WEBVTT 00:00:02.240 --> 00:00:05.760 Ladies and gentlemen, we are about to start at today's conference. 00:00:05.760 --> 00:00:12.200 Let me welcome everybody wholeheartedly to the new seat of the 00:00:12.200 --> 00:00:14.760 City Culture Institute here in Kumst. 00:00:14.880 --> 00:00:18.840 I would like to welcome all the guests who came here from Poland 00:00:18.840 --> 00:00:20.840 and from quite far away. 00:00:21.720 --> 00:00:25.160 And now I would like to ask Mayor of the City of Baineskammers, 00:00:25.160 --> 00:00:28.480 Alexandra Dulkievish, to take the floor and declare the conference 00:00:28.480 --> 00:00:29.280 open officially. 00:00:35.240 --> 00:00:39.720 Thank you very much, Director, Professor, welcome to Gdansk. 00:00:40.080 --> 00:00:45.000 Welcome Cordially, I would like to welcome the representatives 00:00:45.200 --> 00:00:51.120 of I hope as well a local governments, town planners, architects, 00:00:51.560 --> 00:00:56.000 petitioners, those who on a daily basis deal with transforming 00:00:56.000 --> 00:00:56.520 cities. 00:00:56.600 --> 00:01:01.080 This meeting is being organized for the second time now. 00:01:01.080 --> 00:01:02.800 It's the first time here. 00:01:02.800 --> 00:01:08.400 I hope that this location and the entire complex here, the entire 00:01:08.400 --> 00:01:13.520 development, is an example that we can also relate to when discussing 00:01:13.920 --> 00:01:15.960 the issues concerning transforming cities. 00:01:16.040 --> 00:01:23.120 I believe that in our city we have achieved quite a few things, 00:01:23.400 --> 00:01:27.080 others in the pipeline or investment processes. 00:01:27.080 --> 00:01:32.400 I'm talking for example about downtown here, so called lower 00:01:32.400 --> 00:01:39.760 city but also the post shipyard territory But there are of course 00:01:39.760 --> 00:01:44.960 many more challenges related to transforming cities, for example, 00:01:44.960 --> 00:01:49.520 those concerning public transportation and post industrial 00:01:49.520 --> 00:01:49.960 areas. 00:01:50.800 --> 00:01:54.760 There are multiple challenges and I'm very happy to see all of you. 00:01:54.760 --> 00:01:59.720 I'm very happy to see each of you in person and also I'm happy to 00:01:59.720 --> 00:02:02.520 see other representatives of our partner and city. 00:02:02.920 --> 00:02:06.920 We are to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the relationships 00:02:06.920 --> 00:02:08.200 with the city of Bremen. 00:02:08.960 --> 00:02:14.600 I think that what is also very important today when discussing 00:02:14.600 --> 00:02:20.360 Transforming cities is not just architecture and town planning, 00:02:20.360 --> 00:02:27.800 but also the issues concerning climate related challenges. 00:02:28.880 --> 00:02:33.200 I believe that nobody has a shred of a doubt that today are the 00:02:33.200 --> 00:02:36.480 environment, natural environment and climate around us is 00:02:36.480 --> 00:02:41.080 changing, which is also a challenge in terms of planning cities 00:02:41.080 --> 00:02:42.080 and transforming them. 00:02:43.040 --> 00:02:46.000 We also need to take social challenges into account and include 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:50.280 those who cannot always be included right away to the social 00:02:50.280 --> 00:02:50.680 life. 00:02:50.680 --> 00:02:54.280 So how to design a city in which everybody feels at home? 00:02:55.240 --> 00:02:57.400 How to make our cities accessible? 00:02:58.480 --> 00:03:01.480 We also need to consider issues related to migration. 00:03:04.120 --> 00:03:09.480 I hope that all these challenges will be addressed one way or 00:03:09.480 --> 00:03:11.120 another today and tomorrow. 