SECOND MEETING
Journal
Rosario, 23rd September 2011
SEGUNDO ENCUENTRO
The participants of the fair visited the stands of the URB-AL III projects.
Rosario is handed the baton of the urbsocial 2010 Sitges Agenda The second day of the 2011 URBsocIAL meeting in Rosario was held yesterday. The day was divided into three simultaneous workshops devoted to innovation policies in local government management. The first workshop addressed the potentialities of local development based on the specific analysis of experiences in matters of employment creation, territorial competitiveness, and innovation. The second workshop focused on strategies of land use planning and sustainable development with a debate on integrative design and urban mobility. The main aspect of the third workshop was institutional innovation and it was developed through the reflection about the articulation of actors, local pooling and associativism, and cross-border cooperation. The inventive World Café system served as a catalyst of interesting debates where each participant made a contribution and was enriched with that of the others. In parallel, there was a fair with stands showing the different URB-AL III projects, where participants talked about their own experiences and were able to go into the cases they were more interested in, in a relaxed and comfortable manner.
Workshops The first workshop, Potentialities of Local Development, addressed the matters of employment creation, with the PACEF project as reference; territorial competitiveness, with the COCAP project as starting point; and the concept of innovative cities, based on the example of Medellín. The second workshop, centred on land use planning and sustainable development, analysed the concept of integrative design, on the basis of the INTEGRATION project; and the concept of urban mobility, with Curitiba as an example. The third workshop was devoted tothe institutional innovation and was divided in three themes: articulation of territorial actors, with the project of Santa Fe as reference; local associativism, starting from the RESSOC project; and cross-border cooperation, illustrated by the Tourist Borders project.