On June 3rd 2019, at 10.00am, Luiss Guido Carli University will host a presentation of Luiss Green Mobility, as part of the 3rd edition of the Sustainable Development Festival. The event will take place in room Toti, Viale Romania 32, Rome.
Luiss Green Mobility is the first university service in Europe to provide the academic community with smart, connected and shared mobility. Thanks to a platform and an app, students and academics are able to commute from one campus to another and move through the streets of the capital. The respect for the environment is an essential element to structure and guide students’ self-development.
Speakers:
Daniele Del Pesce CEO Electric Drive Italia Christian Iaione Professor of Urban Law and Policy at Luiss University and Manager of LabGov- Laboratory for the Governance of the city as a Commons- Andrea Buonomini CEO Ratp Dev Italy Federico Testa E-Mobility ACEA Meeting coordinator Benito De Filippis CEO Mercedes Benz Rome
From Thursday May 23rd 2019 to Sunday May 26th 2019 will take place the forum About a City- Rethinking Cities at the Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Foundation – Viale Pasubio 5, Milan, as part of the MilanoArch Week. Free entrance !
About a City 2019 – Rethinking cities presents itself as a review of practices aimed at constructing original responses to the needs of contemporary urban inhabitants, through the activation of social and political responsibility processes. Starting from people’s practical experiences allows us to adopt a realistic, dynamic, conscious and reactive approach in addressing constantly evolving needs and to prospect the future that they foreshadow. This innovative building process urgently requires the activation and integration of individuals and communities’ skills in the course of developing a far-sighted vision.
Relying on the tension between this critical situation and rising transformative process, the new edition of the forum About a City 2019 – Rethinking cities will bring to light stories and practices of actors who work to cope with today’s needs, through four days of reflection and confrontation in closed roundtables, talks, debates, dialogues, lectures and performance events.
An articulated program has been designed for an audience represented by:
• Citizens, associations, citymakers and communities, so that they can contribute directly to defining the future whilst ensuring the quality of life of their living space, based on their needs and desires
• Stakeholders and companies, so that they can consider citizens’ needs, sensitivities and imaginations, in conceiving experimental projects and in producing sustainable urban transformations consistent with the identities of the places and anchored to the inhabitants’ stories
• Institutions, governmental and non-governmental organizations, and politicians, since they contribute to the development of new forms of responsable and courageous governance that pay more attention to citizens’ requests and role
Starting on Thursday afternoon with a session of 8 thematic closed tables, in which stakeholders from various backgrounds and competences will discuss many themes amongst which: the needs related to poverty, responsible tourism, the use of technology, mobility as facilitator to urban opportunities, the construction of public edifices, the management of common goods, the promotion of environmental sustainability and the quality of life. All these discussions will help define the resources of “civic capital” necessary to concretize the “right to the city” experience. After an institutional opening, Alfredo Brillemburg, U-TT Caracas, will hold a lecture “Making urban utopias (from peripheries”).It will be followed by the screening of “The adolescence of the cities – Diary of a growing metropolis“, which is the outcome of an annual path of the G. Feltrinelli Foundation, in collaboration with the Cariplo Foundation in the context of Lacittàintorno.
The forum will proceed on Friday and Saturday mornings, with conversations and workshops in panels, structured around three moments of reflection:
1) Borderscapes. Transforming the city based on its needs: to analyse the needs and shape the responses to the crisis of inequalities in populated territories.
2) Commonscapes. Building the city as a pact: to think about the forms of responsibility, co-responsibility and legal-political innovations necessary to a collective construction of urban futures
3) Culturescapes. Designing City Skills and Strengths: to address cities’ economic and human regeneration, based on the skills and abilities of the city inhabitants
A series of scholars, experts, activists as well as an audience of politicians, business representatives, governmental and non-governmental organizations, civil society and the third sector will help to compose a lexique of terms about cities and illustrate it with stories.
Sunday will be devoted to the theme Arts in the city and will host artistic performance related to urban regeneration.
On May 11th 2019, the Capri Forum, organised by the LabGov team will gather experts, national and international promotors and investors, including Arpinge, Global Solar Fund, AgID, ENEA, Enel X, Motus E, ANCI, Regione Campania and Federcasa to explore sustainable tourism, smart technologies, social infrastructure and sustainable mobility in order to conceive a model of “smart sustainable island” replicable in other tourist destinations.
On Saturday May the 4th, as the weather was bad, the bike tour organised for the Civic Collaboration day was cancelled and postponed. Instead, from 10am to 11am, the Rome Collaboratory set up a visit of the Tunnel of Centocelle. Wearing helmets and accompanied with headlamps, the whole group followed two members of Roma Sotterranea – an Association comprising archeologists and speleologists- who made a presentation on the tunnel history.
Visit of the Centocelle Tunnel
At the same time, the Rugantino library in the Centocelle neighborhood hosted a petition (signature-collection), which was set up by the LabGov team in the context of the national signature-collection coordinated by the Rodotà Committee. The latter aims, in particular, to change the definition of “Good” and decline it in three different types: public good, private good and common goods.
Presentation by Pr. Raffaele di Raimo
At 11am at the Rugantino library, the professor Raffaele di Raimo, lecturer at the University of Salento in Civil Law, made a presentation on the project and objectives of the Rodotà committee. Starting with the definition of common good namely “good essential to the exercise of fundamental rights”, he developed an explanation on the existing legal framework encompassing for instance; “beni pubblici sovrani”, “beni pubblici patrimoniali”. He clarified the “legge delega” process, the privatization process and eventually concluded underlining the need for more citizen legitimacy.
On May 7th, at 2.30pm, a press conference will be organised at the Ministry of Cultural Heritage (MiBAC) to unveil a national call that LabGov and ERSHub (Ethics, Responsibility and Sustainability hub within Luiss University) have designed. The call is requesting the installation of social-digital innovation hubs in 70-80 Italian schools and libraries situated in priority and complex neighborhoods.
The working team, coordinated by Christian Iaione, Paolo Boccardelli, Francesco Rullani, Cristiano Busco, is composed of Elena De Nictolis, Benedetta Gillio, Ludovica Tripodi, Alessandro Piperno, and Fabrizio Sgranà.
