Healthy Placemaking: Creating a connected community
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StatusFinished TeamSmartCulTour Type of contentVideo The Urban Leisure & Tourism Lab Rotterdam is one of…
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Last month we had the first big in person brainstorm of ENSUT: Expertise Network Sustainable Urban Tourism. we brought a number of academics and policymakers together to come to the subthemes and a research agenda for this network. Focusing on how to develop partnerships for applied knowledge and collaboration, Peggy Van Schijndel, head of the knowledge centre Creative Business was joined by Professor Ko Koens, who presented a holistic research agenda in response to NBTC's Pespectief 2030, and other developments in the sustainable tourism sector following the challenges of the pandemic (NBTC, 2021). ENSUT Program Manager Iris Kerst spoke of the prosed network structure, and the ecosystem we are building through our living labs in Rotterdam and Amsterdam.
This September saw the first Placemaking Week Europe event since 2019, bringing together practitioners across the globe to share ideas on socio-spatial equity, from developers to academics and those creating change through insurgent tactics.