COLLABORATIVE URBANISM 2017
IDEA BOOK
Brussels, 6-8 April 2017
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CONTENTS 01 Programme Overview
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02 About
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03 Sessions in Detail
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04 Key Contributors
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05 Inspirations
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06 Event Partners
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Participatory Urbanism 2017
01 Programme
7 April 2017 8:30 - 9:00
Registration
9:00 - 10:00
Welcome
10:00 - 11:00 Panel 1: Visions of Participatory Urbanism 11:00 - 11:20Â Break 11:20 - 12:20 Panel 2: Inspirations in Participatory Urbanism 12:30 - 14:00 Networking Lunch 14:00 - 15:45 Workshops Workshop Challenge 1: Developing Liveable Cities Workshop Challenge 2: Connecting People with their Government Workshop Challenge 3: Towards Wiser Cities: Big & Small Data Workshop Challenge 4: Participation - How to Engage and Involve a Diversity of Citizens in Urban Planning 15:45 - 16:15 Break 16:15 - 17:30 Workshops continued
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8 April 2017 09:15 - 11:00 World Café Résumé 11:00 - 11:20 Break 11:20 - 13:00 Working Groups cont. 13:00 - 14:00 Working Lunch 14:15 - 16:00 BXL City Break: Urbanite Tour 16:00 - 17:30 Launch of Charter
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02 About
Participatory Urbanism - Re.loaded We see cities as communities of individuals and families with different backgrounds, needs and aspirations. As such, cities need to focus on quality of life and the quality of amenities, places, governance, and neighbourhoods they have to offer. Meeting the desires of communities can only happen when citizens are engaged in the shaping of their cities. This participatory approach to urban development is not an easy task. It requires an entirely new set of attitudes, know-how, systems, tools and interfaces. Most importantly it requires urban experts from all areas of life to work together. We’re innovative, passionate and meticulous about making our cities better; always creative; always brave. In spring 2017, Brussels brings together scientists, city planners, public officials, urban activists, businesses and NGOs to launch the European Charter on Collaborative Urban Development. We aim to promote evidence-based insights on how to empower cities and urban hubs through citizen engagement and participatory planning. Participatory Urbanism 2017 is the culmination of 4 years of interdisciplinary collaboration between researchers, city planners, architects, and urban activists in 30 countries.
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What Are PeopleFriendly Cities? People Friendly Cities are ‘smart and liveable cities‘ which put people in the middle of planning and design; a human scale environment which brings communities together and encourages social inclusion. A smart and liveable city can provide city residents with more social connectivity, public spaces and buildings with character; access to cultural, sport, recreational, shopping, and green space amenities; safety from crime; and public policies that meet human needs. People-friendly cities respond to these needs; from the basic requirements of food shelter, sanitation, health, education and safety to the essential needs that cities offer such as the promise of a better quality of life – a life of rich and fulfilling experiences. These cities offer new employment possibilities and provide the basis for new ways of creating and delivering public services. By expanding on the concept of democratic urban governance, people-friendly cities give the citizens a central role in the decision-making processes that shape their environment and strengthen their power within the city itself.
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Objectives Participatory Urbanism 2017 aims to provide a multidisciplinary vision of what a smart city can be when it is also people-friendly, inclusive and sustainable We combine the insights of scientists, city planners, public officials, urban activists, businesses and NGOs to launch the European Charter on Collaborative Urban Development. Participatory Urbanism 2017 aims to practice what it preaches. It uses a diverse collaborative toolkit to tap into the collective wisdom of the participants and come up with a clear vision, good practice examples, and some answers on how to tackle the key challenges of creating and managing peoplefriendly cities.
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03 Sessions
Welcome 7 April, 8:30-10am • Out of the Box & Plenary Welcome to Participatory Urbanism - we are glad you are here! Take a moment to flip through this idea book and find out more about the event objectives, concepts, people and projects. Enjoy a cup of coee and contribute to the vision brainstorming map. At 9am make your way to the plenary room in the Out of the Box Meeting Floor for a quick introduction to forum and an overview of the next two days.
