Experimentalism

04.1 CASE STUDY 1 Turin, Italy

EXPERIMENTALISM

“... is the presence of an adaptive and iterative approach to designing the legal processes and institutions that govern urban commons.” (S.F and C.I, 2017)

In the process of Turin launching the co-city movement, many of the design principles for urban commons have been followed. The significant part in this, has been the “Experimentalism”, where adaptive approach of the city has led to the approval of new regulations which allow for change in governance of the city and more importantly, the urban commons. In 2016, the City of Turin has approved a regulation which allows for public collaboration on the urban commons, using Bologna as a model. As a result of this change, Turin proposed Co-City project which has strong relationship with the Urban Innovative Actions (UIA) program. The Co-City project is a collective of urban commons working together to form a sustainable ecosystem. It involves several forms of co-governance at different scales and a wide range of commons but all following the same regulation which aims at collaboration between citizens and the administration for the care and regeneration of the urban commons.

Figure1 - House in the Park: Neighbours Party (Citta’ di Torino,2013)

Figure2 - Cascina Roccafranca: 10 year Anniversary (Citta’ di Torino, n.d)