Creative Leaders: Eugen Panescu – Future Cities and Communities
Eugen co-founded Planwerk Cluj-Napoca in 2002, with German partners. In the past 17 years, the studio has contributed to the rebirth of public space and transformation of the planning professional practice in Romania. Eugen guided for 13 years the Urban Design Studio at the Cluj Architecture Faculty on brown-fields transformation. Involving the public administration and the civic action, he promotes the holistic approach of heritage through social and economic equity, linking innovative public governance in planning with civic action. His ideas resolve finding responsible positive answers to urban issues in cross-cultural cooperation and social awareness.