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VISIONS1 7 April, 10-11am • Plenary VISIONS OF PARTICIPATORY URBANISM A lightning panel packed with ideas and insights to set the agenda. As our cities and communities grow and change rapidly, they are confronted with new, increasingly complex problems. These challenges can no longer be addressed through ‘smarter’ approaches to technology, mobility or energy alone. In order to tackle problems such as security, equity, or sustainability public policies need to meet human needs. Today, ‘better cities’ do not simply translate into larger, faster or more functional cities. It also means providing city residents with more social connectivity, public spaces and buildings with character; with access to cultural, sport, recreational, shopping, and green space amenities; safety from crime; and – most importantly – a voice to shape this development. The panel aims to explore the role of participatory urbanism for achieving sustainable and equitable development and growth. Experts from different sectors discuss how a participatory approach can help to effectively address the complex urban challenges of today. The panel will debate opportunities and challenges, framework conditions and limitations. It will explore how participatory urbanism can enrich and complement developments such as smart cities, green cities, urban equity and resilience. The discussion will set the framework of our 2-day discussion of the European Charter for Collaborative Urbanism. Panelists: Dimitri Lemaire, Fanney Frisbæk , Guilherme Serodio, Guy Janssen, John Zib Moderator: Benita Lipps
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VISIONS2 7 April, 11:20am-12:20pm • Plenary INSPIRATIONS IN PARTICIPATORY URBANISM Good practices from Brussels, Europe & beyond to inform and inspire our work. It is one thing to talk about Participatory Urbanism, and another one to make it happen in our cities and communities. This panel brings together some senior practitioners to share their experience with participatory approaches to urban planning and development. We will hear about great successes and great failures and discuss the opportunities and challenges of working bottom-up, with and for the community. Panelists: Dick Gleeson, Dries Gysels, Jim Segers, Pepik Henneman Moderator: Kevin M. Leyden
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LUNCH TALKS 7 April, 12:30-1:45pm ENJOY A BRUSSELS LUNCH
while meeting old & new colleagues Look at your lunch menu: the symbol on the menu corresponds to that on a table in the restaurant. Don’t know anyone in your lunch group? What a great opportunity to make new aquaintances.
BON APPETIT!
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CHALLENGE WORKSHOPS 7 April, 2-5:30pm • Out of the Box Meeting Floor We will spend the afternoon in four groups to get more deeply into the challenges and opportunities of participatory approaches to urban planning. Each session combines short lightning talks with brainstorming and discussion. Enjoy a coffee and a snack at 3:45pm.
Challenge 1: Developing Liveable Cities What does a more liveable, smarter and more human city look like? How can we create better places for people and the planet? How do we make cities inviting places for families with children, the elderly and the marginalised? How can a city enable a good quality of life? What do people value? Do the needs of people change over the life course? This challenge will address examine and discuss the current stage of knowledge on urban liveability and explore the best ways to make our cities better places to live in. With contributions from: Dick Gleeson, Dries Gysels, Giulia Vallone, Kevin M. Leyden, Sara Santos Cruz
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Challenge 2 Connecting People with their Government At the heart of this workshop is the challenge of considering how citizens can build confidence and know-how in collaborating and partnering with their City Councils. Polarization exists between people and their government. There are many inhibitors and barriers to top-down and bottom-up working well together. The challenge is to facilitate ways in which citizens can help shape their cities. This will require a radical change in mind-set. Creating generous opportunity for open conversation about the City is also important. There is the challenge of scale, relating the imagination of the citizen to the scale of the neighborhood, the city and the planet. There is also the challenge of sectors, building a relational type of thinking which can integrate economic, cultural, social, and environmental spheres. This workshop addresses these challenges from the starting point of considering the values driving City Governance, and whether this is positive about drawing in the creative energy of citizens. It considers the key area of infrastructure in relation to the resourcing and organization of top down systems and bottom up initiatives and looks at the institutional landscape from the bottom-up perspective. The workshop addresses the key question of the evidence base for decision-making and the challenge of citizen research. In developing plans, policies, and moving forward projects, a City Council relies on an evidence base, often provided by a limited number of inner-circle partner/stakeholders. In order to break into this culture, the citizen will have to develop skills in area based research, and turning local stories into qualitative and quantitative data. Key words for the Workshop to consider from the citizen perspective include: Communicating, Connecting, Collaborating, Changing, Controlling With contributions from: Carolina Vasilikou, Dimitri Lemaire, Dimitra Xidous, Giulia Marra, Guilherme Serodio, Guy Janssen, Katarina Kristianova, Tom Grey, Vlatko Korobar, Zvi Weinstein
