Palermo Urban Thinkers Campus - Program

Dear Urban Thinker, we are glad to welcome you to “City as a Service” Palermo Urban Thinkers Campus.

The event is focused on the relationship between new digital services and urban spaces and how to imagine the future development of cities, particularly in marginal contexts.

The Urban Thinkers Campus is an initiative promoted by the United Nations with the aim of sensitizing and creating awareness among citizens on urban issues and prepare the contents for the conference UN Habitat III that will take place in Quito in 2016.

Through a call for proposals the Steering Committee have selected the most interesting and innovative citizens-centered services and ideas looking towards cities’ future and thanks to our partners you are going to live three intense days of conferences and debates.

Enjoy the Campus and contribute to the world biggest debate on sustainable urban development for cities’ future!

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To better experience the city of Palermo once the daily sessions are over, you can use the Android App Open Tour. For further information check the website open-tour.org

OCTOBER 2015

CITY AS A SERVICE PALERMO URBAN THINKERS CAMPUS CANTIERI CULTURALI ALLA ZISA - PALERMO

We have inherited an urbanized world that is economically and environmentally unsustainable. And there is no time to complain.

The majority of human beings are “citizens”, while global urbanization rates are growing exponentially, inasmuch as people keep moving to cities questing after a better future.

Too often, we end up believing that cities are elements of a system that is too complex to be understood, or too ill to be healed.

As long as a real commitment to invest in structural urban transformations is absent, how can we envision a future for our cities?

Are cities going to be still the habitat for human beings or will they turn into “traps” for our and many other species?

It’s up to this generation to improve the current urban settings’ sustainability.

As such, we simply cannot afford to fail this challenge.

In order to find an answer to these questions the United Nations, with the program World Urban Campaign, is fostering the debate about new social and economic models, as well as new possible and scalable solutions to achieve the city we need. The “City we need” is, in fact, a document that collects contributions of committed partners of World Urban Campaign united by shared goals and a common vision of the city for the XXI century.

It sets key principles and establishes essential paths for building a New Urban Agenda towards Habitat III Conference.

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The city we need is socially inclusive; The city we need is well planned; The city we need is a regenerative city; The city we need is economically vibrant and inclusive; The city we need has a singular identity and sense of place; The city we need is a safe city; The city we need is a healthy city; The city we need is affordable and equitable; The city we need is managed at the metropolitan level.

How will we manage to reach these goals for every single city on earth?

The Urban Thinkers Campus of Palermo will deal with this question exploring one specific dimension. In recent years, the extraordinary revolution made by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and Service Design has pushed people interactions to a new level in terms of speed and complexity. Today, almost everywhere in the world, with a mobile connection, an inexpensive device and the right software we can augment our senses, get real time information or get engaged in global debates.

A correct mix of creativity and technology can thus contribute to a better social and political construction of more sustainable cities, hence improving people’s lives and the future of our habitat.

Cities’ livability can be improved with technology driven bottom-up solutions, by rethinking and redesigning the complex interaction between citizens and cities, but without forgetting the crucial role of public authorities, universities and companies for creating the conditions for social innovation and civic action to happen.

“Cities are what they are because citizens are what they are” and through ICT, we can create more room to change cities starting from its inhabitants. This approach could even become more relevant in urban contexts at the fringe of globalization processes. Here, with scarcer resources and little political transparency, technologically-driven bottom-up actions can result faster, cheaper and more effective than top-down policies.

The mission of this Urban Thinkers Campus is to better understand the capacity of the combination of ICT and Service Design to reimagine cities, especially in less globalized contexts, debating the role of the key actors involved: urban communities, researchers, private businesses and local authorities.

This event, one of the 29 held in different cities around the world, is promoted by the United Nations, with the aim of sensitizing and creating awareness among the citizens on urban issues and prepare the contents to be presented during the conference Habitat III (Quito 2016).

“City as a Service” is a metaphor from cloud computing.

The cloud enable ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand access to shared configurable computing resources.

City should play a similar role by enabling citizens-centered solutions to better address people needs and then save global resources.

During these three days we will have the opportunity to present, discuss and share new models and solutions able to reshape the urban environment also by improving the “citizens’ experience”.

OCTOBER 2015

PUSH

CANTIERI CULTURALI ALLA ZISA - PALERMO

PUSH is a non-for-profit research laboratory that develops creative and technological solutions to improve the citizens experience.

Through information technologies, we aim at designing services able to generate positive values for communities and improve the sustainability of the urban environment.

We choose to focus on marginal contexts. Such places, at the fringe of globalization, are affected by social, economic and environemental conflicts creating the need for urgent and effective solutions.

PUSH is based in Palermo. We chose this city because it represents the ideal space to prototype innovative solutions, to test their impact and to plan their scalability in other contexts.

PUSH was founded in 2013 and runs as an open innovation lab. We are 15 researchers with wide and diverse international experiences.

We are proud to have been awarded a number of prizes for some of our projects. Following is a list of our most significant results.

trafficO2 - research project - traffico2.com A game to encourage sustainable mobility.

The project won the contest “Smart Cities and Communities and Social Innovation” promoted by the Italian Ministry of Education and Research, and it was approved by the EU Campaign “Do the right mix”. In 2014 trafficO2 won the first edition of the “Social Innovation AROUND Award” and, in 2015, it has been awarded during the first edition of the “Smart City Innovation Awards” promoted by MIT Enterprise Forum and BNL/BNP Paribas. The results of trafficO2’s tests in Palermo were published in 2015 on IGI-Global book “Social, Economic, and Environmental Sustainability in the Development of Smart Cities”.

Borgo Vecchio Factory - crowdfunded social project borgovecchiofactory.tumblr.com A social innovation project aimed at engaging children living in disadvantaged areas, in a series of creative painting workshops.

In 2014 it was crowdfunded in two weeks, getting the attention of local and national media, gathering the support of more than 300 donors from 15 countries around the world. In 2015 the project was selected as finalist of “CheFare3”, the contest that rewards the most interesting projects on cultural innovation in Italy.

OpenTour - mobile app - open-tour.org A collaborative project to create a distributed city sightseeing database based on Open Data and accessible through a mobile app.

The app received several awards. It won the second prize of the “AppPalermo” contest sponsored by the municipality of Palermo, with the aim of facilitating the access to its Open Data datasets and increasing information transparency. It has also been awarded with the first prize at the first edition of the “Android App Festival Sicilia”, held in May 2014 in Santo Stefano di Camastra (ME), at the “Mob App Awards 2014” at SMAU Milan for the category “Travel and Tourism” and it was selected as app of the month by the international blog of interactive design abduzeedo.com.

Slowscape - urban regeneration - slowscape.it Slow landscapes and fast connections, where heritage meets innovation.

In 2013 the project was selected as finalist (out of over 500 proposals) at the “ideaTRE60”, promoted by Fondazione Italiana Accenture. Recently it has also generated the interest of Puglia Region that is working to integrate Slowscape among the pilot actions of the Regional Landscape Territorial Plan and within the proposals of the regional development plan “SAC Arneo costa dei Ginepri”. In October 2015 a project book has been published and an exhibition has been held in Puglia.

uMayor - mobile app - umayor.it A crowdsourcing app that allows reporting urban inefficiencies and issues directly to the right responsible of the municipal authority. uMayor was one of the fifteen finalists of the “Social Innovation Tournament 2013”, promoted by the European Investment Bank Institute.

The Social Market - mobile app - thesocialmarket.it A smartphone app designed with the purpose of encouraging neighbor friendly behaviors.

In 2013 the project won the first prize of the national competition “AAA architetticercasi” and it has also been selected as one of the 20 best ideas worldwide (among over than 700 proposals) for the “FI-WARE Smart Cities Challenge 2014” contest.

PUSH.edu - educational program - edu.wepush.org A training program aiming at improving citizens experience through service design approach.

We have been mentors in many educational events and lately we’ve organized our first workshop “City as a Service Intensive School” hosted in Erice for 10 days during September 2015.

Participants from allover the world have been funneled into a program using human-centered design as medium to tackle pressing urban issues.

URBAN THINKERS CAMPUS

PROGRAM

CANTIERI CULTURALI ALLA ZISA - PALERMO

OCT ‘15 THURSDAY

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09:00

WELCOME SESSION 10:00

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PLENARY SESSION NETWORKS FOR URBAN AND SOCIAL INNOVATION

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LUNCH BREAK 14:00

CONSTITUENT GROUPS 15:00

PARALLEL SESSIONS AND LABS BOOM POLMONI URBANI HOW TO IMPROVE CITIZENS’ LIFE THROUGH SERVICES 16:00

SMART CITIES, SERVICE PROVIDING AND URBAN POLICIES/POLITICS OPEN TOUR_ HOW TO BRING THE COLLABORATIVE TOURIST APP IN YOUR CITY SMART CITIZENS LAB URBAN CINEMA

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PARALLEL SESSIONS AND LABS

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INNOVATING ON METAMORPHOSIS OF CITIES FEATURED BY SPECIAL VULNERABILITY ENERGY IS THE LIFE BLOOD OF OUR SOCIETY MAPPATHON FOR SHARED KNOWLEDGE NEW ENERGY FOR NEW CITIES

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OCT ‘15 FRIDAY

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OCT ‘15 SATURDAY

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DRAFTING SESSION

DRAFTING SESSION

PLENARY SESSION

PLENARY SESSION

FUTURE CITY R&D

RULES AND GAME CHANGERS

LUNCH BREAK

LUNCH BREAK

CONSTITUENT GROUPS PARALLEL SESSIONS AND LABS FLEXIBLE FREEWAY TOWARDS A SMART INFRA-NATURE

PARALLEL SESSIONS AND LABS

THE CITY AS THE INNOVATIVE PROCESS LAB

A SQUARE IS NOT JUST A SQUARE PROMISED LANDS_ HOW RESIDUAL URBAN MATTERS CAN PROMPT CITY REGENERATION WE WILL BE WHAT WE WILL EAT SOCIAL INNOVATION AND URBAN POLICY THE CITY AS A SERVICE INTENSIVE SCHOOL URBAN ART AS AN ENGINE OF TRANSFORMATION FOR CITIES

FINAL SESSION BEST PRACTICES. THE EXPERIENCE OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF PALERMO

PARALLEL SESSIONS AND LABS INFORMALITY AND BOTTOM-UP ORGANIZATION IN THE AGE OF TECHNOLOGY THE SEVERAL FUTURES OF CITY PLANNING INSTAGARDENS LAB - COMMUNITY GARDENS TURN VIRAL MARKETPLACES LOCAL HUBS

CLOSING PARTY

INDEX PLENARY SESSIONS NETWORKS FOR URBAN AND SOCIAL INNOVATION

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FUTURE CITY R&D

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RULES AND GAME CHANGERS

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URBAN THINKERS SESSIONS BOOM POLMONI URBANI

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HOW TO IMPROVE CITIZENS’ LIFE THROUGH SERVICES

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SMART CITIES, SERVICE PROVIDING AND URBAN POLICIES/POLITICS

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INNOVATING ON METAMORPHOSIS OF CITIES FEATURED BY SPECIAL VULNERABILITY

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ENERGY IS THE LIFE BLOOD OF OUR SOCIETY

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A SQUARE IS NOT JUST A SQUARE

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PROMISED LANDS_ HOW RESIDUAL URBAN MATTERS CAN PROMPT CITY REGENERATION

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WE WILL BE WHAT WE WILL EAT

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INFORMALITY AND BOTTOM-UP ORGANIZATION IN THE AGE OF TECHNOLOGY

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THE SEVERAL FUTURES OF CITY PLANNING

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URBAN LABS OPEN TOUR_HOW TO BRING THE COLLABORATIVE TOURIST APP IN YOUR CITY

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SMART CITIZENS LAB

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URBAN CINEMA

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MAPPATHON FOR SHARED KNOWLEDGE

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NEW ENERGY FOR NEW CITIES

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SOCIAL INNOVATION AND URBAN POLICY

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URBAN ART AS AN ENGINE OF TRANSFORMATION FOR CITIES

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THE CITY AS A SERVICE INTENSIVE SCHOOL

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INSTAGARDENS LAB - COMMUNITY GARDENS TURN VIRAL

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MARKETPLACES LOCAL HUBS

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FLEXIBLE FREEWAY TOWARDS A SMART INFRA-NATURE

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8th OCTOBER

DAY ONE

8th OCTOBER

DAY ONE REGISTRATION 08:00 - 09:00

WELCOME SESSION 09:00 - 10:00 SALA DE SETA LEOLUCA ORLANDO / Mayor of Palermo ROBERTO LAGALLA / Dean of the University of Palermo SALVATORE DI DIO / Managing Director of PUSH

PLENARY SESSION 10:00 - 13:00 SALA DE SETA NETWORKS FOR URBAN AND SOCIAL INNOVATION

Virtual links allow us to be part of bigger discussions but physical connections are crucial to trigger real opportunities for territories.

MATTEO BARTOLOMEO / President of Avanzi MATTEO BETTOLI / Cooperative Development Manager at Confcooperative CoopUp ALESSANDRO CACCIATO / Project Manager at FARM Cultural Park EDOARDO CALIA / Deputy Director of Istituto Superiore Mario Boella GIACOMO CORVISIERI / Head of Innovation & Research at Italtel UMBERTO DI MAGGIO / Regional Coordinator at LIBERA ARTUR SERRA / Research Director at Citilab

CONSTITUENT GROUPS 14:00 - 15:00 BOTTEGA 3, BOTTEGA 4, RIDOTTO DE SETA 1.

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Local Governments Research and Academia Civil Society and Grass Root Organizations Professionals, Private Sector and Foundations

PARALLEL SESSIONS AND LABS 15:00 - 17:00 BOTTEGA 4 BOOM POLMONI URBANI During the Lab the winners of the contest will present their project focusing on social and cultural impact produced through urban regeneration processes.

15:00 - 17:00 INSTITUTE FRANÇAIS HOW TO IMPROVE CITIZENS’ LIFE THROUGH SERVICES A new approach to problem solving described through four Sicilian projects designed for people

15:00 - 17:00 GOETHE INSTITUT SMART CITIES, SERVICE PROVIDING AND URBAN POLICIES/POLITICS A space for critical debate on relations between urban policies/politics and service providing under the discursive umbrella of Smart Cities.

15:00 - 16:00 CENTRO SPERIMENTALE DI CINEMATOGRAFIA OPEN TOUR_ HOW TO BRING THE COLLABORATIVE TOURIST APP IN YOUR CITY In the Lab we will present our collaborative project on tourism and we will explain how to become part of the community of contributors.

15:00 - 17:00 BOTTEGA 3 SMART CITIZENS LAB In the Lab we will explore tools and apps to map the world around us. We will show how citizens can deal with themes ranging from air quality to noise pollution using low cost sensors.

16:00 - 17:00 CENTRO SPERIMENTALE DI CINEMATOGRAFIA URBAN CINEMA A moment to discuss and debate about the contemporary city through cinema and new media.

17:00 - 19:00 BOTTEGA 4 MAPPATHON FOR SHARED KNOWLEDGE The aim of the Lab is to involve citizens in mapping geographically their knowledge of the city.

17:00 - 19:00 INSTITUTE FRANÇAIS INNOVATING ON METAMORPHOSIS OF CITIES FEATURED BY SPECIAL VULNERABILITY How to develop a new perspective of urban regeneration in the Mediterranean cities, increasing their environmental and social dimension

17:00 - 19:00 GOETHE INSTITUT ENERGY IS THE LIFE BLOOD OF OUR SOCIETY New energy consumption models for electricity, heat, and transportation systems for sustainable urban areas

17:00 - 19:00 BOTTEGA 3 NEW ENERGY FOR NEW CITIES An idea generation lab for energy production, management, saving and distribution in urban environments

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WELCOME AND PLENARY SESSION

NETWORKS FOR URBAN AND SOCIAL INNOVATION 09:00 - 13:00 / SALA DE SETA VIRTUAL LINKS ALLOW US TO BE PART OF BIGGER DISCUSSIONS BUT PHYSICAL CONNECTIONS ARE CRUCIAL TO TRIGGER REAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR TERRITORIES.

The first plenary session of the Campus is devoted to explore the physical and spatial dimension of social and technological innovation.

The core argument developed is that, at the same time as ICTs offer instruments to expand citizen’s “geographies” and urban users, the possibility for urban developments are embedded in the ability to establish solid physical connections among places and people.

Under such overarching goals, keynote speakers have been invited to share their experiences from a wide variety of contexts: businesses born in lands and dwellings confiscated to criminal organizations; citizen laboratories; cooperative practices and co-working spaces; start-up businesses and technological innovations; cultural-based entrepreneurship.

The debate will develop around the following concepts: the relevance of places, innovation as a process (together with the need for long-term commitment), social creativity and design thinking.

All in all, the session will explore how practices of social innovation and socially sustainable entrepreneurship are supported by the intersection of creative technology and sustained-territorial organization.

CHAIRMAN VIVIANA CANNIZZO / Co-founder of Impact Hub Siracusa Co-founder, community manager and event organizer of the co-working space Impact Hub Siracusa. Digital champion for the Municipality of Siracusa. Her professional background is in the organization of cultural event where she has been after project management, fund raising and PR with public institution.

RAPPORTEUR MAURO FILIPPI / Project Manager at PUSH Mauro Filippi is a 27 years old architect. He studied and worked at Università degli Studi di Palermo, Universidad Camilo José Cela of Madrid and Carleton University of Ottawa, focusing on virtual visualization, building information modeling and promotion of cultural heritage. He works as designer and project manager at PUSH.

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LEOLUCA ORLANDO / Mayor of Palermo Leoluca Orlando, mayor of Palermo, was born in Palermo in 1947. He is as lawyer and Professor of Regional Public Law at the University of Palermo. He studied and lived for some years in Heidelberg, in the Federal Republic of Germany. He worked as international consultant for OECD in Paris.

ROBERTO LAGALLA / Dean of the University of Palermo Born in Bari in 1955, Roberto Lagalla is full professor of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Palermo. He was Dean of the University of Palermo from 2008 to 2014, and Councillor for health of the Region of Sicily.

SALVATORE DI DIO / Managing Director of PUSH Born in Palermo in 1983, his background is in architecture and engineering. He is an urban sustainability expert and he has worked for many Italian design and communication firms. During his academic research he was visiting student at the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning and he’s a Ph.D. in Energy and Environmental Applied Physics. His studies are about dynamics, tools and innovative design methods able to trigger urban sustainable development in disadvantaged contexts. He’s co-founder and Managing Director of the innovation lab PUSH and co-founder, Design Manager of the architecture “Inés Bajardi and Partners” and cofounder of Piranesi Experience.

MATTEO BARTOLOMEO / President of Avanzi Graduated in Economics at the Catholic University of Milan, he has a Masters in European environmental management. After a few years in the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, he contributes to the foundation of Avanzi, whose today is the President. He is an expert in stakeholder engagement, sustainable innovation, green economy and environmental conflict management. He is the managing director of Make a Cube, a part of the Avanzi project. He coordinates projects of applied research and consultancy for important enterprises, for the European Commission and public administrations. For ten years he was professor at Politecnico di Milano in Environment Economics and Public Goods.

MATTEO BETTOLI / Cooperative Development Manager at Confcooperative CoopUp Matteo Bettoli works In Confcooperative (the largest italian organization of cooperative enterprises) as cooperative development manager, dealing with projects on cooperative start-up support, young cooperative entrepreneurs network and new cooperative models. He completed his studies in International Relations, Diplomatic Affairs and Development Cooperation at the University of Bologna and made some experiences in South Africa (Centre for Health Systems Research & Development) and Austria (European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights) before joining the cooperative movement working first in Brussels (CECOP) and then in Rome, collaborating with the Secretary-General of Confcooperative.

