EURA 2023

Meeting with practitioners

Meeting with practitioners

Green City
Chair: Þorsteinn Gunnarsson, Chief Executive Officer of Reykjavik City
Welcome by the Mayor of Reykjavík
TopicDescriptionSpeaker
Climate policy of Reykjavik CityReykjavik City aims to be carbon neutral by 2040 and has recently commited to stretch that goal even sooner by being one of 112 EU cities carbon neutral and smart city by 2030. What are the challenges of Reykjavik City to be climate neutral? Does the transition towards climate neutrality support the focus in the municipal plan, green plan and the growth of the city?Hrönn Hrafnsdóttir, Head of Climate Change unit
The Captial Transport PactA brief overview of the Capital Transport Pact (CTP), a common vision and investment plan in the Reykjavik Capital Area transport network. An introduction to the origins, objectives, financing and the future of the CTP.Árni Freyr Stefánsson, Director of the Department of Transport and Infrastructure at the Ministry of Infrastructure
PanelHulda Hallgrímsdóttir, Project Manager, Economic and Urban DevelopmentDóra Björt Guðjónsdóttir, City councillor - Head of environmental and urban planningHrönn Hrafnsdóttir, Head of Climate Change unitKarl Benediktsson, Professor of Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences
City for people
Reykjavik growing - the teenage cityReykjavík is a young city and. It´s only a few years since the city was only a small town. The city is developing fast and is at the pivotal point of becoming a true city with all the benefits iof city life. How can we as designers and city makers grab the oppertunity of understanding and creating an identidy that makes the city a desireable and interesting place to live in?Edda Ívarsdóttir, Urban designer
Rainbow Certification - Creating a more Queer Friendly and Inclusive CityReykjavík City has a strong Human Rights Policy that specifically mentions queer people, and the legal situation of LGBT+ people in Iceland is relatively good. But how do we go from strong frameworks to actual implementation? This presentation focusses on Reykjavík City’s on-going development of Rainbow Certification, what it includes, what changes it can bring about as well as the challenges of this ambitious project.Svandís Anna Sigurðardóttir, LGBTIQ+ and Gender Equality Advisor
My Neighborhood - Citizen participation in the digital worldInvolving the citizens of Reykjavik in shaping our city and neighbourhoods through an online participatory platform. The City of Reykjavik has been running a democracy project called My Neighborhood since 2012. Over the last 10 years the project has been constantly changing and evolving in accordance with preferences and wishes of the residents, as well as a constantly changing digital world. This presentation will go into the challenges and changes which My Neighborhood has undergone to improve the project and reach a record turnout for the project in 2021.Eiríkur Búi Halldórsson, Project Manager – My Neighborhood
PanelHilmar Hildarson Magnúsarson, PM for International Affairs & Housing
Edda Ívarsdóttir, Urban designerEiríkur Búi Halldórsson, Project Manager – My NeighborhoodJón Gunnar Ólafsson, Postdoctoral researcher in media and communication