Makers in their cities and internationally. With the help of the Europe for Citizens grant we have managed to develop activities that frequently bring together partner organizations from the cities Berlin, Bucharest, London, Lisbon and Amsterdam. This frequency and recurrence of the activities allowed for the development of a sustainable base for the New Europe \u2013 Cities in Transition network.<\/p>\n
We have not only achieved our\u00a0initial plans, but have grown\u00a0beyond our own expectations. Without the help of the Europe for Citizens grant we would not have been able to plant the seeds for a sustainable and ever expanding European network, with which we are working on the continuation of the platform and many future activities.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Metropolitan Field Trip Lisbon, 12-15 March, 2015<\/b><\/h3>\n
\n<\/p>\nMetropolitan Field Trip Lisbon \u00a9Charlot Schans<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe full programme<\/a> and report<\/a> of the\u00a0Metropolitan Field Trip Lisbon are available on citiesintranstion.eu. The field trip involved 200 citizens, including:<\/p>\n
- \n
- 2 participants from the city of Bucharest, Romania<\/li>\n
- 2\u00a0participants from the city of London, United Kingdom<\/li>\n
- 2\u00a0participants from the city of Berlin, Germany<\/li>\n
- 3 participants from the city of Amsterdam, The Netherlands<\/li>\n
- 1\u00a0participant from the city of The Hague, The Netherlands<\/li>\n
- 1 participant from the city of Utrecht, The Netherlands<\/li>\n
- 1 participant from the city of Rotterdam, The Netherlands<\/li>\n
- an extra 42 invited participants joined the conference together with more than 150\u00a0local partners,\u00a0organisers, City Makers and other involved persons from the city of Lisbon, Portugal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Metropolitan Field Trip Lisbon programme booklet<\/a><\/p>\n
Community building as a form of resilience<\/strong><\/p>\n
The economic crisis has brought, especially in recent years, serious difficulties for the Portuguese society. Basic needs such as food, housing, health or education are being jeopardised, and people do not\u00a0have any other choice than to rely on each other, and organize themselves. This has given rise to communitarian initiatives, whose main objectives are to address the existing social gaps. Whereas the city may face high unemployment rates, disproportionate costs for livelihood and the consequential increasing wariness towards local politics, a vital community of active citizens is trying to make a change.<\/p>\n
Local partner Academia Cidad\u00e3<\/a> (The Citizenship Academy) believes\u00a0that where politics are sometimes difficult to change, much can be done to empower citizens to take matters into their own hands. Their main goal is to boost active citizenship and promote growth and development with principles of social, economic and environmental sustainability.<\/p>\n
With a broad perspective on transition and social innovation in urban development we studied Lisbon as a city and a metropolis. We met local City Makers, professional peers, residents, entrepreneurs, to study the small-scale, often informal urban interventions. During a four-day programme full of on-site visits to inspiring initiatives and community organisations, industrial heritage sites and co-working spaces, cultural events and a conference for Lisbon City Makers, we aimed: to understand how building and organising community improves the conditions of everyone\u2019s lives to learn and analyze innovative tools for building and organizing community. What is the meaning of active citizenship and community participation in addressing poverty and exclusion? How do citizens\u2019 initiatives enhance solidarity among people, give them a voice, empower them, and therefore make them more resilient? These and many more questions were addressed during the Metropolitan Field Trip to Lisbon!<\/p>\n
Metropolitan Field Trip London, 11-14 June, 2015<\/b><\/h3>\n
\n<\/p>\nLondon Cityscape \u00a9 Davide D\u2019Amico<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe full programme<\/a> and report<\/a> of the\u00a0Metropolitan Field Trip Lisbon are available on citiesintranstion.eu. The field trip involved around 180 citizens, including:<\/p>\n
- \n
- 2 participants from Bucharest, Romania<\/li>\n
- 3 participants from Lisbon, Portugal<\/li>\n
- 2\u00a0participants from Berlin, Germany<\/li>\n
- 3 participants from Amsterdam, The Netherlands<\/li>\n
