ReinventAda+, a second opportunity of shared regeneration in Villa Ada

ReinventAda+, a second opportunity of shared regeneration in Villa Ada

by | Jun 13, 2014 | The Urban Media Lab

Banner ReinventAda+ (1)The next June 26th, 2014 at the Temple of Flora in Rome will be held ReinventAda+, an opportunity of shared regeneration organized by LabGov in the wake of the highly successful ReinventAda, held in October 2013 together with La Calzoleria, club of social and cultural promotion.

LabGov considers as handbook and benchmark the Regulation adopted by the Municipality of Bologna on the “Cooperation among citizens and administration for the care and the regeneration of urban commons” and the urban commons at issue is the Temple of Flora which is in the wonderful park of Villa Ada, in Rome.

The Labgovers will symbolically repossess the Temple on June 26th, for a second edition of shared regeneration that, this time, will also see the presence of artists to animate the event.

In fact, during the first edition of ReinventAda, held on October the 25th, 2013, the Labgovers have cleaned up and restored the Temple and its surrounding area that, despite the restoration works made over the years, were in a state of degradation and abandonment.

During that memorable day it was shown that thanks to the cooperation of the local Administration (the Councillors of the City of Rome Flavia  Barca and Estella Marino were actually attending the event) the people willing to roll up their sleeves can easily do it and take care of those urban commons which the Administration often loses sight of.

After eight months, however, the writers (the ones who only soil, not the artists), the waste and the dry leaves are back together with the abandonment, so the Temple of Flora is back to seem an old ruin left alone. But the Labgovers do not accept this situation and they have decided to persist and continue to work actively on the territory.

 

Thus, on June the 26th will be held ReinventAda+, the second edition of the first ReinventAda event that this time will not only consider the cleaning of the Temple but also moments of entertainment, called “Intimismi”, with music, reading and an exhibition of live painting made by Urban Decoarations. LabGov intends to contribute to the construction of a steering committee that aggregates the various associations, institutional entities, as well as civic and business subjects interested in achieving cultural and amusement activities to enhance the Temple of Flora and restore its former function of meeting place and cultural exchange. For this reason will be presented a Pact of Collaboration to ensure that the Temple of Flora will soon become a meeting and interest place for the local community.

 

Here the programme of ReinventAda+:

h 2:00 pm – Start of the activities

  • Setting up and Regeneration of the Temple of Flora

h 4:30 pm – Arrivals of guests

 

h 5:00 pm – “A proposal for the shared Governance of Villa Ada”

  • Opening greeting from LabGov
  • Presentation of the Pact of Collaboration
  • Presentation of the Handbook for the Placemaking
  • Reading by Professor Sebastiano Maffettone

 h 5.00 pm Live painting by Lorenzo Properzi of Urban Decorations

h 5:30 pm – Cultural entertainment “Intimismi”

  • Music provided by La Calzoleria with:
  • Marcello e il mio amico Tommaso
  • Luca Bertelli

 

h 7: 30pm – End of the activities

 

For LabGov Group

Stefano Speranza

Crowdfunding campaign: Bollier’s “Think like a Commoner”

Crowdfunding campaign: Bollier’s “Think like a Commoner”

by | May 19, 2014 | The Urban Media Lab

bollierartDavid Bollier is an American author, blogger, policy strategist and international activist who has written extensively about the Commons. In 2002 he has co-founded Public Knowledge, whose mission is to preserve the openness of the Internet and the public’s access to knowledge. In 2003 he has founded onthecommons.org website and has edited it until 2010, when he co-founded the Commons Strategies Group, whose primary purpose is to “help, consolidate and extend the many existing commons initiatives around the world”. In 2012 he has won the Berlin Prize in Public Policy for his work on the commons and nowadays he blogs at bollier.org.

For few weeks it is possible to pre-order his new book called “Think like a Commoner”, which represents an involved close examination about markets, political institutions and issues concerning the Governance, underlining the rich history and the promising future of the Commons. “The commons is arising as a serious, practical alternative to the corrupt Market/State”, states Bollier.

LabGov intends to support the translation of the book into Italian (it has already been translated into French and Polish). From June to September a crowdfunding campaign might be built in order to publish the Italian e-book version in October. The publication of the Italian version of the book requires multiple sponsors. LabGov can’t wait to see it translated as soon as possible in order to share it and make it known among our Italian and worldwide followers and readers.

For further information and to get in touch with the author, please follow this links:

www.thinklikeacommoner.com
www.bollier.org