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Challenge 3 Towards Wiser Cities - Using Small Evidence and Big Data The availability of big data is now fundamental to efficient city governance systems, and is central to the evolving ‘smart city’ concept. The complex technical dimensions has emphasised a focus on ICT/Technology/Sensor innovation, rather than exploring how data can best serve human needs. The need for top-down systems efficiency, neglects the importance of qualitative and small data when it comes to measuring citizen well-being, participation and engagement. A consequence of this narrow framing of data culture is that citizens are increasingly detached and alienated from an appreciation of data production and its positive application. At the same time, we need valid data to move from concepts to measurable actions. Data is key to evidence-based participatory urban planning, setting and evaluating metrics on real engagement and real impact through collaboration. The workshop will consider to move from concepts of ‘smart’ big data to the idea of ‘wise’ data. It will explore citizen-centric approaches to setting metrics and indicators, inclusive methods of data collection and the use of qualitative and anecdotal data for better urban planning. With contributions from: Allan Gross, Bart Rosseau, Chiara Certomà, Dov Winer, Ina Šuklje Erjavec, Wietse Van Ransbeeck
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Challenge 4 Participation - How to Engage and Involve a Diversity of Citizens in Urban Planning We can all be excluded in urban planning. Who are the most marginalized citizens? How can we ensure that the needs and perspectives of all citizens are considered? How can we include human diversity; represented by age, gender, sexual orientation, functional and cognitive ability, ethnicity and culture in city making processes? What are the most effective tools and methods of engaging and involving a wider range of citizens? How to enable people to influence decision processes, urban design and planning choices to ensure more people-friendly, inclusive and sustainable cities? This session will discuss and present a selection of tried and tested practical tools, methods, initiatives as well as successful live examples. With contributions from: Edeltraud Haselsteiner, Irit Solzi D.Gershon, Jim Segers, John Zib, Michela Tiboni, Silvia Rossetti, Tom Vavik
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World Cafė Rėsumė 8 April, 9:15-11am • Plenary A chance to reflect on the insights from day one, before transforming our ideas into concrete items for the European Charter on Collaborative Urban Development. All challenge groups will have the opportunity to present their work and get feedback from their colleagues in four 20-minute world-café sessions.
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Vision2Charter Box 8 April, 11:20am-2:00pm Out of the Box Meeting Floor Now it’s time to transform the ideas of the brainstorming into concrete agenda points for the European Charter on Collaborative Urban Development. We’ll continue in our four ‘challenge groups’ for the rest of the morning and during our working lunch: 1) Developing Liveable Cities 2) Connecting People with their Government 3) Towards Wiser Cities - Using Small Evidence and Big Data 4) Participation - How to Engage and Involve a Diversity of Citizens in Urban Planning
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BXL Break 8 April, 2:15-4:00pm • Outside World Enough brainstorming - it is time to take a break and look around. This is a chance to get a bit of fresh air and see a different side of Brussels in this guided tour.
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Charter Presentation 8 April, 4:00 - 5:30pm Out of the Box Meeting Floor Let’s put it all together.
European Charter on Collaborative Urban Development
It’s time to go through the individual chapters together and formulate the final draft of the European Charter on Collaborative Urban Development, Each group will have 10 minutes to present and 10 minutes for voting on the final version.
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04 Contributers
This event is only possible due to the fantastic work and support of our speakers, moderators, facilitators and experts. Here are just a few of them:
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…and many, many contributors to the People-Friendly-Cities COST Action TU1204 including: Agnieszka Lukasiewicz • Allan Gross • Andrej Erjavec • Anita Milakovic • Antonio Martins • Arturas Kaklauskas • Barbara Golicnik Marusic • Benoit Feildel • Bernardo Winer • Björn-Ola Linnér • Brian Evans • Bülent Çatay • Carlos Smaniotto Costa • Carmen Lastres • Cornelia Novac Ududec • Cristina Alpopi • Damjan Marusic • Daniela Constantin • Denis Martouzet • Dick Gleeson • Diego De La Hoz Del Hoyo • Edeltraud Haselsteiner • Eleonora Gaydarova • Evangelos Mitsakis • Fanney Frisbæk • Filomena Pietrapertosa • Francesco Rizzi • Gabriela Maksymiuk • George Kouskoulis • Georgi Georgiev • Giulia Melis • Halla Jonsdottir • Humberto Jorge • Ina Suklje Erjavec • Inger Marie Lid • Iva Bojic • Ivana Nizetic Kosovic • Jan Theunis • Jasmina Siljanoska • Jean-Paul Thibaud • Jurate Sliogeriene • Katarina Kristianova • Katrin Grüber • Kevin Leyden • Kevin Leyden • Lea Rollova • Liliana Moga • Linus De Petris • Lorena Pocatilu • Maik Hömke • Maria Leus • Mark Dyer • Martijn De Waal • Martina Jakovcic • Matthias Drilling • Michael Goodsite • Michela Tiboni • Michiel De Lange • Mihaela Neculita • ML Rhodes • Monika Domanowska • Nevena Novakovic • Olaf Schnur • Onny Eikhaug • Patricia Pereira Da Silva • Paul Just • Pille Metspalu • Pirjo Elovaara • Rainer Kazig • Rocio Martinez Garcia • Rosalie Camilleri • Ruth Kerrigan • Sara Santos Cruz • Seumas Campbell • Sirkku Juhola • Stijn Janssen • Stratos Papadimitriou • Tanja Tyvimaa • TinaSimone Neset • Tom Vavik • Ursula Naue • Vincent Buhagiar • Vlatko Korobar • Vlatko Korobar • Yves De Weerdt
Our Facilitators This event would not be possible without the expert support of our team of facilitators who are sharing their time and skills - making sure we are on track to the European Charter on Collaborative Urban Development: Alec Walker-Love, Aryani Sari Rahmanti, Camille Delbecq, Claudia Guzzon, Cristina Marchitelli, Dorina Pllumbi, Lijun Zhang, Liliana Caraça, Maria Sfichiu, Marie Aubry-Brechaire, Namita Kambli, Pamela Nunez Basante, Sarah Joseph, Trisha Paul and all the other supporters.