00:03:11.120 --> 00:03:17.600 I know that already Yesterday I started talking and I hope that 00:03:18.240 --> 00:03:22.640 this meeting will be an opportunity for you to mutually inspire 00:03:22.920 --> 00:03:23.680 one another. 00:03:24.240 --> 00:03:29.360 I believe that what is important is really building a network 00:03:29.440 --> 00:03:34.440 and striking cooperation with those you can turn to when a challenge 00:03:34.440 --> 00:03:37.720 offers itself or when there is a problem to solve. 00:03:37.720 --> 00:03:43.480 So I'm very happy to see you for the second time in Banks. 00:03:43.480 --> 00:03:47.720 A year or two years ago, we saw one another at the Banks University 00:03:47.720 --> 00:03:48.400 of Technology. 00:03:48.760 --> 00:03:52.040 This time we are meeting at the Citiculture Institute. 00:03:52.040 --> 00:03:54.920 Hopefully you will have a good and fruitful time here. 00:03:55.760 --> 00:03:56.400 All the best. 00:03:58.680 --> 00:04:02.360 Thank you very much, Madam Mayor, for this introduction. 00:04:02.800 --> 00:04:06.400 As you have rightly mentioned, this is a second international 00:04:06.400 --> 00:04:13.080 conference on town planning that we've organised invest recently. 00:04:16.280 --> 00:04:19.960 Now we've been doing that in partnership with a number of institutions 00:04:19.960 --> 00:04:21.160 rather than single handedly. 00:04:21.160 --> 00:04:27.000 So now I would like to invite Lutsena Nikka as representing the 00:04:27.000 --> 00:04:29.920 Faculty of Architecture, the grants University of Technology. 00:04:30.520 --> 00:04:34.120 She's the Dean and also Co organizer about today's event. 00:04:34.400 --> 00:04:35.360 Professor, the floor is yours. 00:04:35.360 --> 00:04:36.920 Thank you very much, Madam. 00:04:36.920 --> 00:04:42.960 mister President, Ladies and gentlemen, participants of this 00:04:42.960 --> 00:04:46.640 conference, as Madam has mentioned, cities are undergoing 00:04:46.640 --> 00:04:48.600 numerous transforming processes. 00:04:48.760 --> 00:04:55.520 These processes are related to a variety of factors such as climate 00:04:55.520 --> 00:05:01.360 changes, migrations, demographical changes, metropolitization 00:05:02.160 --> 00:05:05.520 processes, conversions of post industrial areas. 00:05:05.840 --> 00:05:09.240 All that requires continuous discussion on what can be done 00:05:09.240 --> 00:05:13.160 by us as architects, town planners, practitioners. 00:05:13.160 --> 00:05:16.680 A number of challenges offer themselves and it is important 00:05:16.680 --> 00:05:22.160 that we not only discuss about them, but also think now we can 00:05:22.160 --> 00:05:27.440 adjust planning tools and city policies into these challenges. 00:05:28.400 --> 00:05:30.720 Sustainable city is not all. 00:05:30.920 --> 00:05:33.720 More and more often we talk about regenerative cities, those 00:05:33.720 --> 00:05:38.480 that repeat in a way or reconstruct natural processes. 00:05:38.480 --> 00:05:40.880 So there are many aspects to tackle. 00:05:41.120 --> 00:05:45.240 I wish very fruitful debates and I wish Professor Piotre, Lawrence 00:05:45.960 --> 00:05:52.360 City Architect, to have a smooth process of implementing the 00:05:52.360 --> 00:05:56.720 conclusions of the today's meeting into the city processes 00:05:56.720 --> 00:05:58.320 because this is what it is all about. 00:05:58.320 --> 00:05:59.040 Thank you very much. 00:05:59.480 --> 00:05:59.840 Thank you. 00:05:59.840 --> 00:06:05.920 I think you've you've rightly pointed that we've been discussing 00:06:05.920 --> 00:06:07.240 that for for months. 00:06:07.440 --> 00:06:09.360 You've mentioned a list of priorities here. 00:06:09.360 --> 00:06:11.400 So thank you very much for that, Madam Professor. 