ALESSANDRO CACCIATO / Project Manager at FARM Cultural Park Alessandro Cacciato was born in Vicenza in 1978. He lives in Agrigento since 1994, where he deals with promotion of SME for ProGest, the Agrigento Chamber of Commerce Special Agency. Passionate about communications, in 2013 he produced the video and radio format “Edicola dell’Innovazione”, that tells stories of success, set in Southern Italy. Inspired by social and entrepreneurial innovation he published his first book “Ignore or Innovate”, by Medinova Editore. He contributes to Farm Cultural Park where he’s playing an active role in the development initiatives of the project conceived and set up by Andrea Bartoli and Florinda Saieva.

EDOARDO CALIA / Deputy Director of Istituto Superiore Mario Boella Edoardo Calia graduated from Politecnico di Torino (MSEE: 1987, PhD: 1992), and he spent most of his professional career working on innovation based and Communication Technologies. After several years - some of which in USA - spent working on research projects on Internetworking and distributed computing, he contributed in 2001 to the startup of Istituto Superiore Mario Boella (ISMB), a research center set up by Politecnico di Torino and Compagnia di San Paolo, where he is currently Deputy Director for Strategic Programs. ISMB carries out applied research projects in several application domains where Information Technologies play a key enabler role (urban mobility, e-health, energy etc).

GIACOMO CORVISIERI / Head of Innovation & Research at Italtel Graduated in Electronic Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering in the University of Palermo. He has been working in Italtel since 1985, always in R&D departments and most of time with the responsibility of software development labs. He has played the role of PL, RL and PM for various product releases. He has been responsible, either in the internal company activities or for the overall coordination, for several projects funded at national and international levels. He has got CMMI certification and he is a Certified Scrum Product Owner. Currently he heads the “Innovation & Research - PA” Unit.

UMBERTO DI MAGGIO / Regional Coordinator at LIBERA Young Sicilian sociologist, he works for LIBERA NGO in promoting innovative paths for the social reuse of goods confiscated from organized crime. Teacher in many Universities, he’s Scientific director of the Summer School “GIA ‘ - Youth and Innovations” and he is also author of several studies and publications on local development, policies for welfare, social cooperation and international fight to the mafia and corruption.

ARTUR SERRA / Research Director at Citilab Started his research as techno-anthropogist at Carnegie Mellon University, he founded in 1999 i2cat, a leading Internet research center in Catalonia and living labs as Citilab, first citizen laboratory in Europe in 2007. He has participated in lot of European projects, as well as in Latinamerican cities, specially in Medellin,Colombia. Since 2011, he collaborated in starting BCNLab in Barcelona. He is currently interested in citizen-driven regional innovation strategies. Since 2015, he plays the role of Vicepresident of the European Network of Living Labs.

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8th OCTOBER - DAY 1

URBAN THINKERS SESSION / CULTURE

BOOM POLMONI URBANI

15:00 - 17:00 / BOTTEGA 4

Boom Polmoni Urbani concept contest 3rd place winner is Trame di quartiere of Catania, a project which provides a web series and drama workshop to be created in San Berillio, a degraded urban area of Catania to be upgraded. The second place winner project is Periferica of Mazara del Vallo (TP), which concerns as target area an ancient tuff query to be converted in public space suitable to receive many different recreational

activities such as a multidisciplinary festival, an eco-friendly guestrooms and a re-cicycle & Vintage shop.

Finally, the first place project is the Street Factory Eclettica of Caltanissetta, which has as target area an old skating-rink to be converted in a cultural and street sports center as well as a community gathering space.

PARTNER BOOM POLMONI URBANI #BoomPolmoniUrbani is a concept contest aimed at finding strategies of urban transformation contrasting urban degradation and abandoned areas and offering an opportunity for residents’ appropriation of public spaces for recreational purposes.

It was organized by Movimento 5 Stelle Sicilia, in association with Farm Cultural Park of Favara, and offered a 360.000 € prize for the three best Urban Regeneration projects to be carried out.

MODERATOR / RAPPORTEUR CLAUDIA LA ROCCA / Member of Sicilian Regional Assembly Claudia La Rocca, 34 years old, member of the Sicilian Regional Assembly - Budget and Planning committee - Student in Political Sciences and International Relations

LECTURERS ANDREA D’URSO / Phd in Urban Geography Andrea D’Urso is a Phd in Urban Geography (local community and sustainable development). He is carrying out research and action projects about the valorization of cultural heritage (material and immaterial) in Catania. He is a practitioner of participatory and local community development approach and he is expert on European funding. Now a day he is working for monumental and archeological research institute (IBAM-CNR).

SILVIA MACALUSO / Student Silvia Macaluso is one of the coordinators of the Eclettica Street Factory Project. She currently lives in Caltanissetta, Sicily, where she was born in 1990 and came back after her degree in Political Science and International Relations at Pisa University. During her studies she developed a great interest for foreign cultures and geopolitical balances, that is the reason why she will soon achieve a master degree in International Studies.

ALESSANDRO CIULLA / Entrepreneur Alessandro Ciulla, was born in 1983 in Caltanissetta; after his studies in veterinary zootechnics at Pisa University, in 2007 returns to his beloved town believing in its potential and its tourism revival. He restored an 18th century abandoned apartment and he turned it into a B&B. Since that time he also has been conducting an artistic and photografic campaign of denunciation and awareness for citizenship.

His passions for basketball and rollers, local biodiversity, artistic expression, regeneration of materials and optimization of waste, led him to the creation of a platform of youth gathering and incubation of talents, a place where every owner of ideas or skills can meet and find fertile ground for their seeds.

ANNAMARIA CRAPAROTTA / Multimedia and product designer She realises audiovisual and multimedia communication projects. She has directed and produced several documentaries and short films. Since 2008 she collaborates with: Mass Art (Boston), i-Italy e La Voce di NY (New York), Terre di Cinema (Forza d’Agrò), FARM Cultural Park (Favara), Esterni (Milano), Ospedale Niguarda Ca’ Granda (Milano), ESADSE (Saint-Étienne), Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (Palermo). Her awards: Grand Jury Award, 1st prize Samsung Young Design Awards 2007.

VINCENZO CANCEMI / Visual and product designer He designs for companies and public and private institutions. He was honorary fellow at the Laboratory of Industrial Design III at UNIPA from 2009 to 2011. In 2011 he founded the Undersquare studio and in 2012 the Aventinove design studio in Mazara del Vallo. He works between Malta and Milan, moving from Mazara del Vallo to Palermo, Catania and Bologna.

His awards: Competition for the brand of the network NET Kite; Startup Weekend Palermo 2014 (3rd prize); Special awards CREZI, Equi Mediterranean Fund, Sicilian Venture Capital Foundation.

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/ TRAME DI QUARTIERE ANDREA D’URSO Trame di quartiere is a project where performing arts and audiovisual tolls would be used to discover cultural heritage (material and immaterial) of an ancient district placed in the old city center of Catania (Italy), named San Berillo. The project aims to foster cooperation relations between local actors (included inhabitants and economic operators) and to realize an innovative cultural proposal for new public in order to implement urban regeneration process. The core of project is the creation of an exposition space, Trame vive, where the “guest” could live a innovative experience in knowing San Berillo History. The material/document about the history are produced by inhabitants and experts themselves, involved actively in two workshop; the first one is a Community theater workshop, where expertise and inhabitants meet in order to produce dramaturgy performances about the history of San Berillo. The second one is a video workshop where participants produce short documentaries about the district. This production and much more documents will be collected and usable by public inside the center “Trame vive”. / STREET ART ECLETTICA (CL) SILVIA MACALUSO - ALESSANDRO CIULLA Eclettica Street Factory is a project of urban regeneration, it will be settled in an abandoned public roller skating ring in Caltanissetta, Sicily. The entire project aim to the built of a place of art and sport incubation where talented youngsters can freely express themselves in various fields.

Eclettica project is based on 3 main pillars: Street sport: Eclettica will host roller skating, skateboarding, hockey in line, Bmx Freestyle, street basket, free climbing, parkour and others.

Art: the structure will be surrounded by an art garden and provided with an outdoor and indoor art gallery, artistic laboratories and live street art performances all the time, including hi-tech experimentation.

Green: energy will be mostly given by solar panels. Re-use will be the key-word of our project while urban gardens will be cultivated in order to preserve and teach the value of local vegetable species and provide the city restaurants with their products. Thanks to local farms we will create a genuine products kiosk to give to our athlets and users the most healthy food intake, pursuing a nutritional education for the benefit of the younger generations. / MARGINALITY AT THE CENTER OF THE FUTURE ANNAMARIA CRAPAROTTA - VINCENZO CANCEMI Periferica is an urban regeneration project which since two years has started in the suburbs of Mazara del Vallo a process of investigation, design and construction, engaging universities, associations and companies and enabling the citizen to intervene positively and actively in its territory.

The project culminates in a festival directed above all to the university students who, through targeted workshops, produce projects of architecture, visual design and urban equipment useful for the regeneration and the development of the project area.

With this procedure it’s possible to put some marginal realities at the center of the territory development, working with schools, family homes, shelters, neighborhood communities.

The heart of the project is a tuff quarry and an adjacent building which hosted the various initiatives.

Periferica aims to: • reinforce and expand the project creating a process active throughout the year in order to develop, among other assets, a cultural center, promoting the inclusion of the citizens in a choral program of local, national and international initiatives; • promote forms of co-management with other local associations for useful services to the residents of the neighborhood; • establish the first real city park, recreating inside it diversified services.

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URBAN THINKERS SESSION / WELFARE AND WELLBEING

HOW TO IMPROVE CITIZENS’ LIFE THROUGH SERVICES 15:00 - 17:00 / INSTITUTE FRANÇAIS The city we need is citizen-centred and designed to meet everyone’s needs. Kids, parents, elderly, sick or disabled persons have, in fact, their own specific requirements, which are different to each others. In this context, the creation of dedicated services for specific categories of citizens is the key to enable the most needy people to live in a equitable and inclusive society. Connecting the blood donor community (Smart Donor), increasing the autonomy and social inclusion of blind people

(Arianna), helping single parents through an orignal model of shared nursery school (Nidi Nomadi): these are some of the most interesting examples in Sicily of innovative ideas created with the aim of improving people’s lives. In the end, there will be presented the results of the Palermo City Workshop: a co-design event during which citizens and public officials have worked together on concrete proposals to improve the city’s livability.

PARTNER PUSH PUSH is a not-for-profit innovation laboratory based in Palermo, Sicily. Aim of the research team is to develop creative and technological solutions for urban and social innovation in marginal contexts. It’s the “City as a Service - Palermo UTC” organizer and an associate partner of the World Urban Campaign.

COORDINATOR ALESSIA TORRE / Fund Research Analyst at PUSH Alessia Torre, 27 years old, got a master degree in Public Administrative studies in Siena, Faculty of Political Science.

In 2012 she moved to Brussels where she achieved an Executive Master in European Union Studies and she worked as a Junior Research Executive at TNS Opinion, one of the world’s largest custom research company, leader for the Eurobarometer multicountry survey.

Back in Palermo she has been working since June 2014 as Fund Research Analyst at PUSH, where she is in charge of monitoring and analysing EU and national funding opportunities and coordinating the development of project proposals.

RAPPORTEUR MARCO CANNEMI /Project manager at Smart Donor

LECTURERS BENEDETTA FALMI / Founder of Nidi Nomadi Born in Florence, she studied international cooperation between Florence, Geneve and Bologna. A couple of years ago she founded a rural development project, called Porto di Terra. She is also, and perhaps above all, a mother, for this reason she created the project Nidi Nomadi.

MARCO CANNEMI /Project manager at Smart Donor Ph.D. in Mathematics Applied to Engineering. Master Degree in Management Engineering, Beneficiary and Project Manager of the Social Innovation Project “Smart Donor” PON04a3_00266. Researcher at Industrial Engineering Department of the University of Catania.

Co-founder and treasurer of the association CL MAKERS. ILENIA TINNIRELLO / Co-founder & CTO at In.sight s.r.l.

Prof. Ilenia Tinnirello is Associate Professor at the University of Palermo. She has MSc in Electronic Engineering and a Ph.D. on Communications. Ilenia is involved in several national and European research projects and is co-founder of In.sight, a spin-off company developing assistive technologies for visually impaired people.

JULIA VOROBIOVA / EVS volunteer at CESIE Background in Product Design and Information Technology Currently she is doing her EVS in CESIE, Palermo, creating visual content for the social projects and trainings (mostly graphic, web-design and videos).

JULIA ISASI / EVS volunteer at CESIE Background in Social Work. At that moment doing her EVS in a project: “Able like you” (CESIE) helping people with intellectual disability in their personal development and autonomy, using creative and social integration activities.

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/ NIDI NOMADI BENEDETTA FALMI The idea is simple and its direct to the category of children in age of kindergarten experiences of mutual aid that are becoming increasingly popular in urban areas under the acronym “sharing economy”. It is a sort of bank of time born to facilitate the exchange of time to spend with kids: 5 moms or dads are hosting a day each alternately 4 children sharing space games and habits and building together rules for an attentive parenting involved in the educational process. The construction of “NIDI NOMADI” will be through a participatory planning involving all parents who wish to be part of the project, together with a facilitator (to allow the group to work smoothly and effectively), an educator (who assist parents in creation of pedagogical common rules) and a team of lawyers who will help us to identify how to protect our children from potential risks or accidents. The benefits of NIDI NOMADI are both for children (personalized care, educate to sharing and to respect the diversity) and parents (have a direct role in the education of their children without having to give up their jobs , community building, exchange of knowledge and best practices, the chance to partecipate, even without a sufficient income to be able to cover the cost of a traditional one). / SMART DONOR - THE BLOOD DONORS COMMUNITY MARCO CANNEMI Smart Donor is the smart solution for the management of the blood donors activities, for the resources optimization of the blood transfusion operators and for the support of social communication and societal marketing campaigns. / ARIANNA: ENHANCING SENSES THROUGH TECHNOLOGY ILENIA TINNIRELLO Arianna is an navigation system designed to guide visually impaired people in public spaces (such as airports, museums, hospitals, shopping malls) and increase their autonomy and independence. The main idea of our solution is substituting the expensive tactile pavements today in use with lowcost, flexible and easily deployable traces (such as colored tapes, luminescent stripes, or painted lines similar to the ones used for horizontal road signs) that can be detected by a smartphone, acting as a mediation instrument between the user and the reality. Indeed, the smartphone camera can be programmed for recognizing the trace and providing a vibration signal when the user is on the trace; vibration intensity can vary for informing about progressive deviations from the trace. Landmarks can be deployed along the path for coding additional information. Through Arianna, we expect to strengthen people’s capacities, improve their well-being and provide opportunities to participate in society and labour market. / PALERMO CITY WORKSHOP JULIA VOROBIOVA - JULIA ISASI During this keynote the results of the Palermo City Workshop will be presented. Palermo is a fascinating city, but at the same time full of problems which might have a simple solutions. The idea of workshop is to discover Palermo city and find things, which we would like to change or develop in a better way, in order to make the city more welcoming and convenient for local people and tourists. The methodology of the workshop is to make groups with people from diverse fields who will see the problems from different perspectives. This way, the solutions are not limited by the personal opinions of individual group members. We then aim to visualise and systemise all the gathered information with videos, photos, user journeys and idea mapping. Furthermore, it is a good opportunity to collaborate and join the team members who are interested in developing the ideas.

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URBAN THINKERS SESSION / URBAN STUDIES

SMART CITIES, SERVICE PROVIDING AND URBAN POLICIES/POLITICS 15:00 - 17:00 / GOETHE INSTITUT This session is one of two organized by the AESOP Young Academics network under the overall goal of providing a critical space to debate the overarching theme of the Urban Thinker Campus and, specifically, the technological dimension of urban governance, management and cohabitation. Thanks to the wide span of the proposals accepted, both sessions will provide fresh insights to look at differences and connections between different geographical contexts (Western world, Global South and beyond their divides) as well as political, institutional and cultural arrangements.Specifically, this session is devoted to the relationships between urban policies/politics and issues of service providing, under the

umbrella of the discursive framework of the so-called ‘Smart Cities’. Five presentations will be given by young researchers in different areas (urban studies, spatial planning) from US, India, the Netherlands and Portugal. In terms of geographical span of cases, examples from India, United States and Europe, as well as theoretical reflections on non-spatial trends, will be presented. The list of themes to be debated include: urban health, human waste and service providing in contexts of fast urbanization; ‘Smart City’ programmes, in between risks and potentials for urban development and governance; gamification of urban life.

PARTNER AESOP YOUNG ACADEMICS NETWORK The Young Academics Network is a loosely structured branch of AESOP, which encourages the active participation and exchange of academic work. From PhD students to Post-docs and those starting out in academic positions, the YA provides a platform through which the academic leaders of tomorrow can share ideas in an open and inclusive environment, challenging and supporting one another.

MODERATOR / RAPPORTEUR SIMONE TULUMELLO / Post-Doc Research Fellow at AESOP YA and University of Lisbon Simone Tulumello (PhD Urban and Regional Planning; University of Palermo) is a Post-doc Research Fellow (Planning and Geography) at the University of Lisbon, Institute of Social Sciences. Since 2013 he is elected member of the Coordination Team of the AESOP Young Academics. His research interests lies at the border between planning research and critical urban studies: planning theory and cultures; critical studies of urban security; power and justice in planning; future studies, ICTs and territorial governance; neoliberal urban trends; Southern European cities; the geography of crisis. He has published in Urban Geography, International Planning Studies, Planning Practice and Research, Space and Culture, Archivio di Studi Urbani e Regionali.

LECTURERS ANGELA OBERG / PhD Candidate at Rutgers University Angela Oberg is a Ph.D. candidate at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. Her doctoral research investigates the socio-political aspects of urban sewage with emphasis in India. She is particularly interested in how relations across multiple levels influence and are influenced by the form of the city. Angela holds a Master of Landscape Architecture from California State Polytechnic University in Pomona, California and a Bachelor of Arts from Austin College. She has worked professionally as an environmental planner in California, Texas, and Pennsylvania on projects in the United States, Italy, United Arab Emirates, and Africa.

TARU JAIN / Assistant Professor at School of Planning and Architecture, New Dehli Taru Jain is an urban transport planner, currently working as an Assistant Professor in the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi. A former commonwealth scholar, she is an alumni of the SPA, Delhi (2008) and University of Leeds, (2007). A member of the YA Network, she is also serving as a member of the UN Habitat Task Force for Habitat III and also worked on other ISOCARP and UN Habitat assignments. Taru has presented several papers in international conferences. Her other research interests include smart mobility, social aspects of transport and urban planning and socio economic assessments of plans.

DEZSÖ VAJTHO / Master Student at Utrecht University Dezsö Vajtho, born in 1990 in Trieste, Italy, in 2013 graduated in the bachelor of Political Sciences and International Relations at the University of Siena, Italy. He’s currently student at the MSc Sustainable Development, track Environmental governance, at the Utrecht University Interested in new governance models, he focuses his attention on issues of social exclusion/inclusion, and on the application of an ecological perspective on social systems.

FABIO IAPAOLO / PhD Candidate at University of Lisbon Grown up in a small village in Molise, Italy. Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Management at Bocconi University, Milan. Master of Science in Economics and Management of Public Administrations and International Institutions at Bocconi University, Milan. Currently enrolled in the PhD Programme in Sociology of the Institute of Social Science of the University of Lisbon, conducting a research project titled: ‘Who do we build Smart Cities for? A comparative study of Barcelona and Lisbon’. Main interests: ICTs and usage of the Internet, experimental electronic music, literature.

