Sven Kohlschmidt

Sven Kohlschmidt is an Urban Planner and co-founder of the Urban Living Lab ‘Simeri Laboratorio Urbano’ (www.instagram.com/simerilab) working on a community-based regeneration process and placemaking strategy in Calabria. He has over six years experience as project manager at the studio urbanista (www.urbanista.de). His work is dedicated to co-creation strategies, participatory design and community engagement. Since 2022 until 2025 he was co-leading the Spring Term Design Studio at the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at the University of Calgary and was leading block seminars on the strategic activation of post-urban landscapes at HafenCity University (https://www.hcu-hamburg.de) in Hamburg as well as Placemaking & Design in 2025 at the (https://www.uam.mx/eng/). Sven is officially registered as a planner at the Hamburg Chamber of Architects (AKHH). In 2024 he was a mentor at the Public Space Academy Mentorship Program (https://www.publicspaceacademy.org/mentorship/). He is an active member of the Placemaking Germany Network as a subgroup within the wider network of Placemaking Europe (https://placemaking-europe.eu).