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01 Appropriation of urban spaces: stories from one city. Learning from appropriations of urban spaces.
12 Exploring Collaborative Urbanism in Dublin. Evaluation of collaborative urbanism as form of community engagement.
02 Breiðholt. Community Bridge Makers.
13 ‘Hello Storgata’ in Oslo. Improving neighborhoods by including, empowering and inspiring citizens
03 carvelo2go. The world’s first electric cargo bike. 04 Challenges of New Technologies for Urban Design. Cyberparks: ICT in urban landscapes. 05 Challenges of Citizen Science. The role of citizen science in smart cities. 06 Citizens as human sensors. Towards sensible cities. 07 Community Gardens as Urban Living Labs. A green space for exchange and participation. 08 CROWD_USG. Crowdsourcing the city. 09 Design Table: Interactive design interface for smart collaboration. Gamification of design methodologies as a way to make better cities together. 10 DIGI TEL. An e-government app designed for engagement. 11 Dreaming of Living Street Cities all over the world. A different approach to redesigning public spaces together.
14 More Time Sovereignty for Sustainable and Inclusive Cities. Urban time use patterns and gender equality. 15 Open innovation and urban design. Do Urban Living Labs really help Citymaking? 16 Pendopo Cak Markeso. Public Space as Cohesive Tools to Uniting the People. 17 Placemaking in Woodruff Park. The community is the expert. 18 Regulation for the shared administration of Commons. A collaborative model from Labsus, Italy. 19 Segni sull’Acqua. From exhausted quarries to a new natural park. 20 Smart specialisation in Cultural Heritage.The role of linked open data. 21 Through the Walking Path. Leveraging the participatory planning process. 22 Un cuore per Marte. Gathering ideas for public uses of an historical building.
01 Appropriation of urban spaces: stories from one city Sara Santos Cruz, Rita Vaz
Learning from appropriations of urban spaces Urban spaces should be conceived for people, meaning that they should be adequate to users, respond to their needs and desires, ultimately making people feel happy. Spaces should hold diverse and spontaneous activities, where people really feel they belong to. Beyond the uses and functions, we should look at how people appropriate the spaces. Research was conducted to reflect on formal and informal appropriations of urban spaces in the understanding of citizen's needs and desires. A review will point out some recent debates on the engagement of communities/citizens in thinking & designing more liveable spaces. The study on different real situations will allow the analysis of different forms of appropriations in the city of Porto, varying on the level of formality, types of activities and users, etc. Appropriation, especially involving informality, is associated with stronger sense of belonging & attachment, and identification of meanings of place.
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02 Breiðholt Silvia Rossetti, Ilaria Fumagalli, Catherine Wilkinson
Community Bridge Makers Breiðholt is a multicultural district in the suburbs of Reykjavik that has attracted attention in recent years due to a rebranding project. The community of Breiðholt is being transformed from a disadvantaged suburb, characterised as a ‘ghetto’, into a thriving community where citizens play a central role in decision-making. A fieldwork experience was undertaken in Breiðholt as part of the COST TU1204 Action. The research was focused on the drivers behind, actions, and benefits of the Breiðholt Project and the Breiðholt Congress. In making recommendations for the Project and Congress, and other community-based initiatives, the research outcomes encourage the sharing of best practices among different departments of the city, and the use of bridge makers (key stakeholders/ community leaders) to build trust through face-to-face interactions with citizens. Overall, the Breiðholt Project was successful: integral to this success is the importance of ‘people’ in the process.
