by Chiara De Angelis | Jun 15, 2016 | The Urban Media Lab
Work is continuing on CO-Bologna project, the cooperation agreement between the Municipality of Bologna and Fondazione del Monte of Bologna and Ravenna to deepen and continue in the innovative process and administrative trial started in 2011, aiming to promoting cooperative forms of governance of the commons.
On Tuesday, 7th of June, a first workshop took place in Bolognina, one of the sites of CO-Bologna project. Bolognina’s main purpose is acting as a link between the different planning actors already existing, in order to increase their potential and to offer them new occasions to collaborate. The whole process is supported by Federcasa, which looks at it as an useful experimentation for the innovation of housing policies at a national level.
This first workshop aimed to start knowing the inhabitants of two buildings of the area, and to get them involved in a first process based on the identification of their needs, their talents and their availability to start creating networks and collaborative solutions. It has been a fundamental step towards the implementation of the process.
The participants and the facilitators of the workshop (both from Kilowatt and LabGov) scheduled their next meeting for Monday, 10th of July. They will organize a “common dinner” in the building’s yard, where every participant will contribute with a special dish and with their experiences.
Read the complete report of the workshop here!
Continuano i lavori per il progetto CO-Bologna, il patto di collaborazione tra Comune di Bologna e Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna per approfondire e proseguire nel processo di innovazione e sperimentazione amministrativa avviato nel 2011 e diretto a promuovere la collaborazione per la gestione dei beni comuni. Il cantiere Bolognina ha ospitato, lo scorso 7 giugno, un primo workshop conoscitivo con gli inquilini di due edifici di proprietà ACER. È stato un primo passo fondamentale per identificare insieme i loro bisogni e i loro talenti, e per iniziare a costruire insieme soluzioni collaborative. Appuntamento al prossimo 10 luglio!
Segui la narrazione dal cantiere cliccando qui!
by Chiara Fratalia | May 18, 2016 | The Urban Media Lab
“L’intelligenza della città partecipata: competenze, risorse e regole per l’innovazione urbana” is the title of an event on collaborative governance and urban innovation that will take place in Rome on the 24th May 2016. This event was organized in the framework of the ForumPA 2016, that will also foster other events on the subjects of sustainability and sharing economy.
Digital skills and services, Resources and sustainability, Collaborative administration: these are the three subjects that will be discussed in the working groups, with the aim to move from single experiences and experiments to national proposals, to be addressed to the Government or to the Italian municipalities network.
Assessors, directors and experts will join the working groups.
The events will take place at Palazzo dei Congressi, Roma EUR, in Favignana Hall – CREATIVITY CCIAA ROMA- I° floor. Read the related ForumPA article here.
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Martedì 24 Maggio al Palazzo dei Congressi di Roma si terrà l’evento “L’intelligenza della città partecipata: competenze, risorse e regole per l’innovazione urbana”, nel quadro del ForumPA 2016. I Tavoli di Lavoro vedranno coinvolti assessori, dirigenti ed esperti, per discutere di amministrazione collaborativa delle città.
by Chiara Fratalia | May 13, 2016 | The Urban Media Lab
LabGov with professor Christian Iaione will take part in the ViCoo – Visioni Cooperative conference!
On the 16th May prof. Iaione will attend the presentation conference of ViCoo – Visioni Cooperative, the laboratory of ideas created by Legacoop Bologna to introduce new roads towards innovation for communities and territories elaborated with research centers and international and Italian universities. The event will be opened by Sarwanth Singh, member of the Advisory Board of the Leeds University Business School and founder of the research group on Mega Trends. Many researchers will intervene, those who work together with Legacoop Bologna to elaborate strategic trajectories and innovation proposals for the development and growth of territory cooperatives.
The conference follows other events on the same subject that occurred in the last month.
For instance, CUBO (Unipol Centre Bologna) on the 26th of April hosted a reflection on the development of suburbs and urban requalification, by means of a comparison between the experiences of Turin, Melpignano (Lecce), Naples and Bologna. This event was part of the program #PrimaveraPilastro2016, a series of events in the framework of a bigger project that aims at adding value to the Pilastro neighbourhood in Bologna by trying to build a cooperative community.
Another event on this subject was organized by Eutropian and took place in Rome on May 5-7, with the title “Funding the Cooperative City. New models for community spaces”. The event aimed at discovering new economic models for community-led urban development, through comparisons of experiences and initiatives in a debate that involved researchers coming from Italy and Europe.
LabGov coordinator, prof. Christian Iaione, has contributed to the research effort in finding new theoretical and practical frameworks to realize and promote the collaborative city model. He recently wrote an article, published on the American Journal of Economics and Sociology, in which he investigates if urban assets and resources can be transformed into sharing, collaborative, cooperative, commoning ecosystems that enable collective action for the commons.
