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Citizens’ participation and co-creation experiences in environmental issues
Over the past years an increasing attention towards environmental justice is gaining more public attention through media, activism and civic participation. The PUJ project in
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Festival as exploration: Super Festival in Milan
“Super, the festival of peripheries” was started in Milan in 2015 by an interdisciplinary group of professionals. The event was initially conceived to create a more accurate, diverse and complex
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Citizen Innovation Maps – Visualising relevant communities as a tool to link us with our natural allies
When we undertake any type of project, of whatever nature, it is more necessary than ever to be able to count on natural allies for its development, so that their
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Mapping the Darsena: In search of visions, lost and found
Many urban regeneration schemes focus on architectural interventions or masterplans that aim to transform the social fabric of an area through shaping its built environment. However, If physical sustainability lies
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New Book: The Power of Civic Ecosystems
The Power of Civic Ecosystems: How community spaces and their networks make our cities more cooperative, fair and resilient Public-civic cooperation has never been as important for European cities as
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Joe Driscoll: From activist to city legislator
Once called a sonic wonderkid by Time Out, American singer, songwriter Joe Driscoll had a successful music career in Europe when he decided to move back to the US to
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Redefining Post-Coronavirus Travel: Does Barcelona Hold the Key?
By Nikolas Kozloff To the extent that at least some people will be able to travel after the pandemic subsides, and haven’t gone bankrupt, how will tourism change in future?
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Gamification and new scenarios for digital participation: tools and methods
Living and working in times of physical distancing and – sometimes forced – digitalisation cannot always be about video meetings via Zoom, Skype or other similar platforms. Or at least,
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Towards a More Social Europe: Inclusion and innovation in three UIA projects
In 2021, Europe is facing a number of challenges. The Covid-19 pandemic has brought to surface many structural problems in European societies, from climate change through innovation gaps to geopolitical
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Reclaiming non-places in winter: what placemaking can do for us during a pandemic
We all have beloved public spaces – spaces where we feel safe and comfortable, places we like to come back to, places where we can let our children play freely
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Urban lessons learnt from the pandemic
2020 will remain in our memory as the year of a sudden, world-wide crisis. Although the pandemic is far from being over, with the arrival of the vaccines we can
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Medialab Prado: a hub for social innovation
Medialab Prado is a citizen laboratory that functions as a meeting place for the production of open cultural projects. It is a cultural space and citizen lab in Madrid. It
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Busy as bees: A rooftop garden and a dynamic community hub for social integration – BeeOzanam in Turin
BeeOzanam is a community hub whose challenge is to combat cultural poverty and social exclusion, stimulating the growth of a sustainable generation through the co-production of cultural, educational and aggregative