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Diverse and successful activity areas on the agenda on 8 November

Insights in “The planning of skate parks between subculture and the Olympics” will be given by Landskate Partner Veith Kilberth. Learn more about the “Skills Park Winterthur”: the urban activity area for the youth and for the young at heart in Switzerland. HCMA Managing Principal Darryl Condon’s presentation is dedicated to “Activating underutilized urban spaces”. According to CONVIC Partner Bryce Hinton from Australia, public open space becomes the life blood to a living city.
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Properly operating leisure infrastructure in large metropolitan cities

Experts from Denmark, Germany and the United Kingdom will discuss challenges and exchange expertise in this workshop held on 6 November at 2.00 pm at the 26th IAKS Congress. Often large urban areas suffer from outdated indoor and outdoor facilities that are difficult to effectively program and maintain. The process of offering meaningful programs and facilities is complicated by ongoing community growth and diversified expectations.
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Streetmekka street sports and cultural centre in Viborg by Effekt

Streetmekka is a new cultural destination offering a wide variety of facilities for self-organized sports like parkour, skate, bouldering, basketball, trial and a series of customized workshop areas for music production, DJ’ing, an animation studio, fabrication lab and various artist studios and wood- and metalworkshops. Architecture firm Effekt has transformed an abandoned windmill factory into a vibrant hub for street sports and youth culture.
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