Search results for " Living Lab"
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Urban Smartness: Perspectives Arising in the Periphéria Project
2012
The paper discusses the concept of “urban smartness” starting from the early results of the Peripheria Project. Peripheria is a 30-month pilot B action funded by the European Commission under the CIP ICT PSP Programme and it aims at deploying convergent Future Internet platforms and services for the promotion of sustainable lifestyles in and across emergent networks of “smart” peripheral cities in Europe. Peripheria develops the Living Lab premise of shifting technology R&D out of the laboratory and into the real world in a systemic blend of technological with social innovation. It defines five archetypical “Arenas”—specific urban settings or innovation playgrounds, with defined social feat…
L'innovazione nelle aree rurali: l'ambiente e il modello della quintupla elica
2017
In this paper we analyze some specific conditions for local and regional development. Our interest is oriented towards a multidimensional aspect of peripheral and rural areas. The rural areas considered as a productive eco-system reflects a strong relationship between the agriculture and other economic activities, In addition eco-systems must be protected and enhanced to develop innovation models such as the Quadruple and Quintuple Helix, that propose roles and responsibilities for a new regional development trajectory. According to the Quintuple Helix Model and the implementation of the Smart Specialization Strategy, this paper underlines the importance of connecting the innovation process…
Tessuti sociali e spinte co-creative in politiche e fenomeni di resilienza urbana
2014
A fronte dei fattori di crisi rilevati dalle scienze economiche la questione dei futuri assetti spaziali delle città ed in particolare di quelle di livello metropolitano non sembra essere così decisiva come è apparso, ad esempio, alla Commissione Europea, a partire dalla programmazione di Agenda 2000 e soprattutto con la nuova programmazione 2014-2020 che consente alle città metropolitane di darsi una dotazione di smartness mediante risorse finanziarie pubbliche significative, l'enfasi delle politiche di investimenti pubblici concentrati sulle città si fonda su un supposto ruolo guida che non aggancia i reali fattori della loro crescita prima ancora che di uno sviluppo durevole. Nel periodo…
Swarming : An Investigation Practice Supporting a Bottom-up Ecological Transition
2022
Dans cet article, nous rendons compte des pratiques d’essaimage d’initiatives locales de transition portées par des collectifs citoyens et associatifs en région Bourgogne Franche-Comté. L’essaimage, défini comme une façon d’enquêter pour agir, caractérise un « activisme environnemental du faire » qui se structure de manière réticulaire et translocale. Ces multiples initiatives qui font des gestes du quotidien un levier de transformation écologique s’activent avec ou sans les institutions territoriales. Celles-ci, indépendamment de l’écho qu’elles renvoient à ces expérimentations, sont interpellées dans leur manière de concevoir l’action publique sous contrainte écologique forte.
A paradise to Brancaccio. Integrated programme of urban regeneration for the second municipality of Palermo
2012
Associations and movements of one of the most degraded neighbourhood of the city of Palermo (city regional capital of Sicily, Italy) asked the University to support their on‐going activities for the promotion of local resources to conntrast the trend of decline and against the mafia as a symbolic appropriation of the main landmark of the neighborhood. In support of an innovation of the local governance, a delegation responded by developing the participated planning of a Living Lab, to be both locally and territorially characterised (Territorial Living Lab Sicily). This delegation proposed interpretative recommendations, as well as an integrated program concerning projects of urban regenerat…
MEDLAB Sicilia Le occasioni per l’innovazione sociale e territoriale MEDLAB in Sicily An opportunity for social and territorial innovation
2011
The volume contains written in italian and english language on the reflections and the final results of international partnership experience by Medlab (project promoted by European Commission, MED Program) concerning the case of Living Labs in Sicily. Gelardi and Salemi showed the action of the regional innovation instruments of urban and regional planning at institutional regional level and in particular the role of experience of international cooperation in the comparison of experiences of different kind of territorial innovation in the Euro-Mediterranean area. Marsh shows as the MedLab project has been to examine the current and potential role of Living Labs within regional development p…
La dimensione territoriale nell’approccio dei living labs. Verso i territorial living labs per il sostegno alle città e alle regioni‘smart’
2012
Le politiche comunitarie di sostegno alla pianificazione spaziale centrate sul policentrismo hanno cercato di innestare dinamiche di cambiamento della situazione di stallo economico e sociale delle regioni periferiche a nord e a sud dell’area centrale del continente europeo. Il policentrismo allude alla possibilità di generazione di nuove centralità in aree deboli come contrasto al declino tendenziale e per rafforzare la coesione territoriale che si affianca alla coesione sociale ed economica nelle principali politiche della UE. Una prosecuzione di queste politiche avviate con l’Esdp e sviluppate in termini di analisi con Espon, è data dai programmi comunitari sulle ICT che coinvolgono dire…
Sustainable user-driven innovation supporting Open Government policies- A System Dynamics perspective applied to the Municipality of Palermo-
Going beyond a technocratic e-government paradigm, this research aims at analyzing how, through the two-ways interaction supported by Web 2.0 technology, skilled external collaboration and knowledge-sharing between citizens and public administrations can offer new ways of citizen participation, enhancing political decision-making process and public value creation. Particularly, the purpose is to investigate how skilled citizens can serve as contributors to tasks that are traditionally performed by designated civil servants and now are outsourced to an undefined, generally large group of people, in the form of an open call for contributions. To this end, we have conducted a field research in…
Towards a Deep Integration of Socio-Economic Action and Spatial Planning
2012
It is now time to recognize that self-organizing socio-economic actors can and must act directly on the pursuit of territorial development and cohesion or, in other words, that the broadest possible number of socio-economic actors must be involved, to this end, in co-creating products, services and innovative content. ICTs can greatly help to go forward in this direction, allowing the merging of regulation, implementation of policies and spontaneous transformation, thanks to their interactivity and their potential of diffusion of “usable knowledge” (Lindblom and Cohen, 1979). The proposed approach relies on the notion of Living Labs (LLs), or better on that of “Territorial Living Labs” (TLL…
Sustainable Development and Transition Management: A New Approach for European Peripheral Areas
2020
This paper on Europe as a sustainable economy and its policy for peripheral areas contributes to the analysis on the relationship between Transition Management and new approaches to regional development. It follows that regions are different ecosystems which require not only conventional macroeconomic visions for development processes, but also a precise spatial approach based on different levels of geographical aggregation. The physical environment, therefore, becomes a useful element not only to analyze the transition mechanisms, but also as a constitutive part of economic, social and environmental changes in the short, medium, and long term. A number of interesting aspects are examined a…