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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REPowerEU funds for the energy transition and some urban best practices
A broad context from which this contribution starts is undoubtedly the one of the energy crisis and, before that, the recovery from the pandemic with all the policy tools that especially the European Union (EU) has succeeded in activating during recent years. In...
EU Directive Proposal On Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence: A Key Step Towards Corporate Accountability For Climate Change
The proposed directive on corporate sustainability due diligence (hereby CSDD) aims to enhance corporate governance practices by integrating risk and impact management processes related to human rights and the environment, including those in value chains.[1] CSDD...
New governance model for cities
The term “in-house providing” is used to indicate the entrusting of a public contract to a subject “part” of the same administration without the prior conduct of a public tendering procedure[1]. In-house companies indeed are those companies that are so intimately...
Smart City: a futuristic vision, an imagined reality
“Smart City” is the narrow definition of the complex activity of creating a new space of interaction between citizenship and technology, man and machine, developed through the constant control and coordination between private and public agents, citizens and...
Extreme storms, a problem that cities are not prepared to deal with
Extreme weather events have become increasingly common: (According to the IPCC, or heat waves, droughts and extreme thunderstorm soccurred, on average, once every ten years, while today heat waves are 2.8 times more frequent, droughts are 1.7 times more frequent and...
Social Energy Communities as a Tool to Contrast Energy Poverty: Experimental Projects in Rome and Tilburg
Energy communities are a central part of the energy transition strategies that set foot in Europe as a response to the European Green Deal. It is estimated that by 2050, 264 million European citizens will join the energy market as prosumers and generate 45% of the...
How cultural heritage can be open, accessible and create economic development?
We aspire to live in a world where the diversity of cultures, the arts and cultural heritage is crucial to the growth of a sincere open mind to fundamental rights and where open and interactive cultural processes and practices work together to help us navigate the...
Global warming: a fact or a myth?
Abstract Over the years, there has been discussion on whether global warming is a hypothesis or a fact. Global warming and the obvious climatic shift pose as one of the most contentious, ambiguous, and hotly contested occurrences in the world right now, with...
The World’s Waste-to-Energy Market: an overview
Abstract Rapid economic expansion, urbanization, and population growth have increased the use of (materially intensive) resources and, as a result, the amount of trash released into the environment. Globally speaking, there is a lack of a comprehensive strategy for...
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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.