CO-Bologna restarts to build new forms of collaborative governance

CO-Bologna restarts to build new forms of collaborative governance

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The long route of the CO-Bologna project – the cooperation agreement between the Municipality of Bologna and Fondazione del Monte of Bologna and Ravenna to deepen and continue in the innovative process and administrative trial started in 2011, aiming to promoting cooperative forms of governance of the commons – is about to restart.

The forthcoming seminar “Bologna Città Collaborativa – il Regolamento sui beni comuni urbani” will indeed offer the opportunity to take on the the state of implementation of the regulations of urban commons from a legal – administrative point of view .

The seminar will take place at the Fondazione del Monte of Bologna and Ravenna on March 22nd, 2016, from 9:30 to 13:30.

Click here for the program of the event.

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Il progetto CO-Bologna – un patto di collaborazione tra Comune di Bologna e Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna per approfondire e proseguire nel processo di innovazione e sperimentazione amministrativa avviato nel 2011 e diretto a promuovere la collaborazione per la gestione dei beni comuni – riparte con il seminario “Bologna Città Collaborativa – il Regolamento sui beni comuni urbani”. L’evento si terrà il 22 marzo ed ha come obiettivo  fare il punto sullo stato di implementazione del Regolamento sui beni comuni urbani sotto il profilo giuridico-amministrativo.

Qui il programma dell’evento.

This is not (only) green economy – “Green Week” at Trento University, sponsored by the ENI Foundation

This is not (only) green economy – “Green Week” at Trento University, sponsored by the ENI Foundation

 

LabGov will participate at the Trento Green Week, a forum for discussion on the major issues of the green economy. The three-day festival, that will take place from the 4th to the 6th of March, includes several sessions, debates, meetings and events on sustainability.

Green-Week_imagefullwideLabGov will intervene during the panel on  “The collaborative economy in the city (and beyond)”, organized by the ENI Enrico Mattei Foundation. It will gather noteworthy speakers among the most notable leaders of innovative researches and projects about the collaborative economy in Italy. After an introduction by Flaviano Zandonai, from Iris Network and an intervention by Matthew Bina, from the Manager Incubator Fabri, LabGov will present CO-Bologna. The forward-looking significance of the collaborative economy is indeed one of the most important issues of the CO-Bologna program, which aims to prototype – through a process of experimentation in urban collaborative living labs moderated by LabGov experts – collaborative/polycentric governance devices at the neighborhood level. This process will contribute in turning neighborhoods in collaborative ecosystems that enable the proliferation of innovations such as the pooling economy. The panel discussion that will follow immediately after those intervention will see Francesco Gabbi, founder of Abito and Ilaria Lenzi, coordinator of the research program “Sustainability and Social Innovation”, at the Eni Enrico Mattei Foundation and Angelo Rindone, founder of “Produzioni dal basso”.

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Non solo green – LabGov parla di economia collaborativa alla Green Week di Trento.

LabGov parteciperà alla Green Week, forum di discussione sui grandi temi della green economy. La manifestazione, organizzata dall’Università di Trento, sarà suddivisa in due percorsi differenti: dall’ 1 al 3 marzo un tour porterà i partecipanti alla scoperta delle aziende d’eccellenza delle Venezie; dal 4 al 6 marzo, un festival di tre giorni  sarà animato da una ricca serie dibattiti, incontri, eventi, sul tema della sostenibilità ospitati dalla città di Trento.

LabGov prenderà parte alla sessione dedicata a “L’economia collaborativa nelle città (e non solo)”, curata dalla Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei, che vedrà il contributo dei protagonisti delle più rilevanti ricerche e sperimentazioni dell’economia collaborativa in Italia. Dopo l’introduzione di Flaviano Zandonai, segretario Iris di Network e gli interventi di Matteo Bina, Incubation Manager Fabri, LabGov racconterà i successi di CO-Bologna. Il tema dell’economia collaborativa è infatti uno dei temi più importanti del programma CO-Bologna, che ha l’obiettivo di prototipare, a valle di un processo di sperimentazione in laboratori urbani collaborativi, dei dispositivi di governance collaborativa/policentrica a livello di quartiere che contribuiscano a rendere le città degli ecosistemi collaborativi che abilitano il proliferare delle innovazioni come la pooling economy. La tavola rotonda che seguirà subito dopo prevede la partecipazione di Francesco Gabbi, fondatore di Abito e Ilaria Lenzi, coordinatrice del programma di ricerca “Sostenibilità e Innovazione Sociale”, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei ed infine Angelo Rindone, fondatore di Produzioni dal Basso.