MAHAK AGRAWAL / Master Student at School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi Mahak Agrawal graduated top of her class in 2015 and her thesis work was selected for ‘Best Thesis’ award. At age of 21, she was selected as ‘Young Planning Professional’ by ISOCARP held in Gdynia. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Physical Planning and is currently pursuing Master’s in Urban Planning. She is not merely hard-working, but she is dedicated to her work. She has a keen interest in uncovering the secrets to equity planning and is aware that this path is trying. Her latest works include a bulletin in the ‘Springer’ May issue on ‘Smart Economy in Smart cities’.

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MENDEL GIEZEN / Assistant Professor at Utrecht University Mendel Giezen’s research and teaching revolves around Sustainable Urban Development and Infrastructure, with a background in Interdisciplinary Studies, Political Science, Urban Studies, and Planning. He currently works on projects in adaptive decision-making and planning of spatial interventions, the upscaling of low carbon urban development, the urban impact of the sharing economy, and international municipal climate networks. He also works on Smart City Governance. He is the founder and coordinator of the Sustainable Cities Thematic Group of the Association of European Schools of Planning.

/ UNDELIVERED SERVICES: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF SEWAGE IN AGRA, INDIA ANGELA OBERG Why, despite a growing economy and intense focus on open defecation from politicians, aid organizations, and international news media, are Indian cities still crippled by sewage? Addressing this question, I interrogate our current understanding of the problem of human waste and its proposed solutions by tracing the political economy of sewage in Agra, one of the most waste-ridden cities in northern India. This research, drawing on 13 months of fieldwork conducted between 2012 and 2015, employs case study methods including interviews, plan analysis, participant observation, and historical data collection. I conclude that a leading factor contributing to the urban sewage problem is a turn away from service delivery to focus almost exclusively on infrastructure building. This leads to construction of disconnected sewage pipes, underutilized treatment plants, and unused toilets. Existing research recognizes the problem of unused toilets, calling for attention to the ‘software’ of sewage rather than the ‘hardware’. Current discussions of ‘software’ generally do not extend beyond culturally differentiated toilet practices, leading many to offer education of those who defecate in the open as a means to increase toilet use and solve the sewage problem. Although this may be effective in rural areas, my research indicates a high and unmet demand for toilets in urban areas, even among slum-dwellers. I argue that policies created based on rural research cannot be applied successfully to urban contexts. Issues of urban sewage are distinct and demand consideration beyond the toilet, to include systems of governance, morphology of the city, and community dynamics. / SMART CITIES IN INDIA – KEY OBSTACLES AND RISKS TO IMPLEMENTATION OF TECHNOLOGY TARU JAIN The Indian Government has recently announced, the $15 billion, Smart Cities Project, aiming to build 100 new cities, on the lines of Masdar and Songdo, and retrofit 500 existing ones. While much of India grapples with lack of basic facilities, this project, aims to build new cities with hi-tec infrastructure solutions, borrowed from developed economies. This presentation identifies four challenges in implementation of smart solutions that deliver to everyone and serve good value for scarce public money. Firstly, the need to prioritise; secondly, the need to make sure that new technology does not propagate a ‘social apartheid’; thirdly, resources to build new cities and lastly, need to understand why so many grand tech-based interventions have persistently failed to take off in India. To detail these challenges, the presentation will critically examine the smart city policy along with the development and impact of Lavassa, Dholera, Paleva City and GIFT City, the first generation Indian ‘smart cities’. These greenfield developments have garnered praise for being futuristic but also for being exclusionary, short sighted, promoting ‘privatised governance’ and grabbing land from farmers. Using examples of Delhi Metro, Delhi bicycle sharing scheme, variable message signs in Delhi and the Spatial Data Project for Delhi, the presentation will also identify planning and governance issues which need to be tackled in order to prevent technological retrofitting from failing. The key argument, not anti-technology but more pro-city, would highlight potential risks of ‘smart development’ and identifying possible governance, planning, design and managerial tweaks. / SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY IN SMART CITIES: WHERE ARE WE AND WHAT ARE WE AIMING AT? A STUDY ON THE IMPACT OF SMART CITY ARRANGEMENTS IN THE DEPRIVED URBAN AREAS OF FOUR EUROPEAN CITIES DEZSÖ VAJTHO / MENDEL GIEZEN Over the last decades, the concept of “Smart City” (SC) has emerged as a strategic vision for tackling present and future urban development challenges. It aims to leverage material and immaterial assets of a locale more effectively through ICT in order to enhance its overall sustainability. However in practice, this approach seems to use technology mainly to enhance the competitiveness of a city, with little attention to human and social factors.

In particular, the actual contribution SCs give to social sustainability has been systematically overlooked. This research aims to fill this research gap by evaluating SC policies on their contribution to social integration in deprived urban areas. It consists of three steps: 1) creating an evaluation framework based on SC, e-governance, and critical urban planning literatures, 2) evaluating four different European SCs, namely Utrecht, Ghent, Montpellier, and Bologna, on using quantitative and qualitative data, and 3) comparing the evaluations to find patterns of drivers and barriers.

This research makes an empirical and critical contribution to the literature. It contributes empirically by providing evaluations on the neglected social aspects of the Smart City. And it contributes critically by developing a social justice perspective on the technocratic Smart City approach. The outcomes of this research provides policy makers and planners with 1) a pragmatic, problem-solving perspective on using ICT to address social sustainability and 2) an utopian vision on the Smart City to further discussion on desirable directions of future developments. / THE SMART CITY IS HERE FOR YOU TO HAVE FUN: TECHNOLOGIES OF THE QUANTIFIED SELF AND GAMIFICATION OF URBAN LIFE FABIO IAPAOLO The ‘smartification’ of everyday life is really happening, since computer chips are being increasingly embedded in objects such as clothes, cutlery, fridges and trash bins. These objects create, store and elaborate data on a daily basis and allow users to track and monitor the activities conducted during the day and their mental and physical state. The term ‘gamification’ refers to the use of game thinking and game design elements in nonplayful contexts. Gamification is used as a tool to digitally engage and motivate people to change behaviours, develop skills and achieve personal goals (e.g.: quitting smoking, losing weight or being more productive at work). Gamification, therefore, is reliant on (1) the spread of the Internet of Things, and on (2) the tendency of people to use self-tracking applications and social networks in order to measure, evaluate, share and then receive feedbacks about their daily activities. The debate on gamification is usually focused on the opportunities that it offers for improving the awareness of people about themselves and relevant social issues, thence promoting virtuous behaviours. Building on concrete cases, this paper critically addresses gamification and its implications in terms of: mechanisms of surveillance; subtly imposed neoliberal governmentalities; and ‘solutionist’ approaches to urban issues. / SANITATION DEPRIVATION - A CHALLENGE TO ‘SMART CITIES’ AND DEVELOPMENT MAHAK AGRAWAL Open defecation, an outcome of sanitation deprivation, is a routine exercise for urban poor living in developing nations like India. It has implications on the economy, tourism, public health, environment, education and safety; yet plethora of policies aimed at eradication of open defecation, have made insignificant progress. With 15 per cent of world’s urban population, India alone accounts for 48 per cent of population defecating in open. A ‘restricted view’ of sectoral and planning policies aimed at sanitation deprivation coupled with a colonial legacy of providing sanitation, associated with Universal Service Obligation, to the middle class and elite has continued even after six decades of Independence. However, instead of seeking solutions to ensure equitable access to adequate sanitation, the Central government in 2014, initiated “100 Smart cities” project. It aims at establishment of smart cities in and around existing cities. Is it the need of the hour? As representatives for citizens of India, shouldn’t politicians along with the government seek answers to ‘what kind of city we need?’. Do we need smart cities within a city or do we need a city, having equitable distribution of basic necessities of life? As a planner, I am firm advocate of deploying technologies to develop affordable and site specific sanitation services to eradicate open defecation and its negative externalities. But first, a clear definition of ‘adequate sanitation’ has to be formulated. Collaboration between local level agencies and the target population is a must. We need to make a city smart and not a ‘smart’ city.

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URBAN LAB / TOURISM

OPEN TOUR_HOW TO BRING THE

COLLABORATIVE TOURIST APP IN YOUR CITY 15:00 - 16:00 / CENTRO SPERIMENTALE DI CINEMATOGRAFIA Open Tour is a collaborative project that aims to develop an international community for the creation and dissemination of tourist sights’ datasets in Open Data format. The goal is to provide a mobile service that allows travelers to plan short personalized tours starting from their available time, location, interests. Through a single mobile app, in fact, the datasets available for every city can be downloaded and used even in offline mode, overcoming the Internet access problems that can affect tourists traveling outside their country, where telephone operators don’t guarantee connectivity. For each city, the dataset construction, updating and translation

will be handled by the community members; all datasets are available on the web portal where they can be downloaded or modified, based on Wikipedia’s collaborative model.

Open Tour is based on an ad-hoc Open Data standard named Open Tourist Sites. OTS is an open standard for the cataloging and management of tourist sites within a given city. During the first part of the Lab, the project will be presented and the OTS standard will be described. The second part will be dedicated to explain how to became an Open Tour contributor and how to develop the dataset for your city.

PARTNER PUSH PUSH is a not-for-profit innovation laboratory based in Palermo, Sicily. Aim of the research team is to develop creative and technological solutions for urban and social innovation in marginal contexts. It’s the “City as a Service - Palermo UTC” organizer and an associate partner of the World Urban Campaign.

COORDINATOR DOMENICO SCHILLACI / Associate Managing Director at PUSH Born in Palermo in 1983, he is Master of Science in information engineering at Polytechnic University of Milan. He has worked as Temporary Research Associate at Polytechnic University of Milan with a research focus on wireless mesh networks; he has also worked as network designer and ICT consultant. He’s co-founder and Associate Managing Director of the innovation lab PUSH and CEO of the design studio NEU / Integrated Design.

HOST MIRKO MIGNINI / Backend developer at PUSH Born near Rome in 1980, begins to programming at very young age. At 18 years old, he began working with several Italian companies, specializing in multimedia and 3D programming. Later he began working with Fiat, where he designed and implemented a software for automated testing of control units used in different plants around the world. He then moved to Palermo, where he continued to work with companies in multimedia field, and then over time move he moved to web and open source. In the while he realized an integrated system for call centers used in several major reality in Palermo. Since 2012 specializing in Ruby on Rails, web frameworks and non-relational databases. Today he works at PUSH where he develops backend and frontend websites and server side software.

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URBAN LAB / HEALTH

SMART CITIZENS LAB 15:00 - 17:00 / BOTTEGA 3

When is the best time to take a swim in the water? Which route is the healthiest to take to work? And what’s the real level of noise pollution in your neighbourhood? These are all examples of questions that could be answered in the Smart Citizens Lab in Amsterdam. In 2014, we experimented with Smart Citizen Kit, an open source device developed by Fablab Barcelona that monitors the environment. The technology was not yet ready at that moment, but the exchange of experiences helped us understand what the possibilities are of citizen science. Currently we are continuing our efforts in the Smart Citizens Lab. With smartphones, smart watches, and wristbands, it’s becoming increasingly simple to collect the

data around us. But open data from the municipality and DIY sensors are also playing a major role in the retrieval of (new) data. Thanks to today’s technology, measuring, itself, has become much easier, and can help citizens learn more about their city, town, or neighbourhood. Yet, simply measuring the environment around us is not enough. One must also merge and analyse the data to make the most of it. Data can lead to new connections and insights, which means that it will become easier to make our environment healthier and cleaner. In this session we will explore how to setup a Smart Citizens Lab in your own city using co-creating methods.

PARTNER WAAG SOCIETY Waag Society—institute for art, science and technology—is a pioneer in the field of digital media. Over the past 20 years, the foundation has developed into an institution of international stature, a platform for artistic research and experimentation, and has become both a catalyst for events and a breeding ground for cultural and social innovation. Waag Society explores emerging technologies, and provides art and culture a central role in the designing of new applications for novel advances in science and technology. The organisation concerns itself not only with technologies related to the Internet, but also with those related to biotechnology and the cognitive sciences. Waag Society is always active in a social context. Every project involves several partners, each of whom bring their own, unique perspective. We also propose that new technological developments are made available to artists as soon as possible. In this way, Waag Society is a catalyst that brings to light new insights and solutions. The work that arises here is both innovative and iconic.

MODERATOR / RAPPORTEUR IVONNE JANSEN - DINGS / Project Manager at Waag Society Ivonne Jansen-Dings works as an Open Data project manager at Waag Society, where she is active in the field of Smart Cities (Smart Citizens). She has led numerous projects on a local, national and European level in the field of citizen participation, civic engagement and open data. Currently she is leading the Apps for Europe consortium, is the chair of Code for Europe and heading the Code for NL initiative in the Netherlands.

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URBAN LAB / CULTURE

URBAN CINEMA

16:00 - 17:00 / CENTRO SPERIMENTALE DI CINEMATOGRAFIA “The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle”. Stanley Kubrick.

This session will use this powerful medium to better tackle some relevant topics of cities and, as a journey, it will guide participants through different urban scales and issues.

From the most relevant globally asked questions to some experience that presents possible solutions, from communities that react with ingenuity to global problems to people that are willing to design different developing paradigms and build a better future.

The session will end with a trailer of a film lately shooted in Palermo that presents a story of community design and social innovation.

PARTNER THE PIRANESI EXPERIENCE Like the visions engraved by Gian Battista Piranesi that deeply rebuilt the lexicon and the imaginary of entire generations of artists and architects, our experience’s aim is to offer new instruments to recount architecture, design and cities. In the smart cities age, The Piranesi Experience is intended as a platform able to develop cross-media contents to break the boundaries between branches and create a fertile atmosphere for designer, urban planner, architects and groundbreakers.

MODERATOR / RAPPORTEUR SALVATORE DI DIO / Managing Director at PUSH Born in Palermo in 1983, his background is in architecture and engineering. He is an urban sustainability expert and he has worked for many Italian design and communication firms. During his academic research he was visiting student at the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning and he’s a Ph.D. in Energy and Environmental Applied Physics. His studies are about dynamics, tools and innovative design methods able to trigger urban sustainable development in disadvantaged contexts. He’s co-founder and Managing Director of the innovation lab PUSH and co-founder, Design Manager of the architecture “Inés Bajardi and Partners” and cofounder of Piranesi Experience.

MOVIES WHAT CITIES, WHAT ROLES? - URBANIZED / a film by Gary Hustwit (2011) Urbanized is a feature-length documentary about the design of cities, which looks at the issues and strategies behind urban design and features some of the world’s foremost architects, planners, policymakers, builders and thinkers. Who is allowed to shape our cities and how do they do it? By exploring a diverse range of urban design projects around the world, Urbanized frames a global discussion on the future of cities.

SUSTAINABLE URBAN LIVING: A SOUTH AMERICAN CASE STUDY / a film by Peter Beeh (2003) Curitiba, Brazil is remarkable for urban planning innovations. This documentary, presented in 5 segments, looks at the management of city waste, the planning of urban parks, an integrated transportation system, a practical support scheme for low income workers and the establishment of a vibrant city mall.

THE POWER OF COMMUNITY: HOW CUBA SURVIVED PEAK OIL / a film by Faith Morgan (2006) The documentary, “The Power of Community - How Cuba Survived Peak Oil,” was inspired when Faith Morgan and Pat Murphy took a trip to Cuba through Global Exchange in August, 2003. That year Pat had begun studying and speaking about worldwide peak oil production. In May Pat and Faith attended the second meeting of The Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas, a European group of oil geologists and scientists, which predicted that mankind was perilously close to having used up half of the world’s oil resources.

DESIGN MEANS BUSINESS - DESIGN DISRUPTORS / trailer of the movie, by Catalyst (2015) The 21st century has seen massive change in the world of business. Traditional industries have been shaken to their foundations by startups that seem to spring up out of nowhere.

How are they doing it? With design.

This movie tells the story of the top designers of the world smartest companies and shows how design has become the new language of business.

BORGO VECCHIO FACTORY / teaser of the film by The Piranesi Experience (2016) This movie recounts the story of the social innovation project done in Palermo by Per Esempio ONLUS, Ema Jons and PUSH in 2014.

By mixing up informal learning, street art and new media it aimed to trigger new positive dynamics in a neighbourhood where most of the families live in poverty.

The documentary is about how this mix happened and how rough and dirty walls can deeply change the identity of a place.

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URBAN LAB / CULTURE

MAPPATHON FOR SHARED KNOWLEDGE 17:00 - 19:00 / BOTTEGA 4

Every citizen knows something special of his own city; therefore, if everyone map what he knows, the community would develop a shared and crowdsourced knowledge. Citizens, in fact, are sources of useful data and information as well as potential builders of shared awareness. This same data may be geo-mapped indeed, in order to provide people the right inputs to take better decisions for daily life. For this reason we’re pro-

posing a event named mappathon which is aimed at teaching users how to build an easy map using the uMap platform, a free and very powerfull web tool. During the lab a brand new map, based on participants’ choices, will be designed and developed, following a collaborative process, and it will put online by the end of the mappathon.

PARTNER OPEN DATA SICILIA Open Data Sicilia is a web based civic initiative to propose and diffuse the open data culture in Sicilian territory, with the aim to start a public talk on reuse of Open Data in order to create new services and new economy in society.

MODERATOR / RAPPORTEUR CIRO SPATARO / Active member of Open Data Sicilia Employee at the Municipality of Palermo, Open Data Unit. He works on database & web mapping. Active member of the web community Open Data Sicilia.

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URBAN THINKERS SESSION / CLIMATE CHANGE

INNOVATING ON METAMORPHOSIS OF CITIES FEATURED BY SPECIAL VULNERABILITY 17:00 - 19:00 / INSTITUTE FRANÇAIS

Founded in the contemporary debate concerning smart and sustainable design practices, this session aims to identify and describe how it can develop a new perspective of urban regeneration tools, generally regarded utilities, data management, transport system and architectural technique, achieving an increased social and environmental value, strengthening

their physical vulnerability. Through a spatial and analytical approach, the session proposes some key-factors to debate what direction a marginal, vulnerable and overspread, Mediterranean city should take in order to face the new challenges of our century.

PARTNER KORE UNIVERSITY OF ENNA The Kore University of Enna, is a university founded in 1995 in Enna, in the center of Sicily. The university has very modern facilities; it also has a strong relationships with governments and universities of the Mediterranean Sea countries and with some of European and U.S. areas.

COORDINATOR TULLIO GIUFFRÈ / Associate Professor at Kore University of Enna Tullio Giuffrè, 1977, engineer, PhD, he is Associate Professor of Roads, Railways and Airports at Università di Enna Kore. At the present he is teacher of Roads, Railways and Airports Design and Construction at the course of Civil Engineering Master degree and at Architectural Master degree. Since 2010 he is the Manager of Road Materials testing laboratory at Università di Enna Kore. More than twelve years of academic and consulting activities within infrastructures sectors including traffic analysis, road safety analysis, road and airport design, infrastructures pavement management, intelligent transport system. He achieved high skills and expertise in urban infrastructures planning both from design and operations point of view.

RAPPORTEUR ROBERTA MARINO / PhD Student at Kore University of Enna

LECTURERS GIANLUCA BURGIO / Professor at Kore University of Enna Gianluca Burgio, 1971, architect, PhD, he is currently professor of Architectural Design at the “Facoltà di Ingegneria e Architettura”of Kore University of Enna. He taught long time at Vallès School of Architecture of the “Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya”. He deals with the issues of urban regeneration and building reuse.

