the Cité du Design

Questioning the scale and the co-creation of the city, Human Cities_Challenging the City Scale is a large-scale European cooperation project between 12 partners from 11 cities. This platform of interdisciplinary exchanges explores how the inhabitants reclaim the constantly evolving contemporary city. It uses experiments in the urban space as ways of (re)inventing city life, a step to improve well-being and quality of life. Human Cities’ network highlights 13 strong and shared values: Empathy – Well-being – Sustainability – Intimacy – Conviviality -Mobility – Accessibility- Imagination – Leisure – Aesthetics – Sensoriality – Solidarity -Respect. Human Cities is shaped as a multidisciplinary European network composed of various profiles: universities, design centers and design weeks, ICT platforms, service design and creative design consultancies. An exemples of a project activity related to well-being: urban planning students at Ljubljana’s Faculty of Architecture even designed and constructed a wooden pavilion – called a “station of well-being” –which now serves as a meeting place in Bratovševa ploščad.