by Chiara De Angelis | May 10, 2016 | The Urban Media Lab
The theme of the 29th Salone Internazionale del Libro, which will take place from May 12th to May 16th, is “Visions”. The protagonists of this book fair will be those who can look far and who can implement fairly impossible projects.
Urban Center Metropolitano Torino have organized, during the fair, a meeting about Urban Visions.
“Oltre il confine. Visioni di città” is a multi-voice debate about the future of Italian and european cities. The debate will focus on some crucial issues of our times: resilience, new economies, urban regeneration, civic care of Commons, new social and institutional models.
The meeting will have two speakers talking about Urban Visions:
- Antonio Calafati, urban economist, who will focus his speech on “visionary cities (in Europe)”
- Christian Iaione, from LabGov, who will talk about “Co-Cities as (in)voluntary cities”
The debate will take place on Saturday 14th oh May, in the “Sala Arena Piemonte”.
LabGov a Torino per parlare di Co-Cities. Il coordinatore del progetto, Christian Iaione, sarà ospite di Urban Center Metropolitano Torino, durante il XXIX Salone Internazionale del Libro, per parlare di Co-Città.
Appuntamento sabato 14 maggio alla Sala Arena Piemonte.
LabGov a Torino per parlare di Co-Cities. Il coordinatore del progetto, Christian Iaione, sarà ospite di Urban Center Metropolitano Torino, durante la XXIX Fiera Internazionale del Libro.
Appuntamento sabato 14 maggio alla Sala Arena Piemonte.
by Benedetta Gillio | Mar 8, 2016 | The Urban Media Lab
UN-Habitat is the United Nations programme working towards a better urban future. Its mission is to promote socially and environmentally sustainable human settlements development and the achievement of adequate shelter for all. Cities are facing unprecedented demographic, environmental, economic, social and spatial challenges. There has been a phenomenal shift towards urbanization, with 6 out of every 10 people in the world expected to reside in urban areas by 2030. Over 90 per cent of this growth will take place in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. In the absence of effective urban planning, the consequences of this rapid urbanization will be dramatic. In many places around the world, the effects can already be felt: lack of proper housing nd growth of slums, inadequate and out-dated infrastructure – be it roads, public transport, water, sanitation, or electricity – escalating poverty and unemployment, safety and crime problems, pollution and health issues, as well as poorly managed natural or man-made disasters and other catastrophes due to the effects of climate change. Mindsets, policies, and approaches towards urbanization need to change in order for the growth of cities and urban areas to be turned into opportunities that will leave nobody behind. Sustainable housing plays a key role in human quality of life in general in the European region. The positive impact of housing can be increased through application of the following principles: environmental protection, economic growth, social inclusion, citizen participation and cultural adequacy. Development of sustainable housing in the UNECE region afaces many challenges caused in particular by globalization, demographic changes and the recent economic crisis. In some cases urbanization has led to urban sprawl, which has had a negative impact on existing settlements and has reduced the land available for other uses.In other cases, urbanization has been uncontrolled, creating and expanding informal settlements, whose residents may lack security of housing and social and physical infrastructure. The Czech Republic has proposed the High Level Regional Meeting for Habitat III in Prague in March 2016 with a theme of “Sustainable Housing in Livable Cities: European Habitat”. During the meeting, it is expected that the Habitat III Regional Report and Prague Declaration will be available and adopted.
Habitat III Europe Regional Meeting “European Habitat” will involve a wide range of participants, that will debate regional priorities for the New Urban Agenda, and policy recommendations in the form of a final regional participants’ declaration. Habitat III – Regional Meeting, Europe will take place in Prague from 16/03/2016 to 18/03/2016. The “European Habitat” is focusing on the region of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe consisting of 56 Member States, while participation is open for all. In this regard, “European Habitat” will gather recommendations reflecting the consensus reached at the regional level on sustainable housing and other topics from the spectrum of a proposed New Urban Agenda.In the process towards a New Urban Agenda, Habitat III Europe Regional Meeting “European Habitat” will discuss how to ensure access to decent, adequate, affordable and healthy housing for all, with due attention to reducing the impact of the housing sector on the environment. Final declaration from “European Habitat” will be considered official inputs to the Habitat III process. Join us at this exciting opportunity to discuss the challenges of Sustainable Housing in Liveable Cities. Final “Prague Declaration” from “European Habitat” will be considered official inputs to the Habitat III process.
Here the programme: https://www.habitat3.org/prague
by Diletta Di Marco | Dec 2, 2015 | The Urban Media Lab
“Collaborare è Bologna” is a project of the City of Bologna, managed with the Bologna Urban Center and various partners to promote a “culture of collaboration” with continuous and consistent community involvement,and to make technologies, resources, spaces, knowledge, skills and information more accessible. In this framework, on 19 May 2014, the Municipality of Bologna approved the “Regulations on the collaboration between citizens and the Administration”, for the treatment and regeneration of the commons. This is an instruction manual for a collaborative dialogue between the public, private and community spheres, a tool that seeks to simplify and promote forms of collaboration in the management of the commons, implementing the principle of subsidiarity provided for by the Constitution in its 118 article.
The project is divided into three sub-projects, designed by listening the citizens and letting them cooperate with associations, institutions, firms and interest groups:
> Fare_insieme: projects for the treatment of public spaces (i.e islands for underground waste collection, new lighting and upgrading of the main public spaces of the center, projects for cleaning the urban spaces, contrasting graphic vandalism, teaching citizens the shared care of open spaces).
> Vivere_insieme: projects with an innovative approach on many issues. Starting from mobility, for a city in which citizens are moving on foot, by bike and on public transport until the creation of projects in areas with specific problems (Pilastro and Bolognina are the interested zones).