00:06:11.880 --> 00:06:16.040 Our partner is also the International Society of City and Regional 00:06:16.040 --> 00:06:16.480 Planners. 00:06:16.480 --> 00:06:21.280 ISO Carp, our event has been registered officially as ISIS Corp 00:06:21.600 --> 00:06:22.920 Regional event. 00:06:23.000 --> 00:06:26.640 Therefore, let me introduce Secretary General mister Frank 00:06:26.640 --> 00:06:28.480 Dunt to take the floor. 00:06:42.650 --> 00:06:43.810 Good morning to you all. 00:06:44.450 --> 00:06:48.970 I'm in Gerdansk, the city of workers, so I'm rolling up my sleeves 00:06:49.610 --> 00:06:50.890 for a good day of work. 00:06:52.840 --> 00:06:58.280 So thank you Piotr for having us say thank you city of Gdansk. 00:06:59.800 --> 00:07:02.600 Thank you, the Polish Planning Association. 00:07:03.760 --> 00:07:06.200 It's a pleasure to be here and it's a pleasure to be back. 00:07:07.440 --> 00:07:12.840 Almost one year ago, we also had a wonderful conference in Gdansk. 00:07:13.000 --> 00:07:16.360 Another place, Polytechnic University, now here. 00:07:16.600 --> 00:07:22.480 It's clearly, clearly a city in in transformation, very dynamic. 00:07:23.520 --> 00:07:27.920 We have experienced the yesterday some wonderful new places, 00:07:27.960 --> 00:07:31.800 old buildings, but new functions in the shipyard. 00:07:32.480 --> 00:07:37.360 But wherever you walk you see changes are happening and I would 00:07:37.360 --> 00:07:39.600 say mostly in a very positive way. 00:07:39.960 --> 00:07:46.560 So I'm just here for a very short welcome on behalf also as the 00:07:46.640 --> 00:07:49.880 Isocarp with the International Society of City and Regional 00:07:49.880 --> 00:07:50.400 Planners. 00:07:50.800 --> 00:07:55.920 Today we are here represented by myself, the secretary general, 00:07:56.400 --> 00:08:01.040 but also by the president elect elizabeth pair Elizabeth, where 00:08:01.040 --> 00:08:02.080 are you there? 00:08:02.440 --> 00:08:04.560 Maybe you can stand up and. 00:08:05.880 --> 00:08:08.640 Yeah, OK And then Ryendra. 00:08:08.920 --> 00:08:09.920 Ryendra Kumar. 00:08:10.240 --> 00:08:10.600 Yes. 00:08:10.600 --> 00:08:12.320 From all the way from New Delhi. 00:08:12.960 --> 00:08:13.400 Yes. 00:08:14.840 --> 00:08:18.480 And maybe some more members of course, which I can't see now of. 00:08:19.120 --> 00:08:22.760 But all the rota, yes, where's the rota? 00:08:22.760 --> 00:08:26.880 Is the rota here at the university, at the university, but just 00:08:26.920 --> 00:08:28.880 joined as a new board members. 00:08:29.320 --> 00:08:34.760 So Gdansky is now well presented in the in the boards, which is 00:08:34.920 --> 00:08:36.080 excellent of course. 00:08:36.360 --> 00:08:41.120 So we will have a very close collaboration also in the future. 00:08:41.120 --> 00:08:46.320 three So Isocarp, International Society of City and Regional 00:08:46.320 --> 00:08:50.400 Planners say, I would say the only truly global association 00:08:50.400 --> 00:08:55.520 of individual and institutional member planners, say planning 00:08:55.520 --> 00:08:58.840 members, because we don't make any distinction. 00:08:59.640 --> 00:09:03.560 You can be member from any part of the world as long as you have, 00:09:03.920 --> 00:09:07.600 first of all, a passion for urban planning and sustainable Urban 00:09:07.600 --> 00:09:08.120 Development. 00:09:08.400 --> 00:09:12.600 And secondly, if possible, a degree, a certification. 00:09:12.800 --> 00:09:16.240 But we have learned in life that a degree or certification is 00:09:16.240 --> 00:09:17.880 not enough to be a good planner. 00:09:18.160 --> 00:09:22.880 It's all about the passion and really the drive to transform 00:09:23.080 --> 00:09:28.040 our three places and cities towards a more sustainable place 00:09:28.280 --> 00:09:29.640 to be and to live. 00:09:29.680 --> 00:09:35.320 So unless you want me, I don't think so. 00:09:35.400 --> 00:09:36.400 The rest will come later. 