To facilitate an Implementation Lab in Lviv, Ukraine

Duration: 
June 2011
Activities IIUE: 

Martijn Kramer was project coordinator of the Interreg IIIC project MULUnet and helped to develop the Implementation Lab method for the planning and implementation of intensive land use in cities and regions. At the Implementation Lab in Lviv (Oekraïne) he will be active as facilitator and he will assist in the reporting task.
Martijn cooperates with Huibert A. Haccoû of the International Intervision Institute that that is responsible for the preparation and coordination of the Implementation Lab.

Rationale: 

The municipality of Lviv participates in the city-network ‘DonauHanse’. In this network
24 cities from the Donau region are united. The network looks for sound solutions to similar problems with the greatest possible benefit for all participating cities and regions along the Danube.

Currently the network implements the CUPA project: Co-operative Urban Planning Approaches. The cities Vienna, Bratislava, Novi Sad, Krakow, Lublin, Vidin, Lviv and Odessa each organize a workshop to discuss specific urban planning problems. The workshops provide participants with an opportunity to analyze these problems in a structured manner and develop appropriate solutions.

The workshops follow a standardized structure. Each workshop lasts 3 days and has approximately 25 participants. The participants include 1-2 experts from each of the cities participating in the project and 50% local experts from city in which the workshop is being held.

Lviv is one of the cities for the EURO 2012 UEFA CUP football championship. At the edge of the city a new football stadium is being built in an area that should be further developed.

Lviv organises an Implementation Lab in order to discuss with experts of the partner cities the future of the area after 2012. The ambition is to integrate the area with the city and to give it its own identity of which very citizen of Lviv is aware.

Summary: 

The city of Lviv (about 740.000 inhabitants) is one of the locations for the EURO 1012 UEFA CUP championship. Currently a football stadium at the edge of the city is realized. Other facilities should be situated in this area as well. Lviv is an attractive historic city and wants to give this area an identity that fits within the identity of the city as a whole.
Questions to be answered during the Implementation Lab: What functions should be realised in the area and what strategy must be chosen to provide the area with its own identity.

Currently a case study dossier is being prepared for the participants. The Implementation Lab takes place in Lviv from 20 to 22 June. The participants visit the area under discussion and the city of Lviv, the present reference cases and in groups they will work to formulate observations and give recommendations.