SKATEBOARDING & CONSULTING
Integrating skateboarding into the urban development of cities.
Services
Mediation / Communication
Develop strategies for mediation and communication, and create signage to optimize sharing public space with urban practices.
Skateable Sculptures / Public Exhibitions
Creation of public exhibitions around skateboarding and its culture, transportable skateable sculptures and installation of public skateboarding itineraries.
PMS (Project Management Support)
Support for project managers and contractors for designing and building shared skateable facilities, street furniture and landscaped skateparks. Intention, concept, sketches, design, technical recommendations and site meetings.
Presentations / Guided tours
Presentations on how to integrate skateboarding into the urban development of cities. Guided tours of cities through the prism of skateboarding and its history.
Conferences / Workshops
Conferences and workshops for city's urban development and the role that urban practices play.
Events
Creating events around skateboarding and its cultural, social and artistic values.
LEO VALLS
A professional skateboarder for over 15 years, Léo Valls is sponsored by brands such as DC shoes or Magenta skateboards. He has worked on the creation of numerous articles, films and exhibitions with multiple media, agencies, associations, communities and international skateboarders.
As the initiator of the process to legalize and integrate skateboarding in the city of Bordeaux, he now works as a consultant and skate referent alongside municipal services, elected officials, architecture firms, landscape architects, skateboard associations, researchers, engineers and event agencies.
He develops strategies for mediation, communication and integration, and projects that highlight the social and cultural dimension of skateboarding through the creation of exhibitions and events, as well as the installation of itinerant skateable art sculptures . He's the program director of the festival Connect, a new international event dedicated to skateboarding culture and its relationship to urban planning, highlighting its cultural and artistic aspects.
Léo Valls communicates the positive values of skateboarding and the importance of taking this practice into account in the urban planning of tomorrow's cities through conferences, workshops, participative workshops and guided tours.
A technical expert, he assists project managers and contractors in the design and implementation of shared skate facilities, street furniture and landscaped skateparks.
The benefits of integrating skateboarding into the city
In the media...
Connect Skateurbanism Festival 2024
« We’ve been fans of what Leo Valls has been doing in Bordeaux for a long time, and now it all came together at the Connect Skateurbanism Festival… »
Bubbleskatemag
Leo Valls – Bordeaux, ville skate
« Assez vite, je me suis rendu compte que le skate était aussi un outil permettant de rencontrer des gens et de voyager. Ce qui m’a amené à vivre à San Francisco et au Japon par exemple. »
Echos Judiciaires
Connect : rassembler le monde autour du skate-urbanisme à Bordeaux
« Le festival met un point d’honneur à se revendiquer « international », à commencer par sa pierre angulaire, le « skate-urbanisme ». Cette démarche, aux origines scandinaves, peut se reposer sur Léo Valls, qui s’assure de la diffuser au cours de ses nombreux voyages. »
time
Quand le skate renouvelle la ville : entretien avec Léo Valls
« Historiquement répressive à l’encontre des skateurs, la municipalité de Bordeaux a su, au fil des années, adapter son discours, au point de devenir un véritable modèle dans sa façon d’accueillir le skate en son sein. »
Letype
À Bordeaux, la pratique du skate rime avec urbanisme !
« Bordeaux aka le skate roi en ville
Lorsqu’on parle de skate à Bordeaux, tout passe par Léo Valls ! »
Jugeote
Bordeaux’s Leo Valls, the face of Magenta approaches skating with a unique perspective and ideas.
« On top of being a great ecological transportation device, skateboarding in the city is a social and cultural activity that can actually help with many problems that occur in some public places »
VHSMag
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