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Foreword
By IFHP CEO Anette Galskjøt The Yes we can! Reinvent public space is IFHP’s participation to the third Biennale of Public Space in Rome 2015. Two initiatives combined have formed this cooperation: The International Laboratory on Self-Built Community Spaces and the Exhibition “Co-creation of Public Spaces”.
These interventions form an important part of the IFHP Community activities for 2015 and we have been thrilled with the engagement and enthusiasm of our partners during the development of both interventions.
In our minds co-creation and community engagement are key words to the success of future city development and we hope that you will find inspiring to read about the findings of these actions .
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Co-creation of public spaces The Biennale of Public Space 2015
IFHP at the Biennale
Yes, we can! ...Towards a new model of governance? The Exhibition “Co-creation of public spaces”
International Laboratory “Yes we can! Reinvent Public Spaces”
LAB Sessions
Speakers & Partners
From Rome to Porto Alegre
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Co-creation of public spaceby Giulia Maci, IFHP
Can we make our own public space? It is the question that lingers in the institutional vacuum, in the silence of urban planning. Of course, we reply, we can. Can we make it cheap? And we reply, yes we can. Can we make it adaptable? Yes we can. And it continues.
This typical “yes we can” culture is showing great vitality and creativity in the times of unclear urban policies and economic instability, but still the potentials of this energy are not being fully utilised, partly because of a lack of a strong platform to showcase local knowledge and offer support in finding the common ground with the institutions. Cities do not rise all by themselves. No, they are created by virtue of the fact that opposites coinverge; that is what leads to the emergence of new qualities of urban spaces. Accordingly, an interdisciplinary approach to urban planning is needed to enhance diversity. Most places really do contain an interesting and relevant story and we believe that the less-known spaces in the city can be inspiring.
The Yes we can! Reinvent public spaces lab aims to compare different experiences of neglected neighbourhoods’ reactivation to underline potentials and limites to these approaches and encourage a full range of stakeholders (resident citizens, international professionals policy
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makers etc.) to engage in the process of shaping interventions in their cities.
It is strange. Never have we experienced so much interest in public space as today. In times of spread and changeable needs, fluid and light human relations, there is, maybe as a reaction, an increasing demand for public spaces where we can re-discover and re-create a democratic and social dimension in our often impersonal cities. On the one hand, we assist to the standardization, ‘museumification’, privatization and homologation of public space as a result of the decline of public engagement and common actions.On the other hand new individuals, new creative groups, and new collaborative networks get organized to “reconquer” public spaces – spatially, physically and politically.
These initiatives can be temporary or permanent, physical or immaterial, spontaneous or organized. A factor of importance is that they are initiated by actors who are not part of the institutions, but are trying to invent, experiment, stimulate certain processes, programmes, usages, and social interactions within public spaces. Co-created projects could be considered an immediate answer to the loss of sense of open spaces, defining itself as a process of identification between the people and the place where they live.Self-built projects are practices by means of which the users can modify and interact with the environment and re-appropriate urban spaces through direct and common actions.
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The Biennale of Public Space 2015 21-23 May 2015
Rome, Italy
As with its previous editions, the Bienniale of Public Space has drawn inspiration from dozens of local, national and internation-al events promoted by local authorities, universities, citizens’ associations, pro-fessional and cultural organizations, and international organizations to share chal-lenges, experiences and good practices. Their outcomes, together with paral-lel laboratories and plenary sessions, formed a concluding event hosted by the School of Architecture of Roma Tre Uni-versity (located in the ex-mattatoio (abat-toir) in Testaccio) in Rome, Italy. Over 2000 people attended the third edition of the Bienniale of Pub-lic Space that ended on May 23.
45 seminars and workshops involving representatives of municipalities, univer-
sities, cultural associations, profession-als of various disciplines, citizens, college students and primary school pupils, who have created a interdisciplinary and inter-generational event. The main focus of this year’s Bien-nale is the regeneration of exist-ing urban fabric, with a particular at-tention to city inequalities and social imbalance between center and periphery. More than 700 speakers from Asia, Latin America and Africa. The three day event has built its success on the capacity to engage and commit all the actors around the search of under-standing and innovative practices of use and valorization of the Public Space.
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Interaction, participation, co-design, and interdisciplinary creativity have been the key words of all the workshops.
On this occasion UN-Habitat also launched the Public Space Toolkit, a textthat serves as a toolbox at disposal of governments and local authorities in view of the forthcoming conference Habitat III.
The hope is that the network that has been built in Rome, thanks to the oppor-tunities offered by the Biennale, will be strengthened with the view to sustain and develop, within the IFHP community, the reflection on the role and the function of public spaces as places of democratic in-teraction and entry point for shaping sus-tainable and inclusive communities.
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IFHP at the 3rd Biennale of Public Space in Rome
The Yes we can! Reinvent public space is the IFHP participation to the third Biennale of Public Space. Two interventions combined have formed this cooperation: The international laboratory on self-built community spaces and the Exhibition “co-creation of public spaces”.
EXHIBITION “CO-CREATION OF PUBLIC SPACES”The panel exhibition gathered 5 experiences covering the globe: from Latin America, to the Balkans, Western Europe and Kenya. All these experiences suggest a reflection on the role of the co-creation of public space through the valuable reactivation of the community’s engagement, redefining the sense of belonging of residents to their neighbourhoods and reinventing their relationship with the cities they are part of.
INTERNATIONAL LABORATORY ON SELF-BUILT COMMUNITY SPACESThe international laboratory on self-built community spaces aimed at comparing different experiences of reactivation of neglected urban neighbourhoods, underlining the potentials and limits of these approaches and encouraging a full range of local stakeholders (resident citizens, international professionals, policy makers etc.) to engage in the process of shaping interventions in their cities. How can public spaces become part of the urban society and turn these local and spontaneous initiatives into long term policies bridging the gap between informal and formal development? What do self-organizing networks need to get their ideas realized? And vice versa: how can institutions use this cultural phenomenon as a legitimate and valuable city making instrument?
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YES WE CAN!...Towards a new model of governance?
New individuals, new creative groups, and new collaborative networks get organized to “reconquer” public spaces – spatially, physically and politically. They can be temporary or p ermanent, physical or immaterial, spontaneous or organized. A factor of importance is that they are initiated by non-institutional actors who are trying to invent, experiment, stimulate processes, programmes, uses, and social interactions within public spaces. These co-created projects could be considered an answer to the loss of identification between the people and the place where they live. Through self-built projects users can modify and interact with the environment and re-appropriate urban spaces through direct and common actions. The workshop addressed the question of whether co-creation can represent a method for creating better public spaces. Co-design is an alternative to involve all the stakeholders in the design discussion and to make sure that the final product will meet the public’s needs according to the values, the history of the place and the time of the day it is used. At the same time co-design actions pose questions about long-term sustainability and the effects of the shift of roles that the actors are used to play. We discovered various experiences of projects that are quite different in term of setting and time span but all focus on fostering community participation, transforming urban spaces and involving different stakeholders and improving the links between citizens and their city. The objective is to identify the common steps in the process in the form of key words and key Placemaking challenges.
Definitely this work has given the opportunity to rethink the city as a work in progress made of spontaneous and virtuous processes of transformation , where local resources and needs are combined and brought together to trigger virtuous processes of renewal and enhance the reconquer and re-appropriation of urban territories all over the world.
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The answer advocated by IFHP is an unequivocal yes. We are convinced that it is time to experiment, to share, to engage and initiate. Co-design is an alternative to involve all the stakeholders in the design discussion and to make sure that the final product will meet the public’s needs according to the values, the history of the place and the time of the day it is used. At the same time co-design actions pose questions about long term sustainability and the effects of the shift of roles that the actors are used to play.
With the exhibition “Co-creation of public spaces” IFHP, together with its partners and working groups, shares recent projects and researches on the topic of co-creation of public space showing possibilities, limits and effects
of this approach. The exhibition has been an occasion to rethink the city as an open laboratory where, from local initiatives of transformation of the public spaces, needs and resources are shared to catalyse processes to enhance the territory at different scales.
Projects included : 1 Avenida Tronco workshop –PURCS, Spontaneous City 2 Urban Pockets I Urbego3 Youth Engagement Index I Urbego4 Making cities together: planners becoming placemakers in Nairobi I IFHP, INTI and Placemakers5 Urban Incubator I Belgrade
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Porto Alegre is the capital city of the state Rio Grande do Sul, located in the eastern margin of Guaíba Lake, in the very south of Brazil. Its population counts approximately 1,5 million inhabitants. The city presents an enormous contrast of urbanity and nature, clearly visible because of the city centre built opposite the extensive and almost untouched river delta. Compared to most other Brazilian cities, Porto Alegre has a longer planning tradition. It was the first Brazilian city establishing a master plan in 1914, with mobility and sanitary conditions as main objectives. The city also has pursued relatively strong zoning policies, including norms for functions and urbanistic rules. A very distinctive characteristic of Porto Alegre’s policies is the invention of Participatory Budgeting processes, since the end of the 1980’s.