- 1\u00a0participant from Wageningen, The Netherlands<\/li>\n
- 1 participant from Brussels, Belgium<\/li>\n
- an extra 38 invited participants joined the conference together with more than 130 local partners, organisers, City Makers and other involved persons from London<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
15.06.11 Metropolitan Field Trip London programme<\/a><\/p>\n
Highlighting the economic potential of community-led enterprises and the limits of a city in transition<\/strong><\/p>\n
Together with Locality<\/a>, the London based national network of ambitious and enterprising community-led organisations working together to help neighbourhoods thrive, we studied the transition of this European financial capital. \u00a0The London Metropolitan Field Trip aimed to demonstrate\u00a0the limits of a city in transition. Where tensions of ensuring a well-functioning and affordable city are felt on a daily basis and the public, private and voluntary sector all play a role. The role of the voluntary sector has become more substantial over the last years, but is actually rooted in a long tradition of community-led and owned enterprises in London and beyond. This renewed focus on the responsibility and potential for the voluntary sector is flanked by government attempts to facilitate the movement and alternative structures to traditional economic structures.<\/p>\n
Urban transition in London is characterized by community-owned and led enterprises whose main objective is to improve the social, economic and environmental conditions in their community and are very successful in doing so. Alongside this movement you will find alternative structures that harness the collective power of the public to either go beyond the monetary economy or traditional funders.\u00a0One of the government acts that England is perhaps most known for in Europe is the 2011 Localism Act, promoting community asset ownership, community managed local services, community-led development and neighbourhood planning.<\/p>\n
With a broad perspective on transition and social innovation in urban development we studied\u00a0London as a city and a metropolis. We met with local City Makers, professional peers, residents, entrepreneurs, and study the small-scale, often informal urban interventions.<\/p>\n
Metropolitan Field Trip Berlin, 8-11 October, 2015<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\n<\/p>\nMetropolitan Field Trip Berlin \u00a9Holzmarkt<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe full programme<\/a> and report<\/a> of the\u00a0Metropolitan Field Trip Lisbon are available on citiesintranstion.eu. The field trip involved around 235 citizens, including:<\/p>\n
- \n
- 2 participants from Bucharest, Romania<\/li>\n
- 2 participants from Lisbon, Portugal<\/li>\n
- 2\u00a0participants from London, United Kingdom<\/li>\n
- 1 participant from Newcastle, United Kingdom<\/li>\n
- 1 participant from Southampton, United Kingdom<\/li>\n
- 8 participants from Amsterdam, The Netherlands<\/li>\n
- 2 participants from Tilburg, The Netherlands<\/li>\n
- 1 participant from Zaanstad, The Netherlands<\/li>\n
- 2 participants from Maastricht, The Netherlands<\/li>\n
- 1 participant from Zwolle, The Netherlands<\/li>\n
- 1 participant from New York City, United States of America<\/li>\n
- an extra 59 invited participants joined the conference together with more than 150 local partners, organisers, City Makers and other involved persons from\u00a0Berlin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Metropolitan Field Trip Berlin programme leaflet<\/a><\/p>\n
An in-depth insight in the cooperative models of urban development in Europe\u2019s creative capital<\/strong><\/p>\n
Local partner\u00a0M\u00f6rchenpark e.V.<\/span>\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0aimed to demonstrate that Berlin\u2019s turn of the century bankruptcy spurred a rise in local civic initiatives unlike any other European city. This outburst of creativity quickly granted Berlin with the sounding label of the Creative Capital of Europe. However, soon this delivered the desired effect of returning investment and a thriving tourism industry, with hipsters flocking the notorious club scene. In popular gentrifying districts such as Kreuzberg and Neuk\u00f6lln housing prices are on the rise, with the risk of displacing the artists and immigrant communities that contributed to its attractiveness in the first place. In the midst of the real estate boom that Berlin faces today, creative entrepreneurs are implementing cooperative models of urban development. They generate turnovers that allow them to compete with the big guys, but strive to build a radically different city, that is more inclusive, sustainable and creative. Holzmarkt<\/a>, the 18.000 m2 urban village on the Spree waterfront, is perhaps one of the best examples of the cooperative area development that is taking place in Berlin.\u00a0M\u00f6rchenpark e.V.<\/span>\u00a0<\/a>, one of the founders of Holzmarkt<\/a>, hosted the participants of the four-day Metropolitan Field Trip to show us around to meet Berlin\u2019s City Makers, the creative entrepreneurs as well as policy makers.<\/p>\n
