Overview

The inherent complexity in today's forms of public governance of cities increasingly demands solutions capable of capturing the diversity of agendas, actors, and asymmetries and putting them into interaction. Sharing common interests for the benefit of the collective is not enough to reduce the challenges of interactions between different actors, as is the case with the URBiNAT project for inclusive urban regeneration. With funding under the European H2020 programme, since 2018, based on models of participation and active involvement, it has implemented healthy corridors in three European cities as front-runners (Nantes, Sofia and Porto) and four cities as followers (Nova Gorica, Siena, Brussels and Høje-Taastrup),  The central element is the connection of people to the city, the environment and each other, through urban regeneration and neighbourhood integration, using the implementation of nature-based solutions (NBS) by the participation and active citizenship of the population. The set of NBS already identified in the project includes technological and territorial solutions of environmental and spatial impact that will soon result in material interventions in public space and innovative methodologies of democratic participation, as well as economic alternatives (namely social and solidarity economy initiatives), whose impact will be reflected in the material and immaterial resources of citizens, and interventions in the community fabric and dynamics. 

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While urban degradation is a reality in many contexts, particularly in densely populated areas, in these same areas we find a strong potential for social organisation, supported by links of solidarity and civic commitment. For this reason, the project takes as its starting point the dimension of public space and proposes, in parallel, to co-create and co-implement with citizens new forms of relationship with the city inspired by nature. Although URBiNAT has achieved levels of commitment and links of solidarity with the members of the community, its implementation process in the case of the city of Porto has revealed the specific characteristics of the mosaic that has been formed around citizen participation. And it is on the different aspects associated to the agendas and actors that this Seminar intends to reflect. The first analytical results produced and the scientific matrix that underlies the project will be presented, in particular the research pillars that will guide the next phase of scientific work.

Speakers: Beatriz Caitana, Gonçalo Canto Moniz, Isabel Ferreira, Nathalie Nunes | Comments: Claudino Ferreira

Activity under the project URBiNAT – Healthy corridors as drivers of social housing neighbourhoods for the co-creation of social, environmental and marketable NBST

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