PROGRAMME HABITAT III THEMATIC MEETING PUBLIC SPACES 4-5 APRIL 2016 BARCELONA, SPAIN Host Partner PROGRAMME HABITAT III THEMATIC MEETING ON PUBLIC SPACES 4-5 April 2016 Historic Building of the University of Barcelona SUNDAY 3 APRIL Urban Study Visits 15:00 – 19:00 All over the city MONDAY 4 APRIL 08:00 Registration 08:00 – 09:30 SIDE EVENTS Rooms: Seminary Main Meeting Room, Aula Magna and Chapel OPENING CEREMONY Joan Clos, Secretary-General Habitat III Ada Colau, Mayor of Barcelona 09:30 – 10:00 Welcome by Dídac Ramírez, Deal of the University of Barcelona Room: Paranimf Hall PLENARY SESSION 1 A New Urban Agenda for combating inequalities: claiming for public spaces and a city for all. Adriano Gomes Ferreira, Mayor of the City of Bissau Jonathan Viera, Government of Ecuador Josep Roig, Secretary-General of UCLG 10:00 – 11:30 Ana Falu, Universidad de Córdoba, Argentina Augusto Barrera, Director of CITE FLACSO Alison Brown, University of Cardiff Moderator: Joan Subirats, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona Room: Paranimf Hall THEMATIC SESSION Urban planning for sharing public spaces, sharing common goods. Pietro Garau, Istituto Nazionale di Urbanistica (INU), Italy Maria Buhigas, Urban Facts 11.30 – 13:00 Agustín Hernández Aja, Universidad Politécnica Madrid Didier Vancutsem, ISOCARP Patrick Lamson-Hall, New York University Moderator: Ricard Gomà, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Room: Paranimf Hall THEMATIC SESSION Public leadership, citizens and the right to the city. Open spaces vs Gated communities Gustave Massiah, AITEC, Paris Hirotaka Koike, UN Major Group Children and Youth 11:30 – 13:00 Mercy Betty Dube, Government of Malawi (tbc) Eduardo Moreno, UN-Habitat Moderator: Laura Pérez, Councillor City of Barcelona and Metropolis Women International Network President Room: Aula Magna 13:00 – 14:30 Lunch time SIDE EVENTS 13:00 – 14:30 Rooms: Seminary Main Meeting Room, Sant Jordi, Aula Magna and Chapel URBAN JOURNALISM ACADEMY Joan Clos, Secretary-General Habitat III Francesca Perry, The Guardian Cities 13:00 – 14:30 Alejandra Agudo, El Pais-Planeta Futuro Moderator: Simone d’Antonio, Journalist Room: Graus 2 Room PRESENTATION of the Monitoring Global Urban Expansion: The Quality of Urban Footprints “Public Spaces as Prerequisites for Sustainable Urban Expansion” Joan Clos, Secretary-General Habitat III 13:30 – 14:30 Patrick Lamson-Hall, New York University Manuel Madrid, Gvsig Moderator: Eduardo Moreno, UN-Habitat Room: Paranimf Hall PLENARY SESSION 2 Housing and its extension in the public space. Lorena Zarate, President Habitat International Coalition Patrick Braouezec, President de Plaine Commune Paris 14:30 – 16:00 Josep Maria Montaner, Housing Councillor Barcelona Raquel del Rio, Sustainable Urban Development, City of Madrid Moderator: David Bravo, CCCB Espai Public Room: Paranimf Hall THEMATIC SESSION Housing as a tool for urban upgrading. Nicolas Gharbi, European Commission, General Manager for Regional and Urban Policy Kathrin Golda-Pongratz, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya 16:00 – 17:30 Joan Subirats, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Ángela de la Cruz, Deputy Managing Director, Ministry of Public Works and Housing, Spain Moderator: Alex Gimenez, Curator Espai Public Award Room: Paranimf Hall THEMATIC SESSION Right to housing and social production of the habitat. Bahram Ghazi, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Carlos Macias Caparrós, Platform for People Affected by Mortgages (PAH) 16:00 – 17:30 Teresa Boccia, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (UNINA) Raquel Rodríguez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Moderator: David Bravo, CCCB Center for Contemporary Culture Barcelona, Espai Public Room: Aula Magna SIDE EVENTS 17:30 – 19:00 Rooms: Seminary Meeting Room, Sant Jordi, Aula Magna and Chapel TUESDAY 5 APRIL SIDE EVENTS 08:30 – 10:00 Rooms: Seminary Meeting Room, Aula Magna and Chapel PLENARY SESSION 3 Public Space and Mobility. Nadime Amparo Yaver, Defensoria Espacio Publico, City of Bogotá Yvan Gieysse, Transport and Public Space, City of Paris 10:00 – 11:30 Tina Wagner, Head of Transport and Infrastructure Development, Hamburg Costly Chanza, Director of Planning, City of Blantyre Salvador Rueda, Director Bcn Ecologia, Barcelona Moderator: Pau Noy, Federación Iberoamericana de Urbanismo Room: Paranimf Hall THEMATIC SESSION The right to mobility. For a more sustainable urban mobility. Maria del Pilar Téllez, Advisor Sustainable Metropolitan Development, Colombia Ricard Font, Secretary of Territory and Mobility, Generalitat de Catalunya 11:30 – 13:00 Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, Head Researcher CREAL Sergio Porta, Director Urban Design Studies University of Stratclyde, Glasgow Moderator: Yunus