In 2014 the city was also one of the hosts of the World Cup. The event was the motor for a series of vital structural and sustainable improvements of the city such as a better accessibility for public transport and for social and economical prosperity. Among the projects initiated due to the World Cup, the Avenida Tronco had been indicated as a social intervention with opportunities for improving living quality of the environment. It is a long awaited project of enlargement and connection of a sequence of existing streets across many informal neighbourhoods of the Grande Cruzeiro region, in order to create one of the most important trajectories in the City. The transformation of the Avenida of 5,3 km long would facilitate the urban mobility between the center-northeast and the beginning of the south part of the city. The secretary of governance of Porto Alegre has set up an initiative with the purpose to define projects and flagship actions for urban and social improvement that express expectations of the residents about their future, and face the impact of the widening of the road and relocation in the region of about 1,400 families who have their residences located on the bed of the future road.
The technical housing relocation plan by the municipality has been up and running since a few years. However, the social and economic impact for the ones who are left in the area had not been defined yet. The inhabitants were questioning the Municipality how they could profit of the new infrastrucure in a way that their entire region, Grande Cruzeiro, could benefit of it. The Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the Pontificial University of Rio Grande Do Sul and SPcitI organized, with the help of IFHP, a first workshop which brought technicians and employees of the municipality, inhabitants’ representatives and architecture students together. Thanks to the workshop they have jointly formed and committed to a development strategy for the impact of the new avenida and the first concrete projects related to it.
AVENIDA TRONCO - PORTO ALEGRE, BRAZIL
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... while the project will have to integrate with a rich existing fabric and its inhabitants!
THE REALITYINCLUDING THE ECONOMICAL AND SOCIAL IMPACT AS WELL AS THE QUALITY OF THE RESULTING PUBLIC SPACES
This part of the avenida has already been implemented since it was
the only part that did not require demolition. The other sides along
the street will be demolished creating broken edges and left
over plots for which a plan is needed.
People are informally adapting and transforming their ground
floor into a shop, taking advantage of opportunities the new avenida
can bring them. In the internal area the legalization of land ownership
is needed.
The new accessibility will counteract criminal activities that now spoil the quality of
life and image of the area, the city is here.
The public space has to be fine tuned in order to slow down traffic and
avoid a “run-through” corridor that divides the communities on the two
sides, and would not allow other traffic to go inside the
neighbourhoods.
Inhabitants expectations and willingness to be included as
part of the city are high.
NOS SOMOS A AVENIDA TRONCO - A DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY FOR GRANDE CRUZEIRO BIENNALE OF PUBLIC SPACE 21-25 MAY 2015, ROMEAVENIDA TRONCO, PORTO ALEGRE, BRAZIL 3/6
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... while the project will have to integrate with a rich existing fabric and its inhabitants!
THE REALITYINCLUDING THE ECONOMICAL AND SOCIAL IMPACT AS WELL AS THE QUALITY OF THE RESULTING PUBLIC SPACES
This part of the avenida has already been implemented since it was
the only part that did not require demolition. The other sides along
the street will be demolished creating broken edges and left
over plots for which a plan is needed.
People are informally adapting and transforming their ground
floor into a shop, taking advantage of opportunities the new avenida
can bring them. In the internal area the legalization of land ownership
is needed.
The new accessibility will counteract criminal activities that now spoil the quality of
life and image of the area, the city is here.
The public space has to be fine tuned in order to slow down traffic and
avoid a “run-through” corridor that divides the communities on the two
sides, and would not allow other traffic to go inside the
neighbourhoods.
Inhabitants expectations and willingness to be included as
part of the city are high.
NOS SOMOS A AVENIDA TRONCO - A DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY FOR GRANDE CRUZEIRO BIENNALE OF PUBLIC SPACE 21-25 MAY 2015, ROMEAVENIDA TRONCO, PORTO ALEGRE, BRAZIL 3/6
How will the new street front be organized and what
will its quality be? How will the land be redistributed and with
which legal compensation?
It looked as if the new avenida would pass through a remote area far from the city, ...
OFFICIAL VISIONTECHNICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN BY THE MUNICIPALITY
How can the avenida influence the social and
economical network and the local livelihood? What will the new qualities for public space be?
How distant is the city?Thanks to the avenida, the
informal neighbourhoods can reach a new status as integral
part of Porto Alegre.
What about the speed of traffic flows and the safety of pedestrians? The avenida should
not create a barrier between the neighbourhoods that surround it.
Does this avenida cross an empty suburban area? The
surrounding informal neighbourhoods are inhabited by thousands of people and their livelihood will be impacted
by the new avenida.
NOS SOMOS A AVENIDA TRONCO - A DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY FOR GRANDE CRUZEIRO BIENNALE OF PUBLIC SPACE 21-25 MAY 2015, ROMEAVENIDA TRONCO, PORTO ALEGRE, BRAZIL 2/6
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NEW AVENIDA PROFILEClaudeteMichael
Rosa MariaOscar
Regina Samara
GuilhermoCamila
NEIGHBOURHOODSBia
Paulo JorgeAndréaDeniseRegina
AnaTaiane
DanielleLuciana
HUMAN CAPITALAntonio DanielGessi BernardetePaulo Roberto
SergioJoãoPaolaMaíra
INVESTMENTAdelia
José L. CogoDeniseErnani
CarolinaFranthesco
INHABITANTSAdelia Azeredo Maciel Vila Tronco Postão
Antonio Daniel de Oliveira Beco do Lago / Vila Pantanal
Malvina Beatriz de Souza Vila Cruzeiro
Gessi B. Fagundes Dornelles Vila Cristal-Cruzeiro Ivonete Valente Vila Cruzeiro Maria Claudete Melo Santo Vila Tronco Neves
Michael Santos Vila Tronco Postão
Paulo Jorge Cardoso Vila Tronco Neves
Paulo Roberto da Silvo Vila Silva Paes Sergio Bueno Amaral Vila Cristal- Divisa
Ozzi Escarcel Vila Prisma Rosa Maria Silvestre Vila Cruzeiro
Luciano Soares Cardoso Vila Tronco Neves
STUDENTSCarolina Biolchi Arq. e Urb. - PUCRS
Paola Maia Fagundes Arq. e Urb. - PUCRS
Maíra Bento Saraiva Arq. e Urb. - PUCRS
Samara Fonseca Januario Arq. e Urb. - PUCRS
Guilhermo Dexheimer Gil Arq. e Urb. - PUCRS
Camila Bergmann Arq. e Urb. - PUCRS
Franthesco Spautz Arq. e Urb. - PUCRS
Taiane Beduschi Arq. e Urb. - PUCRS
Danielle Guarda Arq. e Urb. - PUCRS
Luciana Probst de Castro Arq. e Urb. - PUCRS
MUNICIPALITYEng. José Luiz Cogo SMURB
Arq. Andréa Oberrather SMURB
Arq. Denise Pacheco Till Campos DEMHAB
Soc. Denise de Menezes Ferreira DEMHAB
Soc. Regina Martins DEMHAB Arq. Ernani Feil Borges SECOPA
Biol. João Roberto Meira SMAM
Arq. Oscar Carlson SMAM
Arq. Maria Regina Steinert DEMHAB
Arq. Ana Zart Bonilha METROPOA
SPECIFIC THEMES
PARTICIPANTS
ANDREA
COGO
DENISE
EDUARDO
MARCIO
CAROLINA
LUCIANA
PAULO JORGE
DENISE
MALVINA
MICHAEL
ANTONIO DANIEL
TAIANE
WORKSHOP FORMAT
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NEW AVENIDA PROFILEClaudeteMichael
Rosa MariaOscar
Regina Samara
GuilhermoCamila
NEIGHBOURHOODSBia
Paulo JorgeAndréaDeniseRegina
AnaTaiane
DanielleLuciana
HUMAN CAPITALAntonio DanielGessi BernardetePaulo Roberto
SergioJoãoPaolaMaíra
INVESTMENTAdelia
José L. CogoDeniseErnani
CarolinaFranthesco
INHABITANTSAdelia Azeredo Maciel Vila Tronco Postão
Antonio Daniel de Oliveira Beco do Lago / Vila Pantanal
Malvina Beatriz de Souza Vila Cruzeiro
Gessi B. Fagundes Dornelles Vila Cristal-Cruzeiro Ivonete Valente Vila Cruzeiro Maria Claudete Melo Santo Vila Tronco Neves
Michael Santos Vila Tronco Postão
Paulo Jorge Cardoso Vila Tronco Neves
Paulo Roberto da Silvo Vila Silva Paes Sergio Bueno Amaral Vila Cristal- Divisa
Ozzi Escarcel Vila Prisma Rosa Maria Silvestre Vila Cruzeiro
Luciano Soares Cardoso Vila Tronco Neves
STUDENTSCarolina Biolchi Arq. e Urb. - PUCRS