00:09:36.520 --> 00:09:37.120 Thank you very much. 00:09:37.120 --> 00:09:40.720 Thank you so much. 00:09:40.800 --> 00:09:43.520 Thank you very much, Frank, for this kind words. 00:09:47.680 --> 00:09:52.920 Ladies and gentlemen, our conference has been organized with 00:09:53.000 --> 00:09:58.200 incorporation with European Council of Town Planners and it 00:09:58.200 --> 00:10:03.480 so happens that as Poland has the Society of Polish Town Planners, 00:10:03.480 --> 00:10:06.400 we've been members of this organization for some two years now. 00:10:07.960 --> 00:10:15.520 Also the University of Technology in Dynske is the only Polish 00:10:15.520 --> 00:10:17.000 university that is a member. 00:10:17.000 --> 00:10:19.840 So it's a double occasion, so to speak. 00:10:19.840 --> 00:10:24.760 And we have President of European Council of Town Planners Janet 00:10:24.760 --> 00:10:32.640 Tasky, president elect but also we have president elect marcus 00:10:32.640 --> 00:10:42.640 hodulfa who's also with us This is very bright lights, bright 00:10:42.640 --> 00:10:44.000 lights of presidency. 00:10:44.000 --> 00:10:49.640 This feels like it's a great honour to be in Gdansk again at this 00:10:49.640 --> 00:10:53.920 conference, and particularly on the occasion of the one hundredth 00:10:53.960 --> 00:10:58.400 anniversary of planning in poland and a hundredth anniversary 00:10:58.400 --> 00:11:06.560 of the tup And if nothing else, Gdansk is the most fantastic example 00:11:06.720 --> 00:11:10.560 of good planning and planners can be very proud of what's been 00:11:10.560 --> 00:11:13.840 achieved here in the transformation of this city. 00:11:14.280 --> 00:11:17.960 So to have a conference which is about transforming the city 00:11:18.160 --> 00:11:22.240 is really important to us because planners are all about transforming 00:11:22.240 --> 00:11:26.200 environments for sustainability, for the public good, for 00:11:26.200 --> 00:11:30.560 social justice, for good design and for economic prosperity. 00:11:31.040 --> 00:11:34.520 And I believe and for heritage actually I'm I I think that's very 00:11:34.520 --> 00:11:38.840 important in culture and I believe that Gdansk displays this 00:11:39.280 --> 00:11:40.480 very, very beautifully. 00:11:40.680 --> 00:11:44.320 I think this is becoming one of my favorite cities in Europe after 00:11:44.320 --> 00:11:45.400 this, my second visit. 00:11:48.800 --> 00:11:53.960 So congratulations at the European Council of Spatial Planners, 00:11:53.960 --> 00:12:00.960 E C T P C E U is we we engage with and invite forty six countries 00:12:00.960 --> 00:12:05.520 of the council of europe to be part of our organization And we 00:12:05.520 --> 00:12:06.680 aim to do three things. 00:12:06.800 --> 00:12:11.800 We promote planning across Europe and we strengthen our profession. 00:12:11.800 --> 00:12:12.880 That's what we want to do. 00:12:13.680 --> 00:12:17.440 As in as an independent profession, planners are really important 00:12:17.800 --> 00:12:20.560 to how we plan cities and we. 00:12:20.680 --> 00:12:24.600 I feel as though we are the leaders and we work with other disciplines 00:12:24.720 --> 00:12:27.280 to lead on the transformation of cities. 00:12:27.800 --> 00:12:30.080 We ensure quality of education for planners. 00:12:30.080 --> 00:12:33.400 This is really important to us that certain guidelines have 00:12:33.400 --> 00:12:37.560 followed and we also exchange ideas and meet others and work 00:12:37.560 --> 00:12:40.200 out between US and learn from each other. 