Prof. Iaione underlines the important social functions carried out by urban spaces and community services: they encourage higher sense of belonging to the community, help to overcome political apathy, foster social cohesion, thus being crucial to a community’s well-being. He also states that urban commons are undergoing a deep crisis period, determined by the decline of public or collective spaces and citizen disaffection; urban public spaces are thus perceived as nobody’s places, rather than everybody’s places.
For this reason, it is necessary to rethink the governance of the commons: the quantitative and hierarchical, centralist approach to promoting urban space, typical of an exclusive public administration, must be replaced by a polycentric, qualitative, and relational concept of urban welfare and urban commons, which is urban co-governance.
He also proposes five design principles of a “commonsbased urban governance matrix”:
- introduction of urban commoning through regulation or a new group or organization;
- collaborative governance of sharing, possibly in conjunction with a collaborative economy based on a complementary currency system and local development agencies;
- social innovation as the basis of a shift from a traditional urban welfare system to a collaborative welfare system;
- radical transformation of the internal organization and work methodologies of urban bureaucracies into citizens enabling communities of service designers;
- establishment of a collaboration laboratory (Co-Lab), a living lab where collaboration takes place, is taught, and communicated.
Prof. Iaione discussed his paper in the 4th European Regional Meeting of IASC, that took place in Bern from the 10th to the 13th May with the following subject: “Commons in a ‘glocal’ world: global connections and local responses”. The article was debated in the B20 panel, which would like to examine the concept of Smart Cities in India, and contrast it with the advances that other countries made in redefining their concepts of urban commons.
For more information, see the ViCoo – Visioni Cooperative event program.
You can also read our previous articles on Pilastro2016, Rome Eutropian conference and Bern IASC conference.
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Il prof. Christian Iaione, coordinatore di LabGov, parteciperà alla conferenza di presentazione di ViCoo – Visioni Cooperative, un laboratorio di idee organizzato da Legacoop Bologna per esplorare nuove rotte verso l’innovazione di comunità e territori. L’evento ne segue altri sullo stesso argomento tenutisi nell’ultimo mese, come la conferenza CUBO #Pilastro2016, l’evento Eutropian a Roma e la 4a Conferenza Regionale Europea di IASC a Berna. Proprio in quest’ultimo evento il prof. Iaione ha presentato un importante articolo che propone i cinque pilastri fondanti per una corretta ridefinizione del concetto di governance dei beni comuni.
by Chiara Fratalia | May 12, 2016 | Commons Press
“Governance models for sharing cities: Seoul and Milan” is a paper written by Monica Bernardi and Davide Diamantini, urban sociologists and social researchers at the Milano-Bicocca University. This article was first discussed at the 1st IASC Thematic Conference: The city as a commons, which was held in Bologna on 6-7 November 2015 and had the aim to summarize and advance the theoretical and experimental knowledge on collaborative city governance.
The authors, after a brief introduction of the concept of sharing economy, proceed to analyze the role of the Public Administration in this emerging kind of public governance. This subject is develop by a comparison between the two case studies of Milan and Seoul, whose developments, despite following two different approaches to collaborative governance (bottom-up in Milan and top-down in Seoul), have many shared characteristics. This comparison, which rests on the analysis of the Public Administration’s policy strategy by the recall of specific policies, programs and initiatives, has its ultimate purpose on highlighting some peculiarities that have constituted the background and the basis to the development of a collaborative governance in these two cities. At a later time, these peculiarities could be gathered together in order to elaborate a collaborative governance development model that could be implemented by other cities worldwide, thus spreading collaborative practices in different urban contexts.
If you are interested in this subject, please explore the full paper here.
by Chiara Fratalia | May 11, 2016 | Commons Press
“The CO-City: Sharing, Collaborating, Cooperating, and Commoning in the City” is a paper written by professor Christian Iaione of LabGov, published on the American Journal of Economics and Sociology in March 2016 and discussed in the framework of the 4th European Regional Meeting of IASC, which took place from the 10th to the 13th May 2016.
This article introduces an innovative, experimental, adaptive, and iterative approach to creating legal and institutional frameworks based on urban polycentric governance to foster commons-based urban policies. First, the theory of urban/local governance is introduced, based on an urban co-governance matrix. A new type of regulatory system is then described that aims at transforming people in distributed nodes of collective action. Citizens and institutions can be myriad nodes of designing and problem solving in the public interest. Urban cogovernance aims at taking advantage of this galaxy of networks. The author then examines design principles and a methodology to implement the urban co-governance matrix. The concluding question concerns the need for a new research methodology to investigate the ongoing process of state transformation and institutional genesis at the urban level.
If you are interested in this subject, please explore the full paper here.
