On May 8th 2019, from 4pm to 6pm, at the Campus located via Parenzo 11, room 15, the Law School of Luiss Guido Carli University will host a research seminar led by Sofia Ranchordás, on the theme “Future-Proofing Law in the Digital Age”.
Professor at the University of Groningen, Sofia
Ranchordás focuses on European and comparative public law
from an interdisciplinary perspective. She is particularly interested in how technology
is disrupting traditional legal concepts in administrative law, in particular
in the context of local regulation and governance. She has published
extensively on the regulation of the sharing economy, online platforms, online
citizen participation, and online rating and reputational mechanisms.
On the 15th and 16th of October 2019, the 7th Informed Cities Forum will be hosted in Warsaw, Poland. The event is co-produced by Open Heritage & Actors of Urban Change. The 2019 edition will take place in the Praga district of Warsaw and will deal with urban regeneration processes, examining their real and potential impacts on people and places. Building on the experience of the OpenHeritage project and the Actors of Urban Change community, the forum will explore new ideas and tools to empower local communities and safeguard urban commons.
The event will gather a mix of urban activists, social entrepreneurs, local and European policy makers, researchers, investors and funders to exchange and learn from one another in a unique arena. The aim is to bring together practical urban regeneration experience with financial and regulatory expertise in order to increase social, economic and environmental benefits for our communities.
Heritage: People. Places. Potential.
Cultural heritage, both tangible and intangible, has the potential to bring people together around shared values and help them work towards a more prosperous future. However, in many European cities cultural heritage has been forgotten, exploited for private profit or interpreted to fit current political needs. To resist and reverse these processes, we need to understand: • What is the economic, social and environmental impact of urban regeneration processes, both real and potential? • Who is or should be involved in these processes, how can we share responsibilities and solve conflicts? • What kind of financial, legal or practical solutions exist to safeguard community interests and what kind of support is needed to strengthen and share them?
Why the Praga district?
The Praga district in Warsaw is known for its strong community ties, industrial heritage and vibrant arts scene. Located on the right bank of the Vistula river, Praga largely missed out on the rapid transformation the entire city underwent starting in the 1990s. To remedy this, the city has developed an Integrated Urban Regeneration Programme (2015-2022) focused on priority areas within Praga, where high levels of poverty, unemployment and crime co-exist with low quality of built environment. At the same time, Praga, with its central location and recent infrastructure investments, is a prime candidate for gentrification, as evidenced by a number of vacant buildings and lots currently under development. Is there a different path that Praga can follow, learning from the mistakes of many European cities? Participants will dive straight into local debates and conflicts, meeting activists, policy makers and experts involved in shaping this unique neighbourhood.
Meet us in Warsaw
Elena De Nictolis for LabGov, will participate in the event and present the cork of the Rome Collaboratory as part of the Open Heritage project. Participation is free of charge and registration will open in June 2019. For more information, please contact us at info@informedcities.eu or visit www.informedcities.eu. We welcome ideas and suggestions concerning the programme of the event. If you would like to contribute to the event, please get in touch with us to discuss your ideas.
OpenHeritage identifies best practices of adaptive heritage re-use implemented across Europe. The project develops inclusive governance and management models for overlooked heritage sites and tests them in six Cooperative Heritage Labs. Working together with residents, local businesses and municipalities, OpenHeritage tries out new forms of engagement and uses crowdfunding and crowdsourcing mechanisms to create active communities united around heritage.
Actors of Urban Change empowers urban changemakers to work collaboratively for more sustainable, inclusive and just cities. Its community-driven, international good-practice network promotes sustainable participatory urban development in Europe. To do this, the programme fosters collaboration between actors from the non-profit, public and private sectors. Actors of Urban Change is a programme by the Robert Bosch Stiftung in cooperation with MitOst e.V. www.actorsofurbanchange.org.
Informed Cities is a series of international events on urban governance, renowned as a space for open exchange and learning. Each Informed Cities Forum is rooted in the reality of a specific city, placing local challenges and solutions in the European context. Informed Cities events bring together people from across sectors and disciplines to address the most pressing questions facing European cities, to gather inspiration and contacts, as well as to share practical knowledge and experience. The Informed Cities series is managed by the ICLEI European Secretariat.
Thanks to the attractiveness of a very little competitive yet dynamic and cost-efficient market (as compared to traditional sectors), student housing is one of the most successful asset class in Italy.
Considering that student housing in Italy accommodates 2% of University students compared to a European average of 19%, and since the number of beds-to- students ratio totalises 3% in Italy, for a European average of 6% in Spain, 23% in the UK, it seems obvious that accomodations for students and lecturers will increase both in terms of quantity and quality in the coming years.
With a quality of life in Rome outweighing education costs, the city is in the front line in the Italian cities ranking for student housing applications, -e.g the demand off-campus now exceeds 35.000 units-, and attracts more and more investors and stakeholders aiming to address the rising demand in student accomodations.
The fourth Edition of the Student Housing Congress will consider the specific dynamics of the Rome market as well as the opportunities created for all stakeholders: managers, workers, investors, public actors and Universities. The meeting will also address the role of student housing as leverage for the development and urban regeneration, the integration in new legal framework of residential housing, hotels, co-working and co-living, the specialisation of services and investments prospects in the short and long-term.
Yesterday, LabGov Rome team coordinated the second co-planning session of the Rome Collaboratory at the @Area Camper! After a first detailed presentation of the Open Heritage Project, the participants were divided in three groups to work on the activities that they will start organizing from June 2019. For each of these activity, they started defining actors to get involved, fixed deadlines, defined the resources necessary as well as the potential obstacles to be faced and drafted ideas to communicate about the activity.
Detailed presentation of the Open Heritage Project
The first group imagined
4 thematic bike tours based, for instance, on the neighborhood History, green
areas or economic activities, involving cooperatives, associations, restaurants,
and historical testimony. They underlined potential legal issues to be considered
in building the activity.
The second group tried,
after defining the possible Heritage sites they could revitalize, to target institutional
actors to contact and to anticipate technical issues to be faced.
Working groups sharing their ideas
The third group worked on the organization of a Local communication Campaign, focusing on social medias and activities they could use to display information on their work. They started conceiving artistic events to reach out people and raise attention on the Historical local Heritage.
Local Campaign Working group
During the next
meeting, they will define a precise Timeline to carry out the activities.
At 5 p.m on Thursday 21rst of March, at the Area Camper L.G.P (via Casilina, 700 in Rome), will be held Rome Collaboratory’s second co-planning session. Rome Collaboratory is one of the 6 working fields to experiment sustainable models for the revalorization of European cities’ cultural Heritage. Coordinated by Luiss Labgov team, the session is open to all stakeholders active in the Alessandrino-Centocelle-Torre Spaccata districts. Using the output of the previous meeting, the participants will finalize the definition of the activities to be developed and implemented by the Rome Collaboratory from June 2019.
Smaller working groups will be constituted to think on specific themes and will then share their ideas to the Rome Collaboratory. Eventually a new date and agenda will be defined for the upcoming session.
