"Implanting Productive Uses" - Key note intervention as Grand Témoin and round table discussion - Forum of Cities and Juries E15.

Key note intervention : The intervention focuses on Research-by-design prosals presented in the Forum, analysing the relation between Programmatic and Spatial strategies. Uses can become productive if they go beyond their own functional limitations: productive uses work as a trigger that can initiate dynamics of change in a way that transforms the surrounding environment. They are a response to a situation in which an absence of dynamics has led to a powerful "use-ambition", the demand for a credible programme, a catalyst for change that fits smoothly into the existing context. EU round table discussants : A. delli Ponti Director KH STUDIO (FR/IT); B. Vlay (AT), member of the Scientific Committee, W. Andexlinger (AT) City planning director Innsbruck; N. M. Desantes (ES) Gen. Director of Ecological Innovation, Basque; David González Martínez (ES) Mayor of Olivia; B. Luns (NL) Director AIR; K. Borret (BE) Bouwmeester Chief Architect of Brussels-Capital Region.