Author: Levente Polyák
In 2021, Europe is facing a number of challenges. The Covid-19 pandemic has brought to [...]
Poveglia per Tutti is an association whose aim is to reclaim Poveglia, one of the many [...]
The extractive nature of mass tourism is made possible by tourist behaviour, missing [...]
Fusolab is a non-profit community hub in Rome’s Eastern periphery, offering educational [...]
Ecomuseo Casilino is a museum that operates beyond the standard walls of a museum. The [...]
In the early 2000s, some cities in the Central Eastern European region began to introduce [...]
Szatyorbolt has been operating an association and a food shop within a Community [...]
Plateau Urbain is a temporary use organisation in Paris. Established in 2013, it examines [...]
Southern European countries were among the hardest hit by the 2008 economic crisis. In [...]
Toolbox was established in 2010 in an industrial zone of Turin. In the city’s [...]
MAR Movilidad is the mobility hub of the Mares Madrid project, an initiative by the city [...]
Toestand is a temporary use organisation in Brussels, helping citizen activities and [...]
Communication between citizens and local administrations is a key element of [...]
ZOHO or the Zomerhofkwartier near Rotterdam’s Central Station has witnessed a [...]
The Jurányi Incubator House brings together dozens of theatre groups, associations and [...]
Paralelní Polis is a community space organised around the notions of bitcoin and [...]
Responses to the economic crisis of 2007-2008, and ambitions to create autonomous systems [...]
Civic initiatives regenerating urban areas emerged all over Europe as an answer to the [...]
Laituri is an urban information centre in Helsinki established in 2008. Attached to the [...]
The international debate on the commons has a long history but only in recent years has [...]
While affordable space for housing and community activities in Europe has traditionally [...]
Community Land Trusts (CLTs) are a model of community-led development, where local [...]
Stad in de Maak is an association set up to take on the redevelopment of vacant [...]
Locality is the national network of ambitious and enterprising community organisations, [...]
In the past years, civic crowdfunding has become an increasingly used tool by communities [...]
Shuffle Festival is an annual event that exhibits creativity through films, performances, [...]
Spacehive is a civic crowdfunding platform based in London. The platform, established in [...]
Brickstarter is a platform for crowdfunding and crowdsourcing architectural projects, [...]
The Community Land Trust Bruxelles was created in 2012 as an initiative of residents, [...]
In the winter of 2007, exactly nine years before Donald Trump became president of the [...]
Granby Four Streets Community Land Trust was created in 2011 to address housing issues [...]
Stiftung Edith Maryon was created in 1990. The foundation’s mission is to secure [...]
In the last decades, ownership has become a key factor of our societies and economies. As [...]
Homebaked is a cooperative bakery in Anfield, close to the famous stadium of Liverpool [...]
To a large extent, the global financial crisis of 2007-2008 was a result of excessive [...]
Coop57 is a cooperative for ethical financial services with the objective of financing [...]
In 2011 a dozen young people retreated for a weekend to one of the suburbs of Hungary’s [...]
During the past few decades, housing has been at the forefront of community-led [...]
Goteo is a platform for civic crowdfunding founded by Platoniq, a Catalan association of [...]
Vivero de Iniciativas Ciudadanas is a platform to support citizen projects in Madrid. [...]
“The trick is how to translate the masterplan to something that people can understand" [...]
Művelődési Szint (MÜSZI Art & Community Centre) is a cultural space operating on [...]
Bottega Artistico Musicale is an experimental centre of independent cultural [...]
La Cuciria - Sartoria Creativa Emotiva aims at creating awareness of ethical [...]
Located in a building of 220 m2 in Matera, Casa Netural includes a co-working space, [...]
Spreefeld is a housing cooperative created as a pilot project to contribute to the [...]
EOOS Design is a design studio based in Vienna. Since the arrival of thousands of [...]
Carrozzerie_n.o.t is an ex-car repair workshop in Rome that has been transformed into [...]
Interazioni Urbane is an association based in Rome. Composed of architects, [...]
“If you have space, you should do something directly for the people who make up the [...]
L'Alveare is a co-working space in Rome that integrates a kindergarten, in order to [...]
Gängeviertel is a historic neighbourhood of Central Hamburg. When plans emerged about [...]
De Besturing was founded in 2006 in an industrial area of The Hague and over the years it [...]
LaFabrika detodalavida is a multifunctional community centre in Los Santos de Maimona in [...]
Wikitoki is a laboratory of co-creation and collaborative practices in Bilbao. [...]
Magdas Hotel is a social business hotel based on cooperation, existing resources and [...]
Funding the Cooperative City: Community Finance and the Economy of Civic Spaces Edited [...]
In the past decade, with the economic crisis and the transformation of welfare societies, [...]
Displaced in Vienna (AT) is an initiative of TU Wien architecture students and [...]
Bockwerk in Vienna is a wood workshop for refugees. In this workshop, refugees [...]
“A legnagyobb bevételünk alapvetően az, hogy nagyon sok önkéntessel dolgozunk" [...]
European cities are still in the wake of the economic crisis. Public administrations are [...]