Human Cities/Humana mesta/ - SMOTIES

Time

Topic

Speaker

13:00

Registration opens

14:00

Welcome

• Matej Nikšič and Nina Goršič,

Urban planning institute of the Republic of Slovenia, Smoties Ljubljana

• Matej Blenkuš, dean, Faculty of architecture of the University of Ljubljana

14:10

Keynote

• Matthew Carmona, professor, University College London: Why do we need good urban design

14:45

Slovenian perspectives

• Blanka Bartol, Ministry of the environment and spatial planning
• Petra Vertelj Nared, Urban institute of Ljubljana
• Anja Zorko, Centre for creativity

15:30

Q&A

15:45

Coffee break

16:00

Introduction to Smoties

• Davide Fassi, Politecnico di Milano, Human Cities Smoties lead partner

16:15

EU Best practices review
 

Presentations of selected practice by Smoties partners:

• Anke Strittmatter, Austria: Dorfschmiede Gutenstein - "We make the world a village"
• Aljona Surzikova, Estonia: From waste to diamond. The story of Pram Museum
• Sara de Gouy, France: Yes. Frontage, minimum project to reveal vegetal
• Greece
• Mojca Senegačnik, Slovenia: Hiša na hribu / House on the hill – Introduction and future perspectives
• Iceland
• Paola Russo, Italy: A cielo aperto / Open air. The wisdom of time.
• Poland
• Portugal
• Josie King, United Kingdom: Cosmic Colliery, reaching for the stars in disused mine

17:20

Closing remarks

Time

Topic

Speaker

9:30

Bus departs from Ljubljana (departure location will be communicated by email to all registered attendees)

10:15

Short stop in Smlednik (The Village garden)

Urška Sešek

10:45

Bus departs from Smlednik

11:15

Welcome to Topol pri Medvodah

Participatory workshop: The future of small places and their public spaces

Municipality of Medvode

Local actors and residents

moderated by Natalija Vrhunc

13:30

Lunch in Topol pri Medvodah

15:00

Getting-to-know Polhov Gradec Dolomites

• Appreciating the forest
  A mindful walk through the lush forests between Topol and Belo and reconsideration of the ways we live and form the community
• Bringing contemporary art and artists off the bitten tracks

Art intervention at Pr'Lenart homestead

Zvonka Simčič, Mojca Senegačnik,

Mojca Sfiligoj

Vanja Ločniškar

18:00

Smoties exibition opening and performance

18:30

Meeting the locals and the culinary traditions of the remote place

20:00

Transportation back to Ljubljana starts
(last ride by van at around 22:00)

Time

Topic

Speaker

9:00

Meeting Plečnik – Human-centered Urban Design UNESCO Nomination and Listing***

Tomaž Štoka, coordinator of working group nominating Plečnik's work at UNESCO, MAO

10:00

Technical meeting (Smoties partners only), end of session foreseen at 13:00

Venue: Plečnik House, Karunova ulica 4-6, Ljubljana

When needed, in the afternoon the UIRS premises in Trnovski pristan 2 will be available for small group working sessions or individual meetings.

*** Slovenian architect Jože Plečnik considerably changed the image of Ljubljana by his urban design and architectural interventions. His legacy has been recently listed as the UNESCO heritage due to the highly contextual and human-scale urbanistic approach (https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1643/). We will spend the early morning learning what was important to Plečnik when creating public spaces.