Friday 11 September — Opek, Leuven
Discover how data-driven insights are shaping the future of our public spaces at this inspiring conference.
With a focus on mobility, spatial planning and public participation, experts will demonstrate how smart data leads to better, more inclusive decisions.
* Telraam turns five. That calls for a party!
The kind where we also talk about the
future of our cities.
Els Vandenbroeck
Mobiel21
Managing Director of Mobiel 21, the Leuven nonprofit (founded 1982) that has long championed
sustainable mobility, citizen participation, and behaviour change for cities, schools, and governments.
Lior Steinberg
Humankind
Urban planner and co-founder of Humankind, the Rotterdam "agency for urban change" that uses co-creation and tactical
urbanism to build people-oriented, car-light cities that, in his words, "make people smile."
Mathias De Winter
Omvorm
Co-founder and designer at the Antwerp studio Omvorm, which treats design as systems-shaping rather than styling, with work spanning circular products and modular EV charging infrastructure.
Michiel Van Balen
Miss Miyagi
Civil engineer-architect and co-founder of Miss Miyagi, the Leuven outfit behind bottom-up adaptive-reuse projects like De Hoorn and Hal5 (and the Stadsmakersfonds city-makers investment fund), developing real estate "for and by its users."
Karl Catteeuw
Provincie West-Vlaanderen
Karl Catteeuw is a co-author of Toolbox Dorpenbouw (with Ward Verbakel and Edith Wouters), the 2026 reference work arguing that villages function differently from cities and need their own spatial language for streets, squares, slow ways, edges, and open space.
Tom Goosse
UGent / University of Groningen
Tom Goosse studies the interface between citizen science and spatial planning.
His work asks how measurement by citizens can move beyond data-gathering to genuinely
reshape the way citizens, researchers, and public authorities work together to plan the spaces they share.
Opek
Vaartkom 4
3000 Leuven
Belgium
Vaartkom 4
3000 Leuven
Belgium
Opek is a 15min walk from Leuven train station.
Regular Ticket
€90 excl vat
Includes lunch, coffee breaks and drinks at the conference.The participation fee applies to all attendees.