The OpenHeritage Book is out

The book, entitled Open Heritage. Community-Driven Adaptive Reuse in Europe, was just published by Birkhäuser. Relying heavily on the project's rich material, and focusing on some of the fundamental questions of the adaptive reuse process, it presents a varied...

Making Space / Keeping Space

Making Space / Keeping Space

Check out the blog post by the artist Kitty McKay, in which she shares her reflections from the knowledge exchange workshop organised by the OpenHeritage partners in the Sunderland Lab (UK). If you want to see the original article, please click here. How do we disrupt...

OpenHeritage has released two new Policy Briefs

OpenHeritage has released two new Policy Briefs

Are you an expert within the EU who is engaged in facilitating Adaptive Heritage Reuse (AHR) policies, programmes and practices? Would you like to better understand how AHR can be used as a tool? Do you see a need of integrating AHR in a wider set of EU policies and...

OpenHeritage invites you to join a Policy Conference in Ghent

OpenHeritage invites you to join a Policy Conference in Ghent

17-18 May 2022 | Ghent & online streamingClick here to register for the OpenHeritage Policy Conference. OpenHeritage and the University of Ghent organise a Policy Conference that will zoom in on “Bottom-up driven adaptive heritage reuse: policies and practices”....

The Glasshill Foundation was established

The Glasshill Foundation was established

One of the most important questions about sustainability is about how to create the necessary governance frameworks for the experimental sites OpenHeritage works with. In case of the Pomáz-Nagykovácsipuszta Lab (the Glasshill Lab as we have all been calling) this has...

OpenHeritage Training Programme

OpenHeritage Training Programme

October/November 2021 | onlineTo pre-register click here The OpenHeritage Training Programme, developed and carried out by Eutropian and Platoniq, is aimed at professionals (e.g. city officials, experts and stakeholders from out of the EU, but also outside the EU)...

Consortium meeting – once again online

Consortium meeting – once again online

On May 18th we met had a consortium meeting. We focused on our achievements and the way ahead for the OpenHeritage project. Whereas last year our work focused on turning the project online, and making the most of the opportunities offered by the new digital tools, our...

Consortium meeting – almost in Warsaw

Consortium meeting – almost in Warsaw

We were supposed to meet in Warsaw, visit the Praga Lab , discuss our project's progress and have a nice dinner in the evening. Given the pandemic, we had to alter our plans, and spent the 17th of November in front of our computers, taking part in our consortium...

Introducing the Fabrikadetodalavida

Introducing the Fabrikadetodalavida

What began as a cement factory then a squat run by a few young people with the desire to develop a cultural space in their countryside hometown has ended up becoming a welcoming space for an expansive community from different villages and varying ages. The original...

OpenHeritage at Tempelhof

OpenHeritage at Tempelhof

A selection of OpenHeritage documentaries will be featured as part of the Living the City exhibition, taking place Sept. 25 – Dec. 20, 2020 at the Berlin-Tempelhof Airport. Living the Citytells over fifty stories from architecture, art, and city...

OpenHeritage at ACHS 2020

OpenHeritage at ACHS 2020

On the 28th of August 2020, OpenHeritage partners participated at the Fifth Biennial Conference of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies - ACHS 2020 Futures as part of the curated session The Ethics and Aesthetics of adaptive-reuse. The session was curated by...

Working during the pandemic

Working during the pandemic

How the Pomáz Lab adapted to the new circumstances During the pandemic the Pomáz Lab faced an entirely new situation: personal participation became impossible. So how to keep on working and develop the community? Luckily, an opportunity presented itself allowing to...

Bakery workshop in Praga

Bakery workshop in Praga

mde The Praga neighbourhood in Warsaw is an area where production used to be present on every street, on every corner. Production was manifold: it encompassed not only big factories producing machinery or durable goods but also small scale places, providing goods for...

Our OpenHeritage typology is ready

Our OpenHeritage typology is ready

It describes the policy and governance frameworks around adaptive heritage reuse Much of the current research on adaptive reuse reflects that it is mainly seen as a (design) practice. This research instead focuses on how adaptive heritage reuse is regulated. We looked...

Virtual conosrtium meeting, May 19th

Virtual conosrtium meeting, May 19th

We finally met, all of us together at the same time. The last months have been spent with intensive work, mostly in smaller groups. The online meeting on May 19th - which was our 5th consortium meeting, only this time virtual - allowed us to focus on some urgent...

Ghent visits the Praga Lab

Ghent visits the Praga Lab

University students focus on heritage-led redevelopment of the district. One of the ambitions of the OpenHeritage project is to spread insights and knowledge about adaptive reuse. The spatial planning department at the Ghent University (one of the main partners in the...

Introducing the Observatory Cases

Introducing the Observatory Cases

The analysis of the Observatory Cases is available among the Deliverables published on the OpenHeritage website, introducing the successes and challenges behind 16 innovative adaptive reuse practices in Europe. The study explores innovative community involvement...

Praga Lab workshop during the Informed Cities Forum

Praga Lab workshop during the Informed Cities Forum

Attendants of the ICF had the opportunity to visit OpenHeritage’s Praga Lab in central Warsaw's Praga District. They met a local NGO – Otwarte Drzwi (Open Door Association) -  and discussed the role of the place and the values embedded in their work. ICF...

Who profits from heritage? Communities, capital and urban space

Who profits from heritage? Communities, capital and urban space

OpenHeritage´s first international conference was organized in the framework of the Informed Cities Forum together with ICLEI and the Actors of Urban Change. The two-day event took place on October 15-16, in Warsaw. It explored the interrelation between urban...

Restoration works in Sunderland Labs

Restoration works in Sunderland Labs

170-175 High Street West in Sunderland is long overdue for some restoration works! Tyne & Wear Building Preservation Trust now owns the building, and is working hard to gather the funding needed to do up these amazing buildings. The aim is to restore them not to...

Arquitecturas Colectivas: Decidim the Game in action

Arquitecturas Colectivas: Decidim the Game in action

In September Platoniq took part in AACC_Mallorca, the 12th edition of Arquitecturas Colectivas. During the week, different projects, collectives, and groups came together to share experiences, tools, and methods for co-creating and collaborating in local and...