Making Place! Belonging, Care, and Experimentation in Urban Blue and Green Spaces

How can blue and green public spaces move beyond functional definitions toward environments that are genuinely shared? From Rotterdam’s explorations of belonging and youth-led co-creation, to Vienna’s reframing of water access around everyday relationship rather than swimming ability, this session explores what it actually takes to shift from using a space to caring for it. Through the experiences of both cities, the session will touch on accessibility and inclusion, the need for institutional support and its correlated risks, and how small gestures can create belonging and foster interdependence and deepen our relationship with the built environment. Moderator: Levente Polyak - Co-director Eutropian Speakers: Theresa König -  Urban Planner and Project Manager, Superwien zt gmbh Jorge Mosquera Suárez - Urban Researcher, Eutropian, Johanna Kalinke - Artistic Researcher, Social Design Studio Wien, Andrew Shaw - Lecturer and Researcher, Breda University of Applied Sciences Milagros Hurtig - Urban Planner and PhD candidate, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Other resources: You’re welcome to find out more info of the Inclusive City EU project on the official channels: Linkedin:   / inclusivecity-eu   Instagram:   / inclusivecity_eu   If you want some inspiration on placemaking tools and resources used in the ULLs, check out the Inclusive Placemaking Inspirational Cookbook (toolkit): https://placemaking-europe.eu/tool/in... If you want to read more in depth about activities happening in the Inclusive City project check out the following blogposts: 2+4 Days in Népszínház street – Educational Experiments on Inclusion – Budapest: https://placemaking-europe.eu/2025/24... Public Space and Inclusion in Oslo: The Unseen City Walks – Oslo: https://placemaking-europe.eu/2025/pu... Inclusive City: Reclaiming Urban Spaces Through Care, Reflection, and Connection – - - Inclusive City at Placemaking Week Europe 2025: https://placemaking-europe.eu/2025/in... Inclusive Placemaking in Practice: An Inspirational Cookbook of Tools for Inclusion: https://placemaking-europe.eu/2025/in... Timestamps: 00:00 Recording Notice & Logistics 00:51 Introduction 04:19 Speaker Introduction 06:40 Panel Discussion 01:01:07 Q&A