PERE FUERTES / Full Professor at Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Pere Fuertes is an architect and Associate Professor at the Department of Architectural Design, UPC-BarcelonaTech. He holds a PhD in architecture and combines research and teaching with his responsibilities as Vice-Dean on Research at the ETSAVallès School of Architecture. His academic and research aims are centered on reinhabiting the existing urban fabric and buildings as part of a strategy to develop a sustainable environment which is not based on technology but on reprogramming and adapting architecture and cities to new paradigms of inhabitability. He is a member of the research group HABITAR, UPC. GABRIELE FRENI / Associate Professor at Kore University of Enna Gabriele Freni, 1974, engineer, PhD, is associate professor of Urban Water Systems at University of Enna and member of the IAHR/IWA Joint Committee on Hydroinformatics. His main fields of research are related to urban flooding, urban water systems modeling and related uncertainty analysis. He is currently responsible two research projects (financed by the regional government) on the update of flooding risk maps in Sicily according to the Directive 2007/60. He is author of more than 60 papers on international scientific journals.

MARIA NÚRIA SABATÉ / Professor at Universitàt Politecnica the Catalunya Teacher of the Architectural Design Department of Universitàt Politecnica the Catalunya in the School of Architecture of Sant Cugat del Vallès since 2009. She has participated in the courses: the architecture of collective housing (3rd year), temporary conditions-reinhabitating (4rd and 5th year), and she is responsible for the course the experience of the architecture. She is tutor and member of jury of Final Degree Projects.

She colaborates with the catalan studio Bonell i Gil architects since 2006, working on large-scale competitions and projects both nationally and internationally.

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/ METAMORPHOSIS OF THE CITY: RE-INHABITNG LANDSCAPE GIANLUCA BURGIO One way to approach the urban regeneration is to reuse existing buildings. Sustainability is not only done through new materials, but often recycling what exist. Sometimes, in fact, it is not necessary to make something new: we can simply put what already exist a different use. The idea is to get urban communities to realize small-scale projects – small but strategical - that can generate a new way to live dwellings, urban spaces and cities. / DOMESTICATING THE STREET - AN ATTEMPT AT INTENSIFYING THE USE OF PUBLIC SPACE PERE FUERTES The capacity of open spaces (or public) to host an “improved habitability” as well - a greater variety and intensity of activities so that the city can be re-activated locally without consuming new land resources. / RE-THINKING THE ENVIRONMENT BETWEEN PRESERVATION AND SOCIAL USE GABRIELE FRENI Urban water cycle is critically influenced by the city texture. Soil sealing, increase in water demand, heat islands are the main processes that are determined by uncontrolled urbanization influencing the water cycle. The most evident effect of such processes is related to the increase of the magnitude and frequency of pluvial flooding. The growth of population in urban areas (which further increment is foreseen in the next decades) is enacting the impact of urban flooding and the related damage. Smart technologies for flooding forecasting and mitigation will be discussed highlighting the advantages in the use of networks of sensors and actuators to actively manage urban water systems thus reducing flooding damage. / E-MOBILITY. DESIGNING PUBLIC TRANSPORT TOWARDS URBAN TWIST TULLIO GIUFFRÈ The main innovative aspect in terms of mobility, is to design public transport as the key of a long-term urban strategy sustainability. It is already available new technologies for more green transport vehicle and to make the new infrastructure more shaped into the urban texture. So it would be illustrate different equipment for public transport network and some forecast advancing of Palermo upgrading in mobility patterns. Through a spatial and analytical approach, this session proposes some key-factors to debate what direction a marginal, vulnerable and overspread, Mediterranean city should take in order to face the new challenges of our century. / METAMORPHOSIS OF THE CITY: RE-INHABTING DOMESTIC SPACES MARIA NÚRIA SABATÉ The need for another approach to the concept of habitability that would allow the application of collective solutions and proposals simultaneously and transversally at all scales, from the city to the room, reclaiming the values of the private as an challenge to the reigning social network and atomization.

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URBAN THINKERS SESSION / ENERGY AND MOBILITY

ENERGY IS THE LIFE BLOOD OF OUR SOCIETY 17:00 - 19:00 / GOETHE INSTITUT

The city we need is self-sustainable and based on clean and renewable energies. Nowadays energy is, without any doubt, the life principle for any city; each citizens consumes resources that are limited and the wealth of a society is frequently associated to the consumption possibilities of its components. One of the biggest urban challenges is to improve the living

standards of citizens while optimizing energy consumption and eliminating wastefulness. The lecturers Mr. Hayes (Arcadis), Mr. Noto (University of Palermo), Mr. Pochettino (IREN) and Mr. Provenzanno (Provenzano A.A.) will provide a complete overview of the topic focusing on efficient heating systems, zero emission solutions and sustainable mobility planning.

PARTNER PUSH PUSH is a not-for-profit innovation laboratory based in Palermo, Sicily. Aim of the research team is to develop creative and technological solutions for urban and social innovation in marginal contexts. It’s the “City as a Service - Palermo UTC” organizer and an associate partner of the World Urban Campaign.

COORDINATOR / RAPPORTEUR SILVIA RIGNANESE / Fellow in communication at PUSH Silvia Rignanese, 25 years old, was born in Modena; she has a degree in Philosophy and Cultural Mediation (Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia - Sorbonne Nouvelle; Faculty of Cultural Sciences). She worked in different community-building projects, with a specific focus on marginal areas and social exclusion: in Paris, Saint-Denis, she started a musical project based on “migrant memories” for the families of the district; in Granada, Spain, she was project manager in a foundation that provides social assistance to migrants. At present she is woking with PUSH, in Palermo, in the field of social-media communication and national funding research.

LECTURERS GUIDO NOTO / Phd Candidate at University of Palermo Guido Noto is a PhD candidate in the doctoral program in “Model Based Public Planning, Policy Design, and Management” at the University of Palermo. He holds a Master of Science in Management at the University of Trento. His interest on urban topics developed during his Master thesis when he undertook a study on the strategic plan for the city of Auckland, New Zealand. Recently, he has studied “System Dynamics modelling” at both the University of Bergen and at Radboud University of Nijmegen. He then applied this knowledge to a case study based on the public transportation system in Buenos Aires.

NICK HAYES / Head of Sustainability at Arcadis Nick has over 25 years’ experience in sustainability both from a strategic perspective for and, from a technical perspective where he has managed large programmes of work delivering significant cost and environmental benefits. Nick has significant experience in communication strategies for sustainable development and delivering focus on tangible benefits. Nick has been instrumental in developing a number of sustainable development tools and services for the construction and development market. Within Arcadis’ membership of the WBCSD, Nick leads on two workstreams: Zero Emission Cities and energy Efficiency in Buildings.

ENRICO POCHETTINO / Head of Internationalisation and Innovation Department at IREN Mr Enrico Pochettino has a 15 years’ experience in energy sector. He started his work experience in the Finance department dealing with financial planning, investment/project evaluation, strategic planning and assisting on investor relations activities.

In 2006 he was appointed Investor Relation Manager of the company and was in charge for financial planning for the group. In 2010 was appointed M&A Manager in addition to the financial planning activities He is currently the Internationalization and Innovation Dept.

Responsible in IREN S.p.A. and he is following the internationalization process of IREN business and he is leading the main innovation processes in energy, water and environmental business of the Group.

SEBASTIANO PROVENZANO / Partner of Provenzano Architetti Associati Sebastiano Provenzano (Palermo, 1978), graduated in Architecture in Palermo in 2003 and later obtained Master in design at the Polytechnic University of Milan. In 2005 he obtained his PhD at the University of Catania, with a thesis on the regeneration of urban waterfronts. Partner at Provenzano Associated Architects, based in Palermo, is responsible for architectural and urban projects for private and public clients. It ‘was a consultant for public administrations and as an adjunct professor has taught architectural design at the University of Palermo. Author of numerous publications and articles on issues of architecture and urban design. From 2014 is honorary consul of the Republic of Cyprus for the region Sicily.

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/ SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION PLANNING IN URBAN ENVIRONMENTS GUIDO NOTO Nowadays, cities and regions need to face sustainability issues. Unfortunately, in every social complex systems, decision-makers experience counterintuitive behaviours and policy side effects when actions are taken in order to improve the quality of living. Problems that arise during policy and strategic planning cannot be definitively described due to the complexity of the social environment and its rapid change over time. Urban social and economic development depends, to a large extent, on the performance of its transportation system. Traditional transportation planning approaches shows inadequacy in dealing with complexity because they are excessively static in terms of time and space when assessing performance at a system level. In fact, they usually focus on demand and supply sub-systems with a short-term perspective and without considering the feedback relationships intervening among them. Moreover, the huge amount of data that policy-makers can get through new technologies, if not properly framed, may generate distortions in the design of effective policies. The aim of this keynote is to discuss new approaches for planning urban transportation, and design effective and sustainable policies which consider the social, technical and financial aspects that characterize mobility within cities. / DELIVERING A ZERO EMISSION CITY NICK HAYES Cities around the world are making ambitious commitments to deliver deep cuts in their greenhouse gas emissions in the coming decades, even seeking to achieve ‘climate neutrality’. Realizing these bold objectives is critical to limiting global warming to less than 2 degrees as cities are currently responsible for 70-80% of all GHG emissions. To achieve this level of reductions within a relatively short time frame will require fundamental transformations in the supply, distribution, management of energy systems, combined with major shifts in how citizens, businesses and governments use energy. Many cities are anticipating that this will occur through: • • •

Shifting the electricity supply towards 100% renewable energy Driving major efficiency improvements in key sectors and electrifying remaining energy demand.

Utilizing smart management systems and technologies to optimize and harmonize electricity supply and demand, while also further catalysing positive behaviour change by urban energy users.

Zero Emission Cities project (ZEC) is an initiative from the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) catalysing global action to create low-carbon cities by working cities and key stakeholders to develop roadmaps to transform city energy systems and to drive implementation. The goal is to work with at least 20 cities by 2020. ZEC builds on the WBCSD’s ‘Urban Infrastructure Initiative’, working collaboratively with 10 cities around the world to find practical solutions to each city’s most important sustainability challenges. Arcadis are a co-chair for the programme and working with the WBCSD and member companies to deliver a ZEC solution. / LARGE SCALE HEAT STORAGE IN DISTRICT HEATING SYSTEMS - THE TURIN DH SYSTEM ENRICO POCHETTINO During the Lab IREN will show the benefit of heat storage in term of: • • • • • • •

Full recovery of heat produced Maximization of efficiency of the system Reduction of heat generation installed capacity to cope with heat peak demand Increase of flexibility of CHP plant for electricity dispatching Short term recovery Increase of the heated volumes by the installation of “local” heat storage systems in border zones (with hydraulic limits) Other technical benefits

IREN will explain how it dispatches the CHP plant in a high competitive electricity market in which the efficiency and the flexibility of the plant are key elements to be eligible in the day-ahead markets and in the ancillary services markets.

Heat storage systems on the network allow the storage of excess thermal energy produced in cogeneration plants (usually at night) and feeding back this excess to the same network during peak periods (usually in the early morning).

The installation of storage systems at district-level represent an efficient alternative to the construction of additional production facilities that are more expensive, need room in urban context and are less efficient. / PALERMO SEA-TY CRUISES SEBASTIANO PROVENZANO The particular geographical condition of Palermo, and even more the story of its urban evolution led to an extremely problematic relationship with the urban coast wich is highly underutilized in terms of uses and functions and not considered, as it deserves, as an important resource of landscape and environment for the city and its users. The urban coast is mostly inaccessible, and badly connected by public transport systems, with severe parking problems. A tourist, for example, which lies in the center has big problems to use and enjoy the coast, for many tourists, but also for many citizens, Palermo is not on the sea! The paper will investigate, through case studies and design suggestions, the potential of the Maritime public transport for Palermo as an opportunity to encourage, especially for tourists, the accessibility of the coast, using and improving the system of small ports that characterize the urban coast.

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URBAN LAB / ENERGY

NEW ENERGY FOR NEW CITIES 17:00 - 19:00 / BOTTEGA 3

The session will capitalize the new approaches to urban energy management arising form european RTD project participated by the organizer. Distributed energy generation, energy saving and harvesting, new building technologies, smart grids and microgrids are some of the examples of innovative systems that can help cities to become more sustainable and resilient, opening new economical perspectives for start-ups and existing

firms. Following a short introduction, participants will be invited to generate new ideas that will be uploaded into an open innovation platform made available by the organizer. Ideas will be shared and voted at the end of the lab. The ideas will be available as open knowledge to be considered for further development activities.

PARTNER ARCA ARCA (Consorzio per l’Applicazione della Ricerca e la Creazione di Aziende innovative), established as a no-profit consortium in 2003, is a public-private partnership which manages the business incubator located within the University Campus of Palermo.

ARCA promotes the start-up and development of new entrepreneurial activities and spin-off and fosters innovation and technology transfer to the productive system, providing a set of complementary services within a structured methodology of incubation. The approach adopted is a multi-level network which offers mentoring and access to financial and industrial relations as well as premises and logistics. Advanced laboratories enable companies to carry out pre-industrial development and prototyping activities at competitive costs.

MODERATOR FABIO MARIA MONTAGNINO / Managing Director at Consorzio ARCA Graduated in Physics at the University of Palermo in 1991, he got a research fellowship on experimental investigation and simulation of biophysical systems. From 1993 to 1995 he dealt with innovation in the industrial sector, participating as corporate manager in research projects and development of international markets. Serial entrepreneur, he founded the first start-up in 1995. In 1999 he established the first incubator of innovative enterprises in Sicily. In 2001, he proposed to the University of Palermo the creation of a business incubator dedicated to innovative start-ups. The structure was initiated in 2005 and entrusted to the ARCA Consortium. He holds the position of Executive Director since 2003 and CEO since 2011.

He is currently the coordinator of research, innovation and international cooperation activities. He regularly coordinates training activities and mentoring services in the field of business creation and technological transfer. He holds 3 patents.

RAPPORTEUR GIUSEPPE SPATARO / Freelance Project Manager He holds a master degree at MIP Business School of Politecnico di Milano and an academic background in Development Economics at University of Bologna. After some cooperation experiences in the Middle East he worked as a consultant in Brussels in projects of social innovation, energy and environment. In his last work focus was on digital divide at RAI Radio Televisione Italiana.

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DAY TWO REGISTRATION 08:00 - 09:00

DRAFTING SESSION 09:00 - 10:00 SALA DE SETA

PLENARY SESSION 10:00 - 13:00 SALA DE SETA FUTURE CITY R&D Interdisciplinary researches upon methods, services and products are the keys to develop sustainable and scalabile solutions for better cities.

LUIGI ATZORI / Professor at University of Cagliari MAURIZIO CARTA / Professor at University of Palermo GIUSEPPE COMPAGNO / Palermo Research Center R&D Director at STMicroelectronics VIRGINIA FILIPPI / COO at E-Care GRAZIANO LEUZZI / Account Manager at Cisco System CARLO MARIA MEDAGLIA / Professor at Link Campus University

CONSTITUENT GROUPS 14:00 - 15:00 BOTTEGA 3, BOTTEGA 4, RIDOTTO DE SETA 1.

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Local Governments Research and Academia Civil Society and Grass Root Organizations Professionals, Private Sector and Foundations

PARALLEL SESSIONS AND LABS 15:00 - 17:00 BOTTEGA 4

A SQUARE IS NOT JUST A SQUARE How to rethink urban spaces to be welcoming, environmentally-friendly and able to foster positive relationships between people

15:00 - 17:00 INSTITUT FRANCAIS

PROMISED LANDS_ HOW RESIDUAL URBAN MATTERS CAN PROMPT CITY REGENERATION How peculiar residual urban matters can acts as urban regeneration tools, increasing their social and architectural dimension

15:00 - 17:00 GOETHE INSTITUT

WE WILL BE WHAT WE WILL EAT The role of urban agricolture, sustainable food and nutrition education in tomorrow’s urban communities

15:00 - 17:00 BOTTEGA 3 SOCIAL INNOVATION AND URBAN POLICY Practices of social innovation are emerging in the cities. How to detect them? Which lessons for urban policy? How to enable new city makers?

15:00 - 16:00 CENTRO SPERIMENTALE DI CINEMATOGRAFIA

URBAN ART AS AN ENGINE OF TRANSFORMATION FOR CITIES The different local and global aspects of urban art: a semiotic, geographical and political point of view.

16:00 - 17:00 CENTRO SPERIMENTALE DI CINEMATOGRAFIA

THE CITY AS A SERVICE INTENSIVE SCHOOL The session will host the keynote presentations of the innovative services developed by the teams during PUSH’s Intensive School.

17:00 - 19:00 BOTTEGA 4

INSTAGARDENS LAB - COMMUNITY GARDENS TURN VIRAL #InstaGardensLab:community gardens turn viral.A shooting lab to investigate how urban regeneration can become viral through #SocialNetworks

17:00 - 19:00 GOETHE INSTITUT

INFORMALITY AND BOTTOM-UP ORGANIZATION IN THE AGE OF TECHNOLOGY A space for critical debate on relations between technology (and ICTs), bottom-up organization, radical practices (in informal settings) and urbanization.

17:00 - 19:00 INSTITUTE FRANÇAIS

THE SEVERAL FUTURES OF CITY PLANNING The relationship between urban development planning, governance and citizens engagement leading to a positive transformation

17:00 - 19:00 BOTTEGA 3

MARKETPLACES LOCAL HUBS The workshop aims at exploring the potential of marketplaces as neighbourhood hubs for services and short chain food distribution

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PLENARY SESSION

FUTURE CITY R&D 10:00 - 13:00 / SALA DE SETA INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCHES UPON METHODS, SERVICES AND PRODUCTS ARE THE KEYS TO DEVELOP SUSTAINABLE AND SCALABILE SOLUTIONS FOR BETTER CITIES.

The second plenary session of the Campus will focus on the role of trans-disciplinary research (developed by the public and private sectors) as the key to develop instruments for sustainable and scalable solutions in order to improve urban services, management and governance.

Envisaging the way service design can impact public policies and urban livability is thus the core argument that will be developed by keynote speakers from the academic and business world.

Specific themes to be dealt with are: augmented cities as a paradigm for intelligent, resilient and creative urban spaces; trans-disciplinary approaches to the internet of things; future cities, ICTs and the citizen prosumer; service design and the relation with human beings, the machines and the city; which models can ensure better living conditions and less resources consumption.

The debate will develop around the possibility to integrate different disciplines (from hard sciences to social sciences and humanities) and different actors (from the individual citizen up to global companies) in the development of new conceptual tools, physical devices and services.

CHAIRMAN SIMONE TULUMELLO / Post-Doc Research Fellow at AESOP YA and University of lisbon Simone Tulumello (PhD Urban and Regional Planning; University of Palermo) is a Post-doc Research Fellow (Planning and Geography) at the University of Lisbon, Institute of Social Sciences. Since 2013 he is elected member of the Coordination Team of the AESOP Young Academics. His research interests lies at the border between planning research and critical urban studies: planning theory and cultures; critical studies of urban security; power and justice in planning; future studies, ICTs and territorial governance; neoliberal urban trends; Southern European cities; the geography of crisis. He has published in Urban Geography, International Planning Studies, Planning Practice and Research, Space and Culture, Archivio di Studi Urbani e Regionali.

RAPPORTEUR SALVATORE DI DIO / Managing Director at PUSH Born in Palermo in 1983, his background is in architecture and engineering. He is an urban sustainability expert and he has worked for many Italian design and communication firms. During his academic research he was visiting student at the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning and he’s a Ph.D. in Energy and Environmental Applied Physics.

His studies are about dynamics, tools and innovative design methods able to trigger urban sustainable development in disadvantaged contexts. He’s co-founder and Managing Director of the innovation lab PUSH and co-founder, Design Manager of the architecture “Inés Bajardi and Partners” and cofounder of Piranesi Experience.

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LUIGI ATZORI / Professor at University of Cagliari Luigi Atzori is Associate Professor of Telecommunications at the University of Cagliari, Fulbrighter (University of Arizona), visiting scholar in Telecom SudParis and founder of the spinoff GreenShare focused on ICT technologies to support smart mobility in urban areas. He is leading a laboratory dealing with Internet of Things and Quality of Experience issues, which are topics studied to design distributed applications to make the environment smart and user-aware. Since more than ten years, he is serving as reviewer for the European Commission.

