Creative City Making

After the seventh Italian edition in October, 2023 continues in Miami on November 18th at the Future of Cities Climate and Innovation Hub in Little Haiti.

During this great one-day, Utopian Hours’ worldwide citymaking discourse will be enriched by one panel discussing the rapidly evolving hosting city of Miami and five keynote speakers bringing the most avant-garde topics to the table: urban ecology, placemaking, community building, social innovation, feminist city, and many more.

After an initial de-briefing of the work which took place during Utopian Hours 2023 in Turin, the collective writing of the Manifesto for a New City Making will continue and be enriched by the new speakers and the US-based audience ー adding an important point of view to the conversation.

With Manifesto for a New City Making, Utopian Hours used the learnings from the trilogy (The City At Stake, 2020; The 1000-minute City, 2021; A World of 8 Billion Cities, 2022) to propose a change in perception of the urban environment. In an era of climate change, mass surveillance, economic instability and war, cities can easily create visions of dystopia in the collective imagination. Creating a utopian project requires rethinking our perceptions of urbanism to discover new ones.

To start off the Manifesto for a New City Making, Utopian Hours served up three new urban terminologies for exploration:

Undensity: Adopting successful urban planning strategies used in densely populated areas to revitalise suburban and rural areas.

Egomobility: Building new mobility systems in cities for individuals based on the values used in public transport: sustainability, capacity, and accessibility.

Polyspaces: Forging new and healthy relationships between the ownership, multiusage and multi-function of places for positive change.

This year Utopian Hours is calling city planners, experts, makers, shapers, activists, and developers to imagine an entirely new type of city-making by introducing new concepts to mark a new dawn in urban thinking.