Author Archives: Mustafa Sherif

By reading online, networking on Linkedin, and interviewing people on podcasts, I see that we as urban practitioners and policymakers start to complicate our community participation methods and processes. We do that by adding many many many steps which might look good on our documentation and diagrams. Some methods and handbooks are just getting biggerContinue reading “co-creating! start from step 0”

Happy #WorldChildrensDay !We have everything but still, we need something to make #childfriendlycities We have handbooks, tools, platforms, models, methods, roadmaps, scientifically based research papers, reports, budgets, and we even have the Convention on the Rights of the Child by UNICEF (54 articles in the pictures below). What else do we need? Well, we need more Brave Leaders who thinkContinue reading “World Childrens Day”

🏆 I am so honored to receive Clarence Morberg Award 2022 from Samhällsbyggarna Clarence Morberg-pristagare – Samhällsbyggarnas utmärkelse som belönar unga inspiratörer och samhällsbyggare. Jag känner mig hedrad, ödmjuk och väldigt glad att ta emot Samhällsbyggarnas pris Clarence Morberg-priset för år 2022. Priset för mig är ett belöningskvitto. Ett kvitto på att mitt aktiva driv ochContinue reading “Clarence Morberg Award 2022”

Solna Gymnasium school x AFRY Urban Planning and Design section The school is involved in an Erasmus+ project that focuses on SDG Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities. They bring young people and teachers from 4 EU countries. The task for students is to develop a concept for sustainable neighborhoods in both Minecraft and in models. IContinue reading “Solna Gymnasium”

Greetings from HamburgExploring the urban planning and design progress. Finally, after 2 Years of covid, I met some of AFRY‘s talented Landscape Architects team from different parts of Sweden. We did a workshop about our future goals, our mission, and our actions to accelerate the transition towards more sustainable cities and communities by landscapearchitecture design. We discussed how toContinue reading “Greetings from Hamburg”

A 15-minute conversation about the 15-minute city with Professor Carlos Moreno During Placemaking Europe week in Pontevedra city, we had a conversation in an open-air Podcast booth. People were listening to us live. 🎙️ We talked about the status update of the 15-minute city, success stories and mistakes that urban practitioners make when we implement 15 minute cityContinue reading “15 minute city talk”

I find it ridiculous that we as urban practitioners sometimes of us look for final answers & real design proposals from children when we do workshops and engage children in projects. It just annoys me that sometimes we stress children to give us solid solutions. We forget that we should listen to them and translateContinue reading “Berghs School of Communication Morning Routine”

I just came from a fantastic Placemaking Europe week in Pontevedra City, Spain. 💛 A big thanks to a LEGENDARY team that manages to bring us (450+ participants) together. I am amazed & mind-blown by the amount of useful and inspiring content in this festival: 12 plenaries, 70 international keynote speakers, and 80 co-created sessions. 🎙 In the comingContinue reading “PlacemakingWeek Europe 2022 in Pontevedra”

Boverket kom under våren 2022 med en promemoria som bildar underlag för ett skarpt regeringsförslag. Det innehåller önskemål om utökat bemyndigande att meddela föreskrifter för lek och utevistelse i friytor. Dvs. ytor som barn kan använda på egen hand vid sin utevistelse. Förslaget innebär en ändring i plan- och byggförordningens tionde kapitel och ska göra detContinue reading “Lärmiljöpodden”

Jag välkomnar er som en stolt ambassadör till årets Open House Stockholm, från den 30/9 – 2/10 Under helgen bjuder vi in till 65 olika byggnader, platser och aktiviteter. Nu finns festivalprogrammet tillgängligt på https://www.openhousestockholm.com/program-oh-2022 Open House StockholmAllmänheten bjuds in till gratis guidade visningar av stadens mest unika och spännande byggnader och platser. Festivalen syftar till attContinue reading “Open House Stockholm 2022”