by Leonardo Rossi | Jun 23, 2015 | The Urban Media Lab
Fondazione CON IL SUD, an Italian Foundation operating in the south of Italy, has just launched a call for proposals entitled “Bando storico-artistico – il bene torna comune”. With this initiative the Foundation wants to regenerate 14 assets according to projects made by the local communities, enterprises and institutions. CON IL SUD granted 4 million euros in order to enact such propositions aimed to allow the community to enjoy such common goods in a sustainable way. This is the third edition of this call that previously managed to enforce 21 projects with a cost of 8 million euros.
The Foundation asked to the cities of the south of Italy to propose some buildings and places eligible to this end, and 14 out of the 22o proposed were chosen. Five of those are in Sicily, seven in Puglia and two in Campania. The legal availability of these assets will be granted by the owner to the organization that would win the call for that asset for at least 10 years. The requests made for the financing of the renewing of a commons regeneration cannot exceed € 500.000. On their website is it still possible to see the full list of the urban commons that are part of the call and everyone can present an idea or a project, even when the call will be over on 14th of July 2015. This experiment aims to make clear that every community wants to cooperate and to put their efforts together in order to achieve a better lifestyle and a better world for everyone to enjoy.
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La Fondazione CON IL SUD alla sua terza edizione per la riqualifica dei beni comuni; terza edizione con I fiocchi
La Fondazione CON IL SUD vuole, lancia la terza edizione del Bando storico artistico – Il bene torna comune Con questa iniziativa la Fondazione intende rivalutare 14 beni comuni presenti in Sicilia, Puglia e Campania, grazie ad un fondo di 4 milioni di euro. Grazie a questo bando i progetti scelti saranno sovvenzionati fino ad un massimo di 500.000 euro per le spese di ristrutturazione e i vincitori avranno la proprietà del bene assegnato per almeno 10 anni. Sul sito internet è possibile consultare la lista completa dei beni comuni scelti e, anche dopo la chiusura del bando il 14 luglio 2015, sarà possibile proporre idee e progetti.
by Leonardo Rossi | Jun 22, 2015 | The Urban Media Lab
An Italian Foundation (CON IL SUD) wants to revalue some buildings (14 to be exact) according to projects made by the local communities, enterprises and institutions. CON IL SUD granted 4 million euros in order to enact such propositions aimed to allow the community to enjoy such common goods in a sustainable way.
This is the third edition of this call that previously managed to enforce 21 projects with a cost of 8 millions euros.
The Foundation asked to the cities of the south of Italy to propose some buildings and places eligible to this end, and 14 out of the 22 proposed were choose. 5 of those are in Sicily, 7 in Puglia and 2 in Campania.
The legal property of this good will be given by the owner (the region) to the organization that won the call for that building for at least 10 years, in advance of knowing what the use will be, and the requests made for the financing of the renewing of a public good cannot exceed 500.000€.
On their website is it still possible to see the full list of the public goods that are part of the call and everyone can present an idea or a project, even when the call will be over on 14th of July 2015.
This experiment aims to make clear that every community wants to cooperate and to put their efforts together in order to achieve a better lifestyle and a better world for everyone to enjoy.
La Fondazione CON IL SUD alla sua terza edizione per la riqualifica dei beni comuni; terza edizione con I fiocchi
La Fondazione CON IL SUD vuole, con la terza edizione di questo bando, rivalutare 14 beni comuni presenti in Sicilia, Puglia e Campania, grazie ad un fondo di 4 milioni di euro.
Grazie a questo bando i progetti scelti saranno sovvenzionati fino ad un massimo di 500.000€ per le spese di ristrutturazione e i vincitori avranno la proprietà del bene assegnato per almeno 10 anni.
Sul sito internet è possibile consultare la lista completa dei beni comuni scelti e, anche dopo la chiusura del bando che si terrà il 14 luglio 2015 sarà possibile proporre idee e progetti.
by Leonardo Rossi | May 15, 2015 | EducationLabs
What happens when a region is scourged by a natural disaster, like an earthquake? There is the time grief, of course, and the time of reconstruction, involving an extremely delicate phase: the healing of the victims’ souls.
