“Open cities” are inviting and understandable for newcomers; they cultivate negotiation and participation and are flexible enough to re-adjust to changing needs. The Open Cities Symposium brought together designers, programmers, planners and scientists working on meaningful tools to support processes of self-empowerment to ask: How can our engagement really contribute to more democratic urban development? How robust are our tools and concepts of participation? How can we engage in re-designing open cities in order to stand the test of time?

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This video documents and summarizes the Open Cities Symposium, the concluding event of the international cooperative project Community Now? Conflicts, Interventions, New Publics (2013-2016).