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03 carvelo2go Jonas Schmid, Mirjam Stawicki
The world’s first electric cargo bike carvelo2go is a project supported by the Swiss “carvelo” cargo bicycle initiative. Electrically assisted cargo bikes can be hired by the hour in a number of Swiss towns by visiting carvelo2go.ch. The scheme is operated by Mobility Academy, part of the TCS. E-cargo bikes are bicycles with an electric motor which are capable of carrying goods or children. Unlike the traditional trailer, cargo bikes have the advantage that the goods/children are transported in front of the rider where they can be seen. Cargo bikes introduce movement and fun into your everyday mobility, plus they are good for your health and energy-efficient. The electrical assistance means they can also be used in hilly terrain. Furthermore, electric cargo bikes are more expensive than standard bikes. Sharing is thus a good alternative to buying, especially if you only need them occasionally.
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04 Challenges of New Technologies for Urban Design Ina Ĺ uklje Erjavec, Carlos Smaniotto Costa
Cyberparks: ICT in urban landscapes New technologies are changing the world, both in terms of sociability and subjectivity, and consequently how people experience the city, appreciate urban landscape and nature, along with the way people interrelate to each other and with the space. On the other new technological opportunities are challenges urban open space designer to respond and develop new, hybrid solutions for open space development and use. Interrelations between digital technology and cities are usually discussed within the technology-driven visions of smart cities with particular emphasis on energy and mobility issues. However, more and more researchers and projects emphasize the importance of people-oriented aspects for liveability of cities. We discuss how penetration of ICT into urban landscapes may increase the open space typology, adding a public open space where nature, society, and cybertechnologies blend together to generate hybrid experiences and enhance quality of urban life. As an example, a ÂťcybeprapksÂŤ concept developed within the COST Action TU1306 CyberParks will be presented and explained how it could influence the future development of liveable city.
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05 Challenges of Citizen Science Zvi Weinstein
The role of citizen science in smart cities The Smart city concept relates to improving efficiently and effectively the city infrastructure both physically and socially through means of technology innovations. Cities are designed by citizen and to ensure their ongoing and operating ecosystems of living, citizen have to be an integral part to address their needs and quality of life. Citizen Science projects humanize technology, raising awareness, building capacity and strengthening communities. Citizen Science means the participation from all walks of life in scientific research. Its main strategic objective is to help smart cities use open data technology to increase engagement, share knowledge and to build trust across communities, government institutions and stakeholders.
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06 Citizens as human sensors Jasmina Siljanoska
Towards sensible cities A sensitive city changes the way it is governed, as citizens become active data generators but also active consumers of urban information A new understanding of how populations are able to create sensible cities where technology and smartphone devices might be used at all stages of city infrastructure design from analysis to action, and embedding the very technologies we use for analysis, design, and participation into the urban form and fabric itself has been brought to the policy practice and knowledge in the municipality of Centar, in the city of Skopje. A sensible city describes contemporary paradigm shift in the way the cities are governed and citizens included in the planning process for improvement of services delivered and urban environment. The idea behind the sensible city is described by using the outcomes of the VeloCentar 2025 project which was particularly focused and examined what smart planning and information technology can contribute to innovative approach and inclusive planning, towards the goal of a creation of sustainable and efficient urban movement system and bicycle infrastructure in the next decade.
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07 Community Gardens as Urban Living Labs Katarina Kristianova
A green space for exchange and participation Community gardens fulfil the meanings of Urban Living Labs which refer to development or improvement of urban environments by methods that integrate residents and other stakeholders in developing and trying out new ways of operation in their daily life. Community gardens represent a forum for innovation and dialogue in an urban environment, focusing on solving real challenges in the area. The examples of community gardens in Slovak cities show that activities of community gardens connect various stakeholders, citizens, public organizations, companies and local governments. Community gardens create solutions to existing problems in urban environment and their activities are encouraging and rewarding for all participants. They possess the strong potential to enhance quality of living environment in cities, to enhance participation, connect people and their government, and strengthen peoplefriendliness of urban environment.
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08 CROWD_USG Chiara CertomĂ
Crowdsourcing the city Cities are first and foremost massive agglomerates of heterogeneous social connections with a high degree of potentiality in terms of sustainable and just development. CROWDsourcing Urban Sustainability Governance is a MarieCurie Action developed @ the Centre for Sustainable Development - Ghent University whose aim is to investigate whether and how crowdsourcing can be appropriate for dealing with the mutable, multi-scalar and complex character of urban sustainability; activating real participatory processes in knowledge production and decisionmaking; empowering technological agency of heterogeneous actornetworks for narrowing the gap between research results and policy applications. Actor-Network Theory framework and Scenario Building analysis are adopted for modelling material-semiotic fluxes in USG; and for prefiguring future social, political and economic development determined by the introduction of crowdsourcing processes. Research hypothesis will be tested against evidences collected through investigation on the city of Ghent, Flanders. Scholars, business and administrators are invited to join the project and contribute to defining new governance processes toward urban sustainability via interactive ICTs.