Paola Maia Fagundes Arq. e Urb. - PUCRS
Maíra Bento Saraiva Arq. e Urb. - PUCRS
Samara Fonseca Januario Arq. e Urb. - PUCRS
Guilhermo Dexheimer Gil Arq. e Urb. - PUCRS
Camila Bergmann Arq. e Urb. - PUCRS
Franthesco Spautz Arq. e Urb. - PUCRS
Taiane Beduschi Arq. e Urb. - PUCRS
Danielle Guarda Arq. e Urb. - PUCRS
Luciana Probst de Castro Arq. e Urb. - PUCRS
MUNICIPALITYEng. José Luiz Cogo SMURB
Arq. Andréa Oberrather SMURB
Arq. Denise Pacheco Till Campos DEMHAB
Soc. Denise de Menezes Ferreira DEMHAB
Soc. Regina Martins DEMHAB Arq. Ernani Feil Borges SECOPA
Biol. João Roberto Meira SMAM
Arq. Oscar Carlson SMAM
Arq. Maria Regina Steinert DEMHAB
Arq. Ana Zart Bonilha METROPOA
SPECIFIC THEMES
PARTICIPANTS
ANDREA
COGO
DENISE
EDUARDO
MARCIO
CAROLINA
LUCIANA
PAULO JORGE
DENISE
MALVINA
MICHAEL
ANTONIO DANIEL
TAIANE
WORKSHOP FORMAT
NOS SOMOS A AVENIDA TRONCO - A DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY FOR GRANDE CRUZEIRO BIENNALE OF PUBLIC SPACE 21-25 MAY 2015, ROMEAVENIDA TRONCO, PORTO ALEGRE, BRAZIL 4/6
WORKING GROUPS
NEW AVENIDA PROFILE
NEIGH-BOUR-
HOODS
INVESTMENTHUMAN CAPITAL
AMBITION
CONDITIONS
SPECIFIC THEMES
OPEN SESSIONS COMMITMENT
DEVELOPMENTSTRATEGY
PROJECTS
+
FINANCIAL
FIRSTCONCRETE
MODEL
WORKSHOP METHOD
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Construction of the avenidaRelocation
REALITY
Construçao da a avenida
Relocaçao
AMBITIONS PERMANÉNCIAKeep living here, become a legitimate part of Porto Alegre
Continue and improve the collaboration among communities
Achieve a better image that expresses the local identity
Development of local economy
DESENVOLVIMENTO CONJUNTO
QUALIFICAÇÃO
ECONOMIA AUTO-SUSTENTAVEL
Construçao da a avenida
Relocaçao
AVENIDA TRONCOCONDITIONSTreatment of the �rst row, metropolitan image of Grande Cruzeiro, Acessibility>Visibility
Regularize along the Avenida as well as inside the adjacent neighbourhoods REGULARIZAÇÃO
KEEP ON WITH COMMUNITY ASSEMBLIESAVENIDA TRONCO EXPO
DETAILED SURVEY DOCUMENTINFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION CENTRE
LEARNING CENTRE temporarybuilding
FIRSTCONCRETEPROJECTS
SEWAGE....CENTRE PROF. BARACAO
WORKING SPACES
SAMBA SCHOOL LIBRARY
OTHER PROJECTS ....
MORE PUBLIC SPACE
MORE PUBLIC SERVICES
RUBBISH COLLECTION ENHANCEMENT BIO MASSA
2014 2015 2016 2017 ....TodaySPcitI workshop workshop workshop workshop
DEVELOPMENT STRATEGYNÓS SOMOS A AVENIDA TRONCO !
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Where
Cities with no resources and unclear urban policies
The program acts in different cities where cost cutting policies do not guarantee enough resources for the intervention on urban open space. Many cities are seeing their budget shrinking, and strong incentives to focus on strategic cost-effective interventions. At the same time, bottom-up projects often lack of resources, visibility and effectiveness. Urban Pockets is an interesting model to operate in these contexts, by proposing a strategy that optimises the result by establishing new partnerships within residents, public and private sector.
Cities with community problems
By improving the quality of the open space Urban Pockets not only affects the individual life of people, but above all their sense of community. Even cities with a strong background in public realm management and good financial resources are sometimes facing issues related to sense of exclusion and isolation in particular areasv, and this might lead to anti-social behaviours, safety issues and conflicts. The Co-Creation strategy developed by Urbego can offer a way to tackle these issues by answering properly to community needs, by redefining the sense of belonging of residents to their neighbourhoods and reinventing their relationship with the cities they are part of.
Innovative cities
Urban Pockets is offered as a tool to every community in every city that wants to develop new strategies of intervention in the open space. It promotes a new way to work on the public realm, with citizens taking direct action in transforming and taking care of the cities where they live.
A view of the courtyard in Tirana where the first intervention has taken place: the project started in September 2014, with the first work completed in the spring 2015.
Identification and involvement of a local partner An NGO, a public or private institution, a design practice, having a rooted experience in intervention in the open spaces in the cities where they operate.
Mapping spatial potentialsThe mapping focuses on vacant lots or forgotten spaces at the very small scale, often in a state of decay, dumping sites for trash and building rubble, and unsafe public space.
Prioritizing site interventions Prioritization of the interventions is based on their location within the city, their current uses, their ownership status and the interest of an engaged and self-established community.
Assessing motivation and needs of the communityA door-to-door survey in the neighbourhood assessing the needs, perceptions and wishes of the local community, is also a communication tool informing people of the ongoing process.
Involving the potential users The results are presented and discussed during in-situ meetings with the local community. Simple visualizations help the residents to understand the possibilities offered by the site.
Co-design phaseIn the co-design meetings a scale model is used to engage the local community, allowing them to select and locate desired elements and new functions by discussing and negotiating.
Co-financeThree sources of funding support the implementation:1. Local funds, provided by local business and institutions. 2. International funds collected by Urbego3. Community self-help and volunteer work.
Self-building Residents are involved directly in the construction phase working on a voluntary base or according to time-sharing schemes, engaging the users in the transformation of the space.
Planning site maintenance A year plan for the maintenance and management of the space is defined by all the actors involved in the process, with the eventual support of the municipality.
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A simplified scale model was used in Tirana during the co-design sessions helping the residents to visualize their ideas about the future of their space.
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Where
Cities with no resources and unclear urban policies
The program acts in different cities where cost cutting policies do not guarantee enough resources for the intervention on urban open space. Many cities are seeing their budget shrinking, and strong incentives to focus on strategic cost-effective interventions. At the same time, bottom-up projects often lack of resources, visibility and effectiveness. Urban Pockets is an interesting model to operate in these contexts, by proposing a strategy that optimises the result by establishing new partnerships within residents, public and private sector.
Cities with community problems
By improving the quality of the open space Urban Pockets not only affects the individual life of people, but above all their sense of community. Even cities with a strong background in public realm management and good financial resources are sometimes facing issues related to sense of exclusion and isolation in particular areasv, and this might lead to anti-social behaviours, safety issues and conflicts. The Co-Creation strategy developed by Urbego can offer a way to tackle these issues by answering properly to community needs, by redefining the sense of belonging of residents to their neighbourhoods and reinventing their relationship with the cities they are part of.
Innovative cities
Urban Pockets is offered as a tool to every community in every city that wants to develop new strategies of intervention in the open space. It promotes a new way to work on the public realm, with citizens taking direct action in transforming and taking care of the cities where they live.
A view of the courtyard in Tirana where the first intervention has taken place: the project started in September 2014, with the first work completed in the spring 2015.
Identification and involvement of a local partner An NGO, a public or private institution, a design practice, having a rooted experience in intervention in the open spaces in the cities where they operate.
Mapping spatial potentialsThe mapping focuses on vacant lots or forgotten spaces at the very small scale, often in a state of decay, dumping sites for trash and building rubble, and unsafe public space.
