International City-Making Festival 'Utopian Hours'

Speakers on stage.
 

• Liam Young: Tomorrow’s Thoughts Today
• Majora Carter: Reclaiming your Community
• Khensani Jurczok-de Klerk: Matri-archi(tecture)
• Sarah Castle: IF_DO
• Zala Velkavrh: Prostorož
• Baharash Bagherian: Urb
• Scott Kratz: 11th Street Bridge Park
• Robert Stephens: Urbs Indis
• Matt Grunbaum: Field Operations
• Sneha Visakha: The Feminist City
• Philipp Rode: LSE Cities
• Marjan De Blok: Schoonschip
• Bethan Harris: We Can Make
• Victor Moreno: The Hidden City

For more information on the speakers, visit the website. 

Closed-door workshops for professionals and city officials

Roundtable #1 Future-Proof Freshwater Systems

A changing climate leads to longer wet periods with more rainfall, as well as extended periods of drought. This calls for a different approach in our cities.

Roundtable #2 Decarbonising the City

The discussion often focuses on architects and builders, yet this only accounts for 15–20% of annual CO2 emissions — lifestyle and the way we use our buildings represent a much larger share.

Roundtable #3 Just Green: Climate Action for All

Enable bottom-up greening, with specific attention to reaching the people who are hardest to engage but often most affected by climate risks such as heat and flooding.

Roundtable #4 Third Places & Community Hubs

Exploring how these spaces outside home (first place) and work (second place) act as vital “social glue”, fostering community connection and rebuilding modern social infrastructure.

Roundtable #5 Gender-Inclusive Public Space

Safe public spaces are highly topical, with many new toolkits and guidelines emerging. Let’s think further than “quick fixes”, on what truly works, who the target group is, and how we involve them in a meaningful way.

4 exclusive experiences to discover the city from a different perspective.

Tour #1 Urban Green

Tour #2 Waterfronts as Public Space

Tour #3 Third Places

Tour #4 City Landmarks

Urban toolkits of stories, experiences, and case studies designed by Stratosferica.

A selection of European independent urban practitioners and media will be showcasing their work in a dedicated space on the rooftop, next to the main stage of Utopian Hours.

• Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam (Independent Festival) / Rotterdam
• Jap Sam Books (Independent Publisher) / Prinsenbeek
• The Lab of Thought (Research Agency) / Amsterdam
• MONU (Independent Publisher) / Rotterdam
• NAI Nieuwe Instituut (Independent Publisher) / Rotterdam
• Parkly (Urban Furniture) / Helsinki
• Quatorze (Placemaking) / Paris
• Valiz (Independent Publisher) / Amsterdam
• Volume Magazine (Independent Publisher) / Amsterdam

Media addressing urban challenges.

• “Precollinear Park. A placemaking experience”
• Planet City: Liam Young
• Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam
• The Hidden City (La Ciudad Oculta)