Blue Synergy attended the final General Assembly of the EHHUR project in Copenhagen
Blue Synergy participated in the final Eyes Hearts Hands Urban Revolution project‘s general assembly, hosted last week in the beautiful city of Copenhagen, Denmark. Our Social Researcher & Communications Specialist, Julio Morales Daza, attended the meeting and had the opportunity to experience the knowledge sharing sessions and workshops planned for the partners.
As the project approaches its end, the consortium got together once more to share their final thoughts on the work done and results achieved. The partners also discussed the next steps, and the Lighthouses discussed their vision for the sustainable development of their districts in the near future. Aside from the project’s discussions, participants had the opportunity to attend side events such as the talk given by Kent Martinussen, CEO of the Danish Architecture Center; the roundtable session moderated by Andrew Dubber, in which Mette Skjold, CEO of SLA and Rikke Gram, Creative Director at Schønherr, participated; “Doughnut Economics” by Jacob Rask, Director at the Regenerative Built Environment Network at BLOXHUB; “A Circular Project for the NEB Lighthouse” by Stefano Converso, Researcher at the Department of Architecture, Roma Tre University; among other.
Additionally, a series of workshop were carried out during the event, such as the one from the team of Malmø University on “How do you co-design across generations, species and culture?”, which was also interesting as it made the participants think about the need of not only humans, but animals and the environment in the design of urbanistic solutions; or the workshop about the main results and important learnings from the project, for which Blue Synergy’s Julio Morales led one of the tables and helped his colleagues navigate the key results from the project and New European Bauhaus best practices to present a summary of the most important aspects in the opinion of the group.
By the end of this exciting three-day event, the consortium visited the Gadehavegaard area in the Høje-Taastrup Kommune, on of the demo sites of the project. The walk, led by the Social Housing Team and Domea from the city hall, took the consortium to one of the city’s neighboorhoods and they could witness the restorations being made to a series of buildings under the EHHUR solutions.
The final General Assembly of the EHHUR project was a masterfully organized event that gave the participants so much food for thought, experiences and insights that made the attendance worth every second. I feel that this is the perfect closure for an exciting project, such as Eyes Hearts Hands, in which the mix of technical expertise, creativity and academic expertise was always a defining factor. And the fact that it was held in such an inspiring city, Copenhagen, made it easier for the participants to imagine about the future of urban renovation in Europe. – Julio Morales, Blue Synergy.
Blue Synergy would like to thank anne nørgaard and her team at European Green Cities, and the Høje-Taastrup Kommune for hosting this wonderful event, that also included side conferences about a range of different topics related to the philosophy behind the event and visits to the project’s demo-site. On the other hand, Blue Synergy also thanks Marina Focarile, Lucia Miglietta and the team at RINA for coordinating this initiative and landing it safely after three years of continued efforts, and the rest of the consortium for their hard work and participation: Living Future Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH) CluBE-Cluster of Bioeconomy and Environment of Western Macedonia AdEPorto – Agência de Energia do Porto gemeente & ocmw Zoersel Kamp C Zonnewind CV Solar Lightning Università degli Studi Roma Tre TARKEM Tarihi Kemeraltı İnşaat Yatırım Ticaret A.Ş. ICONS Innovation Strategies RIMOND CÂMARA MUNICIPAL DA MAIA Fondazione Bio-distretto della Via Amerina e delle Forre