> Crescere_insieme: projects in which public places become collaborative spaces and engines of economic development. The project provides a digital network infrastructure in step with Europe, to promote Bologna as a City of Food and renew the relationship between the university and the city.
From October 22 to December 3, 2015 a series of meetings will take place in different neighborhoods and with an online consultation for the citizens to define the priorities of the city.
The path was created in order to strengthen the collaborative ties and develop priorities, to implement the energy of the city and the ability of citizens to collaborate.
The Municipality is organizing six meetings, one for each district to activate a digital platform where citizens, schools, businesses and associations of Bologna will contribute to the emergence of the urban commons and draw a map of the urban regeneration projects and future actions. The aim is to design together a view of the commons to implement the available European funds, with the support of the regional and municipal authorities.
The round tables are organized with the direct participation of the citizens; the focus is on discovering the priorities of citizens and neighborhoods. Which are the places that need special attention?
Each meeting tries to answer to practical questions, and the participation of Neighborhood Presidents and the Mayor is an unique opportunity to present the measures already implemented and funded (relative to the district headquarters of the meeting) with a strong focus on the regeneration projects in progress and current demographic changes.
Each meeting is built on working groups, and for two hours all present citizens can intervene and bring out, area by area, problems and potential solutions.
The project “collaborare è Bologna” is organized by the city of Bologna with the collaboration of the Neighborhoods, Urban Center Bologna, ASP – Company Public Services for the person, IES – School Education Institution and the Institution for Social Inclusion and Community. The official hashtag is #collaborarebologna— search it on Social Media. For more information, write an email to gestionecomunita@comune.bologna.it. The next meeting’s programme of December 3rd is already online on the website: www.urbancenterbologna.it. Change begins with participation, and participation begins with you!
by Michela Mauriello | Oct 21, 2015 | The Urban Media Lab
FOUR DAYS OF LECTURES, DEBATES, PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS, WORKSHOPS AND ROUND TABLES WITH MORE THAN 30 INTERNATIONAL GUESTS FROM ALL OVER EUROPE.
What is the future of our cities? This question will be the central topic of the initiative titled: OURCITIES: Re-imagine the Urban Environment. This project, organized by Itinerant Office through the New Generation cultural agenda and the support of FAF OAF and the City of Florence, will take place in Florence at La Palazzina Reale from October 22nd to October 25th, 2015.
These four days of workshops, public presentations and round table discussions will focus on fu
ture scenarios for our cities, including the constant nvestigation of new sustainable models based on participation, the improvement of technologies, and the urgency of new policies that aim towards re-use of unused urban space. Today, more than ever, architects, professors and students will get together to discuss the sense of collectiveness that is bringing a new consciousness to the spaces that belong to us: OurCities.
The lecture schedule is divided into three main sections. The first is a workshop held by Space&Matter and Michele Ferretti that aims to reconceptualize Vittorio Veneto square in Florence. The second section of the OurCities initiative includes a series of public presentations involving 14 international architects[1]. Each one has been asked to answer three questions: (1) What are the keywords to define OurCities and foreseeable future scenarios? (2) Which professions are/will be crucial to change and improve the quality of OurCities? (3) What are the tools to understand, improve and anticipate the future of OurCities? Their contribution is included on the OurCities website, with the main goal of building new tools that will grow in the coming months through contributions from many other experts in different fields. The third and last section of the event is composed of four round tables to discuss: PluralCity, ToolCity, UrgenCity and R-EvolutionCity. The round table ToolCity, moderated by Shumi Bose, will also see the participation of LabGov -LABoratory for the GOVernance of the commons- with CO-Mantova’s ambitious project to run the city as a collaborative. Its aim is to find the most suitable solution for the local economic development through protection, care and enhancement of the cultural heritage, both material and immaterial.
For further information click here for the complete program of the event.
To subscribe to the OurCities workshop mailto:ourcities@ourcities.global
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OURCITIES: Re-imagine the Urban Environment
Da giovedì 22 Ottobre a domenica 25 Ottobre, presso La Palazzina reale a Firenze, si terrà OurCities, un evento strutturato in workshop, presentazioni e tavole rotonde per discutere, insieme ad architetti internazionali, professori e studenti, del futuro delle nostre città, della loro evoluzione e degli strumenti che abbiamo per interpretarle.
[1] AP+E, BAM!, Íñigo Cornago Bonal, Daniele Fanzini /Irina Rotaru, Michele Ferretti, FORA, Rodrigo García, Ljubo Georgiev, L+CC/Jason Hilgefort, Francesco Lipari, Opensystems, Parasite 2.0, Pattu, Wolfhouse Productions
by Diletta Di Marco | Oct 14, 2015 | EducationLabs
On 16 and 17 October, Labgov will present the first co-working session for Labgov 2016.
This two-day workshop is based on the proposal to imagine Rome in an innovative way.
The project CO-ROMA is focused on the idea that a city should learn to share, collaborate and cooperate with the institutions, the civil society, universities and all the possible stakeholders in order to create a collaborative community, that wants to improve the quality of life and save the Italian cognitive and cultural heritage.
The programme of this first co-working-day will be structured into four working groups, which will be: urban design; communication; community organization through service design, and sustainability.
The most competent experts in every field will hold the round tables; they will transfer their know-how to the neo-labgovers, and they will imagine all together this transformation for Rome.
Several forces are already present in this new collaborative city: active citizens, voluntary associations, schools, urban gardens, co-working spaces, fab-labs, business leaders, and professionals for the common good.
Moreover, on Saturday morning at 9.00 am, the 2016 Labgov students will work for the first time in the garden, with our technical partner for horticulture, Zappata Romana. It will be a fantastic weekend, full of experiences and adventures. The detailed programme will be published as soon as possible.
For further information, please write to our official address.
