Safe Spaces: How Urban Planning is Changing.
What does safety mean in a city at war? How can we plan spaces that are both resilient to threats and socially responsive?
Join us online on May 22 at 19:00 (EET) for a lecture by Fulco Treffers, co-founder and CEO of the urban coalition Ro3kvit, architect and urbanist at 12N Urban Matters, and tutor at the Kharkiv School of Architecture.
🔍 The focus of the lecture is the "Safety & Security" report developed by Ro3kvit experts — a set of recommendations on how to integrate safety into urban planning. These insights will be valuable for municipalities, architects, urbanists, and local activists. The lead author of the report is Albertas Tamashauskas, security expert and manager of urban mobility and development projects at the Mariupol City Council.
🎙️ Moderators:— Ruslan Antonenko, urbanist at Ro3kvit— Lilet Breddels, project manager at Ro3kvit
📅 Thursday, May 22🕖 19:00–20:30 (EET) / 18:00–19:30 (CET)📍 Online – registration link in bio
The lecture will be held in English with simultaneous interpretation into Ukrainian.Join the conversation!
Speakers
Fulco Treffers
is a Dutch architect and urbanist who has worked in Ukraine since 2015. He is the co-founder and executive director of Ro3kvit – Urban Coalition for Ukraine, which brings together over 100 professionals from Ukraine and abroad. After joining the Architecture Ukraine residency in Mariupol, he contributed to numerous projects in cities such as Zhytomyr, Cherkasy, Sievierodonetsk, and Soledar. Since 2022, he has led strategic planning and recovery projects for Mariupol, Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih, Zaporizhzhia, Ochakiv, Beryslav, and others. His core expertise includes social urban design, participatory methods, and circularity.