Prioritizing site interventions Prioritization of the interventions is based on their location within the city, their current uses, their ownership status and the interest of an engaged and self-established community.
Assessing motivation and needs of the communityA door-to-door survey in the neighbourhood assessing the needs, perceptions and wishes of the local community, is also a communication tool informing people of the ongoing process.
Involving the potential users The results are presented and discussed during in-situ meetings with the local community. Simple visualizations help the residents to understand the possibilities offered by the site.
Co-design phaseIn the co-design meetings a scale model is used to engage the local community, allowing them to select and locate desired elements and new functions by discussing and negotiating.
Co-financeThree sources of funding support the implementation:1. Local funds, provided by local business and institutions. 2. International funds collected by Urbego3. Community self-help and volunteer work.
Self-building Residents are involved directly in the construction phase working on a voluntary base or according to time-sharing schemes, engaging the users in the transformation of the space.
Planning site maintenance A year plan for the maintenance and management of the space is defined by all the actors involved in the process, with the eventual support of the municipality.
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A simplified scale model was used in Tirana during the co-design sessions helping the residents to visualize their ideas about the future of their space.
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What
Reclaiming the public in left-over open spaces
Urbego believes that neglected public spaces can be transformed
into key places where the city beats on the rhythm of the
community and neighbourhood activism.
Together with local institutional partners and residents, we
have undertaken a series of actions in 2014 that address the
role and function of public space.
So far, Urbego has sparked interest in the re-establishment of
public space as a relevant arena in Belgrade, Tirana and Skopje,
mapping, surveying, gaming, creating and working with
citizens on their visions of what public space ought to be. The
experiment was successful, marked by the implementation of
a community pocket park in the Albanian capital in January
2015.
Following the IAAU research that URBEGO carried on in the Balkans, Urban Pockets has already started transforming urban residual spaces with a first intervention in Albania.
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What
Reclaiming the public in left-over open spaces
Urbego believes that neglected public spaces can be transformed
into key places where the city beats on the rhythm of the
community and neighbourhood activism.
Together with local institutional partners and residents, we
have undertaken a series of actions in 2014 that address the
role and function of public space.
So far, Urbego has sparked interest in the re-establishment of
public space as a relevant arena in Belgrade, Tirana and Skopje,
mapping, surveying, gaming, creating and working with
citizens on their visions of what public space ought to be. The
experiment was successful, marked by the implementation of
a community pocket park in the Albanian capital in January
2015.
Following the IAAU research that URBEGO carried on in the Balkans, Urban Pockets has already started transforming urban residual spaces with a first intervention in Albania.
Who
Citizens
The project involves the local community of residents in each of its phases, and self-established communities can apply di-rectly to the program. If an envisioned potentially successful intervention is not supported yet by a self-established com-munity, local residents are engaged and, if interested in the project, they are helped to set up an action team.
Local partners
The local partner (an NGO, a public or private institution, a design practice) has a rooted experience in intervention in the open spaces in the cities where it operates.It acts as a link between Urbego and the local community, and is responsible for monitoring the implementation and promoting locally the program. The local partner is also responsible to engage local institutions and organizations that can contribute to the project.
International partnership
A key component of the program are the international links created by Urbego, that acts as a networking agent for partnerships and funding. Local communities and organization can rely on the know-how of the international expertise members of the Urbego network, sharing experience and developing strategies for coordinated interventions with alike groups in different countries.One of the several activities organized by Urbego together
with the local partner Co-Plan, in order to engage the local residents in the program.
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Why
“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.”
– George Elliot
Reclaiming the open space
By creating new community public places (gardens, pocket parks, shared yards) in redundant outdoor areas, spaces in between buildings, promoting mixed use of car parking, Urban Pockets enhances the existing public and open space to meet the need of the local community users, with a bottom-up approach that produces urban quality revival.
Enforcing communities
Urban Pockets promotes the interaction within neighbours, empowering them and offering a chance to relate to public institutions/ internationals/ other communities. In the urban environment often neighbours have very limited interaction among each other. The co-design process fosters the social interaction between citizens.
Building the sense of place
Aims of the project is to build a sense of place by shaping the identity of the local public realm and the character of a neighbourhood. The creation-construction process allows the appropriation by the communityof their public space, enforcing their sense of belonging and satisfaction.
Regenerating cities vibration
When successful, the first intervention becomes a model for similar projects in the same city, promoting urban regeneration in an incremental developmentinvolving different neighbourhoods in the same city, or different cities in the same region.
While the first intervention is carried on, URBEGO together with the local partner is engaging new communities for further interventions in the city.
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Next Steps
Urbego is developing contacts with several organisations in different cities to transfer and adapt the methodology to new contexts, starting with Bucharest, Ploeisti and Athens.
Bucharest
The fall of the communism led to the degradation of open spaces. Leftover spaces hold the promise of fostering small communities from the ground up.
Ploiesti
Ploiesti suffers from a depopulation phenomena of young people. Reclaiming collective courtyards and other underused transitional spaces will help to grow a sense of community.
Athens
The so-called financial crisis has shifted the attitude towards the city, with many initiatives, groups and informal organisations that reclaim the life in public space in an engaged and conscious way.
A Maintained Presence: Tirana
The program is already active inTirana, with the first inter-vention being implemented and the local partner working on engaging new communities for new interventions in the city.
Education and promotion: Cairo and Rome
As a complementary activity to the program, Urbego keeps working on education and training. Urbego is now organizing of a summer school in Cairo, together with Berlin University.
Strongly relying on constant in-situ assessment, the program has started with little interventions and now is incrementally being reproposed in different contexts.
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INSTITUCION ARSIMOR JOPUBLIK
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Who
URBEGO
Urbego is a multidisciplinary platform of young, motivated
and skilled professionals from all around the globe. Urbego
wants to provide rapid responses for specific challenges in
cities by applying an in situ approach collaborating with local
partners, ranging from civil society representatives to research
institutions and decision makers.
Urbego’s members have a wide range of expertise, going
from urban governance, planning, economics, architecture
and culture to communication and engagement. Through
workshops, these skills are combined with local knowledge
from citizens, students and decision makers to find the best
solution for the individual case.
www.urbego.org | [email protected]
Urban PocketsConcept by Urbego
with the collaboration of
Urban Pockets partners
IAAU partners
Graphic designer
Giulia Maci, urban planner, CopenhagenFarah Makki, architect, ParisSimone Gobber, architect, LondonFilipa Pajevic, economist, Montreal
DeutschzentrumSiljano High SchoolSilvi Jano, urban planner, Tirana
Micromega ArchitectureMara Papavasileiou, architect, AthensAlexandros Zomas, architect, Athens
MkbtCatalina Ionita, architect, BucharestMihai Alexandru, urban planner, Bucharest
ARTA in dialogMonica Sebestyen, architect, Bucharest
Artangle, Balkan Art Culture FundCoalition for Sustainable DevelopmentCo-PlanMikser FestivalSchool of Urban PracticeB74 Carla Felicetti
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Urbego believes that in the light of the recent events in the Arab States, Turkey, Brazil, India, Romania and other parts of the world the missing link in the governance process across the world is the young generation of urban dwellers. Urbego is work-ing on developing an index of young generation’s involvement in urban governance and is collecting case studies all across the globe.
The methodology has been developed in collaborations with universities across the world and looks at civic, politic and eco-nomic engagement as well as at discrepancies between expecta-tions from the various actors involved in governance and what these discrepancies lead to. In recent cases, covered by the international media, these discrepancies have led to protests by young people that felt let down by the inability of their gov-ernments to be transparent and forward looking. Nevertheless protests are not the only way to show involvement and in many cases municipalities themselves lead the engagement efforts.
Urbego believes that by bringing to the table municipalities across the world that have been facing the pressure of young gen-erations together with other municipalities that have already managed to establish good communication and gain the trust of their young citizens will encourage leaders of urban centres to share knowledge and bring back home new ideas to act on.
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#1Measurement/city profile The first level of analysis looks at finding the appro-priate proxy indicators to reflect the involvement of young generations at the civic, politic and eco-nomic level. This first stage of the methodology will allow for a general understanding of involvement in these spheres and also for a preliminary ranking to be made.
This stage is based on the methodology developed by UN Global Compact Cities Programme for the Circles of Sustainability -Urban Profile Process.
Local, national and international databases will be re-searched for appropriate indicators that are relevant at the city scale. The local insight of municipalities and local partners will be crucial in identifying and obtain-ing access to all possible sources of data.
