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neoom: app-based support for energy communities in Austria

Establishing an energy community requires different legal, technical and organisational considerations and skills. [...]

Vienna’s Wohnpartner: Overcoming conflicts in social housing  

Good neighbourly relationships are an essential pillar of well-being and social coherence in the city. But what [...]

Inclusion Potentials of Co-Housing – A look at OASE.inklusiv 

wohnbund:consult is an independent office working in the field of social and sustainable urban developments with a [...]

Planning a new cultural venue: Connecting to Újbuda’s existing institutional tissue

How to conceive a new cultural institution in an area already known for its strong cultural scene? How can a new [...]

Learning from each other: the possibilities of transferability

In the last decade, cities across Europe have seen an increasing number of innovative actions taking place on [...]

Turin’s Tavolo Tecnico: Inter-departmental cooperation for the commons

A Pact of collaboration is a negotiation between the city administration and civil subjects through which the [...]

Planning a new cultural venue: Exploring the needs of the local cultural ecosystem

How to plan a new cultural venue in a district already rich in cultural life? How can a new cultural institution [...]

Social housing with self-determination: Wiener Wohnen’s quest to involve tenants in decision-making

Vienna is the largest municipal housing owner in Europe. About half of the city's population lives in subsidised [...]

CUP4Creativity: Can culture become the protagonist of social cohesion in Újbuda?

CUP4Creativity is a project of the Budapest district of Újbuda, funded by the EU’s Urban Innovative Actions [...]

The Ute Bock Association: Building on a legacy of inclusion

Considered by many as a secular saint, Mrs. Ute Bock (Linz 1942 - Vienna 2018) began helping refugees, especially [...]

Ois In An: Social and ecological sustainability all-in-one

In the centre of Vienna, a small commercial space is trying to make a difference working with a social and [...]

VinziRast: Volunteer-based support hub

The social initiative VinziRast  is an ambitious volunteer-based organisation that aims to give a second chance at [...]

Brunnenpassage: Activism and art strengthen each other

Brunnenpassage is an art and social space located in a former market hall in Ottakring, Vienna's 16th district. [...]

Bikes and Rails: Co-housing with solidarity and an environmental mission

Self-managed and affordable, ecological and inclusive - the pioneering project Bikes and Rails in Vienna's [...]

The Wiener Tafel: Building bridges between abundance and need

About one-third of the food produced worldwide gets thrown away [1] . Since its foundation in 1999, the Wiener [...]

Superar: Overcoming barriers through music education

In a city often regarded as the capital of classical music, a city rich in culture with renowned museums and an [...]

Zukunftshof: An agricultural city laboratory at the edge of Vienna

On the site of the old Haschahof, a former farm at the southern edge of Vienna’s Favoriten district, stands today's [...]

magdas HOTEL: Changing the world while sleeping

Founded in 2015, mag das HOTEL is not only a cosy, retro-style hotel next to the famous Prater park in Vienna’s 2 [...]

Augustine newspaper: The social conscience of the city

The Augustin is an independent Viennese street newspaper that aims to help less privileged people to lead a [...]

Nut & Feder: Joining forces through carpentry

Nut & Feder is a Viennese carpentry shop, a social business, that supports the integration of asylum seekers [...]

Der Wiener Deewan: Solidarity is not a one-way street

Set up by an former asylum seeker and a university student, Der Wiener Deewan is a Vienna's first Pakistani buffet [...]

Reprogramming Barcelona: Towards a new paradigm of public space

Xavier Matilla, Barcelona’s chief architect and Silvia Casorran Martos, deputy chief architect, visited Budapest at [...]

A residence for emergency housing and impact tourism in Turin: Luoghi Comuni

Right in the heart of Turin, just next to the remains of the Roman city walls and the Porta Palatina, one of the [...]

Alternatív kultúra, közösségi terek, civil infrastruktúra

Polyák Levente írása eredetileg a budapesti alternatív kulturális szcénát feltérképező ALT.BP platformon jelent [...]

