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Slide2Collaboratorio
Reggio
A co-design path to create the first incubator of sharing and pooling economy of Reggio Emilia
Slide3Reggio
Emilia
launched
in 2015 the pilot experience called
“Quartiere Bene Comune” which
promotes public
participation and civic engagement in every neighbourhood of the city to co-design open innovation projects. These participatory processes are coordinated by public officials called ‘neighbourhood architects’Policy targets:keep strong relations between center and suburbsDesign efficient solutions with local stakeholdersIncrease social relationship / value inside every local communityPolicy tools:Governance – Civic protagonismStrategic planning approachNeighbourhood architect
Slide4The
Neighborhood
architect
is
the
key player. This professional figure is tasked with strengthening active protagonism and ‘fertilising’ the local ecosystem. He/ she is mediator of conflicts between the inside and outside, as well as a proponent of innovative solutions and project drafts. His/her skill-set includes the ability to manage social relations, to foster social innovation and to come up with creative solutions.The Citizenship Agreement shapes up as both a self-contained process, which begins with an exchange of ideas with the community and ends with the assessment of what has been achieved together, and as a continuum of sequential processes, since every time one Agreement is concluded, the
cycle of
discussion and co-planning starts
over,
generates new
dynamics
of
relationships
among
the
players,
new
players interested
in
public
action and
new
projects.
Slide5Interpretation and community listening:
Analysis of the
neighbourhood’s status
quo to identify emergencies and critical situations through on-site
surveying,
round tables,
debates and interviews.Co-design: Community participation phase where citizen and stakeholders in collaboration with the Municipality (Neighbourhood Architect) could co-design ideas and proposals through a public neighbourhood workshop.Agreement: Stipulation of the Citizenship Agreement, the document outlining all the projects to be carried out in the neighbourhood with their respective goals and actions, the financial and material resources, and the “division of labour” among the Municipality and all the private entities involvedExecution of Agreement: the Agreement becomes formally effective once it is approved by the City Council. The Agreement is also signed by all citizens and groups involved, thus formalizing their respective commitments to the projects and activities outlined within it;Implementation, management and monitoring of the Agreement: the projects outlined in the
Agreement, are under the supervision of the neighbourhood architect, who works to
keep
everyone active
and
involved,
while facilitating the
relationships
both amongst the various parties and between them and the
municipal
services
involved
in the projects at
hand
Assessment and reporting of the results
achieved
and the impacts produced:
It is based on a
system
of numerical indicators for each project, established within the
Agreement
itself and
consistent
with the indicators. Besides measuring the results
achieved,
Quartiere Bene Comune has
set
up a
dashboard
of indicators to
measure
its
own
overall
performance
in
terms
of
participation
levels,
efficiency,
effectiveness and social
impact.
Slide6QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS
Participation
n°
27
Agreements
n° 784 Participants[431 no-profit Associations/330 citizen volunteers + 23 private companies]n° 2602 Workshop participantsProjectsn° 163 projects [27 agreements]Project effectiveness indicatorsProject carried out successfully 78,58%;Positive collaboration with Neighborhood architetc 88,78%;Positive collaboration with Municipality of Reggio Emilia 53,74%;Positive impact of economic resources avalaible 64,63%;Relational satisfaction (between participants and municipality)relationship (partecipants-municipality) evaluation variation (t0-t1): 0,6
Slide7QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS
[through focus groups]
In collaboration with the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Scalability Model
Key features for projects that could be promoted from a neighborhood project to a urban level project;
Social impact ModelKeys to project social impact success:Identity (related to the neighborhood)Social fabric (relational dimension)Empowerment (engagement, active participation and institutional proximity)
Slide8SOCIAL INNOVATIVENESS CASE HISTORIES
La Polveriera
Topic:
Social inclusion
Objectives/results:
The community hub gives an integrated services relates to social and welfare issues such
as:Projects for empowering elderly, disabled and immigrantsproduction of design objects through entrepreneurs and fragile/disable workers (K-LAB)Daily Center for hospitality and assistance for disabilitiesCommunity Market with fresh and natural productsCoviolo Wireless (awarded with the European Broadband Awards 2017)Topic: Digital inclusionObjectives/results: The project aimed at overcoming the digital divide in a suburban area lacking market offer through a broadband wireless infrastructure and grant full access to the civic rights.Users:are shareholders of the Internet service as members of the NSC* of Coviolo [community internet provider];now have access to high-speed Internet with benefits for local business enterprises and citizens. The experimentation
was
successful
and is going to be activated in other neighborhood of the city.
Slide9SOCIAL INNOVATIVENESS CASE HISTORIES
Mamme a scuola
Topic:
Social and lingual integration
Objectives/results:
The project aimed at going beyond language barriers creating chances of meeting and social relation for foreigner women within the neighborhood.
It creates a community, through language lessons (core activity), helping women’s participation with collateral service (baby sitting) and closeness.The experimentation was successful and has been activated in other neighborhood of the city.Civic lab FoscatoTopic: social inclusion Objectives/results: The project aimed at adding value and improving Foscato neighborhood through civic actions: liven up places and promote social relationship.The project involved:Young people: street artElderlies: Solidarity Purchase Groups
Slide10While we were doing these experiments we hooked the European Regional Development Fund as an opportunity to build the hub of this network of experiences and to guarantee the incubation and validation of prototypes of the most interesting collaborative projects destined to innovate public policies or the market
.
We have used the European Regional Development Fund to develop this strategy by restructuring, requalifying and re-functionalizing a very important architectural asset (which will be the seat of our most exclusive and distinctive cultural policies) and realizing the new Open LAB that, in matching with the cloisters, will be the site of our solcial-digital experiments.
The lab opens its doors at the end of the month with the exhibition of the St. Petersburg hermitage painting “the lady of Correggio”, alongside the headquarters of the lab spaces.
This will be our 'central lab' while in the neighborhoods we are starting the consolidation, strengthening and definition of the neighborhood laboratories, (SOCIAL CENTERS) the places where innovative models of personal services and ICT innovation will be tested to be validated, prototyped and eventually implemented thanks to the role of the central hub. You can take the example of coviolo wi-fi that will be incubated in the central hub.
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