One of the enduring foundations of the Ostrom Workshop has been the Monday Colloquium Series, promoted by the Indiana University Bloomington. The series has provided a forum for a breadth of presenters and topics over the years that have echoed the themes of the Ostrom Workshop’s research program.
On October 5th from 6pm to 7pm (Rome time zone) Sheila Foster, professor of Urban Law and Policy at Georgetown University, will participate to the Colloquim series organized by Indiana University Bloomington. Professor Foster, co-director of LabGov.City, will present the forthcomming book written with professor Christian Iaione: “Co-Cities: Empowering Equitable and Self-Sustaining Communities through Land and Resource Stewardship”. In particular she will focus on the principles elaborated by Elinor Ostrom adapted to the Urban contexts.
On May 4th will take place the civic collaboration day.
This year, as the co-planning sessions for the Local Action Plan of the Rome Collaboratory, (Open Heritage Horizon 2020 project) just ended [1], CooperACTiva will propose an event to valorize cultural heritage and promote civic collaboration whilst involving local actors. CooperACTiva, first community cooperative born within a complex area in Roma along with LUISS/ LabGov support, will indeed organize the “Heritage Walk”, a bike tour through Alessandrino, Centocelle and Torrespaccata neighborhoods. The participants of the #collab_bici will have the opportunity to discover beautiful places, left aside by mainstream touristic tours.
The first part will indeed be dedicated to the visit of the Centocelle archeological Park through which the participants will have the chance explore many little-known places including the Villa della Piscina, Villa ad Duas Lauros and the Runway airport. The tour will then continue and the participants will ride alongside the Tunnel and Osteria located in Centocelle.
This event, aiming to promote cultural heritage through sustainability, will also be part of a series of sustainable initiatives set up during the “Sustainability Festival”, a macro-event organized by the Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development (ASVIS) to raise awareness of environmental sustainability. In this context, CooperACTiva is planning another bike tour on May 26.
Save the date: on 29th and 30th March will take place the fourth module of the Urban Clinic EDU@LabGov in Luiss Guido Carli University. This fourth module is mainly dedicated to ‘Urban Experimentalism’!
On Friday 29th March the workshop will take place in the classroom 305b from 16pm to 18pm in the Luiss Campus.
The Urban Clinic will host dr. Daniela Patti, expert in the urban regeneration and in the collaborative planning and co-founder and manager of Eutropian.org Research & Action (http://eutropian.org/). She will talk about cooperation in cities and successful examples of civic cooperation. In the second part of the workshop, Labgovers will listen to prof. Lorenzo Maria Donini, expert in nutritional principles and food science from La Sapienza University. This will represent an important step in the development of the digital platform that Labgovers have designed in order to raise awareness towards the importance of food, sport and agriculture for individual and collective well-being.
On Saturday 30th March from 10 am to 17 pm in room 310 of the Luiss roman Campus will take place the fourth co-working session. The Urban Clinic will host Vincenzo Maria Capelli, agricultural entrepreneur of the gardens and boating champion from Confagricoltura. He will talk to the Labgovers about his professional experience and the connection between urban agriculture, sport, entrepreneurship. The co-working session will be moderated from Alexander Piperno, PhD Luiss in economics and from the team of EDU@LabGov to support the students in order to add new wedges to the idea that they are developing and to strengthen the sustainability model.
Save
the date: next Saturday, 9th March we will host the first EDU@LabGov
community gardening session in Luiss Community Garden from 10 am to 12am.
The
LabGovers will work with recycled materials in order to build a prototype that
they will install in Luiss and in the city of Rome. If you are interested in
following their work, follow our official social network!
During
the community gardening session, the LabGovers will put into practice what they are learning during the forms in the classroom
therefore it will represent ahead important footstep in the realization of
their project.
The assisted gardening is not only a didactic
moment but an activity of practical collaborative among the boundaries of the University
Luiss Guido Carli, that then the students will experiment on the field in the
city of Rome.
Stay tuned!
Save the date: Sabato 9 marzo si terrà
il primo community gardening della Clinica Urbana EDU@LabGov presso l’#OrtoLuiss
dalle 10:00 alle 12:00.
Durante la sessione di community
gardening i LabGovers, divisi dapprima in quattro gruppi sulle diverse aree di
lavoro, dovranno presentare i dati raccolti nel corso della settimana e
iniziare a dar forma al loro progetto. Inizieranno quindi un laboratorio di
auto-costruzione che, tramite l’utilizzo di materiali riciclati, li porterà a
realizzare un prototipo che installeranno nella città di Roma. Se volete
saperne di più rimanete connessi ai nostri account social ufficiali quel
giorno!
L’obiettivo
è mettere in pratica ciò che gli studenti stanno apprendendo durante i moduli
in aula, quindi rappresenterà un importante passo avanti nella realizzazione
della loro idea.
Il gardening assistito non è solo un
momento didattico ma un’attività di pratica collaborativa tra le mura
dell’Università Luiss Guido Carli, che poi gli studenti sperimenteranno sul
campo nella città di Roma.
?☀️IT’S FRIDAY and you are just in time to catch up on the latest news from #cities around the world!
The LabGov team has collected for you some interesting urban stories from cities like Olinda, Lagos and Los Angeles!
Check out our weekly recap on the #UrbanMediaLab and get updated on what has been happening around the world before you start your weekend.
Is there a “concrete”
architectural solution?
Concrete is one of
the most polluting materials, and is said to release 4-8% of the world’s CO2. That
is highly due to the clinker manufacture, part of the cement-making process.
The latter also necessitates up to 10th % of the world’s industrial
water use. Compiling examples of historical urban uses of concrete, the article
traces the economic and architectural structural changes that should be
operated as well as the change in mindset to achieve a more sustainable and
viable development model.
From a fisher
village to skyscrapers and shaped musical movement and music giant as Fela
Kuty, Lagos has also proved to be a resilient city. Through a colourful
cartoon, Tayo Fatunla pays tribute to the most populated Nigerian city.
This article
illustrates how the carnaval in the city of Olinda in Brazil triggers social
and spatial separation through the privatization of paying premises, in the so-called
camarotização process,named after the term camarotes, which,means cabin. This process, linked to the American concept of
skyboxification (M.Sandel) participates to the “gourmetização do espaço”, i.e economic-led separation and
differenciation of spaces, that fuels socio-economic categorizations and discriminations.
Article in Portuguese
It takes more than
20 years for a cup of coffee to decompose. Kaffeform, a german start-up found a
new way of creating coffee cups using old coffee grounds, wood and biological
binders and thus proposing a reusable solution.
Written as a short
story on the museums in Los Angeles by a New Yorker, the article sets the
explanatory factors of the evolution of Los Angeles museums, making as well, an
historical parallel with the city development and city artistic movements.
New Applications to help women
address sexual harassment
SafetiPin and
Harassmap are two technological tools created to support women facing sexual
harassment in public spaces.
Natives canadians especially
from the First Nation reserve are asking for property rights. Facing housing
shortages, poor living conditions, poor health, indigenous people are urging the
government for solutions since their current absence of ownership implies no
asset and therefore no mortgage. However, if one solution could be abolishing
1876 Indian Act to enable private land ownership, this remains subject to
criticism, among the Indigenous people notably. Some of them are trying to
create new models of private homes ownership.
