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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Degrowth & fashion: future allies or eternal enemies?
Degrowth is a social movement, a political debate, and an academic field of research. “An equitable reduction in production and consumption that increases human well-being and improves ecological conditions at the local and global level, in the short and long term” as...
Urban Food Systems: a challenge to holistic approaches?
Manfredi Valeriani The complexity of the world we live in requires more and more encompassing approaches towards the problems that societies face across the globe. New conceptualizations of development and sustainability have been created in the past based on...
Shaping Tomorrow: The Implications of Artificial Intelligence on Creative Industries and Beyond
Author: Viktoriya Pisotska, PhD In recent times, the conversation surrounding the influence of digital technologies on creative industries has gained momentum, emphasizing the significance of digital platforms and the emergence of digital ownership via NFTs...
The Nordic Waste scandal
The Nordic Waste scandal has brought attention to the environmental hazards posed by a massive landslide that occurred at one of its facilities in Ølst, Denmark, last December. In December 2023, a thunderstorm caused a massive landslide at one of Nordic Waste's...
Global Supply Chain Role and Crucial Role of Cities
The modern food industry has undoubtedly reached impressive milestones in terms of efficiency, diversity, and accessibility of products, largely owing to globalization. Traditional globalized food supply chains now offer customers an extensive range of food options,...
Corporate sustainability a shift from shareholder model to long-term value creation
INTRODUCTION In a world where companies are constantly under the pressure of climate change and unpredictable future business disruption, the need for sustainable practices in business operations has become necessary for companies' long-term survival. This requires...
Energy Communities: Fighting Poverty and Energy Injustices
Energy Poverty In recent years, the energy transition is bringing on a significant shift in energy sources and technologies once used to meet the energy needs of global societies. Usually, the energy transition involves a change from traditional energy sources,...
Sustainability and the pharmaceutical industry: an inevitable meeting
With the rise in the global average temperature and the effects this has and will increasingly bring on the earth's climate with serious consequences for society and the economy, the European Union and in particular the European Commission has approved The Green Deal....
Climate litigation against Italy before the European Court of Human Rights
Climate litigation haw been growing exponentially before both national and international courts. It mainly addresses state responsibility for greenhouse gas emissions and climate (in)action, as proven by the international data-bases on climate litigation of the Sabin...
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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.