#2Measurement/questionnairesThe second stage of the preliminary city profiling will in-volve testing the perception regarding involvement at the local level.
At this stage we should be able to highlight initial dis-crepancies in expectations and perception as well as capturing any trust issues between the municipalities and their young urban dwellers.
Extensive questionnaires are conducted with the sup-port of Urbego’s partners that will circulate the ques-tionnaires in their networks and collect responses into a common database.
#3InterpretationUsing the profiling exercise as a basis, the third step consists in scaling the results based on a collaborative workshop approach.
During this workshop, participants are asked to evalu-ate from 1 (critical) to 9 (vibrant) each perspective of the profile components.
#4Knowledge sharingThe third level of the analysis will use specific case stud-ies to understand different ways in which the general picture laid out in the previous two stages has trans-lated into engagement/disengagement.
The cases are “how-to/not to” examples to help other municipalities explore and learn from others’ experienc-es.They should have some elements of flexibility that enables context sensitivity.
The selected cases focus on local level issues in the spheres defined previously and will be mainly pro-posed by partner cities or organizations. They will be reviewed by the Urbego team and international ex-perts involved in the project to ensure coherency and high quality. They will be used as part of a learning process to test and, if necessary, reshape the previous two phases of the research.m
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Collaborative workshops are organized over two days in different cities , applying the methodology across as many geographies, economic and political systems as possible. Participants from relevant local institutions and orga-nizations, are asked to evaluate from 1 (critical) to 9 (vibrant) the economic, politic-institutional and civic-cultural aspects of the participation in their cities. Wider questions that are addressed during the workshops relate to the concept of city for life for the young, what makes young people feel part of/disconnected from their urban communities, what is the added value of young people’s involvement and how can urban leaders encourage the young to invest hope and energy in their urban future.
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Valencia March2014critical
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Medellin April2014critical
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Bucharest May2014critical
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London October2014critical
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London October2014critical
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Urbego was founded in 2012 by a group of members from IFHP. Urbego means city-metropolis in Esperanto and was established on the basis of a desire for a common platform for young planning professionals.
The purpose of Urbego is to create opportunities for discussion and research on urban issues, give young planners a voice in the planning debate and engage new generations as agents of change in the field of planning.
An important goal is to provoke a reflection on the future role of planners in the changing global order and develop a common direction for the profession.
Urbego has evolved from an initiative bringing together artists, architects, designers, economists, sociologists and planners with a passion for cities, into an organization with a core team representing Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Netherlands, Romania, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, the UK, and the US.
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MAKING CITIES TOGETHERINTERNATIONAL KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE PROGRAM & PLATFORMParticipatory design & program strategies [Placemaking] to improve public spaces and communities
What are potential initiatives to develop new strategies for?
Placemaking strategies collected in replicable model (local/city scale)
What placemaking strategies improve public spaces?
Working plan for an intervention in 3 public spaces / initiatives
RESEARCH LAB INTERVENTION PLATFORM
LOCATION RESEARCH
PREPCOM / GC25
RESEARCH LAB SHOWCASE WORKSHOP ONLINE PLATFORM
PROF NETWORK EVENT TRANSFER WORKSHOP
PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS PUBLIC OPENING LOCAL PLATFORM
BIENNALE ROME
Apr‘15 May 4-8 ‘15 Aug‘15
INVENTORY
PUBLIC KICK-OFF EVENT
IDENTIFICATION
CONFERENCE N-AERUS
Nov‘14
Why Making Cities Together?
17 local Placemaking initiatives
Participatory urban planning is acknowledged as a priority (local/int.)
Mapping public life/space
Selection 3 initiatives
How can we build a long-term urban spaces network?
International network & local platform
Dissemination at conferences and via (social) media
How can we showcase the benefits of placemaking?
Program / Design created in public space (1 of the Initiatives)
Maintencance plan
#Nairobi, Kenya
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IT STARTS WITH A SINGLE DROP
Out of 17 Placemaking ini t iat ives 3 publ ic spaces were selected to study at the Placemaking Design Lab. Together with international and local urban professionals and grass roots organisat ions new Placemaking strategies col lected in a repl icable model were developed to improve public spaces on local and city scale. The Lab was held f rom the 4th-8th of MAY at the UN Compound and at the August 7th Memorial Park in Nairobi.
PLACEMAKING DESIGN LABStudy 3 Publ ic Spaces Together
Jeevanjee GardensPark in City Centre
KorogochoStreet in informal sett lement
DandoraCourt yards in Neighourhood
HoperaisersCommunity sports, arts and
music ini t iat ive
Mustard Seeds Community based
organisat ion
Fr iends of Jeevanjee Nairobi City County,
UN-Habitat & PPS
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PUBLIC SPACE: NEIGHBOURHOOD Mustard Seeds in Dandora
GovernmentPrivate sector NGO’s
How can MSO upscale the youth groups competi t ion to improve their court yards? What are possibi l i t ies for l inkages among these court yards that could -col lectively- t ransform the reputat ions of some less popular neighbourhoods?
From semi-public court yards to streets with gatewaysUpscaling & l inking
Neighbourhood network
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PUBLIC SPACE: NEIGHBOURHOOD Mustard Seeds in Dandora
GovernmentPrivate sector NGO’s
How can MSO upscale the youth groups competi t ion to improve their court yards? What are possibi l i t ies for l inkages among these court yards that could -col lectively- t ransform the reputat ions of some less popular neighbourhoods?
From semi-public court yards to streets with gatewaysUpscaling & l inking
Neighbourhood network
Think and do tank for young citiesPlacemaking & Design Studio Making space together
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CO-SUPPORTED BY:
THANKS TO
KUWAAvanti ArchitectureCAVE Boogertman&PartnersCitilinksMa3Route
INTERNATIONAL URBAN EXPERTS
KENYAN URBAN EXPERTS
Rodeo Architects (Norway)METASITU (Austria)Urban Codes (The Netherlands)Paul Currion (Serbia)Land + Civilization Compositions (the Netherlands)Bantu Studio (South Africa)
Nairobi City County GovernmentUN-HabitatUniversity of NairobiTechnical University of KenyaThe Centre for Urban Research and innovationProjects for Public SpacesNaipolitansKUWA UrbanicityMark OjalKounkuey Design InitiativeAll Placemaking initiatives
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PLACEMAKING DESIGN LABUrban Planners becoming Placemakers
FIELD VISITS
POWER BREAKS
STUDENTS’ RESEARCH
BUSINESS EVENT PRESENTATION
WORKSHOPS POWER!
DIALOGUE
PLACEMAKERS!
By bringing al l actors and stakeholders together in a workshop to share experiences, chal lenges and solut ions, i t is possible to create more impact in making successful and inclusive public spaces. The urban professionals were very engaged and thoughtful and became real Place-makers!
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PUBLIC SPACE: CITY CENTREJeevanjee - Responsive city
How can we program a city park in rehabil i tat ion to create a more inclusive public space? How can test ing grounds gain trust and enhancing griots (community storytel l ing)?
Tactical urbanism:Undesign, test ing of st rategy,part icipatory processes
Griots
Tactic 2
AFTER...
Test ing: open up to gr iots byWIFI , remove fences andtemporary pedestr ianizat ion
Permanent pedestr ianizat ion to create an economic impuls for surrounding shops
Linkages: Universi ty, other city gr iots on streets and public spaces
Oral culture
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Street Soccer Huruma
Hope Raisers
Huruma Town Youth Group
Mathare Community Resource Centre
Kayole Njiru Youth Group
NaiNiWho (Go Down Arts Centre)
Kilimani Project
Change Mtaani
Friends of City Park
Jeevanjee Gardens
Green Belt Movement
Shangilia mtoto wa Africa (skate park)
PLACEMAKING IN NAIROBI
What is P lacemaking? “ The pract ice of P lacemaking a ims to improve the qual i ty of a publ ic p lace and the l ives of i ts community in tandem. Put into pract ice, P lacemaking seeks to bui ld or improve publ ic space, spark publ ic d iscourse, create beauty and del ight , engender c iv ic pr ide, connect neighbourhoods, support community health and safety, grow socia l just ice, catalyse economic development, promote environmental sustainabi l i ty and of course nurture an authentic ‘sense of p lace’.”
Massachusetts Inst i tute of Technology - Department of Urban Studies and planning , 2013 “Places in the Making: how Placemaking bui lds places and communit ies” p.2,3
Imagining co-creat ion process involv ing people and organisat ions through research, design and programming publ ic spaces to create ownership and responsibi l i ty for their own environment us ing the exist ing qual i t ies as local knowledge, assets and ideas. After capacity bui lding programs we transfer responsibi l i ty of stewardship to local team to create a sustainably used place.