MAURIZIO CARTA / Professor at University of Palermo Maurizio Carta is currently the Coordinator of the bachelor and master’s degrees in “Urban and Regional Planning”; he is deputy president of Scuola Politecnica, deputy director of the Department of Architecture of the University of Palermo and delegate to territorial development. He leads and he is the scientific manager of the “Smart Planning Lab”, an applied research branch for planning and designing smart cities and communities.

GIUSEPPE COMPAGNO / Palermo Research Center R&D Director at STMicroelectronics Giuseppe Compagno graduated in Electronic Engineering in 1995 at the University of Palermo. Married with 2 children, he works since 20 years at STMicroelectronics.

After covering different managerial roles , In 2008 he takes over the management of STMicroelectronics R&D Center located in Palermo where he coordinates the R&D activities in the areas of advanced circuital design and electronic testing of microcontrollers and System-on-chip devices for automotive applications VIRGINIA FILIPPI / COO at E-Care Virginia, married with two children, graduated in Rome, has a Cambridge Master in Marketing. She worked for 12 years in Procter&Gamble. Founding member of Value Creation Team Company since 2000, she worked with RAI and the Italian Football Federation.

She is Director of numerous boards of companies, national and international entities. From November 2010 to September 2011, she was chairman of the listed company, Retelit, operating in the field of broadband communications. Since 2010, she is COO of E-Care.

GRAZIANO LEUZZI / Account Manager at Cisco System Since 2006 he is responsible for Cisco in Public Sector Market, in Southern Italy. He hold a degree in Computer Science – University of Bari (1996) and he is passionate about IT since he was 14 years old. Working hard for innovation in ICT, his goal and desire is to take part in digital transformation in Southern Italy, collaborating with public entities, private companies and startups. He is father of a typical “big Italian family”.

CARLO MARIA MEDAGLIA / Professor at Link Campus University Carlo Maria Medaglia is graduated in Physics at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and he’s ph.D. in Remote Sensing. He worked in several international research centres and he has been visiting professor in different campus, such as Wisconsin-Madison, Mariland – Baltimore County and Washington – Seattle. He founded and coordinated the scientific labs of CATTID at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, and he’s professor of the ph.D. course of Interaction Design of ISIA in Rome. He’s now executive of the Research Department at Link Campus University and Scientific Director of the Research Centre Dasic. He often works with the public administration. He’s also a startupper and a Seed Angel for more than 20 startups.

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URBAN THINKERS SESSION / CITY PLANNING

A SQUARE IS NOT JUST A SQUARE 15:00 - 17:00 / BOTTEGA 4

The city we need is confortable and meant to be lived by all. The process of redesigning of existing spaces is therefore a crucial aspect in order to trigger a process of change aimed at improving the living conditions of the urban centers. Of course, cities are all very different and each has its own peculiarities, but some concepts and ideas can be easily scaled and translated into other contexts. Starting from concrete projects, alrea-

dy completed and tested, but also from developing proposals, different methods of space design will be presented, focusing on the creative process as well as the impact to be obtained. From Milan to Bologna, passing through Sicily, the organization Secolourbano, OFL Architecture and Cityvision, together with the Italian National Research Council (CNR), will introduce some of their most interesting projects.

PARTNER PUSH PUSH is a not-for-profit innovation laboratory based in Palermo, Sicily. Aim of the research team is to develop creative and technological solutions for urban and social innovation in marginal contexts. It’s the “City as a Service - Palermo UTC” organizer and an associate partner of the World Urban Campaign.

COORDINATOR ELENA DE FRANCISCI / Copywriter at PUSH Elena De Francisci was born in Palermo in 1986. After a degree in Modern Literature at the University of Palermo she moved to Milan to attend the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. She achieved a Master Degree in Business and Media Communication, with a specialization in Cultural Event Management. In 2013 she started an internship as a junior PR at Image Building, a leading company in the corporate and financial communication field. Back in Palermo in 2014 she joined PUSH where she works as a copywriter and social media creative.

RAPPORTEUR FRANCESCO LIPARI / Architect at OFL Architecture

LECTURERS FRANCESCO LIPARI / Architect at OFL Architecture Francesco Lipari is a Sicilian architect based in Rome. Recipients of several prizes, including the Architizer People Choice Award 2014 and 2015 with an interactive garden called Sainthorto and a small auditorium for insects and humans named Wunderbugs, Francesco has been recipient of eight Maker Faire Europe Merit, lecturer at MAXXI and MACRO museum and curator of various architecture projects. He’s founding principal of OFL Architecture, an interdisciplinary architectural practice focused on emergent design processes through a design methodology that integrates architecture with other disciplines, redefining the relationship of the significant modern city and its current urban conditions. He’s also founding partner and artistic director of Cityvision, an innovative organization and architecture platform with the aim of generating a dialogue between the contemporary city and its future image.

LORENZO TOMASI / Technologist at CNR I am involved into the project “Renewable Energy and ICT for Sustainability”, promoted by CNR in collaboration with Smart Services Cooperation Lab and its partners (CNR, AgID, MIUR and Telecom Italia). The main goal of the project is to study and test a set of innovative solutions, to make cities energetically, environmentally and socially sustainable.

GIACOMO BIRAGHI / Founder of Secolo Urbano International expert on urban strategies, graduated in Economics at Bocconi University and City Design and Social Sciences at the London School of Economics.

Member of the Commission of the Sharing Economy of the City of Milan and of the Milan Smart City association. Organizer TEDxPortaNuova.

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/ THE EMOTIONAL CITY - OR THE VALUE OF ARCHITECTURE AS ANCESTRAL INTIMACY FRANCESCO LIPARI The Emotional City is a project on the architecture of the emotions.

The purpose of this research is to propose an “ancestral and universal architecture” able to generate emotions in people and (re)generate social and spatial shortcomings through the creation of positive relationships.

Through an emotional mapping of the city, it will be possible to describe a new and specific architecture, as a participatory tool of urban regeneration with great therapeutic characteristics.

These goals are pursued through a synergy between architecture with essential activities for the human being of our time (music, agriculture, sociology, mathematics, psychology, biology, and social technologies). / SMART CITIES LIVING LABS: FROM SIRACUSA TO BOLOGNA LORENZO TOMASI The project “Renewable Energy and ICT for Sustainability” is promoted by CNR in collaboration with Smart Services Cooperation Lab and its partners (CNR, AgID, MIUR and Telecom Italia). The main goal of the project is to study and test a set of innovative solutions, to make cities energetically, environmentally and socially sustainable.

Siracusa Smart City Living Lab was the first Living Lab set up during the project. In this case, the ancient city center of Siracusa (Ortygia, included in UNESCO World Heritage List) was the scenario to deploy and implement a “Smart Cities Living Lab” demonstrator, composed of two main parts: one aimed at the enhancement of cultural heritage, and the other aimed at environmental monitoring.

“Welcome to Siracusa” is the name chosen for the part of the project aiming at improving management, promotion and fruition of artistic, cultural and historical heritage of the city of Siracusa, through real time information and services to citizens and tourists. New technologies and a multimedia, multichannel approach allow an immersive experience of cultural heritage in the city.

“Urban Metabolism” is the second part of the project in Siracusa and it aims at improving tourists and citizens awareness of environmental issues.

Like a human body, a city needs sensors to know what flows in and out of its body. The sensors network in Siracusa measures many meteorological and environmental parameters, and shows a summary of the gathered data to citizens and tourists through public displays, improving awareness and personal responsibility on environmental issues.

The city of Bologna will be next Smart City Living Lab, but the focus will be on Urban Metabolism and Smart Mobility. About the Smart Mobility part, the project will focus on sensor networks and video analysis technologies, to monitor traffic flows inside the city as well as parking lots occupation. / MILAN ORBITAL PARK FROM A GREY INDUSTRIAL CITY TO A GREEN ECO CITY GIACOMO BIRAGHI Milan today needs a green round circle to surround the city and re-establish the edge, protecting against fine dust and relieve the summer heat.

A forest of variable thickness, in some places and in large areas of the Parco Sud (the southern Green Belt of Milan, established in 1970) deep as a forest, in others, like along the Tangenziale (Milan’ M25), thin as a line. A green ring, dense and alive, punctuated by farmhouses, abbeys, water courses, but also leisure spaces, play areas, sports facilities, agricultural areas, groups of agro-tourism, spaces for research and training, departments of social services.

An orbital park, which one could meet as exiting and entering in the city boundaries; slowly crossing on foot or by bicycle, or entering by car a full speed along the radial artery of Milan, hearing vibrations from the train or from the windshield when driving on highways.

But also a place to use and follow on foot or by bicycle in the hours of free time, a place of silence, contemplation, immersion in the individual and collective memory of our territory, an idea that could be scenic, environmental and social at the same time.

This Orbital Park represents a tremendous challenge for the future of Milan, but do not come from nothing: it has roots in the thinking of those who in recent years has tried to imagine our city from a new perspective. Not only as a huge slab of concrete and asphalt, but also as a network of open spaces and empty spaces, squares, courtyards, gardens, parks, boulevards.

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URBAN THINKERS SESSION / TRANSPORTATION AND MOBILITY

PROMISED LANDS_ HOW RESIDUAL URBAN MATTERS CAN PROMPT CITY REGENERATION 15:00 - 17:00 / INSTITUTE FRANÇAIS

Founded in the contemporary debate concerning resilient and sustainable architectural design practices, this session aims to identify and describe how peculiar urban materials, generally regarded as waste, residual or useless, can easily be re-cycled to act as city regeneration tools, achieving an increased social and economic consistency, strengthening their physical and architectural dimension. Through a spatial and figurative approach, this session proposes some key-factors to debate what direction a marginal, shrinking, Mediterranean city should take in order to

face the new challenges of our era. In the city we need, bottom-up processes can really influence political decisions. Furthermore, a city oriented towards sustainable architecture is definitely not the juxtaposition of certified green buildings, but a vivid, complex realm which combines slow mobility, density, flexible infrastructure and living public space in a long term project. Far from the modernity’s chest box of mono-functional and mono-temporal buildings, its architecture should be hybrid, multifunctional, and its spatial politics should sustain circular economies.

PARTNER UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO The University of Palermo (UNIPA) is a consolidated cultural, scientific and teaching presence in central-western Sicily. Its 5 Schools and 20 Departments cover the most important domains of contemporary scientific and technological knowledge. About 122 courses (first and second cycle) are yearly offered as well as 44 master and specialization and 23 PhD courses, a galaxy which attracts 10 thousands of students a year.

MODERATOR / RAPPORTEUR ZEILA TESORIERE / Associate professor at University of Palermo Zeila Tesoriere, 1971, architect, PhD, is associate professor at the University of Palermo, where she is member of the doctoral school in architectural design and directs InFRA Lab, a research unit focused on the relationships between architecture and infrastructure. She is member of the LIAT, located at the ENSAPMalaquais. She publishes widely internationally. She integrates the committee of “Trasporti & Cultura”, an academic journal on infrastructural, landscape and architectural studies. Current research explores the ability for infrastructure to expand the field of architectural design, both in theory and practice, within a framework marked by energy transition, sustainability issues, deindustrialization.

LECTURERS RENZO LECARDANE / Associate professor at University of Palermo Renzo Lecardane, 1970, architect, PhD, is associate professor at the University of Palermo, where he is member of the doctoral school in architectural design and where he directs the L@bcity, a research unit that addresses the topic of sustainability through an urban-scale architectural approach. He is member of the LIAT, located at the ENSAPMalaquais. He has widely published internationally, notably with recent papers in relevant journals and books chapters in France, Spain, Italy. He currently presents in Europe its didactic exhibition “Sustainable futures “, which has already been hosted in Palermo, Marseille and Paris.

MANFREDI LEONE / Associate professor at University of Palermo Manfredi Leone, 1968, architect, PhD, is associate professor with tenure at the University of Palermo (UniPA), member of CIRCES and partner of AIAPP and INU. Since 2012 he is the scientific correspondent of UniPA for the developpement of Parco Uditore in Palermo.

He currently directs ORTUS project, with Favara town council.

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/ PROMISED LANDS - RECLAIMING A LINEAR CITY WITHIN THE CITY ZEILA TESORIERE The main argument of this session is that over, around, under and along the nodes and lines of urban transport lie the new civic spaces of the 21st century. These complex infrastructure projects must be reformulated as resolutely oriented architectural, urban and landscape projects.

To achieve this aim, a large body of knowledge must be convened, expanding and overlapping the fields of architecture, urban planning, landscape design.

Over the past three decades, an increasing relation has emerged in Europe between motorways regeneration and urban renewal. Shortly evoking analogous examples, the goal will be to show how to apply this approach in Palermo, where the linear sequence of leftover, fragmented spaces that are the ordinary complement of sheer size urban freeways, is coupled to the variety of ordinary buildings they display (shopping malls, facilities, housing) and to the dramatic absence of public space. The hypothesis is part of an ongoing research developed by In-FRA lab. at the University of Palermo, that addresses how to really embrace a resilient and sustainable scenario, designing a new architecture that embeds public space, green areas, public facilities and private activities, strongly oriented to enabling the urban realm to regenerate itself, its resources and capitals. / SUSTAINABLE FUTURES FOR MEDITERRANEAN - CITY GREEN LINE: PALERMO 2019 RENZO LECARDANE This proposal addresses the issue of slow mobility through the hypothesis of an ecological urban infrastructure called “Green Line Palermo 2019”, which was elaborated over three years within the architectural design studio of 5th year, at the Polytechnic School of the University of Palermo.

Located in a large site in the western part of the city, this new line supports a concept of mobility enhanced by going through three urban districts marked by environmental and cultural characters: two main urban parks (the “Valley of the Oreto River” and the “Fossa della Grofala”), PoliCivico, Palazzo Reale.

Following the principles of ecocities and urban regeneration, some main interventions have been proposed in specific urban areas, aiming of enhancing the specific characteristics of each of them, in order to prompt an urban regeneration process able to strengthen economic prosperity and social integration, intertwining the matter related to the low consumption of land with the ones that express a renewed social dimension.

The main innovative aspect is to design public space for slow mobility as the key of a long-term urban strategy. The suggested promenade should encompass a large collection of existing urban objects converting them through a firmly thematic approach. / LOW COST LANDSCAPE FOR RESILIENT CITIZENS: PARCO UDITORE MANFREDI LEONE Parco Uditore regards a specific case study highlighting new trends in low-budget and participatory landscape architecture practices. Its experience comes from the massive consciousness growing in social groups about the importance to keep cities affordables: in terms of micro urban climate, ecological patterns and networks, discovering hidden places (or places who are not under the main light). Bottom-up and low cost policies are a best practice scenario to involve citizens towards a full recovery of open spaces never used before.

Several abandoned green and empty areas are still present inside the boundaries of the city territory. These areas are able to play an active role even today, being part of the contemporary city, whilst social groups are recognizing the absolute importance of protecting the remaining nature for several reasons, most of which reasons are enviroment-related and are also focused to the achievement of a better quality of life.

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URBAN THINKERS SESSION / EDUCATION AND NUTRITION

WE WILL BE WHAT WE WILL EAT 15:00 - 17:00 / GOETHE INSTITUT

The city we need is edible, sustainable and able to feed us all. For this reason citizens must be able to grow their own food on their roof or terrace, every public place, such as schools, offices or hospitals, should have its own vegetable garden and many of public green spaces might be converted into edible areas. At the same time we need to reduce waste and identify sustainable models for food production and distribution. Finally,

the educational aspect is crucial, in order to teach to future generations the importance of a balanced diet, the fight against food waste and the meaning of the homegrown culinary traditions. Orto Capovolto, Last Minute Sotto Casa, SlowMed and Eat Smart are some of the projects that aim to achieve these results both nationally and internationally.

PARTNER PUSH PUSH is a not-for-profit innovation laboratory based in Palermo, Sicily. Aim of the research team is to develop creative and technological solutions for urban and social innovation in marginal contexts. It’s the “City as a Service - Palermo UTC” organizer and an associate partner of the World Urban Campaign.

COORDINATOR SILVIA RIGNANESE / Fellow in communication at PUSH Silvia Rignanese, 25 years old, was born in Modena; she has a degree in Philosophy and Cultural Mediation (Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia - Sorbonne Nouvelle; Faculty of Cultural Sciences). She worked in different community-building projects, with a specific focus on marginal areas and social exclusion: in Paris, Saint-Denis, she started a musical project based on “migrant memories” for the families of the district; in Granada, Spain, she was project manager in a foundation that provides social assistance to migrants. At present she is woking with PUSH, in Palermo, in the field of social-media communication and national funding research.

RAPPORTEUR CLAUDIA RIZZO / Co-founder of Orto Capovolto

LECTURERS CLAUDIA RIZZO / Co-founder of Orto Capovolto Graduated in modern languages and Italian literature from Palermo University, at the same time I obtained a Master of Art and Culture Management at TSM-Trentino School of Management. After several work experience in Italy and abroad, I decided to come back to Palermo to became a founder partner of Orto Capovolto.

GIUSEPPE LA FARINA / Project manager at CESIE Giuseppe La Farina is a project manager at the mobility department of CESIE focused particularly on international Capacity Building and Mobility projects, as European Voluntary Service, Youth Exchanges and Training Courses. He has been working on several capacity building in youth field projects as “Planting Cities” and “Gender Equality through global capacity building”, dealing with EVS volunteers, local voluntary activities and youth workers involved in international training courses and job shadowing. He is coordinator of outgoing volunteers for the EVS project “Many Opportunities Real Equality”.

ALBERTO BIONDO / Project manager at Centro per lo Sviluppo Creativo “Danilo Dolci” Alberto Biondo is project manager and trainer in CSC Danilo Dolci in the field of education. His experience is in coordination of European youth, adult, mobility, capacity building and education projects. He is currently the project coordinator of “SlowMed – Food as a Means of a Dialogue in Mediterranean Contexts” (www.slowmed.eu), funded by ENPI CBC MED programme. His background is in international relations and politics and he’s got several years of experience on volunteering, sensitization campaigns and event management & organization.

STEFANO LA BARBERA / Founder and CTO at Lastminutesottocasa Social entrepreneur and changemaker with a strong technical background due to a master degree in electronic engineer and more than five year in industrial engineering companies. His aim is contaminate the social and innovative services with the tools successful used from multinational companies to drive the growth and the sustainability of the social companies. Think Holistic, Act Personal is the driving of his actions.

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/ FROM GREEN CITIES TO EDIBLE CITIES CLAUDIA RIZZO How can we save money, gain health and create new jobs, while training new generations to be careful about environmental and food issues?

Thanks to urban agriculture, which in the past was just considered an economic sector but is now becoming a functional mean. In fact, the urban vegetable garden is no longer a simple garden, but a mean of sustainable development in environmental, economic and social terms. After all, the meaning and the way through which green spaces are lived by citizens are changing as well: many gardens are transformed from simple green spaces into green spaces to take care of, “edible” areas useful for new jobs called greenjobs.The cultivation of our balconies, terraces and all those degraded corners of our cities is not expensive at all. We can use these places both for self-production and social educational purposes.

Why not doing it then? Orto Capovolto, cooperative from Palermo, was born exactly with the aim to create a widespread community vegetable garden, through a first testing phase to be conducted in the VII district of the city itself. It wants to follow this purpose by taking “Incredible Edible” as example. This latter is an initiative that has transformed Todmorden, an English small town, not only into a widespread vegetable garden but also into a global tourist attraction. The aim is to make it become self-sufficient in food production by 2018: its citizens have transformed any unused lands into green spaces to produce great food. / FEEDING ECONOMIC GROWTH THROUGH EDUCATION GIUSEPPE LA FARINA Education can feed economic growth as it promotes individual well-being and economic development of societies, stimulating innovation and entrepreneurship.