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09 Design Table: Interactive design interface for smart collaboration Milena Ivkovic
Gamification of design methodologies as a way to make better cities together Good urban design contributes to good cities. But the majority of the citizens are excluded from the process of urban design, partly because of the complex language of the conventional design methodologies. Gamification of the design methodologies can enable citizens to efficiently communicate their ideas and experiences, providing the frameworks for design or policy improvements. With this in mind, Rotterdam-based design office Blok74 experiments with the “Design Table� – a mixed-media serious game model. This particular model of interactive citizen/ government collaboration uses digital and analogue elements simultaneously as an instrument to translate the complex language of the conventional urban design and planning. Think of it as an old-school design charette, but with a modern technology twist to make it more relevant and applicable, people-friendliness of urban environment.
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10 DIGI TEL Zvi Weinstein
An e-government app designed for engagement Tel Aviv’s ‘Digi-Tel’ aims to engage, involve and connect city residents directly to municipal departments, and enable them to benefit from the efficient two-way use of Information Communication Technologies. Digi-Tel composes three elements— the people (citizens, residents and visitors), the second a friendly city (quality of life) and the third is data (technology). These essential elements are integrated into the city’s vision to create a city for all residents. The local municipality promotes a policy of transparency of the information provided to the general public, enabling residents to access the municipal database on one hand. This encourages residents to proactively engage the municipality, while additionally reporting on events, activities and concerns on the other hand. It manages a variety of components divided into three main classifications—applications, logistical infrastructure and physical infrastructure. As a neo-liberal solution, Digi-Tel raises two questions: (1) what is new and original and (2) what are the actual impacts in terms of effective involvement of ordinary citizens in knowledge production and creation processes. Keywords: Citizen participation, bottom-up, open data, transparency, decision making policy.
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11 Dreaming of Living Street Cities all over the world Pepik Henneman and Dries Gysels
A different approach to redesigning public spaces together Imagine your neighbour knocks on your door: “Hi, how are you? Do you have a few minutes? I have an idea I want to share with you… Imagine that we could temporarily transform our street into a beautiful green meeting place for the neighbourhood? We would remove the cars, just for a few months and see what happens? What do you think?” Precisely these kind of simple questions triggered the imagination of hundreds of citizens and led to more than 30 Living Streets. Each Living Street brings the energy and the creativity of people together and becomes a small but rewarding step towards a more sustainable, lively, enjoyable and colourful city. What started as a two-street initiative in Gent is becoming a movement.
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12 Exploring Collaborative Urbanism in Dublin Giuseppe Aliperti, Iva Greenshtein-Littman, Giulia Marra, Mark Dyer
Evaluation of collaborative urbanism as form of community engagement. Interesting things have been happening in Dublin during the last decade. Several entrepreneurial locally-based initiatives started almost immediately after the financial crash which severely hit Ireland, and its capital city Dublin, in 2008. Promoters were architects, designers, artists. Most of them had the aim to engage with local community attracting the interest of Local Authority. This contribution aims to assess the effectiveness and long term longevity of these projects. The selection of seven initiatives has been realized by Dublin City Council and Trinity House Research Centre. All of them have been characterised by the same initial mentality of sharing, openness, and cooperation in order to maximise positive effects on local community and facilitate a sustainable development through using limited facilities and resources available in the city. This is a qualitative study developed through using interviews, participant observations and analysis of additional local documents.
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13 ‘Hello Storgata’ in Oslo Runi Ellingsgaard, Mads PĂĽlsrud and Tom Vavik
Improving neighborhoods by including, empowering and inspiring citizens Growlab believe that great cities and neighborhoods are created by engaging and listening to the residents and empower the people to take action. Our main question is: Is it possible to improve neighborhoods by including, empowering and inspiring citizens: starting from their needs and hopes and ending with creating solutions together? Through in-depth interviews, questionnaires, communication-kits, public installations and interventions we facilitated different kinds of conversations and interactions with the residents, shop owners and passers by of Storgata and encouraged them to reflect on the issues and possibilities of the street.