Gólya: collective ownership in a self-organised social and cultural centre

Gólya  is a self-organised community space in Budapest’s 8 th district. Gólya has relocated to its current location [...]

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 [...]

Co-Housing students and homeless people – VinziRast in Vienna

A four-storey historical building in the heart of Vienna that houses bicycle, woodworking and sewing workshops, a [...]

COOPERATIVE CITY IN QUARANTINE #7: Labour

Given the current situation, more than 200 million people could become unemployed as a result of this crisis. Not [...]

COOPERATIVE CITY IN QUARANTINE #4: Community centres

Probably all community centres in Europe have a lot in common regarding the way they work during this challenging [...]

COOPERATIVE CITY IN QUARANTINE #3: Culture

The Coronavirus pandemic is causing huge damage in both physical and psychological terms in all fields of life. At [...]

COOPERATIVE CITY IN QUARANTINE #1: WEEKLY PODCAST

It is hard times, we fear for the future globally and individually. Many of us feel lonely in the isolation of our [...]

Cooperative City in Quarantine #12: CENTRI DI COMUNITA’ – IT

Fin dalla crisi economica del 2008, le città europee si sono trovate ad affrontare una vera e propria rivoluzione [...]

Cooperative City in Quarantine #11: VITA PUBBLICA – IT

Con l’arrivo della pandemia e del lockdown che ne è seguito, lo spazio pubblico è stato uno degli settori più [...]

Cooperative City in Quarantine #9: RIFUGIATI – IT

La crisi dovuta al Covid-19 ha fatto venire alla luce in modo ancora più evidente la condizione di vulnerabilità di [...]

Cooperative City in Quarantine #8: EDUCAZIONE – IT

Qual è il ruolo dell’e-learning nell’istruzione e nell’educazione, e quali sfide ed opportunità ci troviamo ad [...]

Cooperative City in Quarantine #7: LAVORO – IT

Alla crisi Covid-19 potrebbero seguire ad oggi oltre 200 milioni di disoccupati. Non tutte le persone, infatti, [...]

Cooperative City in Quarantine #6: BENI COMUNI – IT

  I beni comuni urbani (Urban Commons) sono tutti quegli spazi, servizi e risorse che favoriscono il benessere [...]

Cooperative City in Quarantine #5: TURISMO- IT

Episodio #5: Turismo Quali danni ha subito l’industria del turismo in seguito alla crisi covid-19, e quali [...]

Cooperative City in Quarantine #3: CULTURA– IT

Episodio # 3 : Sfide e soluzioni potenziali per il settore culturale Viviamo tempi difficili, siamo spaventati e [...]

Cascina Roccafranca – The Public-Civic Governance of Space

Year: 2017 Length: 0.57 Director: Emanuela Liverani and Federico Greco Language: Italian/English More info

Cooperative City in Quarantine #1: INTRO – IT

Viviamo tempi difficili, abbiamo temuto per la nostra salute e quella dei nostri cari, e ci siamo trovati costretti [...]

Co-Hab Athens: changing the ownership paradigm in Athens

Co-Hab Athens is a research project which aims to elaborate long-term models of collective housing ownership, [...]

The Art of Traveling Light: Tourism with a Positive Impact

The extractive nature of mass tourism is made possible by tourist behaviour, missing regulations and lacking [...]

Polis Athens: citizen-led urban regeneration through pop-up activities

Polis is a platform developed by Martha Giannakopoulou and her studio, If- untitled , to  enhances collaboration [...]

Welcommon Hostel: sustainable tourism and social-cultural activities for the promotion of social innovation

The Welcommon Hostel is a responsible hostel using tourism revenues to invest in social activities. First converted [...]

Tackling urban poverty in Bari

The City of Bari joined the Com.Unity.Lab Urbact network to be inspired by the Bip/Zip program to improve its local [...]

