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Collaboratorio

Reggio

A co-design path to create the first incubator of sharing and pooling economy of Reggio Emilia

Reggio

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

The

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.

Interpretation 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.

QUANTITATIVE 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

QUALITATIVE 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)

SOCIAL 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.

SOCIAL 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

While 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.