Connecting research and action through the use of formal and non formal learning methodologies is fundamental for reaching these goals. CEISE has been promoting it since 2001, breaking with an ethnocentric global drive and focusing on individual and diversity.

Connecting people and continents is part of CESIE’s strategy. Creating partner networks outside Europe is to enhance our capacity in international cooperation and to expand the opportunities of European programmes to international targets and beneficiaries – to raise awareness about European values, to share experiences and prevent social exclusion. We strongly believe in the cross-cutting of organisations cooperating in different fields and sectors.

Spreading a sustainable way of approaching life, promoting youth creativity and intercultural dialogue through pleasant approaches and link the world of social work with the world of youth professionals through projects promoting wellbeing and active citizenship are fundamental thematic that CESIE has been running for several years, thanks to the support of EU. In particular, we have been running projects on active and sustainable citizenship education using food and nature as tools: Planting Cities, Digging Deep and Eat Smart.

Planting Cities, a 2-year capacity building project co- founded by Erasmus +, involves youth from Europe and Asia in local activities and mobility activities, by promoting innovative and creative use of urban garden as multiple-goal oriented tool. / FOOD, IDENTITY AND SPACES: THE EXPERIENCE OF “SLOWMED - FOOD AS MEAN OF DIALOGUE IN MEDITERRANEAN CONTEXTS” ALBERTO BIONDO “SlowMed – Food as a means of dialogue in Mediterranean Contexts” is an ENPI CBC MED project which promotes a creative intercultural dialogue through the consolidation of a Mediterranean cultural identity based on its culinary heritage. Acknowledging food as a mean to increase dialogue among civilizations, it helps to define a Mediterranean cultural identity through the preservation of Mediterranean Diet. Professionals on the field of cooking, visual arts, health and communication have contributed to identify the Med Diet’s intangible heritage in Italy, Portugal, Spain, Egypt, Lebanon and Palestine, transferring it to new tools, looking for its values and paths on which it has been developing since centuries. On these pathways, the spaces where food has been – and it is – distributed and exchanged (with all its stories behind) are the markets, places where the features of the cities are strongly shown and where the social value of food (as sharing, exchanging, contributing) is highlighted. These features are not only reflected on the markets but also on the food. And the Med Diet identity strongly characterizes the one of all the cuisines of the Mediterranean Basin, revealing the richness of the intercultural cooperation among people living by the same sea. The used approach gave partners a clearer image of the Mediterranean and its food, stories, identities and places: new developed tools will help to sensitive new generations, connecting elderly people to younger ones, involving physical spaces and intangible information thus defining new paths where Med Diet can be fully preserved and conveyed. / LASTMINUTESOTTOCASA: A WIN-WIN-WIN SOLUTION FOR WASTE REDUCTION IN CROWDED CITIES STEFANO LA BARBERA Lastminutesottocasa offers an original, effective tool to avoid waste of unsold fresh food and, at the same time, a powerful paradigm able to create economic and social value by the development of a true social relationship between retailers and consumers in city’s districts. Through Last Minute Sotto Casa the shop owner which has a surplus of food that might be thrown in the bin in an hour, two hours’ time, or in a couple of days, sends a simple text message through our system, telling which products he/she is offering at highly discounted price. The message is delivered to citizens living close to that shop who can select, when registering, which categories of food to track and, for each of them, at which distance from home.

These users will probably decide, on the fly, to move to the shop to buy that discounted, fresh product that – most likely – 5 minutes before they were surely not even planning to buy! WIN, WIN, WIN! The shop owner wins, as he/she gets more money at the end of the day and sees new clients stepping into his shop; clients win, as they save money in their pockets and our planet wins, since tons of food will not be thrown in the recycle bin!

After few months from project’s start date, more than 30.000 users did register and, just in our hometown, every single month we are saving from bins more than 1 Ton of food. 15 tons all across Italy!

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URBAN LAB / WELFARE AND WELLBEING

SOCIAL INNOVATION AND URBAN POLICY 15:00 - 17:00 / BOTTEGA 3

The Lab will address the topic of social innovation. Particularly it will present and discuss practices that are emerging from local communities to deal with social needs, create new social webs and improve actors’ capacities. The starting point will be the practices that Avanzi presented in the exposition “Signals for the future”, that was held last March in Triennale di Milano. The exposition gathered and mapped 101 social innovation practices in the Milan metropolitan area, in different fields: community services, well-being, housing, social enterprises, cultural production, transport and mobility, sport in urban areas, agriculture, etc. The website www.segnalidifuturo.org hosts the practices, the preliminary notes and the policy lessons that the working group of Avanzi distilled after three days of intense discussions (an English section will be available by the end of September).

The agenda of the Lab will be divided in three parts: 1. In the first part, the Lab leader will present the hypothesis of the Lab and the most interesting practices coming from Milan situation.

2. In the second part, the participants will be asked for presenting their own experiences in the field of social innovation (cases coming from the cities where they live, or initiatives in which they have been directly involved).

3. The evidence from the cases will be discussed among the participants and lessons drawn, in order to improve urban policy and governance. A final statement, as a contribution to the conference, will be elaborate.

PARTNER AVANZI Avanzi was founded in 1997. Our aim is to promote sustainable innovation, supporting public institutions, private enterprises and NGOs. Avanzi is also an incubator that provides a full range of business support resources and services to selected start ups with high potential to impact social needs or challenge environmental issues.

COORDINATOR / RAPPORTEUR CLAUDIO CALVARESI / Senior Consultant at Avanzi Claudio Calvaresi (1964), PhD in Urban Planning (1996); cum laude Degree in Urban Planning (1992).

Adjunt professor of “Urban Conflicts Analysis”, senior consultant for Avanzi. Sostenibilità per azioni, past Director of “Urban Policies” Area of Istituto per la Ricerca Sociale (Irs).

Main fields of research are: urban regeneration and social innovation, community planning and housing policies. He is actively engaged in initiatives of urban innovation, being director of a Community Lab in Milan for the regeneration of a social housing neighbourhood.

At international level, he is currently assessor for the First Campaign of Calls for Proposals under Urbact III Programme.

HOST ELENA DONAGGIO / Staff of Deputy Mayor for Town Planning, Building and Agricolture at Municipality of Milan Elena Donaggio, PhD in Urban Projects and Policies, Master degree in Architecture.

Her main fields of research are: urban regeneration, community planning, evaluation of territorial policies, strategic planning and local development policies. She has been involved in research activities both nationally and internationally and she is visiting lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture and Society, Politecnico di Milano. Since 2010, she is developing a new field of research concerning the potential of sport in contributing to social innovation and cohesion. She designed and realized a research project called “Tracce di Sport”, which looks at the world of sport by the dual perspective of research and communication.

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URBAN LAB / URBAN REGENERATION

URBAN ART AS AN ENGINE OF TRANSFORMATION FOR CITIES 15:00 - 16:00 / CENTRO SPERIMENTALE DI CINEMATOGRAFIA

In recent years there has been a worldwide boom of urban art in all its forms: from street art on the walls to urban performances, from street theater to wool shoes on the trees. This phenomenon, universal as much as composite, has swept everything and everyone like a tsunami and in no time has sown victims and has cultivated lands. We have witnessed a veritable explosion of experiments and innovations spanning a series of truly immeasurable records. In barely more than two decades, urban art is passed from the condition of illegality of graffiti from the Bronx to the political propaganda and institutional elite supported by the richest governments around the world. The city has been, and continues to be, scenario of different kind of operations, sometimes even contradictory, often repressed or erased abruptly. One constant, however, is clear: the color

continues unabated to cover everything in its path, bringing art outside its old containers and revitalizing more or less drastically entire urban areas.

The examples are several and interpretations vary from context to context, nevertheless this session will investigate the phenomenon of urban art as an engine of transformation for cities in three specific ways: semiotic - disruption of routine visual in hermeneutical circle and the meaning of urban signs (the example proposed by PhD Marco Mondino); geographical - the relationship between physical and social spaces: between marginalization and identity (the one chosen by Dr. Luisa Tuttolomondo with SguardiUrbani) and political - the democratic nature of the public art (the example presented by PUSH’s Architect Mauro FIlippi).

PARTNER PUSH PUSH is a not-for-profit innovation laboratory based in Palermo, Sicily. Aim of the research team is to develop creative and technological solutions for urban and social innovation in marginal contexts. It’s the “City as a Service - Palermo UTC” organizer and an associate partner of the World Urban Campaign.

MODERATOR / RAPPORTUER MAURO FILIPPI / Project Manager at PUSH Mauro Filippi is a 27 years old architect. He studied and worked at Università degli Studi di Palermo, Universidad Camilo José Cela of Madrid and Carleton University of Ottawa, focusing on virtual visualization, building information modeling and promotion of cultural heritage. He works as designer and project manager at PUSH.

HOSTS MARCO MONDINO / PhD Student at University of Palermo PhD Student in “Cultural studies” at University of Palermo. His fields of research are: Sociosemiotic, Visual Studies, and Urban Studies.

He actually writes for different web cultural magazines. He published scientific articles about street art and urban creativity. He is currently writing a doctoral thesis about Urban art.

LUISA TUTTOLOMONDO / Co-Founder of Associazione SgUarDi Urbani Luisa Tuttolomondo is a Phd student in Territorial Planning and Public Policy at Iuav University of Venice and Co-founder of SgUarDi Urbani. Her main research interests concern the analysis of participative processes involving youngsters and adults, deliberative processes, evaluation of social interventions and local sustainable development.

ANGELA SOLARO / Co-Founder of Associazione SgUarDi Urbani She studied Sociology in Milan, earning a master’s degree from the University of Milano. Currently she lends her work activities such as consultant to the public administration of the Region Sicily.

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URBAN LAB / EDUCATION

THE CITY AS A SERVICE INTENSIVE SCHOOL 16:00 - 17:00 / CENTRO SPERIMENTALE DI CINEMATOGRAFIA

The Intensive School was a nine-day course for young professionals to understand, innovate and prototype solutions for urban challenges. It took place in Erice (Sicily), from 25 September to 3 October, and involved sixteen participants between 18 and 35 years old who have been engaged in an intensive program based on human-centered design as medium to

tackle pressing urban problems. Through the method of Service Design, we focused on citizens’ need as a starting point to develop services designed for the city of the future. The ideas, proposed by the students and transformed into prototypes as result of the work done by the teams, will be presented and awarded during the session.

PARTNER PUSH PUSH is a not-for-profit innovation laboratory based in Palermo, Sicily. Aim of the research team is to develop creative and technological solutions for urban and social innovation in marginal contexts. It’s the “City as a Service - Palermo UTC” organizer and an associate partner of the World Urban Campaign.

MODERATOR DOMENICO SCHILLACI / Associate Managing Director at PUSH Born in Palermo in 1983, he is Master of Science in information engineering at Polytechnic University of Milan. He has worked as Temporary Research Associate at Polytechnic University of Milan with a research focus on wireless mesh networks; he has also worked as network designer and ICT consultant. He’s co-founder and Associate Managing Director of the innovation lab PUSH and CEO of the design studio NEU / Integrated Design.

RAPPORTEUR GIUSEPPE SPATARO / Freelance Project Manager He holds a master degree at MIP Business School of Politecnico di Milano and an academic background in Development Economics at University of Bologna. After some cooperation experiences in the Middle East he worked as a consultant in Brussels in projects of social innovation, energy and environment. In his last work focus was on digital divide at RAI Radio Televisione Italiana.

HOSTS DEANNA MITCHELL / Founder and Creative Director of Oh Wow Yes A 17-year veteran in the field of Experience Design with a passion for creating playful, health-promoting experiences that traverse the digital and physical realms. Deanna’s background in computer science and fine art combine to produce beautiful experiences that blur the lines between installation, environment, product and place.

SHARON AMBROSIO / Co-Founder of urbanITA She is an architect, urban designer and social strategist - Bsc (Milan Politecnico), Msc (DPU, Bartlett, UCL) - specialized in urban development with a particular interest towards the global south and contested areas having experienced regeneration projects in New York, Cambodia, Italy.

DEBORAH NAVARRA / Co-Founder of urbanITA She is an Architect, urban designer and social strategist - BSc, MArch, (Sapienza University of Rome), MSc (DPU, The Bartlett, University Collage London) - specialized in urban development with a particular interest on the city of Rome IULIA VOROBIOVA / EVS volunteer at CESIE Background in Product Design and Information Technology Currently she is doing her EVS in CESIE, Palermo, creating visual content for the social projects and trainings (mostly graphic, web-design and videos).

PRINCE KARAKIRE GUMA / PhD Student at Technische Universität Darmstadt Prince Karakire Guma is a PhD candidate in the Graduate School for Urban Studies (URBANgrad) at the Darmstadt University of Technnology. He is an urban imaginer, rural optimist, scholar-activist, and social critic. His current research interests include urban and institutional change and transformation, social and technical infrastructure and planning, informality and policy, and technological innovation.

Mr. Guma is a research fellow of Harry Frank Guggeinhaim (HFG) Foundation’s “Young African Scholars” programme; and IASSCS–Ford Foundation’s Emerging Scholars International Research Fellowship Program. He holds a B.A in Social Sciences and Political Science and an M.A in Public Administration and Management, and an MBA in International Business. He is a Fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar.

IOLANDA SPATARO / Freelance Information Designer She holds a BA degree in Marketing&Communication and a Master of Design in Service Innovation from the University of Arts of London. Passionate about craftsmanship, focusing on Heritage and Tourism; she has been working for profit and no-profit organizations around Europe enabling people to have easier access to informations.

MICHELE ANZALONE / PhD in Urban Planning at University of Palermo He gained a master degree in Architecture at the University of Palermo in 2013. In the same year he won the business competition “Culturability” promoted by Unipolis Foundation and get funded to create his company, Sprawl Design Industries, who works in the field of digital manufacturing. From 2014 he is PhD student in City Regional and Landscape Planning at University of Palermo conducting a research on the reactivation of confiscated criminal assets.

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URBAN LAB / CULTURE

INSTAGARDENS LAB - COMMUNITY GARDENS TURN VIRAL 17:00 - 19:00 / BOTTEGA 4

Urban Talent Lab is an association mainly composed by young engineers and architects. We’d like to propose ourselves to conduct a thematic workshop about urban renewal and how to make it viral through social networks. Urban regeneration is the outcome of a process that includes the conversion of degraded places and underused or unused areas into new urban settings. These kind of changes can be realized through building replacement, squares renovation, redevelopment of urban spaces into green areas or conversion of industrial areas in new social spaces, but only social involvement can really turn urban areas from “place to be avoided” to “place to be enjoyed.” Urban regeneration usually concerns the issue of empathy in the relationship between citizens and cities, thus creating a positive connection between sites and users. That’s why spatial and social well-being can involve citizens and cause respect and “affection” toward the same space. Our association has translated these

concepts into a project called “Returnable void”: it proposes to convert unused urban areas in agricultural and multifunctional complexes with sustainable and replicable economic strategies. During our urban laboratory we would like to investigate how this urban regeneration idea can become “viral” through social networks and create people’s emotional involvement. To do this we will use Instagram. We’ll invite professional Instagramers and officially start our photographic contest “INSTAGARDENS LAB - COMMUNITY GARDENS TURN VIRAL” at the end of the lab.

Our Lab timetable is as scheduled: 15min: UTL association and projects presentation 10min: Social media and web viral projects expert lecture 20min: Practical shooting session around Zisa ex-industrial area 60min: Shoots show, brainstorming session on hashtags and strategies to use for social management of our contest on Instagram.

PARTNER URBAN TALENT LAB Urban Talent Lab is a nonprofit association born in 2014. The mission is to define sustainable urban strategies for our territory to stop to be underused or degraded, also involving people and public administrations in an urban co-creation process to create a shared vision and lead our cities to a smarter future.

MODERATOR CHIARA LENTINI / Co-Founder and President of Urban Talent Lab Chiara Lentini is a young building engineer and architect. In 2013 she graduated with honour at the University of Catania developing a final thesis on the conversion of an historic industrial site into an interactive museum. She took part in several workshops and ideas competitions, most of which have had recognitions. She currently works as collaborator in an engineering and architectural firm. Architecture is her passion, not only her job. In 2014, she founded Urban Talent Lab APS, coming in contact with Social Enterprise world: her mission is try to combine architecture and social innovation. Travels are the main source of inspiration for her projects.

HOSTS LAURA NIGRO / Building Engineer and Architect at Urban Talent Lab Laura Nigro is a building engineer and architect from Sicily. She was a founder at Youthub Catania in 2010 and has been involved in several co-creation workshops.

Fond of innovation, during her studies she developed a particular interest in timber sustainable structures, and she graduated in 2013 with honor developing a thesis at IVALSA, timber national research institute. After being abroad for a period she currently works as project manager assistant in a sustainable and innovative architecture company. She founded UTL - Urban Talent Lab with her classmates at University in 2014.

Fond of travels and photography, you can follow her on Instagram @lauranigro.

SERGIO TARQUINIO / Engineer at Urban Talent Lab Sergio Tarquinio is an engineer with specific interest in participate planning. He attended several international workshop whose focus is social empowerment and regeneration. He has been involved in international project in USA and Spain and he’s currently working as researcher at the University of Catania. His life has been devoted to sport and travel.

BENEDETTO TARANTINO / Architect at Pam snc Benedetto Tarantino was born in Palermo where he lives and works. He graduated in Architecture with a degree in architecture and landscape photography. In recent years he decided to deepen some research topics on the photography of architecture and urban and natural landscape in an investigation that takes place primarily in Sicily. He participated in the Workshop with Reza Deghati for “TerzOcchio - Meridians of light, Librino” on photojournalism. During the last several years he participated in portfolio readings, the last one was in Barcelona at the international meeting Ojodepez, where editors and photographers of the Magnum agency did some analysis of his works.

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URBAN THINKERS SESSION / URBAN TECHNOLOGY

INFORMALITY AND BOTTOM-UP ORGANIZATION IN THE AGE OF TECHNOLOGY 17:00 - 19:00 / GOETHE INSTITUT

This session is the second of two organized by the AESOP Young Academics network under the overall goal of providing a critical space to debate the overarching theme of the Urban Thinker Campus and, specifically, the technological dimension of urban governance, management and cohabitation. Thanks to the wide span of the proposals accepted, both sessions will provide fresh insights to look at differences and connections between different geographical contexts (Western world, Global South and beyond their divides) as well as political, institutional and cultural arrangements. Specifically, this session is devoted to the relationships between technology (and especially ICTs), bottom-up organization,

radical practices (especially in informal settings) and urbanisation. Four presentations will be given by young researchers in different areas (urban studies, spatial planning, architecture) from Brazil, Macedonia, Italy and Germany. In terms of geographical span of cases, examples from Kenya, Macedonia and Italy, as well as reviews of policy documents from several cities in the Global South, will be presented. The list of themes to be debated include: technology, bottom-up data collection, socio-technical innovation and integration of urban informalities; civic crowdfunding and urban action.

PARTNER AESOP YOUNG ACADEMICS NETWORK The Young Academics Network is a loosely structured branch of AESOP, which encourages the active participation and exchange of academic work. From PhD students to Post-docs and those starting out in academic positions, the YA provides a platform through which the academic leaders of tomorrow can share ideas in an open and inclusive environment, challenging and supporting one another.

MODERATOR MOHAMED SALEH / PhD candidate at AESOP YA and University of Groningen Mohamed Saleh is currently working as a Researcher at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands after being awarded a full Erasmus Mundus scholarship to pursue his PhD studies starting from 2013. Before that, He had worked as an Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Architecture of Alexandria University in Egypt for 3 years. After obtaining his Master degree in 2012, he has been engaging in several research projects and research teams both internationally and within Egypt. Besides being active in many political platforms since the Egyptian revolution. Recently, Mohamed was elected as a member of the Young-academics coordination team of AESOP.