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14 More Time Sovereignty for Sustainable and Inclusive Cities Edeltraud Haselsteiner, Barbara Smetschka
Urban time use patterns and gender equality The temporal map of a city – its fast and slow speeds, working and opening hours, the location of its businesses and its mobility infrastructure – is of major importance for the quality of life in a city. Several policy measures such as public transport intervals, flexibility of working time, opening hours of public services, spatial planning and infrastructure have changed and will change society’s patterns of time use. Time-use policies can bridge the gap between preferred conditions of “time sovereignty” and the challenges of sustainable urban planning. In order to arrive at innovative, inclusive urban planning concepts the “idea” focuses on mapping individual daily routines and time sovereignty as a new approach to assessing sustainable inclusive cities and gender equality.
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15 Open innovation and urban design Giulia Melis
Do Urban Living Labs really help Citymaking? The recent turn in the debates on innovation, new media technologies and urbanism can be summarized in one slogan: We need smart citizens, not smart cities. During a Short term Scientific Mission in Amsterdam in April 2014 I explored the approach of the urban living lab as an approach to ‘citymaking’ that takes this maxim seriously. The idea was to analyze the ways various European urban living labs employ new media technologies in innovative ways to empower citizens as active change agents in the process of ‘citymaking’. Thanks to interviews and exploration of current practices, I consider whether this approach is able to combine the strength of top-down smart city schemes with that of bottom-up artistic and local community initiatives, and reflect on what that may mean for the role division between the three parties traditionally involved in citymaking: Governments, citizens and designers.
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16 Pendopo Cak Markeso David A. Sagita
Public Space as Cohesive Tools to Uniting the People The government's presence in everyday life is very difficult to detect and understand, especially by the common people. Governments are always required to serve all the needs of the community ideal in everyday life, it triggered prejudice of community that the government did not do much for them. On the other hand, government will defensive or sometimes refuse if someone says that they did not do anything for the peoples. At this point we should re-thinking what actually happen with this condition, is that true peoples always became burden to the government or people do not know how to talk with the government? This condition always happens in many places, people feels not satisfied with their government, in term of development people always feels they are neglected by government. A short story from Kampong Ketandan, Surabaya (Indonesia) will try to answer the question how to giving back peoples trust to government.
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17 Placemaking in Woodru Park Anna Siprikova, Elena Madison
The community is the expert Heart of the Community is an outreach program with a mission to build connections that bring people together and strengthen communities for a more resilient future. Launched in 2014 with lead partner, Project for Public Spaces, Heart of the Community is a signature outreach program of Southwest Airlines with a mission to build connections that bring people together and strengthen communities for a more resilient future. 2016 grantee, Woodruff Park is poised to become the popular, lively, dynamic gathering place Atlanta’s resurging downtown deserves. Working with stakeholders and community members, Central Atlanta Progress and Project for Public Spaces aim to attract more people to the park, enhance and diversify its existing programs, support daily activities, and improve both its image and perception. We have collaborated with the people who work, study, live in and care about downtown Atlanta to build a shared vision for improving the park. The improvements included designing and building a multifunctional movable kiosk that will have free games, outdoors co-work station and much more.
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18 Regulation for the shared administration of Commons Giulia Marra
A collaborative model from Labsus, Italy Labsus is an Italian NGO working with municipalities nationwide to find new ways to collaborate with citizens. In particular, it works to spread and strengthen the ‘Regulation for the shared administration of Urban Commons’, which makes operational the principle of Subsidiarity, introduced in 2001 by the Italian Constitution, providing that “the State, the Regions, the Metropolitan Cities and the Municipalities shall promote the autonomous initiative of citizens, individually and associated, for the performance of activities of general interest, based on the principle subsidiarity”. This Regulation is the instrument through which local governments and citizens operate by mutual agreement, sharing resources and responsibilities, to solve the problems in their communities and enhance the public interest. The ‘Collaboration Pacts’ activated under the umbrella of the Regulation provide a regulatory framework for the widespread expressions of civic activism. Today the Regulation has already been adopted and implemented in more than 100 cities in Italy, with more than 600 Collaboration Pacts already in action.
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19 Segni sull’Acqua Michela Tiboni, Silvia Rossetti Elena Pivato, Giovanni Chinnici
From exhausted quarries to a new natural park The Municipality of Brescia carried out the participated project “Segni sull’acqua” (Signs on the Water). The project aimed at designing the south-east area of the city, characterized not only by a large expansion of residential buildings, production plants and high-impact mobility infrastructures (roads, highways and rails), but also by the presence of former mining basins (sand and gravel quarries). Those quarries are nowadays small lakes, and the Municipality wants to develop in the area a new natural and recreational park (called “Parco delle Cave”). Therefore, a participatory urbanism project was set up in 2014 to engage stakeholders and design the park with a participatory approach. The project was developed and supported by the Municipality of Brescia, through its Urban Center. The municipality appointed a team of architects (Imbrò e Staro associati) to act as facilitators for public engagement. Stakeholders and citizens were involved in site visits, conferences and design laboratories, where design solutions were co-created.