That was the motivation that pushed the Ministry of the Tourism and Cultural Activities to fund an initiative, the “Beni Comuni Project”, that gathered the ETR Foundation, ATER and eleven Provinces (Campogalliano, Carpi, Cavezzo, Cento, Concordia sulla Secchia, Finale Emilia, Mirandola, Novi di Modena, San Felice sul Panaro, San Possidonio, Soliera). Their goal was to recover and reunite the spirits of the communities threatened by the 2012 earthquake by an active participation in the organization of public events with the main goal to foster the sharing sense.
This idea is much needed in a time where society tends to be more and more egoistic, full of technological barriers that allows people to communicate easily with one another, but at the same time tends to label those who cannot afford such connections as “social pariah”. Stimulate the spark of active cooperation and sharing may ignite again an essential characteristic of the human soul that is slowly dying as the society evolves.
The Project reunites 24 partners: from schools to theatres and music schools: through the organization of public events, shows, concerts and readings, this group wishes to foster the reconstruction of the populations that survived the earthquake, thanks to arts and artistic expression. In the words of a member of the Project: “a way to allow the community to restore the spaces destroyed by the earthquake and start again with a stronger sharing
spirit”.
This approach is really valuable, also because allows the people’s mind to wander off such grief and crisis and their souls to understand that nothing is over and everything can be solved, as long as there is a common goal and a common support. Act as one, survive as a whole.
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Cosa accade a una comunità quando essa viene distrutta da un cataclisma naturale, come un terremoto? Ovviamente c’è il tempo del dolore, e dopo la ricostruzione inizia una fase delicatissima: la rigenerazione degli spiriti dei cittadini.
A tale proposito è stato finanziato dal Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo e promosso dal Comune di Carpi in collaborazione con ERT Fondazione e ATER il “Progetto Beni Comuni”.
Esso coinvolge undici Comuni (Campogalliano, Carpi, Cavezzo, Cento, Concordia sulla Secchia, Finale Emilia, Mirandola, Novi di Modena, San Felice sul Panaro, San Possidonio, Soliera) del cratere sismico con l’obiettivo di rinsaldare e ricostruire le identità delle comunità minacciate dal terremoto del 2012 attraverso la partecipazione attiva alla costruzione di eventi artistici che abbiano come orizzonte primario il senso della condivisione e dello stare in comune.
L’idea alla base del Progetto è encomiabile, e potrebbe essere spiegata in vari modi, ma il modo migliore è utilizzare le parole di un esponente del Progetto: “Il progetto Beni Comuni ha un valore intrinseco e speciale. Non è solo un programma destinato alla fruizione, ma un laboratorio di produzione culturale che coinvolge professionisti dello spettacolo ma anche e soprattutto i cittadini. Uno spazio artistico composto da tanti luoghi […]. Un modo concreto per le comunità di rimpadronirsi degli spazi violentati dal sisma e ripartire, con uno spirito di socialità condivisa”.
Questa idea è necessaria anche per un altro motivo: essa consente di far vagare la mente delle vittime del sisma lontano dal dolore e dalla sofferenza, e far capire che nulla è perduto e tutto è superabile, se si collabora e ci si aiuta nella comunità: Agisci come uno, sopravvivi come gruppo.
by Elena De Nictolis | May 3, 2015 | The Urban Media Lab
On 14th May 2015, , Prof. Sheila Foster and Prof. Christian Iaione will present their co-authored paper “The city as a commons”.
The presentation will take place in Rome, at La Sapienza University, at the School of Economics and Law in Via Del Castro Laurenziano 9, 2nd Floor, at 4:00 pm.
The paper will be presented by the authors. Prof. Sheila Foster is Albert A. Walsh Professor of Real Estate, Land Use & Property Law and Co-Faculty Director of the Fordham Urban Law Center. Prof. Foster is the author of numerous publications on land use, environmental law, and antidiscrimination law. Prof. Christian Iaione is associate professor of Public law at Guglielmo Marconi University and visiting professor of governance of the commons at LUISS Guido Carli where he coordinates the LabGov – LABoratory for the GOVernance of Commons (www.labgov.it). He has published several articles in the field of public and administrative law and, in particular, land use, public goods and the commons, public services and public contracts, urban law and local government. The paper will be commented by three distinguished discussants: Prof. Raffaele Bifulco (full professor of Constitutional law at LUISS Guido Carli,; David Bollier leading thinkers and activist of the commons (and Giovanni Vetritto (Department for Regional Affairs). The coordinator of the workshop, Prof. Paola Chirulli, full Prof. of Administrative law at La Sapienza University of Rome, will draw the conclusions.