LECTURERS ANTHONY BOANADA FUCHS / Post-doc Researcher at University of Sao Paulo Anthony is an Austrian-French national, has graduated in architecture and urban planning (TU Delft), and finished his doctoral thesis in development studies at the Graduate Institute in Geneva. His research focuses on (i) the political economy of planning and its links to real-estate market dynamics, (ii) housing policy discourses in the Global South, (iii) urban informality and its potential for urban governance frameworks.

VANESSA BOANADA FUCHS / Academic Project Manager at University of St Gallen Vanessa Boanada Fuchs olds a PhD in Development Studies (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva) and is currently Academic Project Manager ProDoc Latin America, University of St Gallen.

LEONORA GRCHEVA / Planner at UN-HABITAT Leonora Grcheva is a Macedonian urban planner and architect. She obtained a Master in Human Settlements at K.U.Leuven, Belgium. In 2015 she defended her PhD in Urbanism at the IUAV University of Venice, Italy. She is currently an Urban planning intern with the Urban Planning and Design LAB, at UN-Habitat, Nairobi in Kenya.

MICHELE VIANELLO / Assistant Professor at International Balkan University Michele Vianello, Ph. D., is an assistant professor in Architecture and Urban Planning at the International Balkan University, Skopje, Macedonia. He has been conducting research in Italy, Macedonia and Kenya. His research interests cover urban social movements and their influence on official planning policies, especially through the use of strategies relating to the “urban Commons”. These are analysed as both narrative constructions used to organise collective mobilisation and develop local political discourses, and as actual bottom-up actions aimed at the collective management of local resources of public interest.

ELENA GIANNOLA / Independent Researcher at University of Palermo Elena Giannola has a PhD in Urban and Regional Planning from University of Palermo. She earned her Master’s Degree in Architecture in 2008. She has collaborated as teaching assistant with the educational activities of the Department of Architecture of Palermo, in partnership with neighborhood associations and local governments. Her area of research are the relationships between social contest and urban policies, the new digital tools of urban space representation and their use in participatory processes, through a direct engagement not only in academic studies but also in some local experiences of public consultation in planning processes.

PRINCE KARAKIRE GUMA / PhD Student at Technische Universität Darmstadt Prince Karakire Guma is a PhD candidate in the Graduate School for Urban Studies (URBANgrad) at the Darmstadt University of Technnology. He is an urban imaginer, rural optimist, scholar-activist, and social critic. His current research interests include urban and institutional change and transformation, social and technical infrastructure and planning, informality and policy, and technological innovation.

Mr. Guma is a research fellow of Harry Frank Guggeinhaim (HFG) Foundation’s “Young African Scholars” programme; and IASSCS–Ford Foundation’s Emerging Scholars International Research Fellowship Program. He holds a B.A in Social Sciences and Political Science and an M.A in Public Administration and Management, and an MBA in International Business. He is a Fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar.

DAVID BEHAR / Lecturer at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Dr. David Behar is the founder of a new research lab, the Mundi Lab, with four fields of research that engage the public arena: urban redevelopment, public space surveillance, memory in the age of the post-monument, and sound as an active agent in the public arena.

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/ URBAN INFORMALITY, KNOWLEDGE MONOPOLIES, AND MARKET INTERESTS AS PRACTICAL CHALLENGES TO THE CITY WANT? ANTHONY BOANADA FUCHS, VANESSA BOANADA FUCHS The Urban Thinker Campus and the related WePush/Aesop activity is a great opportunity to discuss creatively the cities we need and want. With a predominately urban world and continuously strongly growing global urbanization rates, the answers to a more sustainable society will have to be found it cities. As quantitatively ongoing growth concentrates on regions of the Global South, Western-dominated discourses and practices need to adapt to the changing realities (see Watson 2009, Varley 2013). Given the set-up of the round table discussion, I am proposing a more general topic by reviewing several international best case studies(?) that invites for further reflections about the possibilities and limitations of changing our cities towards more equitable and comprehensive service providers. Currently, service implementation in most cities in the Global South are characterized by reduced institutional capacities and financial resource availability with often less a few dollars public funds per capita and year.

Several cities have emerged as best case study examples (public transport: Curitiba, Medellin, participatory budgeting: Cape Town, Porte Alegre; Slum upgradation: Ahmedabad, Jakarta), which made use of new technologies to integrate urban informality into the planning and administration of the city. Despite considerable improvements of city service levels, the cases also call for caution, as market pressure and emerging knowledge monopolies appropriate the new technologies to polarize success and push forward a middle-class and world-city development agenda. The envisioned paper would outline the different success stories and point at the different risks these changes entailed. / FROM MUKURU TO OLD TOPAANA, TRANSFER OF COMMUNITY-LED DATA COLLECTION TECHNIQUES FROM EAST AFRICA TO EASTERN EUROPE LEONORA GRCHEVA / MICHELE VIANELLO This paper discusses the critical role of bottom-up data collection and sharing, as means of effective community mobilisation for the upgrade of informal settlements and the formalisation of land-tenure , in Nairobi, Kenya, as developed by the local social movement against slum evictions Muungano wa Wanavajiji (Federation of slum dwellers). The paper does so with a view of applying the techniques used in Nairobian informal settlement, to deprived communities in the Eastern European context, in particular Roma semi-informal settlements in Skopje, Macedonia. The present paper addresses in particular the internationally establishes enumeration and community mapping techniques (Patel, Baptist and D’Cruz 2012; Muller and Mbanga 2012) as utilised in two community mobilisations in Nairobi: the Mukuru informal school sanitation facilities mapping initiative of 2014 (Muungano wa Wanavajiji 2014), and the SEPU area - Riara village households enumeration, also in Mukuru (Muungano wa Wanavajiji 2015). The possibility to transfer these techniques from one context to another will be examined in light of the role the data play in planning policies: the difficulties Nairobian informal settlement communities are facing due to their existence being mostly disregarded in planning policies (Nairobi County 2015), in comparison to the Skopje Roma communities facing the rigidity of the planning system and its inability to tackle informal settlements effectively (Grcheva 2013). In particular this will be highlighted for the case of the detailed plan for Old Topaana, a Roma community neighbourhood in Skopje (City of Skopje, 2007). The paper will finally propose some guidelines for the transfer of enumeration and community mapping techniques from Kenya to Macedonia, and provide critical perspectives on the use of web and mobile applications for the generation of questionnaires and web hosting of data collection projects. / BOTTOM-UP ORGANISATION AND THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY ELENA GIANNOLA The Europe IC technologies are becoming one of the most important communication systems in the cities. The ICT are often used by citizens to organize a collective action, to build a common resource or take care of a public space. When the public administration can’t provide for the civic needs, the citizens can utilize web platforms to discuss democratically a solution, to find the human and financial resources, and finally to realize the services they need. The role of the public institutions of course is important to coordinate and regulate these bottom-up initiatives.

The civic crowdfunding is one of this web instruments: there are many different crowdfunding platforms, local (in Italy Produzioni dal Basso, De Rev) and international (Kickstarter, Indiegogo), where everyone can publish a project and collect free donations to reach the goal defined. This system is based on the civic cohesion, on the identity sense and on a strong common will. The direct involvement and the real participation of the civic community is the fundamental requirement to obtain a good result in the online participation platform, especially in a limited urban contest (neighbourhood). So we need a deep relation between “offline” and “online” urban community. Many other elements (the digital divide, the local relations between citizens and public administration) could influence the final result. In Italy there is still no specific normative for this good practice: however, the civic crowdfunding could be really a strategic resource non only as a financial resource but also a social change-maker element. / URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE, INFORMALITY AND THE MOBILE AGE IN AFRICAN CITIES PRINCE KARAKIRE GUMA Over recent years, there has been much interest in the uptake of mobile technology in urban infrastructure systems. As work in this area has progressed, commentators have moved beyond studying its uptake toward exploring its contributions, setbacks, and bility to overrun urban structural conditions. However, hardly any attention has been given to the complex and dynamic relationship between mobile technology, urban infrastructure and informality in the African city. In this project, I draw upon water and energy systems in Nairobi to explore the multiple ways through which urban and infrastructure systems are constructed and reconstructed through innovation, diffusion and uptake of mobile payments innovations. I ask: what are the socio-technical and socio-spatial characteristics in the development of mobile payments innovations in Nairobi; what are the utility interests, expectations and strategies in the uptake of mobile water and energy payment innovations; what is the role and impact of mobile payment systems toward access and use of critical services in urban livelihoods; and, how do mobile payments account for (or shape) urban informality, flexibility and mobility? To answer these questions, I adopt a multi-sited case study design, deploying ethnographic along with descriptive, exploratory and interpretive research methods. I hope to provide a menu for new explorations, enhance our understanding of the mobile possibilities, and add new insights to the debate on socio-technical innovation in Africa and beyond. / PUBLIC SPACE SURVEILLANCE WITH COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT AND PARTICIPATION DAVID BEHAR Lefevre’s idea “the right to the city”, which brings forward the possibility of urban inhabitant’s involvement and participation in the city’s every-day issues, opens up a challenging perspective for addressing complex urban phenomena such as Public Space Surveillance (PSS). Harvey’s reading of Lefevre as a “transformation … that depends upon the exercise of a collective power to reshape the processes of urbanization” supports such direction. PSS phenomena has been introduced after being a successful approach in the military and security worlds. Today most PSS is exercised by the municipal or state authorities with no stated intention to involve the community with decisions that directly influence the community’s security.

Graham points out two ways where ICT (information and communication technologies) coupled with surveillance technologies influence and control the everyday social life. He sees PSS as one of the tools for social deprivation and dispossession of citizens’ rights and privileges of their urban environment. Further more, Big Data that the practice of surveillance produces, raises complex questions about citizen’s privacy and undermine democratic values. This paper is calling for an alternative thinking about PSS phenomena and propose a full community involvement and participation in decision making and acting. The paper will point up for possible directions which can engage with the need for public space surveillance and the need to build up and strengthen the involved communities.

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URBAN THINKERS SESSION / CITY PLANNING

THE SEVERAL FUTURES OF CITY PLANNING 17:00 - 19:00 / INSTITUTE FRANÇAIS

The city we need is resilient but, at the same time, open to dialogue and transformations. In order to ensure an harmonious and rational development, a well-designed strategic planning is the key to achive multiple objectives, both urban and social. The need for an efficient urban governance, the opportunity to transform policy making in a participatory process that involves citizens, the attempt to provide prototypical solutions

to be tested within the evolving urban environments: these are just a few examples of topics that can be addressed through planning. Renurban, Ines Bajardi and Partners architectural firm, freelance researcher Irem Ayranci Onay and PhD Valentina Vaccaro will share their experiences and studies on the field, offering am heterogeneous overview on the new frontiers of urban planners.

PARTNER PUSH PUSH is a not-for-profit innovation laboratory based in Palermo, Sicily. Aim of the research team is to develop creative and technological solutions for urban and social innovation in marginal contexts. It’s the “City as a Service - Palermo UTC” organizer and an associate partner of the World Urban Campaign.

COORDINATOR ALESSIA TORRE / Fund Research Analyst at PUSH Alessia Torre, 27 years old, got a master degree in Public Administrative studies in Siena, Faculty of Political Science.

In 2012 she moved to Brussels where she achieved an Executive Master in European Union Studies and she worked as a Junior Research Executive at TNS Opinion, one of the world’s largest custom research company, leader for the Eurobarometer multicountry survey.

Back in Palermo she has been working since June 2014 as Fund Research Analyst at PUSH, where she is in charge of monitoring and analysing EU and national funding opportunities and coordinating the development of project proposals.

RAPPORTEUR GIANMARIA SOCCI / Architect at Ines Bajardi

LECTURERS VALENTINA VACCARO / PhD student at University of Palermo Valentina Vaccaro: graduated in ArchitecturalEngineering, has developed a thesis entitled “New models for the contemporary city: the smart city - A project for the island of Pantelleria”. She has obtained a master’s degree in energy planning (RIDEF 2013) at the Politecnico of Milan. To now she is a PhD student in Models, Technologies and Systems for Energy and Information at the University of Palermo.

Her research is about energy efficiency in buildings, sustainable infrastructures, smart city planning and urban energy policy. She has authored of national and international publications.

LORENZO LUNARDO / Founder and Administrator of Renurban Urbanist - Junior Drupal Developer. Lorenzo Lunardo obtained a bachelor’s degree in Territorial, Urban and Environmental Planning at the Faculty of Architecture of Palermo with a thesis on the district Brancaccio.

During his studies he decided to to capitalize his passion for computers and new technologies creating a prototype platform to allow citizens to put issues and proposals on the city. The results of this small trial are placed inside the master thesis: Information technology for a model for democratic participation and the territorial government. That prototype, then called “PiMiPaDe” will be further developed for the next two years, and lead to the birth of “Renurban - Platform of participation”.

IREM AYRANCI ONAY / Freelance researcher Received her B.Plan (2000-2004) and MPL (2004-2006) in Urban and Regional Planning from Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Architecture (1999-2004). She was awarded her Ph.D. Degree for her thesis “Relation of Planning-Urban Development Management in Metropolitan Areas and a Monitoring and Evaluation Model Proposal” from Istanbul Technical University in 2013. After working as a research and teaching assistant at Istanbul Technical University, Department of Urban and Regional Planning between 2007-2013, she moved to London and started to work as a freelance researcher. Her research interests are Urban Governance, Monitoring and Evaluation in Planning, Urban Conservation Areas Management Plans.

GIANMARIA SOCCI / Architect at Ines Bajardi Gianmaria Socci (IT Recanati, 1985) studied architecture at University of Ferrara and at Chalmers University in Gothenburg. From 2010 to 2013 he worked as an architect in several Italian studios, and from 2011 he collaborates with Liveinslums NGO, in the field of cooperation and international development. In 2012 he finished his Master of Advanced Studies in Urban Design at ETH of Zurich, where he is currently teaching “Urban - Think Tank”, working on solutions of urban regeneration in Rio De Janeiro’s Favelas. In 2014 he founded, together with other young architects and engineers, the Ines Bajardi cooperative.

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/ SHARING AND SOCIAL INCLUSION THROUGH APPS IN INTELLIGENT CITIES VALENTINA VACCARO The smartness of a city consists in the ability to use in an intelligent way the opportunities offered from technology to solve the critical issues with the aim of increasing the quality of life of citizens.

A city, therefore, is identified as smart when it uses technology to get and dispersed information, to offer integrated urban services, to reduce the waste and emissions and to optimize the use of resources. The smartness to which we refer here is a distributed intelligence, horizontal and social.

An example of how much technology can serve citizens and how much citizens can get an active role in the realization of a smart community is the use of Apps. In this paper, after a wide review of virtuous examples of municipalities that have used Apps for smart planning and improvement actions, the specific problem of mobility is dealt with in the city of Palermo, focusing on the possible benefits that can be attained. The work is articulated in different parts. The modern social involvement and social inclusion carried out through Apps is first described considering many different fields of application. Finally, the case of Palermo is developed in details with a special focus on the area Costa Sud, where the planning interventions for the strategic development of the city of Palermo will be soon implemented thanks to the PON metro fundings. Among the main intervention lines, the mobility has a key role and some application scenarios and possible benefits for Palermo are described. / RENURBAN, AN INNOVATIVE APPROACH TO THE CREATION OF COLLABORATIVE NETWORKS BETWEEN CITIZENS, PUBLIC AUTHORITIES AND THE NON-PROFIT SECTOR. LORENZO LUNARDO New technologies are radically changing the relationship we have with the city. In the aspect of civic engagement, have been made great progress, but still not enough. All the new forms of grassroots participation on social networks are still too sporadic and almost casual, very few achieve real results. Renurban aims to become a two-way channel of communication between municipalities and their citizens, giving a privileged visibility to the world of the non-profit sector that can act as a catalyst for the activation of participatory processes systematic and effective.

All this happens through a social network based on regional platforms, in which are not necessary to be “friends” to access to the information published. Furthermore the publisher, if he wants, can release the data it enters as “open data”, allowing the reuse within the strategies of public administration. / THE INVISIBLE GOVERNABILITY GAP IREM AYRANCI ONAY A well-designed planning process is one of the founding stones of efficient urban governance. Especially due to recent developments in planning theory leading to the predominance of strategic planning, the connection between planning practice and urban governance has become more important than ever.

In this context, efficient urban governance requires a comprehensive understanding of the planning process. My previous research (Ayranci, 2013) points out that a well defined and executed Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) process is the key to establishing a good working relation between planning practice and urban governance and that implementation process and planning approaches differ in developing and developed countries.

The planning process in developed countries consists of plan preparation, implementation, M&E, and revision. Whereas in developing countries, plan preparation and implementation is seen as a purely technical work and is rarely followed by a well-designed M&E practice. Thus, connection between planning and governance is weakened at the implementation. This leads to a bi-polarity in urban governance ability between developing and developed countries, to the favour of the latter. Most importantly this governability deficit is not visible to planners and governors, therefore is not being remedied at the local level.

In the urban thinkers session, I would like to open up the debate with potential contributors presenting the state of M&E processes in planning systems of their respective countries.

With this speech, I’m hoping to stimulate a meaningful contribution to the worldwide intellectual framework that studies the relation between Urban Governance and Urban Planning practices. / FUTURE RESILIENT CITY GIANMARIA SOCCI Urban visions of a future of overpopulated, dirty and dangerous megalopolises reflect in part the failure of policy makers, architects and designers to conceive of the city as a place of equal opportunity. We no longer possess a universally applicable urban image, no Utopia to aim for.

In fact, much of the built environment of 2050 already exists but we often fail to see it: at the periphery, the informal city, with its blurred borders, mixed uses and constant transformation provides us with a potential reference of sustainability and tolerance.

Rather than imposing change, we must engage real­world logic and attempt to provide prototypical solutions for urban dwellers to give them better control over their evolving environments.

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URBAN LAB / SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

MARKETPLACES LOCAL HUBS 17:00 - 19:00 / BOTTEGA 3

Marketplaces have traditionally constituted some of the most important public spaces, attracting people from all ways of lives and all financial capabilities. In the past decades, however, they gradually lost their role: while urban and metropolitan agriculture are flourishing, and an increasing number of enterprises work on short chain food distribution, many markets in European cities are abandoned or underused. The workshop explores the possibilities to renew markets as public spaces, by connecting them to new agriculture initiatives, by inviting various actors to play a role in their renewal, and by creating viable economic models for their maintenance and vitality, by including new social and cultural functions. The methodology of the workshop consists of collaborative process where participants share a common experience by visiting a traditional food market in Paler-

mo with local experts from the administration, food industry and environmental NGOs, and then within a workshop session the potentials and challenges of a new market will be discussed: how to prevent gentrification, how to ensure accessible good quality food, how to organise markets in order to be economically sustainable. Participants are expected to contribute with their own expertise and bring back home new ideas on the development of a conceptual model for a vital, economically sustainable and socially inclusive marketplace. The outputs of the workshop will be integrated in the ongoing workshop series and publication in collaboration with the European Cultural Foundation, therefore for allowing for a wider dissemination of the experience.

PARTNER EUTROPIAN Eutropian is a planning, policy and research organisation helping urban regeneration processes. We offer assistance to municipalities, NGOs and community groups in participatory planning, policy development as well as in fundraising, cooperations and communication. We are specialised in urban regeneration, cultural development, community participation, local economic development and social innovation, with a special focus on building development scenarios on existing resources.

