IMCL Potsdam Announces Friday Evening Discussion Dinner at the Historic Mill Restaurant, and Other Evening Activities

Attendees are encouraged to sign up for the ticketed dinner and to select their menu items now; tickets for tours will be available soon

ABOVE: Restaurant Zur Historischen Mühle, or "The Historic Mill Restaurant". Photo: Restaurant Zur Historischen Mühle

POTSDAM, GERMANY - The 62nd International Making Cities Livable (IMCL) conference will

include a discussion dinner and awards ceremony at the Historic Mill (Zur Historischen Mühle) restaurant in beautiful Sanssouci Park, a 15-minute walk from our conference venue at the MAXX Hotel Sanssouci.

The evening will include dinner and drinks, and an awards ceremony and discussion of conference topics. Conference attendees can select their preferred entrees from meat, fish or vegetarian menu items. The starter course will be a Farmer’s Salad with sheep’s milk panna cotta, assorted tomatoes, cucumber relish, candied olives, and onion. Dessert will be Black Forest cherry dessert. Drinks including red and white wine, juice and water will be offered.

ABOVE: The restaurant's Palmenhaus, where we will hold our discussion and awards dinner

The dinner is optional, and tickets are

available for attendees as well as one guest each ($85.00 per person) on the conference website, here. Guests may want to stroll through the stunning Sanssouci Park on the way to or from the restaurant. The historic mill referenced in the restaurant's name is across the street, and other beautiful structures are also nearby (image below).

ABOVE: The Historic Mill, adjacent to the restaurant. Photo: Public Domain.

On Thursday evening, we will have a walking tour to the beautiful Alter Markt square, newly rebuilt after devastating World War II bombing, and also replacing some modernist buildings of the East German era that were felt to be unattractive and unworthy of this historic space. The tour will be led by Thomas Albrecht, one of the architects of the restoration and regeneration in Potsdam and elsewhere.

ABOVE: The beautiful Alter Markt area in winter, when the IMCL team visited to prepare for the conference.

One of the themes of the conference is what we can learn from and benefit from historic structures -- not only the "hardware" of rebuilt or restored buildings, but also the "software" of their successful patterns and characteristics. It is a thesis of the Lennard Institute that these structures embody important resources for meeting our urban challenges today, notably the challenge of making cities livable.

On Wednesday, the 15th of October, the conference will begin with a walking tour of Sanssouci Park starting at the MAXX Hotel at 2 PM. The conference will proceed to an opening reception at 5PM at the beautiful Friedenskirche, followed by refreshments and remarks in the MAXX Hotel garden.

On Saturday, the 18th of October, the conference will close with a reception at the MAXX hotel at 5:30 PM. On Sunday, the 19th of October, a tour will be offered of Potsdam, beginning at 9AM at the MAXX Hotel, and ending at 3PM. Tickets will be available on the conference website for both the Wednesday and Sunday tour, as well as the Friday discussion dinner.

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For more information about the IMCL conference, including topics, venue and travel information, please visit the conference web page here.