Giovedì 14 maggio, presso la Facoltà di Economia della Sapienza di Roma si svolgerà la presentazione del paper di cui sono co-autori il Prof. Christian Iaione e la Prof. Sheila Foster.
La presentazione si svolgerà presso la facoltà di Economia dell’Università La Sapienza, in Via del Castro Laurenziano 9 nell’Aula del Dipartimento di Economia e diritto, secondo piano, alle ore 16:00.
Il paper sarà presentato dagli autori e saranno presenti in qualità di Discussants: il prof. Raffaele Bifulco, ordinario di Diritto costituzionale all’Università LUISS Guido Carli, David Bollier, esperto di commons a livello internazionale (www.bollier.org) e Giovanni Vetritto, del Dipartimento per gli Affari Regionali della Presidenza del Consiglio. Le conclusioni saranno affidate alla prof. Paola Chirulli, ordinario di Diritto amministrativo pressoLa Sapienza di Roma, che coordinerà l’incontro.
The city as a commons
by Stefano Speranza | Mar 17, 2015 | The Urban Media Lab
A very nice and recommendable initiative about urban regeneration in Italy is the project “Bari per Bene”, adopted by the municipality of Bari.
It was a particular San Valentine’s day this year in Bari, because during that day the project has started. An “act of love” dedicated to the whole town. An act proposed by the administration to the citizens, who will be involved in an experimental process that has started from the “Madonnella” neighbourhood.
The main goal of the project, as it is stated on the official web page of the project, is to make the city more beautiful to enjoy, having guaranteed cleanliness and decency.
The local administration won’t be alone. Actually, in this process will be involved not only the citizens, but also the districts, and all the branches of the local administration, together with the local police.
“Bari per Bene” starts from Madonnella neighborhood for two main reasons.
First of all, because it is one of the most popular districts and secondly, because it is well defined and this could lead to a plausible test of the efficacy of the experimentation. Later on, the project will cross all the neighborhoods following the same procedures, thanks to the help and the warnings of the citizens (thanks to the establishment of a toll-free number and the creation of an application for smartphone).
What is worth to underline is the structure of the project, which is organized in three phases and follows a clear and well-structured timeline chart.
In particular, the first month (February 14th – March 16th) has been dedicated to monitoring and to raise-the-awareness activities on field, through the active collaboration among citizens and the neighbourhood’s administration.
The second phase, that will last until April 15th, will include important activities such as collecting and managing the feedback through the analysis of the data collected from the monitoring activities. Then, the programme of the experimentation will be updated.
Lastly, in April, a press conference will be hold, during which this part of the project will be closed and will be presented the next district to which “Bari per Bene” will move.
On January 31st, the Mayor Antonio Decaro wrote on his facebook profile:
“Dear friend citizens, our city is mainly made of respectable people. But often we see events characterized by incivility that contribute to make Bari uglier, dirtier and less healthy. We, as administration, can do more in order to guarantee cleaning, decency and livableness. But without you, this is a lost battle.
With the project “Bari per Bene”, I propose you an agreement in which we, the Administration, undertake to enforce the public services for cleanliness. At the same time, I ask you to cooperate with us following the rules and reporting who does not.
Public spaces belong to everyone, and to protect them from negligence and neglect is a duty. Actually, it is a challenge that will bring together all the people who love our city, Bari.”
E’ stato avviato lo scorso 14 Febbraio il progetto “Bari per Bene”, con il quale il Comune del capoluogo pugliese sta coinvolgendo i cittadini nella cura degli spazi comuni in una lotta contro il degrado e l’incuranza degli stessi.
Oggi il progetto sta attraversando la seconda fase nel quartiere Madonnella. Dal 15 Aprile in poi scopriremo i successivi quartieri nei quali il progetto continuerà a coinvolgere i residenti, i quali verranno sempre affiancati dall’amministrazione locale, dalla Polizia Municipale e dall’AMIU.
Fondazione CON IL SUD, an Italian Foundation operating in the south of Italy, has just launched a call for proposals entitled “Bando storico-artistico – il bene torna comune”. With this initiative the Foundation wants to regenerate 14 assets according to projects made by the local communities, enterprises and institutions. CON IL SUD granted 4 million euros in order to enact such propositions aimed to allow the community to enjoy such common goods in a sustainable way. This is the third edition of this call that previously managed to enforce 21 projects with a cost of 8 million euros.