The first event of the series, Establishing and Grounding Meaningful Co-production, explores three foundational entry points for meaningful co-produced city-making:

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• Strong community networks capable of resisting injustice and articulating situated knowledge, forming an ‘horizontal base’; ​

 

• ​Broadened public support for co-production, enabling shifts in discourse and positioning co-production as political capital within municipal settings;

 

• ​Accessible, receptive, and capacitated institutions able to engage with the knowledge and ambitions brought forward by co-producers.   

Taken together, these elements are considered as foundational blocks for durable and meaningful co-production processes, essential to levelling the collaborative field and rebuilding the trust required for shared decision-making. 

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With inputs and comments from:

• Richard Lee (Just Space, London UK)

• Mariana Tournon (APPUI, FR)

• Manuel Katzer (Deutsche Wohnen & Co.enteignen, Berlin DE)

• Maxime Poumerol (City of Tours, FR)

• Beth Perry (University of Sheffield, UK)

• Claire Bénit-Gbaffou (Aix-Marseille University, FR)

• Myriam Cau (Conseil Français des Urbanistes, FR)

Facilitation: Barbara Lipietz, Tim Wickson & Alessio Kolioulis (The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, UCL UK)

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Languages: English and French with live translation