WATERFRONT SYNOPSIS
In partnership with City of Stavanger, Cities of the Future (Framtidens Byer), Urban Sjøfront and network collaboration with STAS, Grønn By, Amiando, and Stavanger Architects Association - Nordic Urban Design Association (NUDA)
and Project for Public Spaces (PPS) has initiated the first International Waterfront Synopsis 2010 to be held in
Stavanger 15th - 17th September of this year.
“Waterfront Synopsis” is an international gathering around the topic of “Placemaking
and Sustainability” on waterfronts. The goal of the Synopsis is to bring the forces
of environmentalism, climate change and sustainability together with the ideas
of community, livability, health and Placemaking. There are many new ways of realizing
a different future as the impact of “Place” and “Placemaking” take hold in cities
around the world. For more and more people, Placemaking is being viewed as a transformative
agenda for creating changes in how government is structured, how communities are
engaged, how new processes around civic engagement are developed, and how professionals
can be repositioned as leaders in these important times.
Norway is one of the world leaders today in determining how to assess, develop
and improve cities so that they provide sustainable assets for their citizens
in the future. The “Cities of the Future” Program currently being undertaken by
the Ministry of Environment has the potential to provide a replicable model for
connecting cities, governments and people around sustainable development models.
Stavanger is one of the best waterfront cities in the world. This setting, along
with Norway’s vision and the idea of Placemaking, could make the Waterfront Synopsis
the beginning of a major shift in the way we view waterfronts and communities
in the future. It will be an opportunity to connect agendas for the first time
and will give leaders from all over the world the opportunity to both learn from
and inspire others.
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