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The contribution is framed within the framework of urban studies concerned with right to the city, co-production processes and alternative management models for public resources needed in territories targeted by necrocapitalist drifts and phenomena of urban exclusion and expulsion.
We present the first implementation phases of the Urban Living Lab Naples (ULL Naples) of the Erasmus+ PS-U-GO project Education in Living Labs: Participatory Skills for sustainable Urban Governance, aimed at a process of re-appropriation, democratisation and return of the sea to the city. ULL Naples takes place in continuity with the action-research process developed by CNR IRISS in collaboration with Lido Pola - Common Good for the activation of urban regeneration processes in the Bagnoli neighbourhood and with the AESOP International Conference ‘Urban Conflicts and Peace: Everyday Politics of Commons’ co-organised by CNR IRISS and hosted by DiARC and Lido Pola - Commons in October 2023.
The PS-U-GO project (2024 - 2026), aims to implement 4 Urban Living Labs, intended as educational spaces, which will involve the actors of the quadruple helix - business, research, public and civic institutions - to explore, co-design and test ideas and solutions to the most pressing urban challenges. The four LULs will be developed in the four European cities of Cottbus (Germany), Naples, Palermo (Italy) and Nicosia (Cyprus). The objective of PS-U-GO is twofold: on the one hand, to promote active participation of local communities for sustainable and innovative urban governance; on the other hand, to enable students* and other actors involved in the project to develop advanced skills in urban design and civic participation through innovative educational models developed in challenging real-life contexts.
ULL Naples proposes to contribute to the process of re-appropriation and return of the sea of Naples to the city in continuity with the activities developed by the Comitato Mare Libero, Pulito e Gratuito di Napoli (Naples‘ Free, Clean and Free Sea Committee), through the experimentation of the collective management model of Naples’ urban commons,activating a process of knowledge, participation and collective action that will run through the spaces and experiences of Lido Pola Bene Comune. The ULL process is structured in five interconnected working phases (theme choice, exploration, experimentation and co-creation, urban showcase, co-assessment) and will be carried out through a range of participatory and collaborative methods and tools (including brainstorming, world café, collaborative/critical mapping, mobile workshops, prototyping).
The expected outcomes of ULL Naples concern the co-creation of urban solutions and interventions, the development of advanced participatory and soft skills of students and other stakeholders, and the co-production of a final public event that disseminates the outcome of the entire process.
| Keywords | urban commons; education; right to the sea; sustainable governance |
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| Best Congress Paper Award | Yes |