MODERATOR DANIELA PATTI / Co-Founder of Eutropian Daniela Patti is an Italian and British architect and planner. She has studied in Rome, London, Porto and Vienna. She worked as a researcher at the Central European Institute of Technology between 2010 and 2014, where she was responsible for project development and management of European research projects within the Smart Cities strand and urban regeneration. Additionally she has been guest lecturer in the University of Roma Tre, Tor Vergata and Universidad de Buenos Aires. Since 2012, Daniela is Board Member of the Wonderland Platform for European Architecture, responsible for its collaborative planning series. In 2014-2015 she worked for the Rome Municipality, coordinating the URBACT pilot project “Temporary Use as a Tool for Urban Regeneration”.

Specialised in urban regeneration and environmental planning with a particular focus on metropolitan governance and collaborative planning. Her recent research and projects focus on the governance of peri-urban landscape, the revitalisation of local food markets and new economic models for urban development. Further info: http://danielapatti.blogspot.it

HOST LEVENTE POLYAK / Co-Founder of Eutropian Levente Polyák is urban planner, researcher and policy adviser. He studied architecture, urbanism, sociology and art theory in Budapest and Paris, and worked on urban regeneration projects for the New York, Paris, Rome, Vienna, Budapest and Pécs municipalities. Founding member of the Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre, board member of the Wonderland Platform for European Architecture. Specialized on urban regeneration, cultural development, community participation, local economic development and social innovation, with a special focus on building development scenarios on existing resources. In the past years, he has been researching new organizational and economic models of community-led urban development projects, including the temporary use of vacant properties and community-run social services. Based on this research, he has been helping public administrations as well as professional and community organisations of various sizes and geographic locations across Europe. He participated at the URBACT pilot project “Temporary Use as a Tool for Urban Regeneration“. Further info: http:// polyaklevente.net.

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DAY THREE

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DAY THREE REGISTRATION 08:00 - 09:00

DRAFTING SESSION 09:00 - 10:00 SALA DE SETA

PLENARY SESSION 10:00 - 13:00 SALA DE SETA RULES AND GAME CHANGERS Disruptive innovations are changing the way we live our cities. This is so impacting that sometimes it’s necessary to redesign laws and redefine the meaning itself of public policies.

JEAN BARROCA / Municipality of Fundao ANDREA CUSUMANO / Culture Councillor for the Municipality of Palermo IVONNE JANSEN-DINGS / Project Manager at Waag Society JESSE MARSH / Lead Partner at Atelier Studio Associato FRANCESCO MOLINARI / Research associate at Politechnic University of Milan ALESSANDRO PIRANI / Partner at C.O. Gruppo SIMONA VICARI / Undersecretary at Italian Ministry of Economic Development

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OTHER SESSIONS 14:00 - 16:00 BOTTEGA 3 THE CITY AS THE INNOVATIVE PROCESS LAB A new Smart Cities model to support urban development as well as citizens’ wellbeing through innovative and integrated tools.

14:00 - 16:00 BOTTEGA 4 FLEXIBLE FREEWAY TOWARDS A SMART INFRA-NATURE Following the tips provided by many European examples, this workshop focuses on the conversion of the ring-road of Palermo in a renovated, greener, smart boulevard.

16:00 - 18:00 BOTTEGA 3 FINAL SESSION Best practices. The experience of the Municipality of Palermo.

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PLENARY SESSION

RULES AND GAME CHANGERS 10:00 - 13:00 / SALA DE SETA

DISRUPTIVE INNOVATIONS ARE CHANGING THE WAY WE LIVE OUR CITIES. THIS IS SO IMPACTING THAT SOMETIMES IT’S NECESSARY TO REDESIGN LAWS AND REDEFINE THE MEANING ITSELF OF PUBLIC POLICIES. The third and last plenary session of the Campus will debate the role of multi-scalar public policies for coping with the pace of change.

Moving from the awareness that innovation is changing the daily life of citizens, and that innovation per se is neither good nor bad, this session will question how public actors are, and could better, setting the grounds for innovation to foster positive change.

Keynote speakers have been invited from, and to reflect upon the role of, different governmental levels: local authorities, national governments, the European Union and global actors.

Specific themes to be explored will be: how national governments are facing some disruptive innovation brought by sharing economy; global and international strategies to nudge people into making better decisions; the global in the local; local authorities and cultural innovation.

All in all, the session will provide existing practices and fruitful debate to support policy-makers to rethink bureaucracy, service providing, project/policy funding and resources saving.

CHAIRMAN IGNAZIO VINCI / Professor at University of Palermo Ignazio Vinci is associate Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Palermo. As researcher and consultant he deals with urban policy, local development, strategic planning.

On this topics he has published around 110 works, including books, book chapters and journal articles. He’s also member of the governing board of the European Urban Research Association.

RAPPORTEUR DOMENICO SCHILLACI / Associate Managing Director at PUSH Born in Palermo in 1983, he is Master of Science in information engineering at Polytechnic University of Milan. He has worked as Temporary Research Associate at Polytechnic University of Milan with a research focus on wireless mesh networks; he has also worked as network designer and ICT consultant. He’s co-founder and Associate Managing Director of the innovation lab PUSH and CEO of the design studio NEU / Integrated Design.

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JEAN BARROCA / Municipality of Fundao Jean Barroca has a degree in Engineering Sciences – Electrotechnical and Computer Engineering, from Instituto Superior Técnico of the Technical University of Lisbon. He worked in several non-profit organizations and also at Local Government level where he has developed experience and competencies in team and project management with strong emphasis on open innovation strategies, Web 2.0 dissemination strategies and creation of new services through ICT enabled applications in different domains. During the last years he has been involved in several EU funded projects under CIP ICT PSP and FP7, in the context of Smart Cities.

ANDREA CUSUMANO / Culture Councillor for the Municipality of Palermo Andrea Cusumano is an academic, a film director, a play-writer, a painter, and an orchestra director. He is teacher at Goldsmiths College in London, and External Examiner at the American University of Athens and at the Central School of Speech and Drama, in London. He is artistic director at CeSDAS. From 2013 he organizes the “Goldsmiths” festival in Palermo. He has worked for over twenty years with Hermann Nitsch (since 1999) and he is the main director of the Orgien Mysterien Theatre Orchestra. Since September 2014 he is the Minister of Culture of the City of Palermo.

IVONNE JANSEN-DINGS / Project Manager at Waag Society Ivonne Jansen-Dings works as an Open Data project manager at Waag Society, where she is active in the field of Smart Cities (Smart Citizens). She has led numerous projects on a local, national and European level in the field of citizen participation, civic engagement and open data. Currently she is leading the Apps for Europe consortium, is the chair of Code for Europe and heading the Code for NL initiative in the Netherlands.

JESSE MARSH / Lead Partner at Atelier Studio Associato Jesse Marsh moved from America to Milan in the mid-‘70s to work as an industrial designer. In fifteen years of professional activity, he confronted a wide range of technologies, processes and product sector, from chairs to artificial lungs. In the late ‘80s he was drawn to information technologies. First in Milan and since 1995 in Palermo, he worked with learning technologies, teleworking and e-commerce and then in policy work on the link between the information society and sustainable development, cultural diversity and democratic participation. In recent years he worked with local authorities in Sicily, in Territorial Cooperation projects.

FRANCESCO MOLINARI / Research associate at Politechnic University of Milan Francesco Molinari graduated in Economic and Social Disciplines at Bocconi University and specialised in Public Management at the University of Siena. He is currently research associate on Frugal Government at Politecnico di Milano, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, and visiting professor on Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Business School of the University of Ulster, Belfast. As a policy advisor and research manager he has worked for about 15 years with several public and private clients in Europe - including international organisations like FAO and the European Commission - the Ministries of Economic Development and Research and Education and a number of Regions in Italy.

ALESSANDRO PIRANI / Partner at C.O. Gruppo Alessandro Pirani holds a degree in political sciences and a PhD in urban planning and policies. Based in Bologna, he’s partner of the change management consultancy CO Gruppo. He’s into service and organizational design as an active member of the Global Service Jam community, and works in many fields just like e-justice, local digital government policies, entrepreneurship and food. He’s actually serving as a policy analyst for the Milan Center for Food Law and Policy, where he’s running a research project of the urban definition of the right to adequate food. He’s also a founding member of the board of Future Food Institute, non-profit organization active in the development of innovative projects between entrepreneurship and social innovation in the domain of food.

SIMONA VICARI / Undersecretary at Italian Ministry of Economic Development Simona Vicari, born in Palermo in1967, graduated in Architecture at the University of Palermo. From 1997 until 2007 she was Major of Cefalù (PA). In 2008 and 2013 she was elected Senator of the Republic in the PDL Sicily’s list. She is vice President of PDL Group at Senate.

She was nominated Undersecretary of State of the Ministry of Economic Development, during Enrico Letta’s Government. On November 16, 2013 she joined the newly formed Nuovo Centro Destra guided by Angelino Alfano. On February 28, 2014 she was confirmed in office as Undersecretary of State of the Ministry of Economic Development in Matteo Renzi’s Government.

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URBAN LAB / CULTURE

THE CITY AS THE INNOVATIVE PROCESS LAB 14:00 - 16:00 / BOTTEGA 3

The new smart cities model has the goal to support the cities development as well as the citizens’ wellbeing through innovative and integrated tools.

According to this approach the cities have to be innovative and inclusive.

The model takes its inspiration from the crowd economy concept (H2H, human to human), which consists in creating business models based on what “the crowd” needs in to order to enhance productivity and value

added through the relationships and networking interactions between the society, institutions, universities and corporations.

A session with the major experts in the fields within the italian startup, goverment and entrepreneurial scene to discuss what do Tel Aviv, Berlin, London and Stockolm have in common and how this smart models could be applied to promising italian cities like Palermo.

PARTNER AT-FACTORY AT-Factory is a digital startup accelerator which brings together innovators, entrepreneurs and investors founded by Paola Di Rosa and Eleonora Rocca.

Through a full and detailed consultancy service, AT Factory provides startups with legal, financial, commercial and marketing consultancy in order to help them to turn their ideas in successful business models.

MODERATOR ELEONORA ROCCA / Co-founder of AT-Factory London Based Marketing Manager by day and entrepreneur by night, Eleonora has developed 15 years of experience working for major multinational companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Roberto Cavalli, Microsoft, Privalia and Kingston Technology. She founded Elle Innovation Consultancy, a firm which helps companies to create successful marketing plans & go to market strategies. Ambassador of digital culture and web enthusiast, she created her lifestyle blog The Brunette Cupcake. She is a mentor within the Cherie Blair Foundation Women in Business program, official organizer of both Lean Startup Machine Workshop and Mashable Social Media Day events as well as AT Factory co-founder.

RAPPORTEUR PAOLA DI ROSA / Co-founder of AT-Factory Business Innovation consultant and Co-founder at AtFactory; she is interested in startups an Innovation processes. Mentor and Angel Investor for SVP Foundation, she organizes and attendes many startup competitions looking for innovative ideas and brillant people.

HOSTS FLAVIA MARZANO / Board Member at Link Campus University Flavia Marzano, member of the national board for innovation and Italian digital agenda; Advisor for Public Administration on innovation; evaluator and reviewer of IST European Projects; lecturer in Rome University La Sapienza (Technologies for Public Administrations) and member of the board and professor at Link Campus University in Rome.

GIANMARCO CARNOVALE / Serial tech-entrepreneur, corporate entrepreneurship consultant, startup and policy advisor Senior Advisor at Ars and Inventio: the company of the Business Integration Partners (BIP) group focused in Innovation Consultancy on Corporate customers.

He is the team’s expert for the Corporate Entrepreneurship and Corporate Venture area of projects.

GIOVANNI DE CARO / Co-founder of Tech-Hub IntesaSanpaolo Innovation Manager for Southern Italy, in charge to promote matchmaking beetwen startup and IntesaSanpaolo Group clients and founder, together with Prof. Roberto Vona, of Tech Hub, an acceleration program for high potential startups, managed in association with Banco di Napoli, University of Napoli Federico II and Napoli Chamber of Commerce.

UGO PARODI GIUSINO / CEO of Mosaicoon He Is Chairman, CEO and founder of Mosaicoon. Born in Palermo in 1981, he specilizes in digital cinema and new media at the University of Bologna, and after a one-year experience at the University of Barcelona, he moves to Palermo where he gets a degree, in Science and Technologies of Arts specializing in cinema. Afterwards, he obtains a Master degree in Promotional Digital Cinema.

FABRIZIO MICARI / Professor and next Rector of the University of Palermo Born in Palermo in 1963 and graduated in Mechanical Engineering in 1986, from 1999 he started teaching at the University of Calabria.

Then, back in Palermo in 2002, he taught subjects related to Mechanical Technology and Manufacturing Systems. He was Director of the Department of Mechanical Technology, Production and Engineering Management from 2008 to 2010 and then, until 2013 was Dean of the Faculty of Engineering. Since 2014 he is the President of the Polytechnic School and lately he was elected new Dean of the University of Palermo. He also chaired the Italian Association of Mechanical Technology (2005/2009), the coordination of the Italian Mechanics (2008/2014) and the Conference for Engineering (2012 to present).

ANDREA GUMINA / Expert at Italian Ministry of the Economic Development Expert at the Ministry of Economic Development, passionate for innovation in difficult environment, he contributes to the Italian Government Smart Cities, Start-Ups and Digital Agenda projects.

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URBAN LAB / TRANSPORTATION AND MOBILITY

FLEXIBLE FREEWAY TOWARDS A SMART INFRA-NATURE 14:00 - 16:00 / BOTTEGA 4

Fifty years after the evocation of “Autopia” by Reiner Banham, rather than embody the modernist value of never-ending speed, urban freeways increasingly face ecological challenges and recycling processes. The workshop will be based on an ongoing research developed by In_FRA Lab at the University of Palermo, questioning how to transform this city’s main road in a new kind of infrastructure that hybridizes itself with architecture and public space. Some of the key concepts will be: slow mobility, buildings with mixed activities, a strong interweaving between public space, green areas and facilities, the new issues related to energy transition.

Together with the group of participants, the workshop will be conduct with the guidance of In_FRA Lab’s students, relying on the relevant knowledge they dispose about this local case study. An introductory session

will describe the main hypothesis of the workshop: This artery 11 km long, cutting through the urban core of Palermo, paradoxically owns several unexpected properties that are as many resources for its transformation.

The basis for the discussion will be: a site plan to localize new project areas; a timeline that spatially interconnects various layers; some architectural design test that have already been developed .In the second part, participants will react about peculiar aspects of the transformation, concerning the new models to retain in order to reinvent such urban places.

According to the methodology of In_FRA Lab, results will be expressed in figurative terms, through a set of samples constructed to elicit the response of the participants.

PARTNER IN_FRA LAB In_FRA Lab is a research unit founded by prof. Z. Tesoriere at the University of Palermo, focusing the relationships between architecture and infrastructure in contemporary design problems.

In_FRA explores the contemporary reframing of disciplinary interactions between architecture, the urban realm, and the three mains infrastructural systems: transportation, information, energy.

COORDINATOR SIMONA MARCHELLO / Architect and Partner of In_FRA Lab Simona Marchello (1989) is a licenced architect whit honors of the University of Palermo (IN-FRA Lab), 2014.

Her research interests concerns the intersection of infrastructure, public space and architecture in contemporary shrinking cities, facing the energy transition challenges.

In 2015 she has been awarded at the Atelier Urbain Aix 2040, organized at the Vasarely Fondation (Aix-en-Provence) by the “Association Devenir”, with the project “Aix-is diagonal”. She is attending a 2nd level specializing master entitled “Energy Management: Efficienza Energetica ed Energie Rinnovabili” (University of Palermo, DEIM department).

HOSTS FRANCESCA ALAMIA / IN_FRA Lab Partner and Architecture Student Francesca Alamia (1984) is a young architect from Palermo.

She is graduated cum laude in architecture at the University of Palermo.

She completed her degree thesis in architectural and urban design entitled “VIA DI MEZZO centro degli sport invernali sulla circonvallazione di Palermo” and elaborated within the IN-FRA laboratory (director prof. Z.Tesoriere).

SERGIO MARCECA / IN_FRA Lab Partner and Architecture Student Sergio Marceca (1987) graduated in Industrial Design at the University of Palermo in 2010.

In the same year he became working with the study of architecture CUSENZA+SALVO STUDIO with which he participated at the XIII and XIV Biennale di Architettura of Venice.

Currently he is concluding his studies in architecture.

ENRICA CALABRESE / IN_FRA Lab Partner and Architecture Student Enrica Calabrese (1991) is a student at the Faculty of Architecture of Palermo.

She is completing her degree thesis in Architectural Design (prof. Z. Tesoriere).

She takes part of the research laboratory IN_FRA which deals with the relationship between architecture and infrastructure.

At present she is attending the specialization courses “3Ds Max Design” and “Revit Architecture”.

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CANTIERI CULTURALI ALLA ZISA - PALERMO

GALLERIA BIANCA

SALA DE SETA WELCOME SESSION DRAFTING SESSIONS NETWORKS FOR URBAN AND SOCIAL INNOVATION FUTURE CITY R&D RULES AND GAME CHANGERS

BOTTEGA 3 SMART CITIZENS LAB NEW ENERGY FOR NEW CITIES SOCIAL INNOVATION AND URBAN POLICY

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MARKETPLACES LOCAL HUBS THE CITY AS THE INNOVATIVE PROCESS LAB BEST PRACTICES. THE EXPERIENCE OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF PALERMO

BOTTEGA 4 BOOM POLMONI URBANI MAPPATHON FOR SHARED KNOWLEDGE A SQUARE IS NOT JUST A SQUARE INSTAGARDENS LAB - COMMUNITY GARDENS TURN VIRAL FLEXIBLE FREEWAY TOWARDS A SMART INFRA-NATURE

INSTITUTE FRANÇAIS HOW TO IMPROVE CITIZENS’ LIFE THROUGH SERVICES INNOVATING ON METAMORPHOSIS OF CITIES FEATURED BY SPECIAL VULNERABILITY PROMISED LANDS_ HOW RESIDUAL URBAN MATTERS CAN PROMPT CITY REGENERATION THE SEVERAL FUTURES OF CITY PLANNING

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GOETHE INSTITUT SMART CITIES, SERVICE PROVIDING AND URBAN POLICIES/POLITICSSERVICES ENERGY IS THE LIFE BLOOD OF OUR SOCIETY WE WILL BE WHAT WE WILL EAT INFORMALITY AND BOTTOM-UP ORGANIZATION IN THE AGE OF TECHNOLOGY

CENTRO SPERIMENTALE DI CINEMATOGRAFIA OPEN TOUR_ HOW TO BRING THE COLLABORATIVE TOURIST APP IN YOUR CITYPOLICIES/POLITICSSERVICES URBAN CINEMA URBAN ART AS AN ENGINE OF TRANSFORMATION FOR CITIES THE CITY AS A SERVICE INTENSIVE SCHOOL

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SALA DE SETA

SPAZIO ZERO BOTTEGHE ARTIGIANE

RIDOTTO DE SETA

SPAZIO DUCROT

SPAZIO TRE NAVATE

CENTRO SPERIMENTALE DI CINEMATOGRAFIA

SALA M. PERRIERA

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GREETINGS

This event wouldn’t be possible without the support of our families and the precious help of: Gabriele Amato Eric Biagi Giuseppe Caradonna Fabio Corsini Donatella Gariffo Chiara Lo Cascio Manfredi Lombardo Vincenzo Marinese Devina Meinzingen Alessandro Parisi Pietro Pisciotta Alessia Rotolo Heidi Sciacchitano

We would like also to thank those friends that made the preparatory event “City as a Service Intensive School” a wonderful experience: The Erice Municipality Giacomo Tranchida Laura Montanti Gianrosario Simonte Valentina Villabuona Carmela Daidone Salvatore Denaro Luca Indelicato Giuseppe Pellitteri and Marcello Attinà (Essemotors) Marzia Aricò, the Special Guests and all the Students

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