The final Future of Places Conference will be held in Stockholm from today, 29 June to 1 July. This is the final of a series of three international conferences and it will involve some of the world’s most profound minds and dedicated professionals in dialogue on the subject of public space, placemaking and place governance.
The conference includes plenary and parallel sessions, workshops, discussions, speed presentations, academic papers, networking and tours. Bearing will take part and we will document our impressions in articles on this blog.
The inauguration conference held in Stockholm in 2013 attracted over 200 people from more than 50 nations. The second conference was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina 1-3 September 2014 and attracted more than 350 people from 40 nations. For today´s conference, more than 400 people from 60 nations will participate and create a suggestion for a New Public Space Agenda that will be delivered to the Habitat III conference in Quito, Ecuador 2016.