Info Placemaking in English

Since 2017, the educational initiative of Placemaking is offered at a growing number of faculties at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) as an interdisciplinary elective. Students analyze actual problems in relation to their social and physical contexts including its users by using design thinking philosophy. They then enter into discussions with their client, local residents and businesses, policy makers, government and organizations to use their academic knowledge to improve the problem area together. With Placemaking, UvA lecturers and students contribute to a sustainable relationship between the university, the city and society, tackling - often complex - issues that exist among local users and organizations, developing soft skills that matter to realize change.