With a broad perspective on transition and social innovation in urban development we will study Berlin as a city and a metropolis. We met with\u00a0local City Makers, professional peers, residents, entrepreneurs, and studied the small-scale, often informal urban interventions. The field trip organizers hosted the City Makers \u2018Players of Change\u2019 Conference on 10 October as part of the programme, with keynotes, panel discussions and workshops.\u00a0\u00a0It served as a platform for\u00a0unusual urban projects from Berlin who discussed their ideas, plans and obstacles in several pitch camps with experts, city officials as well as creatives to get inspiration and build networks.<\/p>\n
Metropolitan Field Trip Bucharest, 6-9 June, 2016<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\n<\/p>\nMetropolitan Field Trip Bucharest via facebook.com\/DESCHISGastrobar<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe full programme<\/a>\u00a0of the\u00a0Metropolitan Field Trip Lisbon are available on citiesintranstion.eu. The field trip involved around 200 citizens, including:<\/p>\n
- \n
- 4 participants from Bucharest, Romania<\/li>\n
- 2 participants from Lisbon, Portugal<\/li>\n
- 1 participant from London, United Kingdom<\/li>\n
- 1 participant from Bristol, United Kingdom<\/li>\n
- 9 participants from Amsterdam, The Netherlands<\/li>\n
- 2 participants from The Hague, The Netherlands<\/li>\n
- 2 participants from Berlin,\u00a0Germany<\/li>\n
- 1 participant from Antwerp, Belgium<\/li>\n
- 1 participant from Calgary,\u00a0Canada<\/li>\n
- 1 participant from Milan, Italy<\/li>\n
- an extra 20 invited participants joined the conference together with more than 160 local partners, organisers, City Makers and other involved persons from\u00a0Bucharest and the Embassy of the Netherlands<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Programme2016_Bucharest metropolitan field trip3<\/a><\/p>\n
Transition and oasis in the South<\/b><\/p>\n
Local partners Zeppelin<\/a> and Eurodite<\/a>\u00a0aimed to give an insight into the\u00a0local consequences of the dramatically changed political landscape in Bucharest. The national elections in November 2014 led to mass protests that led to the resignation of the Prime Minister of Romania, Victor Ponta. Not only Bucharest\u2019s political landscape is changing, reflected in many people beginning to take responsibility and action for a better city. The number of urban interventions and events that take place throughout the city become more visible every year. During\u00a0the Metropolitan Field Trip Bucharest we explored the developments that take place in the southern part of the city: new initiatives, cultural and social businesses, transformed industrial spaces and protected species in a green delta on an abandoned and forgotten land. \u2018Bucharest South\u2019 traditionally has a more negative image than the prosperous and better developed northern part of the city. On the field trip we visited some of these urban initiatives that create value for the neighbourhood. We were introduced to initiatives\u00a0that reveal that the south side of the city is being discovered and explored by creative minds and young entrepreneurs. With a broad perspective on transition and social innovation in urban development we studied\u00a0Bucharest as a city and a metropolis. We met with\u00a0local City Makers, professional peers, residents, entrepreneurs, and study the small-scale, often informal urban interventions. As part of the programme, local partners Zeppelin<\/a> and\u00a0Eurodite<\/a> organized a networking event for the Creative industries and a permormance of In Search of Europe<\/a>, by Lucas de Man.<\/p>\n
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New Europe City Makers Summit in Amsterdam, 27-30 May, 2016<\/strong><\/h3>\n
- The Metropolitan Field Trip London<\/strong> that took place in London, United Kingdom on 11-14 June, 2015<\/li>\n