00:12:40.200 --> 00:12:43.480 And this is one of the most important things I think internationally 00:12:43.480 --> 00:12:44.200 we can do. 00:12:44.760 --> 00:12:48.440 You, you can ask your politicians to visit other cities if you 00:12:48.440 --> 00:12:53.640 want to know how to plan new ideas for things, go somewhere else 00:12:53.640 --> 00:12:55.040 and have a look and see what they've done. 00:12:55.200 --> 00:12:58.320 And that's exactly what we're going to do over the next two days, 00:12:58.320 --> 00:12:58.880 I think. 00:12:59.760 --> 00:13:05.200 So as far as the ECTP goes, we urge planners everywhere to engage 00:13:05.200 --> 00:13:12.000 with our charters for planning principles and many cities have 00:13:12.000 --> 00:13:16.400 signed up to this and also to our charter of participatory democracy, 00:13:16.600 --> 00:13:20.200 which across Europe is becoming one of the most important issues 00:13:20.200 --> 00:13:24.360 for us all, I think So I urge you to have a look at that if you haven't 00:13:24.360 --> 00:13:24.600 yet. 00:13:25.400 --> 00:13:27.280 Thank you very much indeed. 00:13:27.560 --> 00:13:32.360 Huge gratitude to the city architect to Piot for organising 00:13:32.480 --> 00:13:37.000 not only this prestigious conference, but also for inviting 00:13:37.600 --> 00:13:41.120 so many of us here, and particularly for inviting the European 00:13:41.120 --> 00:13:42.440 Council of Spatial Planners. 00:13:42.600 --> 00:13:43.760 Thank you very much indeed. 00:13:44.000 --> 00:13:44.400 Thank you. 00:13:47.800 --> 00:13:49.800 Thank you very much, Janet, for your very kind words. 00:13:49.800 --> 00:13:53.080 It's great to have you again here in Dansk and I hope it's not the 00:13:53.080 --> 00:13:53.560 last time. 00:13:53.560 --> 00:13:59.000 I hope you're going to meet again shortly for national conference. 00:13:59.000 --> 00:14:04.400 Listen gentlemen, I conference has been organised in a jubilee 00:14:04.400 --> 00:14:06.840 year for the Society of Post Town Planners. 00:14:06.840 --> 00:14:10.360 It so happens that the Society of Post Town Planners is celebrating 00:14:10.360 --> 00:14:14.440 its one hundredth anniversary establishment So I would like 00:14:14.440 --> 00:14:18.080 to invite now Doctor Thomas Schmid, the President of TUP Society 00:14:18.080 --> 00:14:19.040 of Post Town Planners. 00:14:21.760 --> 00:14:26.720 This is another organization Co organising our meeting today 00:14:26.720 --> 00:14:27.360 and tomorrow. 00:14:27.920 --> 00:14:29.400 mister President, the floor is yours. 00:14:31.080 --> 00:14:31.640 Thank you. 00:14:31.800 --> 00:14:36.240 Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests, the Jubilee makes 00:14:36.240 --> 00:14:37.840 you look back. 00:14:37.920 --> 00:14:42.200 So I'm going to jump at this opportunity and I'll refer to the 00:14:42.200 --> 00:14:47.440 topic of the conference to have a look at transforming cities 00:14:47.440 --> 00:14:51.880 from the point of view of the functioning of NGOs. 00:14:51.880 --> 00:14:59.920 At this point, as Madam Mayor and Dean I have mentioned, we are 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:05.520 facing climatic changes and I've been thinking how they translate 00:15:05.520 --> 00:15:06.840 onto organizations. 00:15:07.120 --> 00:15:10.720 TUP organizes a competition for the best public space in Poland 00:15:10.720 --> 00:15:16.800 and out of half, a thousand analyzed spaces over two thirds 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:24.480 are related to transforming cities But that has little to do 00:15:24.480 --> 00:15:26.160 with the functioning of the organizations. 00:15:26.160 --> 00:15:32.280 However, the parliament has extended a helping hand here because 00:15:32.280 --> 00:15:37.400 it's changed an act on planning in such a way that these challenges 00:15:37.760 --> 00:15:41.400 actually have become impossible to resolve. 