Arikan, Head of Global Policy and Advocacy Director, ICLEI Room: Paranimf Hall TUESDAY 5 APRIL THEMATIC SESSION Urban design for more human and safer public spaces. Laura Petrella, UN-Habitat Peter Elmlund, Director Future of Palces at Ax:son Johnson Foundation 11:30 – 13:00 Kathryn Travers, Women in Cities International (WICI) Guy Fleuret, Manager Director Transport and Urban Development, Union for the Mediterranean Josep Bohigas, Barcelona Regional Moderator: Kumaresh Misra, Deputy-Secretary-General Habitat III Room: Aula Magna 13:00 – 14:30 Lunch time SIDE EVENTS 13:00 – 14:30 Rooms: Seminary Main Meeting Room, Sant Jordi, Aula Magna and Chapel PLENARY SESSION 4 Production, Exchange and Public Space. Cezar Busatto, City of Porto Alegre Françoise Labbé, Cities and Forms, France 14:30 – 16:00 Maria Antonieta Pinto Lopes d’Alba, Government of Guinea-Bissau Giovanni Allegretti, Architect, planner and senior researcher at the Centre for Social Studies of the Coimbra University Moderator: Oriol Nel.lo, geographer Room: Paranimf Hall THEMATIC SESSION Sustainable production and fair consumption. Joyati Das, World Vision Ioana Popp, International Organization for Migration (IOM) 16:00 – 17:30 Ivan Miró, Director Xarxa Econòmica Solidaria Felana Raharisoa Olisoa, Government of Madagascar Mr. Temuulin Enkmunkh, CEO of the Ulan Battor Dvelopment cooperation, Mongolia Moderator: Sara Hoeflich, UCLG Programme Manager Room: Paranimf Hall THEMATIC SESSION Agoras: democratization of culture and education. Marina Canals, International Association of Educating Cities Francesco Bandarin, Assistant Director General for Culture, UNESCO 16:00 – 17:30 Maryam Hariri, Project Manager at New York City Department of City Planning Ann Wanjiru, Coordinator Mathare Mother Development Center David Boys, Deputy General Secretary of Public Services International Moderator: Teresa Tapada, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (tbc) Room: Aula Magna FINAL PLENARY SESSION How democracy ensures access to public space and the right to the city? Esther Madeleine Leblanc, Coordinator Right to the City, City of Sao Paolo Puvendra Akkiah, City of Durban 17.30 – 18:30 Sri Husnaini Sofjan, Huairou Commission Joan Balanach, FAVB Dimitri Roussopoulos, Montreal Charter Moderator: Mireia Belil, General Manager Forum Foundation Room: Paranimf Hall CLOSING CEREMONY AND PRESENTATION OF THE BARCELONA DECLARATION Kumaresh Misra, Deputy-Secretary-General Habitat III Secretariat 18:30 – 19:00 Gerardo Pisarello, First Deputy Mayor of Labour, Strategic Planning and Economy, City of Barcelona Janet Sanz, Forth Deputy Mayor of Ecology, Urbanism and Mobility, City of Barcelona Room: Paranimf Hall WEDNESDAY 6 APRIL Urban Study Visits 9:30 – 13:00 All over the city SIDE EVENTS Side events provide a platform for governments, civil society organizations, private sector, community representatives, international and national organizations, academia, international and regional finance institutions, and United Nations entities to debate, showcase, or present their views on sustainable urban development, as well as specific projects on the topic of public spaces. Side events will be held on 4th and 5th April. MONDAY 4, APRIL Seminary Main Seminary Aula Magna Chapel Room Room Sant Jordi Room The Right to the City and the Health in Urban Environ- New Urban Agenda Reclaiming the Spaces from ment By Global Platform for the 8:00 - 09:30h Corporate Landlords By Barcelona Provincial Right to the City in collabora- By Habitat Net Germany Council tion with Habitat International Coalition and Polis Institute Essential piece for Children Large Green Spaces, Key Are Public Spaces the Key and Youth. Why Public The Role of Local Govern- Public Infrastructure for to Safe, Gender Inclusive Spaces are important for ments in Public Spaces Resilient, Healthy and 13:00 – 14:30h Cities? us? By United Cities and Local Sustainable Cities By Women in Cities Interna- By UN Major Group for Chil- Governments (UCLG) ByFedenatur in collaboration tional (WICI) dren and Youth with WWF and FAO The 24/2015 Catalan hous- The Modern Tramway. ing and energy poverty Law. The Death and Life of Pub- Boosting Public Policies in A law written by the people. Criminalization of Poverty lic Space the environment and air 17:30 - 19:00h A model for other regions? in Public Spaces By Future of Places - Ax:son quality By PAH in collaboration with By Caritas Internationalis Johnson Foundation By Association for the Promo- Observatori DESC and Alianza tion of PublicTransport (PTP) contra la pobreza energética TUESDAY 5, APRIL Seminary Main Seminary Aula Magna Chapel Room Room Sant Jordi Room The City at Eye Level Book Launch @ Barcelona’s Is the Public Spaces People Power: Walking & Covered Markets Catalan model integrative Cycling in Cities Designed Revitalizing Public