{"id":20920,"date":"2018-11-27T16:09:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T16:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=20920"},"modified":"2018-11-26T17:39:14","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T17:39:14","slug":"ihbcs-international-cpd-boost-update-the-refill-workshop-at-urbacts-city-festival-plan-your-own-temporary-use-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=20920","title":{"rendered":"IHBC\u2019s International \u2018CPD Boost\u2019: Update the REFILL Workshop at URBACT\u2019s City Festival – \u2018Plan your own \u2018temporary use\u2019 journey\u2019!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"website\"<\/a>Leads Fran\u00e7ois J\u00e9gou and Marcelline Bonneau offer personal takes on the concept of Temporary Use and URBACT\u2019s REFILL networks achievements through a report on the \u2018Refill Workshop\u2019 at the URBACT City Festival<\/a> in Lisbon in September 2018.<\/h3>\n

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URBACT writes:<\/p>\n

Who can still remember vacant spaces and buildings, which someday were spaces free of rules, a ground for fertile experimentation, individual empowerment and creativity development? We could grow and empower ourselves as we can remember from the 50s\u2019 film \u2018Le chantier des gosses (link is external)\u2019, where children were spending their leisure time in an yet-to-be-built abandoned lot in the very centre of the city of Brussels, and where the nephew of Tati\u2019s \u2018My Uncle (link is external)\u2019 was eating doughnuts and whistling at pedestrians so that they would bump into a lamppost.<\/p>\n

Vacant (abandoned places, urban wastelands, brownfields, derelict lands, degraded and deteriorated lands or buildings) can still foster creativity and experimentation for the city, benefitting from a Temporary Use. And many cities have experimented with them over the past few decades, putting together a source of inspiration for innovation and change and thus providing a new driver and incubator for urban development.<\/p>\n

During two and a half years, the URBACT REFILL network sought to identify ways to access Temporary Use, notwithstanding the municipalities\u2019 stage of implementation of Temporary Use projects. These ways are compiled in the REFILL Temporary Use Roadmap (link is external).<\/p>\n

\u2018There are many entries to the Temporary Use of vacant spaces and buildings. These are not linear, depending on each of the cities\u2019 point of departure but also interests and needs.\u2019 explain Fran\u00e7ois J\u00e9gou and Marcelline Bonneau, Lead experts of the REFILL network.<\/p>\n

\u2018I invite you to take a tour in the five neighbourhoods of the City of Temporary Use while looking into some flagship initiatives.<\/p>\n

Headlines include:<\/p>\n