00:15:41.920 --> 00:15:47.800 If we should stick to systemic solutions, only some other challenges 00:15:50.800 --> 00:15:56.600 that we are affected by are related to the war in Ukraine that 00:15:56.760 --> 00:16:04.720 made us aware of the global scale of hostility and issues that 00:16:05.160 --> 00:16:13.600 in our particular case are related with massive migration. 00:16:13.600 --> 00:16:18.960 seven million migrants have been accepted in Poland from Ukraine 00:16:18.960 --> 00:16:22.800 only, which of course affected the way local governments function, 00:16:22.800 --> 00:16:26.480 but also non government organizations have been affected. 00:16:27.040 --> 00:16:31.440 Among them, the majority of meetings in one way or another have 00:16:31.440 --> 00:16:38.600 recently been related to how to support Ukraine and 00:16:38.600 --> 00:16:45.320 it was either symbolic or very tangible support that NGOs strived 00:16:45.320 --> 00:16:46.080 to grant. 00:16:46.440 --> 00:16:53.480 And we also have challenges financial and organization or nature 00:16:53.600 --> 00:16:54.600 and eligible year. 00:16:54.600 --> 00:16:59.920 We've had local governmental parliamentary elections in Poland 00:16:59.920 --> 00:17:05.200 here and not all the events have actually materialized themselves. 00:17:05.200 --> 00:17:09.960 I would like to congratulate Madam Mayor on the financial result 00:17:10.200 --> 00:17:13.960 of the local government dance speakers, Not every local government 00:17:14.440 --> 00:17:20.080 I can boast such result that makes it possible to organize the 00:17:20.720 --> 00:17:22.960 organize such celebrations. 00:17:23.520 --> 00:17:26.120 So I would like to thank you for that as well and I would like to 00:17:26.120 --> 00:17:31.440 thank a lot and so participating in it. 00:17:31.840 --> 00:17:35.320 I haven't mentioned the pandemic right, but I guess we have all 00:17:35.680 --> 00:17:41.880 managed to get used to the way the pandemic affected the 00:17:41.880 --> 00:17:52.200 functioning of non government organizations, ISO CARB or ECTP 00:17:52.200 --> 00:17:52.800 scale. 00:17:53.040 --> 00:17:59.880 We are still able to meet in a much broader group regardless 00:17:59.880 --> 00:18:04.080 of whether we can appear somewhere in person or not. 00:18:04.600 --> 00:18:08.040 So thank you very much for all that and I wish you a fruitful debate, 00:18:10.680 --> 00:18:11.920 ladies and gentlemen. 00:18:13.360 --> 00:18:18.200 Last but not least, I'd like to mention that as opposed to the 00:18:18.200 --> 00:18:21.800 last year 's conference this year to a far greater extent than 00:18:21.800 --> 00:18:27.160 in twenty twenty two we've decided to give the floor to the youngest 00:18:27.600 --> 00:18:32.760 participants of our planning and architecture of the year and 00:18:32.760 --> 00:18:34.600 that is young town planners. 00:18:35.920 --> 00:18:39.160 That so happens that European Council of Town planners like 00:18:39.280 --> 00:18:46.440 Isocarp and similar to Tup very strongly emphasizes the presence 00:18:46.720 --> 00:18:51.160 of young town planners and their participation in the discussion 00:18:51.160 --> 00:18:53.800 on transforming cities that are all within our conference. 00:18:53.800 --> 00:18:58.680 So we are hosting a group of twelve young town planners from all 00:18:58.680 --> 00:19:03.200 over Europe that are going to share their experiences as well. 00:19:03.560 --> 00:19:06.800 Of course, experiences concerning transforming their cities. 00:19:08.040 --> 00:19:12.120 That wouldn't be possible if it was not very good cooperation 00:19:12.120 --> 00:19:13.680 with European Council of Town planners. 