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Street Soccer Huruma
Hope Raisers
Huruma Town Youth Group
Mathare Community Resource Centre
Kayole Njiru Youth Group
NaiNiWho (Go Down Arts Centre)
Kilimani Project
Change Mtaani
Friends of City Park
Jeevanjee Gardens
Green Belt Movement
Shangilia mtoto wa Africa (skate park)
PLACEMAKING IN NAIROBI
What is P lacemaking? “ The pract ice of P lacemaking a ims to improve the qual i ty of a publ ic p lace and the l ives of i ts community in tandem. Put into pract ice, P lacemaking seeks to bui ld or improve publ ic space, spark publ ic d iscourse, create beauty and del ight , engender c iv ic pr ide, connect neighbourhoods, support community health and safety, grow socia l just ice, catalyse economic development, promote environmental sustainabi l i ty and of course nurture an authentic ‘sense of p lace’.”
Massachusetts Inst i tute of Technology - Department of Urban Studies and planning , 2013 “Places in the Making: how Placemaking bui lds places and communit ies” p.2,3
Imagining co-creat ion process involv ing people and organisat ions through research, design and programming publ ic spaces to create ownership and responsibi l i ty for their own environment us ing the exist ing qual i t ies as local knowledge, assets and ideas. After capacity bui lding programs we transfer responsibi l i ty of stewardship to local team to create a sustainably used place.
Placemakers method
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mathare river
community lane
nairobi river
Phase 1
PUBLIC SPACE: INFORMAL SETTLEMENTKorogocho’s Hoperaisers
Phase 1Expanding street part icipation
Phase 2street reclamation
Phase 3Entering the al leyways
mathare river
community lane
nairobi river
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mathare river
community lane
nairobi river
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PHASE IIIENTERING THE ALLEYWAYS
How can the Hoperaisers ini t iat ive in sports, arts and music upscale their active streetscapes into a repl icable model for safer and inclusive informal sett lements?
Mobilizing community Engaging individuals in community Partnering local government Coordinating with exterior actors
Landlords, UN-Habitat, Slum upgrading project
Hoperaisers, Koch FM, Miss Koch, Chamas,
Elders
Households, Individuals,
Cartels
Nairobi City County, Police Station, Chief
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The meeting explored how people construct and redefine places through self-organization in urban spaces elevating at the public debate the main issues emerging from these initiatives and inviting the participants to share insights and possible answers.
How the logic of self-organizing systems can be integrated into long term urban policies becoming part of the process of city making?How this hidden energy can support and be better used to (re-)vitalize neglected urban public spaces?
In a context rich in complexity, contradictions and inspirations, the IFHP lab has proposed a wide range of perspectives on the role played by public spaces today.From the space of protest and civic engagement of young people’s impact in their urban community across the
world to an overview of international experiences where the positive impact of the local self-organisation networks when it comes to cultural, economic, social and spatial revitalization of the neglected (and sometimes vacant) inner-city urban public spaces, has made or is still making real and tangible changes within the community.And more, from placemaking intitiative s that engage citizens and policymakers to reshape neglected open spaces to experimental and creative governance process that engage different stakeholders in the creation of new public spaces, the lab has been the opportunity for the actors committed in making public spaces the democratic representation of urban life, to look at the way forward starting from sharing each other’s experiences and debating results and expectations, failures and challenges they have met along the way.
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AGENDA 01. Opening and setting the stageGiulia Maci, IFHP 02. Panel discussions 1 and 2: “The State of Play”Moderator: Giulia Maci, Architect, project Manager at IFHP PANEL 1: Dynamic urban spaces: how to transform neglected areas in new community spaces1. Urban Pockets, 2. “Dinamicittà”: co-design for urban renewal, 3. “Community and re-cycling of left-over micro spaces
PANEL 2: Who believes in goverment anymore? Finding a balance between spontaneous actions and a comprehensive strategic approach to public spaces 1. “Urban Incubator in Belgrade”, 2. Avenida Tronco Workshop, 3. “Micro-design of public spaces in a shrinking city”
03. Panel discussions 3 and 4: Evolving practice and road ahead Moderator: Giulia Maci, Architect, project Manager at IFHP
PANEL 3: From activism to civic engagement: how self-built projects shape sense of commons1. YEI_Youth Engagement Index, 2. Suburbia as new frontier: a laboratory of self-built spaces in Viareggio”, 3. Urban care/Piazze Gioco/Forme di Spazi PANEL 4: The governance of the process: new scenarios 1. “The creation of urban furnitures with recycled materials”, 2. “Making cities together:planners becoming placemakers”, 3. “The experience of Plovdiv Architecture Week”
04. Conclusions: pulling together ideas and way forward Giulia Maci, Architect, project Manager at IFHP
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Walk through any major city and you will see vacant land. In densely populated cities with sometimes few opportunities for new park or public area development, small vacant lots could provide a shared area of common life. These spaces, as potential threshold spaces, are to be appropriated through practices of communing, practices that rein-vent common spaces as a new form of social relations, communing practices. In some cases, neighbors have organized to transform these spaces into community amenities such as shared gardens or meeting places, in other cases the reactivation of empty spaces involves different local and international actors. The mainstream proliferation of ideas and practices of bottom-up initiatives urgently demands a shared understanding of notions of low-budget urbanism, urban flexibility, temporariness and ‘creativity’, and their implications for imagining cities to come.
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Urban Pockets Speaker: Farah Makki
Architect, PhD candidate at EHESS in Paris, Urbego Co-founder
TeamURBEGO
Urbego means city-metropolis in Esperanto, and it is a multidisciplinary platform of young, motivated and skilled professionals from all around the globe. The Urban Pocket program was launched by Urbego in 2014, with the aim of developing a co-creation strategy for reclaiming public spaces in different cities all around the world. The first phase of the program saw Urbego interacting with local partners and communities in different Balkan cities, with the first community pocket park implemented in Tirana in 2015.
In the program, Urbego operates contemporary at different scales. At a local level, it engages local communities of residents, helping them to take control of the open spaces around/between the places where they live. At a global scale, it provides a platform for sharing knowledge and expertises, acting as an intermediary between small organizations and international funders, as well as providing visibility in international contexts such as conferences and exhibitions.
Urban Pockets acts at a micro scale in places such as courtyards, neglected communal spaces, backyards, parking lots, or wherever dysfunctional design, lack of resources or interest have produced redundant open spaces. Rather than replicating a fixed set of spatial solutions, Urban Pockets provides a methodology and tools for the
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implementation of each intervention, with Urbego expertises active on helping local communities in designing, financing, implementing and maintaining their projects. This extended program of micro interventions not only offers a cost-effective strategy of implementing and maintaining public open spaces, but due to its community based co-creation approach, it represents an effective way to address some of the problems of urban living, such as isolation and social exclusion, by enhancing local identities and sense of community.
More info at www.urbego.org
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“Dinamicittà”: co-design for urban renewal Speaker: Giuseppe Roccasalva
School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Polytechnic of Turin
Team Students of the Polytechnic of Turin
Project designed by Politecnico di Torino in collaboration with several municipalities of Piemonte Region. The project “dynamicity” started in September 2014 conducting actions of co-design of urban public spaces to be transformed. The project creates synergies and connections between academic research centers, schools, local associations and entrepreneurial and citizens with the aim to design strategies for regenerating public spaces. Different co-design projects have been successfully designed and implemented in Piemonte region and are now under the executive phase by local municipalities. The project design a specific process which try to embody innovative tools and assessment both in the analytic phase of a regeneration process and in the participation phase. This tool put together insight from the sociological field, the negotiation approaches and the design strategies in order to see simultaneously pro and cons of a public decisio.
More info at More info: https://www.facebook.com wsdinamicitta?v=info&expand=1&nearby
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Community and re-cycling of leftover micro spaces Speaker: Antonia di Lauro
Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria
Team Rizemulab
The Mediterrean University of Reggio Calabria, the Municipality of Condofuri and its inhabitants (schools, associations, artists and artisans) are collaborating to reactivate a neglected area. A design proposal has been selected A design proposal has been selected through a students’ competition. A participatory laboratory has been organized for the implementation of this proposal and the management of the area. The RizemuL@b is an occasion for inhabitants and local actors to take action and collaborate to improve the quality of places. The result is a garden that is a reinterpretation of some traditional elements, such as totems with local decorations, sitting places realized by local artisans or characteristic thatched roofs. The aim of this project is to engage the inhabitants, use recycled materials, engage the residents and unveil the local identity.
