Italian collaborative cities launch from Rome the Matera Sharing School

Italian collaborative cities launch from Rome the Matera Sharing School

by | Jan 14, 2015 | The Urban Media Lab

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The sharing economy is growing faster than ever and becoming a hot policy issue these days. Casa Netural, Collaboriamo, RENA and LabGov have for this reason decided to launch the “sharing school”. Thanks to the collaboration between these entities and partners like Ouishare, Avanzi and Societing, the school will be able to host highly qualified professionals and experienced innovators. The main star will be Neal Gorenflo from Shareable.

 

The school will be held in the city of Matera, 2019 European Capital of Culture, from January 23rd, 2015 through January 26th, 2015. The four day full immersion program is based on a “learning by doing” approach, which aims at forming participants on sharing economy. The possibility to experiment collaboration among participants is the pivotal practice of the school. Through active participation, cooperation, inclusion and strong theoretical background, the program aims at analyzing recent trends and best practices of the sharing economy and to provide the necessary instruments to designing and manage community services and assets through sharing and collaborative schemes. The school is thus recommended for all those civic innovators, nonprofit leaders, economic development professionals, city builders and entrepreneurs, public officials which seek to deepen their knowledge of practices related to the commons, as well as to the sharing practices in a city. The school will provide them with the skills, expertise, and insights they need to create, implement and measure to build upon the creativity, innovation, and human capability of their local communities.

In Rome, Neal Gorenflo will launch the school at an event on collaborative cities as a model for urban transformation and local economic development. The audience will be made up of Roman and Italian sharing world actors. The conference will be held at Porta Futuro on January 22nd at 10:00 AM. Representatives from four collaborative cities (Milan, Florence, Bologna and Rome) and other important experts and practitioners will be there too. The aim is to open 2015 with a thorough discussion on how cities could be turned into collaborative cities or co-cities, that is to say places where people share urban commons, city governments collaborate with citizens and collaborative businesses flourish, all thanks to a commons-oriented economic approach.

Event program is available here.

You can enroll here

To get more info on the Sharing School: http://www.sharingschool.it

 

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Le città collaborative lanciano da Roma la Sharing School di Matera

La sharing economy sta crescendo più velocemente che mai e sta diventando un tema di politica pubblica molto caldo negli ultimi mesi, anche grazie a eventi come Sharitaly. Per questa ragione, Casa Netural, Collaboriamo, RENA e LabGov hanno deciso di lanciare la Sharing School. Grazie alla collaborazione tra queste soggetti e partner come  OuiShare, Avanzi e Societing,  la scuola potrà ospitare professionisti altamente qualificati e innovatori di grande esperienza. Neal Gorenflo, co-founder di Shareable, sarà ospite della scuola per tutta la durata dell’iniziativa.

La scuola si terrà a Matera, Capitale Europea della Cultura 2019 , dal 23 al 26 gennaio 2015. Quattro giorni di full immersion basati sull’approccio “learning by doing”, che mirano a formare i partecipanti sui temi e le pratiche della sharing economy. La possibilità di sperimentare la collaborazione tra i partecipanti è la caratteristica principale della scuola. Attraverso la partecipazione attiva, la cooperazione, l’inclusione e un forte background teorico, il programma mira ad analizzare i trend più recenti e le best practices della sharing economy per fornire gli strumenti necessari per progettare e gestire servizi e beni di comunità attraverso schemi di condivisione e collaborazione. La scuola è pensata per tutti gli innovatori civici, leaders nel settore del non-profit, professionisti dello sviluppo economico, city builders, imprenditori, e funzionari pubblici che intendono approfondire la conoscenza delle pratiche relative ai commons, così come delle pratiche collaborative in una città. La scuola fornirà loro le skills, l’esperienza, e indagherà i loro bisogni di creare, implementare e misurare per costruire sulla creatività, l’innovazione e il capitale umano delle loro comunità locali.

A Roma, Neal Gorenflo lancerà la scuola in un evento sulle città collaborative come modello di trasformazione urbana e sviluppo economico locale. L’evento richiamerà molti attori del mondo dello sharing a livello italiano e globale. La conferenza avrà luogo presso Porta Futuro il 22 gennaio alle ore 10:00. Saranno presenti i  rappresentanti di quattro città collaborative (Milano, Firenze, Bologna e Roma) e altri importanti esperti e professionisti. L’obiettivo dell’evento è aprire il 2015 con una riflessione su come le città possono essere trasformate in città collaborative o  co-città, ovvero luoghi dove le persone condividono i beni comuni urbani, l’amministrazione collabora con i cittadini e imprese collaborative fioriscono, tutto grazie a un approccio economico orientato ai beni comuni.

Il programma è disponibile qui.

Puoi iscriverti qui.

Per maggiori informazioni sulla Sharing School:  http://www.sharingschool.it

 

Bologna regulation on public collaboration for urban commons

by | Oct 31, 2014 | The Urban Media Lab

The Bologna Regulation on public collaboration for urban commons is part of the “The City as a Commons” project that started in 2011 in Bologna with the support of Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna and the City of Bologna. It ultimately led to the adoption of the “Regolamento sulla collaborazione per la cura e rigenerazione dei beni comuni urbani“. LabGov interns prepared and edited the translation of the Bologna Regulation which is now the official version adopted by the City of Bologna (see “Regulation on collaboration between citizens and the city for the care and regeneration of urban commons“).

The Bologna Regulation was drafted after two years of field work and three “urban commons governance labs” run also by LabGov Coordinator, Professor Christian Iaione. The Bologna Regulation is a 30 page regulatory framework outlining how local authorities, citizens and the community at large (SMEs, non profits, knowledge institutions) can manage public and private spaces and assets together. As such, it’s a sort of handbook for civic and public collaboration, and also a new vision for government. It reflects the strong belief that we need a cultural shift in terms of how we think about government, moving away from the Leviathan State or Welfare State toward collaborative or polycentric urban/local governance. This calls for new regulatory and governmental tools, namely public collaboration, nudge regulation, and citytelling.

Christian Iaione, participated actively to the design and implementation activities of “La città come bene comune” (i.e. “The city as a commons“) project in Bologna. Iaione developed the theoretical fraework, carried out and coordinated the research activities, training programs and co-design sessions and was also one of the most active members on the committee appointed by the Comune di Bologna to draft the regulation.

Iaione has been researching the topic of urban commons for quite a long time, and at some point  realized that the city could actually be interpreted as a collaborative commons. Iaione’s research on urban commons is synthesized in the  “City as a Commons” paper presented at a conference in Utrecht in 2012 and later published on the Indiana University Digital Library of the Commons. Earlier studies were published in Italian as “La città come bene comune” and “Città e beni comuni“.  Iaione had the opportunity to work and develop his academic studies as a research fellow at New York University School of Law. While at NYU he developed the theoretical framework for local public entrepreneurship, which is the basis of the CO-Mantova project and the idea of the city as a commons. His study on the tragedy of urban roads is the prequel of the Bologna experiment and the first conceptualization of urban infrastructure and assets as commons.

The City as a Commons project recently entered a new phase and evolved into the CO-Bologna project. The turning point is the 1st IASC Conference on urban commons “The City as a Commons“.