Commons, Sharing economy and Collaboration: Our Future

Commons, Sharing economy and Collaboration: Our Future

On the 9th of December, professor Christian Iaione, LabGov coordinator, was guest of the event organized by FuturaTrento at Bookique , a literary cafè that became a place where experts and citizens can share their ideas through the word because ideas are instruments able to change reality.

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The main topic discussed was the sharing as a tool to promote the care and the regeneration of the commons. After all, how he said < a common good is a sharing good > that needed the alliance between institutions, that should have the duty of making the best conditions to administrate that resources, and communities, to survive.

The sharing is, also, at the heart of contemporary discussion about economic theory: from the sharing economy to the the pooling economy, a new economy composed of “collaborative economy”, sharing economy initiatives that foster peer-to-peer approach and/or involve users in the design of the productive process or transform clients into a community; and of “commons-based economy”, “open cooperativism”, “open platform cooperativism” for sharing economy initiatives that are collectively owned or managed, democratically governed, do not extract value out of local economies but anchor jobs, respect human dignity and offer new forms of social security.Recently, on December the 4th the Committee of the Regions adopted the opinion on sharing economy  written by Christian Iaione and Benedetta Brighenti, deputy major of Castelnuovo Rangone and Alternate Member of the Committee of the Regions ( COR ), with the collaboration of a team of researchers and practicioners.

All of these changes and new concepts are the symbol of this age of transition, characterized by the need of a new form of governance based on a strong partnership and collaboration between public, institutions, creative citizens and businesses.

This process of individuation of the appropriate governance tools is not so easy, but it is necessary for the local, regional, and national development. It is our future.

More information are available here:

MLOL – Provincia di Trento – Scheda media _Corriere del Trentino_

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Nella giornata del 9 Dicembre, il Professor Iaione ha partecipato al caffè dibattito Bookique, organizzato da FuturaTrento. Si è discusso di condivisione, beni comuni, sharing economy: i punti di partenza per riformulare la governance.

Project “Beni Comuni”: when sharing heals the spirit of the community

Project “Beni Comuni”: when sharing heals the spirit of the community

foto Beni ComuniWhat 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.

 

Do you think that you have the right skills to govern? Test your abilities!

Do you think that you have the right skills to govern? Test your abilities!

According to a dictionary definition, cities are originally considered as any settlement where inhabitants decide to establish a community. In its simplicity, a city is an elaborate organization with fixed boundaries and certain powers of government over a densely populated area of citizens.

Ideally there are pertaining characteristics or belongings to a city, which are both physical and non-tangible. Alternatively, we can say that a city needs specific institutional arrangements and governing powers, certain structures, various resources as well as a minimum number of inhabitants.

However, if there is an urban community, a more or less tacit social contract will also be there. It means that the relationship between citizens, institutions and governance structures is defined by certain arrangements, which are the result of a complex process of social bargaining.

Public services are also part of this cluster of bargained arrangements and intuitively, every city proposes a different setting.

Virtually, it is impossible to satisfy all the preferences of the individuals, namely the organs of that specific society. Nonetheless, if anyone would feel to be unluckily born in the wrong place, here there is a game to plan your next departure.

Istatopoli, as called by its creators from ISTAT, the national institute of statistics, is a basic simulation that allows everyone to become mayor of his ideal city. In particular, giving the possibility to choose how to distribute services and public goods among the private, public or non profit sector, it is possible to understand which city in Italy fits mostly with our individual preferences.

The game is essentially based on a set of data that were collected in 2001 and it is complemented by an appealing map that shows in a glance how general services, like water, culture, health and instruction are nowadays distributed in Italy.

For further references or to become mayor for a day, click here for the game!

 

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Un divertente gioco può trasformarsi in un interessante esperimento di cittadinanza attiva.

L’obiettivo di Istatopoli è quello di far comprendere al cittadino come ciascuna scelta in termini di responsabilità e fornitura di servizi, possa creare città diametralmente opposte.

Scegliendo di assegnare la distribuzione dei servizi tra pubblico, privato e non profit, il giocatore definisce i parametri della sua città ideale. Infine, da un confronto con il database ISTAT, è possibile riconoscere quale sia la città che realmente si avvicina più alle nostre esigenze personali.

Per giocare e ulteriori informazioni, fare click qui.