About The Commons Media Lab
The Commons Media Lab (CML) is LabGov’s platform for debate on the complex challenges that communities around the world are facing today. The CML brings together policy-makers, researchers, citizens and experts to reflect on a variety of themes relating to commons-based practices, exploring case studies, innovative urban policies, partnerships aimed at producing positive impacts on the community.
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Progetto AWARE – IX Edizione della Giornata della Scienza e della Tecnologia (Science Fair) – Castellana Grotte – 19 aprile 2026
Il 19 aprile 2026 si è tenuta presso l'Istituto di Istruzione Secondaria Superiore "Luigi Dell'Erba" di Castellana Grotte (BA) la IX Edizione della Giornata della Scienza e della Tecnologia La giornata è stata accolta dall'intera comunità...
AWARE Stakeholder Engagement – Organizing the project participation to the Science Fair
On March 24 and 25, 2026, within the framework of the AWARE project, two meetings were held in Puglia to prepare the project’s participation in the upcoming Science Fair, a scientific event to be held in Castellana Grotte on April 19,2026 and open to the local...
Sustainability in 2025: From Constraint to Strategic Imperative
photocredits: Tobias Weinholds on Unsplash In 2025, nearly 40% of European SMEs still viewed sustainability as a constraint or a cost. This perception may seem perfectly reasonable, especially when one does not yet have access to all the information needed to fully...
How ESG investing evolved in 2025
Photocredits: Towfiqu barbhuiya on Unsplash In 2025, ESG investing moved beyond the hype that defined the early 2020s and entered a phase of discipline and recalibration. What was once promoted as a fast-growing investment revolution became a more...
Water as commons: blue capital in the era of global water bankruptcy
Water as commons: blue capital in the era of global water bankruptcy Source: David Becker on Unsplash Introduction In recent years, an increasing number of cities around the world, especially in the global south, have experienced frequent alternation of extreme events...
A quest for social and environmental justice? The experience of citizens’ assemblies and participatory monitoring
A quest for social and environmental justice? The experience of citizens’ assemblies and participatory monitoring Anna Berti Suman - Research Fellow, Luiss University & LabGov Source: Unsplash, free image Life in cities is often impacted by matters of...
Cities at the Intersection of Climate Adaptation, Nature-Based Solutions and Cultural Preservation in Europe’s Historic Centre
Cities at the Intersection of Climate Adaptation, Nature-Based Solutions and Cultural Preservation in Europe’s Historic Centre Photocredits: Lester on Unsplash Cities across Europe are increasingly exposed to extreme heat as climate change, urban densification and the...
From Product Design to Market Governance: The ESPR and the Regulation of Sustainability
From Product Design to Market Governance: The ESPR and the Regulation of Sustainability Environmental sustainability has traditionally been addressed at the end of a product's life cycle, through emission controls, recycling obligations, and waste management. However,...
The Renunciation of Real Property Between Public and Private Interests
Pursuant to Article 1350 no. 5 of the Italian Civil Code, the owner or holder of a real right may renounce it by means of a formal act, which can be registered under Article 2643 no. 5 of the Civil Code, even if the act is unilateral pursuant to Article 1324. However,...
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Urban Journalism Institute
The Urban Journalism Institute
The Urban Journalism Institute is a platform incubated by LabGov.City to promote urban journalism as a tool to put forms of sustainable and inclusive development at the center of the current conversation on cities and their governance. The Institute aggregates journalists, communicators, experts and policymakers to share knowledge about, and debate on urban topics, as well as assist regional, national and local governments, NGOs, and foundations in the communication of urban strategies and projects on the field.
The Urban Journalism Institute is co-directed by Simone d’Antonio and Alessandra Pirera in partnership with UN-Habitat and other LabGov.City partners such as Luiss University and Georgetown University.
What we do?
• Trainings for journalists, communicators s and press officers
• High-level dialogues with editors
• Management of urban communications
• Media monitoring and networking
• Urban reportages and portfolios
• Media tours
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Changing the conversation about cities
Cities are the places where most of the challenges of our time are converging. Innovative solutions and experiences of urban governance and economy shared and discussed in a multilevel dimension can be influential in changing the approach to cities in national and local contexts worldwide.
Media have a decisive role in promoting urban debates at all levels. While they cover urgent contemporary trends, sharing news about economic crisis, refugees and migrants’ emergencies, women struggles, or natural disasters, they are talking about how cities are planned, managed and lived.
Exploring new communications tools to develop meaningful urban storytelling will contribute to spread new narratives about cities able to foster active participation of citizens and to push innovative social, economic and environmental urban policies. In this sense, cities are becoming the testing ground also to stimulate a more civic and substantive engagement of media in sustainable development processes at local and global level.