More info at https://www.facebook.com/Rizemulab-803763783000980/timeline/
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WHO BELIEVES IN GOVERNMENT ANY MORE? FINDING A BALANCE BETWEEN SPONTANEOUS ACTIONS AND A COMPREHENSIVE, STRATEGIC APPROACH TO PUBLIC SPACES
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Most development in cities occurs without any central planning yet cities continue to function, often quite effectively without any top-down control. Cities develop by filling the space available to them in different ways, at different densities and using different patterns to deliver the energy in terms of people and materials which enable their con-stituent parts to function. Plans and regulations are perceived almost as obstacles to reinvention. Today there is a collective realization that we need to accelerate processes and simplify the laws of urban planning. At the same time bottom up initiatives cannot provide long term, and comprehensive answers to cities’ complex needs. Laissez-faire thinking has resulted in unbalanced and exclusive urban environment. Small actions, big picture. We are still trying to find the balance.
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Urban incubator Speaker: Maja Popovic
Architech, designer, researcher at Failed Architecture
TeamUrban Incubator
Urban Incubator Belgrade (UIB) is a project, which contributes culturally to the re-development of a neglected Belgrade neighbourhood called Savamala. It was initiated by the Goethe Institute in Belgrade as a part of a larger international platform Weltstadt - Who Creates The City? UIB invited more than 10 local and international projects from the fields of art, architecture, urbanism and social engagement, to be active for one year in Savamala. The project’ ambition was to improve the quality of life of the local residents, arguing strongly in favour of a city at a human scale, and aiming to encourage the residents of Savamala to take charge of their neighbourhood and its revitalisation. In order to achieve this ambition the project employed various bottom-up techniques, which were all meant to stimulate citizen’s participation. The stimuli for this participation came in the form of “injected” projects, which included different crowd sourcing initiatives, diverse creative practices and new forms of informal collaboration. This process of involvement of the local citizens in the transformation of their neighbourhood was intended to have a long-lasting effect.
When UIB approached Savamala in 2012, the area was known for its continuos traffic, for the apparent lack of local communities, for the prostitution and its busy night life. Many buildings were vacated and in a state of dilapidation. The streets served mainly as
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transport connections used by heavy trucks –a constant source of noise and pollution. In the last couple of years the area has been gradually transformed into a vibrant neighbourhood, gaining the reputation of a cultural and night life hub where empty warehouses and derelict art nouveau buildings were being converted into cultural centres, creative industries, galleries and nightlife venues. Despite the recent dynamic development of the area, the lack of an active local community persists. Benefiting from this apathy in public activism, the current local government, in collaboration with an investor from Abu Dhabi, initiated a large scale development called Belgrade Waterfront. In an unusually short time, the local government adopted the necessary legislation with the intention of facilitating this large scale development. Consequences of these actions were strongly felt by the community and the UIB initiatives in Savamala.
At the moment the focus of the Association for the future falls on creating a sustainable environment for communication between citizens. An important part of the participatory process would be the creation of stronger bonds between different citizens, who would become more conscious of the need for cooperation for achieving an improved urban environment. In this environment citizens would be active and would form collectives on specific topics, while authorities would become conscious facilitators of the civic actions. This process would be unthinkable without the participation of a new type of planning and design professionals who value engagement.
More info at http://www.goethe.de/ins/cs/bel/prj/uic/enindex.htm
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Beyond ruins: self-building after the earthquake Speakers: Prof. Moccia University of Naples, “Federico the 2nd”
Arch. Salvatore Carbone, phd student
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sa.und.sa architetti + Paolo Mestriner In collaboration with DiARC, Università Federico II di Napoli
In the town of Sant’Angelo dei Lombardi, all around the Church of Santa Maria, the time has crystallized impeding the regular process of “urban healing”: in November 23rd 1980 the collapse of the structure, which occurred during a celebration, has swept 40 people; since then the area has been gradually reabsorbed by nature.Beyond Ruins is an urban workshop with the aim to explore new prospects for recovery, seeing the temporary like a precious opportunity for a resilient existence and in the landscape care a unique opportunity to rediscover the territorial identity.
The workshop consisted in planning and in self-construction of an intervention through the adoption of simple, repeatable and sustainable technologies and processes, able to develop and convey social cohesion by “doing architecture”. It has been divided into two stages: one analytical with group meetings aimed to ensuring the global coherence of the project and one other focused on the realization of the project.
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Making Cities together: planners becoming placemakers Speaker: Naomi Hoogervorst
Architect at FREEM open architecture and Placemakers
TeamPlacemakers, IFHP , INTI
In May 2015 the Placemaking Design Lab took place to develop new strategies for the public spaces in Nairobi, Kenya. The Lab is part of the ‘Making Cities Together’ project that is initiated by the International Federation of Housing and Planning (DK), the International New Town Institute (NL) and Placemakers (NL). Fast growing cities, like Nairobi, face serious challenges in developing into an inclusive and prosperous environment. The ‘Making Cities Together’ project aims to develop a sustainable, viable and long-term agenda for Nairobi’s public spaces as an entry point to urban development.
The inventory phase, which was conducted in partnership with the Technical University of Kenya depicted Nairobi as a pioneer in participatory urban development. The inventory identified 17 socio-spatial initiatives across the city. The research was conducted together with an interdisciplinary group of students of the University of Nairobi (UoN) and guided by KUWA, a local urban planning office. The initiatives in public spaces represent different zones in the city; Centre Business District, Neighborhoods and Informal Settlements and they represent different kinds of public spaces: streets,
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parks and court yards. These formed the basis for the Placemaking Design Lab. During the Lab, organised in partnership with UN-Habitat and DASUDA and supported by the Dutch Embassy, three expert teams in collaboration with local initiators were challenged to develop placemaking intervention strategies for three specific public spaces: Jeevanjee gardens; Korogocho street; Dandora court yards. The winning concept for Dandora will be implemented to serve as a benchmark for participatory urban design for public spaces.
More info at http://makingcitiestogether.strikingly.com/
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A shift from activism to civic engagement. The following actions have as a main result the creation of physical spaces but also the creation of communities, new values and a reconquered sense of belonging. They shape a renewed identity of the place re-connecting the citizens to the urban environment they belong to. The real challenge is “how to involve the people and keep them involved thoughout the process”.
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YEI_ Youth Engagement index Speaker: Simona Dobrescu
Urbego Co-founder
TeamURBEGO
Youth Engagement Index is a collaborative method to analyze in a consensual manner the participation of young people (18-34 years of age) in city affairs where they live. The method combines a series of quantitative and qualitative elements in collaboration with local actors. The three spheres analyzed look at the economic, politic-institutional and civic-cultural aspects. The research takes place in three phases: evaluation (workshop), validation (through case studies and questionnaires) and knowledge exchange in terms of policy formulation and practice. The method has been applied in Valencia (Spain) and Medellin (Colombia), Bucharest (Romania) and London (United Kingdom). By bringing to the table municipalities across the world that have been facing the pressure of young generations together with other municipalities that have already managed to establish good communication and gain the trust of their young citizens will encourage leaders of urban centres to share knowledge and bring back home new ideas to act on.
More info at www.urbegoyei.com
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“The area was considered a ‘place of diversity’ and was rejected by the citizens of its borough”. The revitalization project of the “Fenice Park” arises from a common type of social commitment between the District of Varignano, in Viareggio, Italy and the Associati-one Araba Fenice with the aim to reintegrate marginalised people through social re-habilitation projects and community involvement. This intervention wanted to reveal new ways of understanding public space: rethink and reutilize a neglected space and open it to the public. The revitalization process has been approached as a therapeutic tool that allowed the start of a recovery process for the disadvantaged people going hand in hand with that of the green space. The energy invested by those marginalized people was oriented towards the actualization of a ‘meeting place’, where the old area could be restored and enjoyed through the interaction with the rest of the neighbour-hood. Therefore, this project was meant to turn a marginalizing space – a “non-place”, as Marc Augé would put it – into a significant place, symbol of rebirth for the whole borough.Through the creative process of territorial self-building, the extreme life conditions ,im-posed by the everyday difficulties, were creating new forces and energies, which were then projected onto the territory itself.
