Placemaking Week Europe 2019 is Europe’s biggest conference and festival celebrating the impact of placemaking on the urban fabric. From June 12th-15th, roughly 400 placemakers, representing professionals from a variety of disciplines, including politicians, civil servants, developers, big and small companies will be present in La Marina and around the city of Valencia to share best practices, create new knowledge in interactive workshops, focus on accelerating existing and new projects and celebrate the growing contribution of placemaking in creating better cities.
This year Placemaking Week will revolve around five main topics:
On June 17th, at 17:00pm, a discussion on the theme: “Civic collaboration as the general legal principle for the activities of Public Administration” with the Agenda described hereafter will be held in the Pompeo Room of the Palazzo Spada located Piazza Capo di Ferro 13, Rome. The event will also be the occasion for the presentation of the book by C.Iaione and P.Chirulli intitled “ The Co-City. Urban Law and Public Policy for Common Goods and Urban Regeneration”, Jovene, 2018.
Presiding
Claudio Rossano (Sapienza Università, Rome)
Introducing
Paola Chirulli
(Sapienza Università, Rome)
Christian Iaione
(Luiss Guido Carli and UniMarconi)
Discussing
Rosanna De Nictolis (Council of State)
Sheila Foster
(Georgetown University)
Raffaele Bifulco
(Luiss Guido Carli)
Giovanni Moro (FondaCA and Gregoriana Università, Rome)
Aristide Police
(Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata)
Aldo Sandulli
(Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa)
Paolo Stella Richter (Sapienza Università, Rome)
Concluding
Veronica Nicotra (ANCI)
Organizing Secretary: Christian Iaione (ciaione@luiss.it) and Staff (staff@labgov.it)
Our Commons: Political Ideas for a New Europe is a collection of essays, case studies and interviews about the commons, published right before the European Elections of May 2019. The book showcases the wealth of transformative ideas that the international commons movement has to offer. With contributions by Kate Raworth, David Bollier, George Monbiot and many others, Our Commons is a political call to arms to all Europeans to embrace the commons and build a new Europe.
Commons Network’s very own Sophie Bloemen and Thomas de Groot worked on this book for almost two years, doing research and interviews, working with academics, policy makers, authors and activists to paint a colourful picture of the commons as the blueprint for a new future, one that is inclusive, ecologically sustainable, equitable, democratic, collaborative, creative and resilient.
Our Commons features reflections on the enclosure of knowledge and the monopolisation of the digital sphere, stories about renewable energy cooperatives and community foodwaste initiatives and urgent pleas to see the city as a commons and to treat health as a common good. The book is first published online as an e-book, free for all to download and share and as a printable PDF. The book will also be available on a wide variety of print-on-demand platforms.
Join Green European Foundation for a workshop exploring basic income, existing pilot projects, and the potential impact of such schemes on our societies on the 24th of April from 5.30pm to 7.30pm at the Social Center TPO, Via Camillo Casarini 17/5, Bologna, BO 40131 Italy.
Basic income has emerged in
recent years as a potential tool to reverse the current issues facing society,
such as lack of affordable housing and access to education and healthcare,
income inequality and disparity between generations.
As basic income gradually
permeates into mainstream debates and factors like technological advancements
change our understanding of work, it is important to explore how such a scheme
could be implemented, and the impact it would have on social rights at the
local and European level.
About the Event
This workshop will be held
as a side event of the Federation of
Young European Greens
(FYEG) four day educational event on social rights, and organised with the
support of FYEG.
It will bring together
young people locally and from across Europe, with international participants
including those from FYEG member organisations, social movements, and trade
unions.
Participants will learn via
roundtable discussions about basic income, existing pilot projects and the
connection with social rights. They will identify the pressing requirements to
make such a scheme a reality.
Programme
The workshop will be
divided into three parts, with breaks in between:
The presentation of the GEF publication European Green Perspectives on Basic Incomewill provide an introduction to the basic income concept and describe successes and limitations of past pilot projects, and discuss the results of research into the impact of basic income schemes on access to housing, education, healthcare and employment.
Two fishbowl-style dialogues will serve as a basis to discuss the challenges and solutions to basic income implementation. This part will touch upon the need for certain infrastructure to be in place and the challenges associated with competing views of basic income.
Finally, roundtable discussions will delve deeper into the realisation of basic income on the local and European level, with a focus on connecting the two levels together and how basic income could strengthen social rights at these levels.
Speakers
Natalie Bennett, GEF Board of Directors
Alex Foti, author of the General Theory of the Precariat
Registration
The workshop will be free and open to everyone but subject to registration. You can register by filling in this form. Deadline for registration is Wednesday, 17 April 2019, midnight CET.
Language
The event will be held in
English but whispered translation from English into Italian can be provided on
the spot.
Saturday, 13th of April at 10:00 at Fusolab2.0 in via della Bella Villa, 94 the final meeting of the Local Action Plan co-working process of the Rome Collaboratory will take place.
The fourth and final session of the co-working lab of the Local Action Plan of the Rome Collaboratory will be focused on finalizing the social business model plan.
The activities at the core of the Rome Collaboratory are related to cultural and creative services, sustainable tourism, circular economy based on the reuse of the Centocelle heritage site.
The Rome Collaboratory lab is working on ways to include the local community of civic and commercial actors (residents-owned restaurants; NGOs that manages open green areas and community gardens; hospitality activities; community hubs) in the practice of adaptive reuse, as well in the governance and financial model for the reuse of the cultural heritage.