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20 Smart specialisation in Cultural Heritage Dov Winer
The role of linked open data More than 80 regions have identified Cultural Heritage as a strategic priority for research and innovation in the framework of their Smart Specialisation Strategy. Regions identify opportunities in cultural heritage technologies, digitisation and imaging, and on the other hand cultural heritage is seen a key element in the development of (among the others) innovative approaches to tourism and sustainable construction. Open data is a crucial element in the EU2020 strategy to put Europe's economies onto a high and sustainable growth path. Linked Open Data is a way of expressing data “in the cloud� that retains the specific meanings and relationships between terms, names, and concepts. A central hub for Linked Data Cultural heritage data is Europeana, the open library, museum, archive and audio visual portal that (emulated by the Digital Public Library of America) and a central node in the open linked data cloud. This presentation will review how cities, local authorities and regions can leverage the Cultural Heritage Linked Data for their Smart Specialisation Strategies.
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21 Through the Walking Path Irit Solzi
Leveraging the participatory planning process A Charrette is an intensive planning session where citizens and designers collaborate on a vision for development. It provides a forum for ideas and offers the unique advantage of giving immediate feedback and allows everyone who participates to be a mutual author of the plan. Irit & Dror Urban Architects is the only firm in Israel which uses the participatory process of Charrette. Since 2007 we used the process to design 16 urban projects. Our charrettes are 4-6 full days' process located near the project site. The team of design experts and consultants sets up a full working office, complete with drafting equipment, supplies, computers. Formal and informal meetings are held throughout the event and updates to the plan are presented every evening during the process. Through brainstorming and design activity, many goals are accomplished during the charrette. First, everyone who has a stake in the project develops a vested interest in the ultimate vision. Second, the design team works together to produce a set of finished documents that address all aspects of design. Third, since the input of all the players is gathered at one event, it is possible to avoid the prolonged discussions that typically delay conventional planning projects. Finally, the finished result is produced more efficiently and costeffectively because the process is collaborative.
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22 Un cuore per Marte Michela Tiboni, Silvia Rossetti, Elena Pivato, Giovanni Chinnici
Gathering ideas for public uses of an historical building "Un cuore per Marte" is a participatory process developed by the City of Brescia. The aim was to identify with citizens one or more possible functional uses for an historical building located in Campo Marte, a former military sports field in the city centre. In 2016 the building, originally owned by the Ministry of Defense, became a property of the municipal administration, which wants to refurbish and renovate it for public uses. Therefore, the Municipality, through its Urban Center, shared with stakeholders and citizens the analysis already developed in the area and carried out participatory workshops and laboratories to identify citizens’ needs and expectations. The focus was not only on the building, but also on the former sports field, which is now an urban park.
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Organisers & Funders Participatory Urbanism 2017 is organised by the COST Action TU1204 People Friendly Cities in a Data Rich World in collaboration with the DaVinci Institute Brussels. People Friendly Cities in a Data Rich World is a community of experts from 30 different European nations working for and with cities with a focus on quality of life through social connectivity and smart urbanisation. This trans-disciplinary network investigates the alignment of the hardware and software of a city with user needs to promote well-being, good health, and a sustainable use of resources, within an evolving people-centred consultation framework for economic, cultural, and political development. http://people-friendly-cities.eu/ COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) COST is the longest-running European framework supporting trans-national cooperation among researchers, engineers and scholars across Europe. It is a unique means for them to jointly develop their own ideas and new initiatives across all fields in science and technology, including social sciences and humanities, through pan-European networking of nationally funded research activities. COST is dedicated to providing the freedom and diversity that science needs in order for it to unleash its full potential. http://www.cost.eu/ The DaVinci Institute promotes social innovation on the interface of science, culture and society. As a think-tank, the DaVinci Institute initiates discussions, engages in conversations and curates information on innovation-focussed collaboration. Through its network of experts and consultancy, the DaVinci Institute supports European organisations, projects and collaborations through tailored management, event curation, training and dissemination services. Contact us to ensure the success of your participatory collaboration. http://davinci-institute.eu/
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to be continued… The final publication of the COST Action, ‘People-Friendly Cities in a Data Rich World’, will come in the format of an interactive ‘People Friendly Cities Idea Book’. The book will include good practice examples, case stories, recipes, texts and ideas of how collectively, we may create cities that are liveable, sustainable & engage cities in their creation.
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