Program Ruta de la Experiencia during Habitat III in Quito

The Ruta de la Experiencia is one of the largest UN selected Village projects for the Habitat III conference in Quito, Ecuador. The Ruta de la Experiencia is a concrete project, to practically show the principles and methodology of the Human Cities Coalition (HCC). The physical interventions in the Ruta – such as greening, lighting and painting – and the social interventions visualize HCC’s approach to create sustainable improvement of cities’ liveability for all. URBANOS was involved from the start: discussion the local issues with the stakeholders in Quito, setting up a tactical and practical design to change the street, organize the construction and help with the events. The ‘Fabrica Ciudad’, lodged in the Centro Cultural Benjamin Carrión, is part of HCC’s Ruta de la Experiencia and it assembles local city makers and inhabitants to create and share ideas on inclusive urban development in Quito.  You are warmly invited to join the many activities during the Habitat III week in the Jorge Washington Street and Centro Cultural Benjamin Carrion. The launch of the project is on Sunday October 16th and between Monday the 17th and Thursday 20th of October the program below is offered:

Experience the Ruta de la Experiencia! How does a street look like if you listen to the neighbours? Take a look at the Jorge Washington street and enjoy the green in the street and walls, sit down at a corner park or stroll down the wide sidewalks, feel safe with extra light or ride your bike safely.

Official opening Sunday 16 October 2016 at 6:30 pm at the Fabrica Ciudad (Centro Cultural Benjamin Carrion, Jorge Washington x Gral.Ulpiano Paez. Be invited for the opening speech, enlarge your network and enjoy music and street dinner!

Open all weekdays. For last info on daily tours, please check our flyer or facebook.com/fabricaciudad

Fabrica Ciudad: Bringing together citymakers in daily sessions

Weekdays (Monday Oct 17 to Thursday Oct 20), facebook.com/fabricaciudad

Dutch Market: Curious about the Netherlands? The Dutch market offers tasty food, innovative products and much more.

Weekdays (Monday Oct 17 to Thursday Oct 20): 15:00-21:00

Music, Food and Drinks

Get some fresh air and enjoy the streets of Quito with music, food and drinks.

Daily (Sunday Oct 16 to Thursday Oct 20): 18:00-21:00

Urban Movies:Be inspired by great movies about people, urbanism and how to create human cities. Every night a different movie.

Daily (Monday Oct 17 to Thursday Oct 20): 20:00

 

Day and Movie	Theme	Trailer
Monday October 17th: 8PM
Bike vs Cars	The bicycle, an amazing tool for change. Activists and cities all over the world are moving towards a new system. But will the economic powers allow it?	Trailer   www.bikes-vs-cars.com
Tuesday October 18th: 8PM
Good Fortune (70 minutes)	Explores how massive, international efforts to alleviate poverty in Africa may be undermining the very communities they aim to benefit. Through intimate portraits of two Kenyans battling to save their homes from large-scale development organizations, the film presents a unique opportunity to experience foreign aid through the eyes of the people it is intended to benefit.	Trailer   www.goodfortunefilm.com/
Wednesday October 19th: 8PM
Future City (15 minutes)	Which cities are looking to outstrip the current megacities in terms of growth, innovation and creativity? Introduction to the exhibition.	www.futurecities.nl/en/
The land of many palaces (74 minutes)	Thousands of farmers are being relocated into a new city under a government plan to modernize the region. “The Land of Many Palaces” follows a government official whose job is to convince these farmers that their lives will be better off in the city, and a farmer in one of the last remaining villages in the region who is pressured to move.	Trailer   www.thelandofmanypalaces.com
Thursday  October 20th: 8PM
The Human Scale (83 minutes)	Jan Gehl has studied human behavior in cities through 40 years. He has documented how modern cities repel human interaction, and argues that we can build cities in a way, which takes human needs for inclusion and intimacy into account. THE HUMAN SCALE meets thinkers, architects and urban planners across the globe. It questions our assumptions about modernity, exploring what happens when we put people into the center of our planning.	Trailer   www.thehumanscale.dk/thefilm/

 Partners in the Ruta:

AkzoNobel, Arcadis, Philips Lighting, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Pakhuis de Zwijger, IHS, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Alliander, KPMG, Dutch Embassy of Peru/Ecuador/Bolivia.

With special thanks also to inhabitants and local businesses of La Mariscal, Van Vlier Media, Interquimec Ecuador, EPMMOP, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Municipality of the Metropolitan District of Quito, Habitat III Secretariat.

Latest updates: Check the latest updates of the program on the flyers and at facebook.com/fabricaciudad