What is Urban Hack?
Urban Hack is a participatory planning practice where local stakeholders collaborate to tackle spatial issues, build trust, and propose improvements. All the stakeholders come together to discuss challenging issues in formal and informal ways during two day hackathon format event. The results are non-binding but foster dialogue and innovation.
Involved groups
One of the main goals of the hackathon is to involve all the different stakeholders into discussion.
Municipality
Architects
Locals
Activists
Business
International experts
Urban
planners
Architecture students
UrbanHack Team Structure
Team Lead
The person, who leads the work of one team. Each team has one team lead. Usually it is a person who has some connection to the hackathon topic or location.
Participant
The person who participates in two days of work on a topic in a team of up to 5 people, shares thoughts and makes a proposal on the topic.
Mentor
The person who directs the work of all the teams and encourages discussion during the working process and presentations.
Listener
Attendee of the introductory part on the first day and presentation of the teams' results on the last day.
What to expect?
2 Days
+ pre-event the day before
5 Teams
participants from different backgrounds
5 Mentors
every team has its international or local mentor
1 Urban Problem
dealing with 1 complex urban challenge
Interesting discussions
socializing during and after workshop
What is U-RE-HERIT?
«UREHERIT. Architects for heritage in Ukraine: recreating identity and memory» -- is a three-year project international European cultural project with the aim to build competence on the heritage protection, regeneration of culturally meaningful plans and projects and empowering of local communities as a tool for building the new, democratic, and sustainable Ukraine with a unique yet European cultural DNA.
European and Ukrainian heritage specialists, architects, planners, engineers, other professionals, officers of local authorities and communities of Ukrainian cities will will share their knowledge and experience and analyze topics of protection and restoration of Ukrainian cultural heritage.
The project will address heritage as a resource for sustainable cultural, social, environmental, and economic recovery, while solving challenges of preservation, re-definition and highlighting the national and local cultural identity and reflect the memory in the rebuilding.