HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF PLACEMAKING?
The Placemaking for Active Recreation Kit (PARK) has officially kicked off!!
MOVE has kicked off with a very innovative placemaking project this February in collaboration with our partners from the Netherlands, Denmark, Spain, Romania, and Bulgaria. Over the coming 2 years, we will work collaboratively to understand placemaking in different local contexts, identify barriers and challenges to physical activity interacting with placemaking, and co-create placemaking tools that can be flexibly adapted EU wide, to inspire and incorporate physical activity towards more quality and healthy daily life.
The project partners include Placemaking Europe, BG Be Active, International Sport & Culture Association (ISCA), Power Jump, and Deporte para la Educación y la Salud, Sport for Education and Health (DES).
The project’s overall objective is to link placemakers, such as urban designers, grassroots sports organisations, creatives, and professionals. We aim to then co-create a resource kit (PARK) that will provide tools and support in order to improve capacities of both sectors, and thus improve programs and places to facilitate physical activity in the urbanised areas.
Our Objectives:
- Understand – dig into previous work, cases, tools, and guides to understand the foundation of placemaking and physical activity ;
- Develop Solutions – create the “Placemaking for Physical Activity Toolbox” that can be used by placemakers and sports organisations alike ;
- Test – pilot the tools from the Toolbox in the respective project partner’s sites to understand the viability and efficacy across settings ;
- Network & Advocate – foster interaction between community sport organisations, placemakers, and government sectors both on the EU and local levels ;
- Share – communicate and disseminate our findings inclusively for the wider European audience and Placemaking Europe Network.
The project is being funded by the European Union through Erasmus+ Sport.
