Leonardo partnership 2012
CALL FOR PARTNERS!
Deadline to jump on board is Monday, January, 30th, 2012!
ARE YOU...?
==> interested in different forms of public space appropriation, such as place-making, urban gardening, public art?
==> interested in co-discovering new approaches to the planning, design and management of public spaces?
==> a practitioner working with participation processes and interested to discover more on how to create enabling environments for citizens to make their voice to be heard?
==> wondering how to provide a powerful means of translating stakeholder visioning into physical reality?
...well, then you are in the right place at the right moment! If you have questions, ideas or you simply want to get to know us, please write us at:
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Our project vision is...
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... a two-year professional qualification for practitioners and organizers working with participation in public spaces in European cities; ... a network of "moving consultants" who meet regularly, bring with themselves an itinerant knowledge and experiment it in other local contexts; ... a peer-learning environment fostering a balance of practice/reflection, a direct local impact for the partners' projects and the development of new synergies within the partnership. |
Everything started when we observed...
... that public spaces have a great influence in the way people live and interact with their city. An amazing playground for experimenting new lifestyles, connecting people and sharing values.
... that institutions and politics are currently (re)discovering public spaces and acknowledging the need to them differently
... that citizens, on the other side, are already appropriating themselves of public spaces in their daily life, wthe creative, participated and concrete action (public art, urban gardening etc.)
... that there is a gap of communication and exchange between institutional and citizens practices
... that resources to work creatively and in participated way with public spaces are already there, but are not connected among each other
So we asked ourselves:
How to establish a dialogue and create synergies among different actors working on PARTICIPATION IN PUBLIC SPACES?
