The city partner Tallinn together with associated partner Tallinn University organized a three day workshop focused on the Skoone Activity Belt from September 27 to 29. The event included an opening panel and presentations on the project, the pilot site, its surroundings as well as inspirational examples from elsewhere in the region. This was followed by a tour of the pilot site, where participants could walk through the brownfield area. The main part of the event was a two-day workshop for students form Tallinn University and Estonian Academy of Arts, who layed out their visions and plans for the pilot area.
During the first day, stakeholders were invited to Arhitehtuurikeskus for a seminar that defined the background and aims of the workshop. The morning began with a panel discussion that brought together two city district leaders, two university representatives and one city architect to speak about the project. This was followed by presentations defining the coming workshop from the city pilot’s Anna Semjonova and Jaak-Adam Looveer and from the participating universities’ Andres Alver from Estonian Academy of Arts and Tauri Tuvikene from Tallinn University.
Presentations continued with the subject of benchmarking and the business perspective, where participants heard talks about Best Practices in the Nordic Countries, about the example of the Pakri Islands conservation project, Tallinn’s Railway museum project, city branding in the region and landscape design. Later on, more presentations on the heritage point of view, Balti Railway Station, Balti Station Market, Telliskivi Creative Centre and the Telliskivi Quarter were also on the agenda.
After the presentations, the participants, including the 25 students were guided to walking tour of the Skoone Activity Belt. The tour started from the Skoone Bastion Area which is historical, but very disorganized entity that includes green areas, wooden houses, parking lots and abandoned buildings. For this area the project is seeking new solutions for. The tour continued to the Balti railway station and the Balti station market, which are already under development. The industrial halls of the Telliskivi quarter were next up. Finally the tour ended up at the Telliskivi creative centre, which is perhaps one of the biggest success stories of brownfield regeneration in the Baltic Sea Region.
Inspired by the talks and the guided tour the participating students were given instructions the students prepared their plans which were presented on Thursday. A report on these plans will be published later on.