More info at www.arabafeniceonlus.it/
Esperience of urban revitalization: the self planned Speaker: Emma A. Viviani
Sociologist
Team Araba Fenice Association
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Urban care/Piazze Gioco/Forme SpaziSpeaker: Silvia Cama
Architect at Zerozone
Team Zerozone
The idea of the project is aimed at increasing the aesthetic quality, that is the beauty, and the values of the area in question, making it useful and usable by different types of people: children, youth, schools, families, the elderly, associations; with the times and in different ways depending on the seasons, times and the prospects for use according to new coordinates that interpretation. This intervention does not want to be merely a res-toration of the area, but action demonstration that the best strandard of urban comfort and use of resources with a set of experimental measures to aesthetic and functional value. The project would also trigger a regeneration process that has a attention across the spaces of the territory Genovese that at present are in fact virtual and unused.Objective of the project is to give the opportunity to share experiencesthrough a live aware of public spaces. The project involved direct and indirect benefi-ciaries that in various forms and ways contributed to the design experience.
More info at www.zerozoone.it/
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How smal bottom up intiatives can define a new model of democracy, participation and contribution to the city making processes in the vacuum of governance in the ur-ban planning agenda? Urban policies are questioned by the emergence of new urban actors, small private companies, NGOs, collectives, local associations whose ambi-tion is to enhance the awarness and understanding of urbanity’s issues and poten-tials.How do they act? They intiate concrete actions and become leaders of change. They adopt new approaches, they invent, engage diffent actors, stressing on the impor-tance of making everyone responsible towards the city.
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The creation of urban furniture with recycled materials Speaker: Melissa Capello
Graduate in Science Education at the Institute Project Man
TeamTECHLAB
TechLab is born in Chieri, in the Province of Turin and it is a public workshop where anyone can peek in and “get their hands dirty”, experimenting with the latest technology, as well as with the raw material, giving shape to their dreams, with the wood and 3D printers! It is a common space where young people can get in touch with the craftsmanship and tradition of the “know-how “so rooted in that territory and important symbol of the Made in Italy brand. Strong supporters of open-source culture and the open hardware, the founders of TechLab are inspired by the model of the FabLab, but what they are building is something different. TechLab opened its doors on April 20 of 2013 to become a place where young people and adults could get a look around and feel free to use the machines for laser cutting, 3D printers, cutters or tools to work the wood. In line with this approach they have developed a project of creation of urban furnitures with recycled materials with the engagement of the inhabitants of a particular disavantaged neighbourhood in the City of Chieri. Today the municipality itself recognizes the civic and cultural life of this project, and has decided to accommodate them in the spaces of the library and look at them as relevant interlocutor in the city making process.
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Avenida tronco Workshop Speaker: Bernardina Borra
Co-founder at SPcitI and partner at MILKTrain.eu
TeamFAU-PUCRS, SPcitI, IFHP
In the informal settlements of Grande Cruzeiro, Porto Alegre, Brazil, live thousand of people. Since long a new avenue – the Avenida Tronco - has been planned to cross through all neighbourhoods to join two major arteries of the city. The project lied still for decades, until during the preparation for football world cup when the city got an economic injection that revived the Avenida project. The urge of the discussion, the housing relocation due to demolition for the new road, and political pressure had opened a favourable debate to consider how slum areas can become more connected to the rest of the city. According to the possible negative and positive impacts and benefits it can cause to its surroundings, the new 5,6 km long Avenida Tronco has been a catalyst for discussing and deciding upon a new perspective for the whole area it crosses. At that moment the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Design of PUCRS University and SPcitI, with the support of IFHP, initiated a long-term process to improve livelihood in the area. A multi-stakeholder workshop was the first step. The main goal was to collectively outline a transformation strategy and the first concrete projects related to the new frontage of the avenida but also beyond its edges, claiming legitimacy to the city from the inside of the slum.
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With this workshop we brought together different groups of stakeholders on location: local neighbourhood leaders and inhabitants, officials of various city departments from the municipality, and students of FAU PUCRS University. The inhabitants offered a room within the community building of AMAVTRON in Grande Cruzeiro. We have been working there together for 5 days setting up collaboration between participants. They were all together on equal base as “experts” in their own field assembled in one big working team. Thus the workshop enabled each participant to feel free to act as individual member, and in second place as representatives of a specific group or department. Several additional experts were invited too, for instance to give insights about grants from public banks as the Brazilian Caixa, or explain legal ins and outs of land regularization and legalization procedures that can be brought about by inhabitants themselves.
The Development Strategy document is the final agreement among all participants resulted out of the workshop. It is essentially a road map that defines the collective commitment for future projects to be pursued together. Especially concerning the time line, the Development Strategy is a tool for an open process development: further evolution in time will require new continuous assessments of the roadmap also in the form of new workshops. For this very reason the strategy has been included in a Commitment book which is summarising the outcome of the workshop but also outlining further development with commitments statements by all participants groups. Recently the booklet was also officially presented to Mr. J. Fortunati, Porto Alegre’s mayor.It is just a beginning.
More info at http://thespontaneouscityinternational.org/
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ONE ARCHITECTURE WEEKSpeaker: Ljubo Georgiev
architect, director of the One Architecture Week
Team One Architecture Week
ONE ARCHITECTURE WEEK is an yearly festival for contemporary architecture and the city and it aims at raising the level of awareness about urbanity, at stimulating an active and responsible behaviour towards the city, as well as at initiating actions for a positive and visible improvement of the quality of architecture and urban planning of Bulgarian cities.
ONE ARCHITECTURE WEEK started in 2008 as Sofia Architecture Week and changed its name to ONE due to its moving from Sofia to Plovdiv in 2013. One Architecture Week is part of the platform for contemporary culture ONE, also organiser of the festivals ONE DESIGN WEEK and ONE DANCE WEEK.Founded in 2002 as an art, culture and lifestyle magazine, EDNO has realised more than 100 publications, concerts, parties, exhibitions, happenings, the book The Bulgarian Nouvelle Vague, various competitions, and the festivals Sofia Contemporary and Mellow Music Festival. All of them turn ONE into a significant and sustained platform, which plays an important role in popularising contemporary culture, both in Bulgaria and abroad.
More info at http://edno.bg/en/one-architecture-week-2015/the-festival
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Speakers
Moreno Baccichet, Professor at University of Venice (IUAV)
Bernardina Borra, Founder and partner at SPcitI.org and MILKTrain.eu
Silvia Cama, Architect at Zerozone
Francesco Careri, Founder of Stalker/Osservatorio Nomade, Researcher at
DIPSU-Roma Tre
Antonia Di Lauro, Post-doc at Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria
Simona Dobrescu, Urbego Co-founder
Marco Giovannone, Architect and Interior designer
Naomi Hoogervorst, Architect at FREEM open architecture and Placemakers
Paulo Horn Regal, Professor at Pontifical University of Rio Grande
Giulia Maci, Architect, Project manager at IFHP and Urbego founder
Farah Makki, Architect, PhD candidate at EHESS in Paris, Urbego Co-founder
Francesco Moccia, Professor at University of Naples, “Federico the 2nd”
Giuseppe Roccasalva, Research scientist at the School of Architecture and
Urban Planning of Polytechnic of Turin
Marichela Sepe, Professor at University of Naples, “Federico the 2nd”
Emma Viviani, Director at Tuscany Department of ANS (National Association of
Sociologists) and Founder of Araba Fenice
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The International Federation for Housing and Planning is a worldwide Community ofprofessionals, researchers, academics and civil servants representing the broadfi eld of housing and planning. The Community organizes a wide range of activitiesacross the globe with the aim to foster cross-sectorial knowledge exchanges and “test” new solutions in response to the most pressing urbandevelopment challenges.
As in previous editions, Biennial of Public Space will build on dozens of events Local, national and international, promoted by Public Administrations, University, Associations of citizens, Professional organizations and cultural, International Organizations, with the aim of comparing experiences, problems and good practices. The results will feed, together with parallel workshops and plenary sessions, in a fi nal event hosted at the headquarters of Architecture of Rome (former slaughterhouse).
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From Rome to Por to Alegre
The results of this exploration and comparison on the limits and potentials of actions of co-creation and self-built community spaces, are presented by IFHP at the 1st International Congress on Public Spaces that will be held in October 2015 in Porto Alegre, Brazil.The Congress is organised by the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the PUCRS University (FAU-PUCRS). Among the main reasons, the dimensions of Brazilian cities, the great inequalities, car-domination and the strong influence of the market resulted in poor quality or absence of public spaces. Accessibility, maintenance, security, and real publicness for all socio-economic layers of the society, all are important topics of discussion. And of future action. This counts for cities in the entire world, all with their specific challenges.The congress aims to collect people and experience from all over the world, to interchange ideas, knowledge, and experiences. It wants to teach and inspire academics, policymakers, entrepreneurs and citizens. More information: http://www.pucrs.br/eventos/espacospublicos/index_eng.php.