Masia Can Calopa: Cooperative Vineyard Plantation in Catalonia

The cooperative L'Olivera manages agriculture projects with social impact in the countryside outside Barcelona. [...]

Social Solidarity Economy in Barcelona: The Ecos Cooperative

Ecos is a cooperative of cooperatives which works to support the growth of single cooperatives and to promote [...]

Gólya: cooperative management in Budapest

Gólya is a community house in Budapest. It has been working for six years on Bókay János utca in the 8th District, [...]

Fostering community cooperation through a multifunctional private space: the case of Via Baltea in Torino

Via Baltea is a multifunctional space initiated and run by Sumisura, a cooperative of architects and social workers [...]

Variante Bunker: temporary use of a land in between vacancy and master-planning in Torino

The Bunker is a cultural project launched by The Cultural Association URBE - Urban Regeneration and the Torino [...]

Mindspace: A consultancy for urban regeneration in Budapest

Mindspace is a non-profit organization based in Budapest and founded in 2011. It manages cultural urban projects [...]

A Város Mindenkié: resisting homelessness and housing crisis in Hungary

A Város Mindenkié , in English The City is for All, was established in 2009 to advocate for housing rights in [...]

Deviszont Közösségi Tér: a new community space for teenagers in the periphery of Budapest

Deviszont is a community space located in the suburban area of Budapest. It offers non-formal educational [...]

Urban redevelopment at the neighbourhood scale: the case of Bagni Pubblici di via Agliè 9 in Torino

Bagni Pubblici di via Agliè 9 is a community space where more than 15 organizations, associations, traders, [...]

Affordable space for artists – Berlin’s Studio Commissioner

The role of the Studio Commissioner for Berlin exists since 1993. After the city’s reunification it became evident [...]

Spazio 13 – School revitalisation for social inclusion

Rossella Ferorelli introduces us to Spazio13 : a real connector in the city of Bari, a container of innovation open [...]

Das Packhaus – a start-up community in a temporary-use project

Das Packhaus is a project of Paradocks an international think- and do-tank for reuse of vacant buildings inVienna. [...]

Fragnebenan – empowering neighbourhood life with a local social network.

By working at a small scale, a digital platform helps neighbourhoods to strengthen social cohesion at many [...]

Digital media for relational urban governance

With today's European cities hosting most of the continent’s population and urban areas being the stage for many of [...]

NORDBAHNHALLE – Promoting mixed-use affordable spaces in Vienna

A former warehouse has become a living lab where the spatial and economical needs of small entrepreneurs are [...]

Il mercato è un incubatore di imprese giovanili – YOUNG MARKET LAB

Il Young Market Lab ha riattivato gli spazi inutilizzati del mercato coperto di Carbonara di Bari tramite il [...]

Cycling for alternative systems – The Cargonomia experiment in Budapest

In Budapest, a group of enthusiastic and passionate young people came together to mix their own ingredients, in the [...]

Ökokauf in Vienna – Procurement for sourcing ecological food

ÖkoKauf (Eco-Purchase) is an initiative of the City of Vienna, part of the Eco-Business Plan of the City, that was [...]

TERRITORIALISING EUROPEAN DEBATE – Preparing for the 2019 EU elections and the post-2020 funding strategy

While decisions taken in Bruxelles are increasingly recognised as affecting our daily lives, little if any [...]

Szatyorbolt – Buy and consume local

Szatyorbolt has been operating an association and a food shop within a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) scheme [...]

Toolbox Torino – Spaces for work, made of community and stimuli

Toolbox was established in 2010 in an industrial zone of Turin. In the city’s postindustrial search for new [...]

Járókelő – A platform for street maintenance

Communication between citizens and local administrations is a key element of well-functioning services. The rise of [...]

Jobs and Skills in the Local Economy

As a result of the signature of the Pact of Amsterdam on 30th May 2016, Europe has committed to improve its [...]

ZOHO – Development with a hundred investors

ZOHO or the Zomerhofkwartier near Rotterdam’s Central Station has witnessed a significant revival in the past [...]