00:19:13.680 --> 00:19:16.480 That is why it was the end of this introductory session. 00:19:16.480 --> 00:19:19.040 I would like to invite mister Martin Baloga to take the floor. 00:19:19.240 --> 00:19:22.040 Who is responsible for the program of young town planners within 00:19:22.040 --> 00:19:23.600 European Council of Town Planners. 00:19:23.600 --> 00:19:24.960 Martin, the floor is yours. 00:19:29.640 --> 00:19:30.200 Thank you. 00:19:30.200 --> 00:19:34.720 I'm very happy to be in your beautiful city of Dansk. 00:19:36.400 --> 00:19:41.960 ECTP Cell is not only organization of senior planners but also 00:19:41.960 --> 00:19:44.760 of young people and young planners. 00:19:45.160 --> 00:19:48.760 And we want to encourage young people to become a planners to 00:19:48.760 --> 00:19:53.680 develop the cities of Europe in the best possible way to. 00:19:54.920 --> 00:20:00.160 I would like to introduce this presentation that were prepared 00:20:00.160 --> 00:20:02.200 by this, by these young people. 00:20:02.760 --> 00:20:08.560 And I hope that he will take a part in this presentation and also 00:20:09.000 --> 00:20:13.800 be part of the discussion about the project because we as ECTP 00:20:13.800 --> 00:20:18.800 say who we think that this project are very good and very nice 00:20:18.800 --> 00:20:21.520 and they bring brand new ideas. 00:20:22.440 --> 00:20:26.600 I want to thank the City of Downs for the help and also I want to 00:20:26.600 --> 00:20:30.560 thank the planning and practice and research institution for 00:20:30.600 --> 00:20:33.680 the financial help. 00:20:33.680 --> 00:20:39.840 And I want to say that the selection of these works will be published 00:20:39.840 --> 00:20:46.720 in the leading planning journal and I hope the whole Europe will 00:20:46.720 --> 00:20:52.040 see that we also we have also young people that will be good planners 00:20:52.080 --> 00:20:58.400 and that we will encourage everyone who want to be a planner and 00:20:58.400 --> 00:21:00.600 to plan the cities in this great job. 00:21:00.920 --> 00:21:01.840 Thank you very much. 00:21:01.840 --> 00:21:09.200 Again, ladies and gentlemen. 00:21:09.400 --> 00:21:16.120 In a moment, we'll move on to program presentations, but I'd 00:21:16.120 --> 00:21:20.000 like to share with you before that few pieces of information 00:21:20.000 --> 00:21:21.000 regarding organization. 00:21:21.000 --> 00:21:25.560 The first issue, the presentations of young planners will be 00:21:25.560 --> 00:21:27.440 integral to the program of the conference. 00:21:27.440 --> 00:21:33.440 So within each session we'll have an opportunity to learn not 00:21:33.440 --> 00:21:38.560 only about the work of these more mature urbanist architect, 00:21:38.600 --> 00:21:41.200 but also the the ones who are just starting out. 00:21:41.960 --> 00:21:48.960 Second point, we also encourage you to take a look at the building 00:21:48.960 --> 00:21:49.880 at the Koch Vodne. 00:21:50.000 --> 00:21:54.200 Here we encourage you to take a look at the special room report 00:21:54.200 --> 00:21:57.560 for you on the first floor which is going to be available for you. 00:21:59.160 --> 00:22:03.280 And due to the fact that the room is somewhat limited in size and 00:22:03.280 --> 00:22:08.560 there was a lot of interest in the conference, the entire event 00:22:08.560 --> 00:22:12.880 is being recorded in two versions, Polish and English hopefully. 00:22:12.880 --> 00:22:19.760 So we'll be able to make the event available online, so our colleagues 00:22:19.760 --> 00:22:23.360 will be able to acquaint themselves with the content and, if 00:22:23.360 --> 00:22:28.240 the budget allows it, to also be working on post conference publications 00:22:28.240 --> 00:22:30.000 as well, now without further ado.