Jurányi Incubator House – A home for performance arts

The Jurányi Incubator House brings together dozens of theatre groups, associations and creative companies in a [...]

Regulating the Urban Commons – What we can learn from Italian experiences

The international debate on the commons has a long history but only in recent years has it started gearing towards [...]

Stad in de Maak – From crisis to a shared ownership model

Stad in de Maak is an association set up to take on the redevelopment of vacant properties in Central Rotterdam, [...]

Stiftung Edith Maryon – Buildings for socially relevant uses

Stiftung Edith Maryon was created in 1990. The foundation’s mission is to secure socially responsible places of [...]

New institutions and cooperative finance in times of austerity

To a large extent, the global financial crisis of 2007-2008 was a result of excessive real estate speculation and [...]

Rákóczi Collective – Alternatives to individual homeownership

In 2011 a dozen young people retreated for a weekend to one of the suburbs of Hungary’s capital to discuss the [...]

MÜSZI – Public functions in private spaces

Művelődési Szint (MÜSZI Art & Community Centre) is a cultural space operating on the 3rd floor of a [...]

Coop57 – Financing projects in the social and solidarity economy

Year: 2017 Length: 2.23 Director: Daniel Gomez, Nestor Juez Language: Spanish/English More info

Spreefeld – Cooperative housing with public access

Spreefeld is a housing cooperative created as a pilot project to contribute to the ongoing debate around the [...]

EOOS Design – Design for refugees

EOOS Design is a design studio based in Vienna. Since the arrival of thousands of refugees to the city, EOOS has [...]

ExRotaprint – Community ownership against speculation

“If you have space, you should do something directly for the people who make up the area." ExRotaprint was founded [...]

Müszi – Public functions in private spaces

Year: 2017 Length: 2.09 Director: Máté Bartha Language: Hungarian/English More info

Magdas Hotel – Refugees with tourism jobs in Vienna

Magdas Hotel is a social business hotel based on cooperation, existing resources and a social vision. Refugees, [...]

Afrikaanderwijk – Pooling neighbourhood resources

Year: 2017 Length: 0.57 Director: Emanuela Liverani and Federico Greco Language: English/Italian More info

Cascina Roccafranca – The Public-Civic Governance of Space

Cascina Roccafranca   is a multi-functional community centre operating in a building owned by the City of Turin. [...]

Purple Sheep – A restaurant with refugees

Purple Sheep is an initiative in Vienna that helps migrants with their visa application process. They provide legal [...]

Jurányi Incubator House – A home for performance arts

Year: 2017 Length: 3.00 Director: Máté Bartha Language: Hungarian/English More info

Spreefeld – Cooperative housing with public access

Year: 2017 Length: 1.25 Director:Emanuela Liverani and Federico Greco Language: English/Italian

ZOHO – Development with a hundred investors

Year: 2017 Length: 2.48 Director: Máté Bartha Language: English More info

ExRotaprint – Community ownership against speculation

Year: 2017 Length: 2.29 Director: Máté Bartha Language: English More info

Afrikaanderwijk Cooperative – Pooling Neighbourhood Resources

Afrikaanderwijk Cooperative operates in South Rotterdam’s Feijenoord area. Evolved from an art project conducted in [...]

Markthalle Neun

MarktHalle Neun, Market Hall Nine, is the ninth of the 14 market halls built in Berlin, of which 8 were destroyed [...]

Displaced – Co-designing refugee housing

Displaced in Vienna (AT) is an initiative of TU Wien architecture students and professors. In collaboration with [...]

Bockwerk – Crafts and skills for better refugee integration

Bockwerk in Vienna is a wood workshop for refugees. In this workshop, refugees awaiting their asylum status learn [...]

Auróra – Egy ház a társadalmi aktivizmus számára

“A legnagyobb bevételünk alapvetően az, hogy nagyon sok önkéntessel dolgozunk" A korábbi, Király utcai [...]

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