SoHoLab, a JPI Urban Europe funded project within the ERA-NET Cofund Smart Urban Futures, is in its final stage and will be hosting three webinars this fall, 13, 20, 27 October 2020, to highlight progresses and results.
The first episode focus on the complexity and uncertainty of the contemporary city and urbanareas such as large-scale social estates require new readings, interpretations and analytical lenses. Regeneration cannot be thought remotely but should be rooted in place. This entails diving into everyday life and social practices, as an inherent component of the urban planning process. This practice of ‘situating’ in space and place can be introduced before the planning process, undertaken simultaneously or developed throughout the development process, preferably constantly contaminating the practice. But how such immersion takes place? Which methods can be applied to systematically observe and connect people, spaces, and the planning processes that impact on it? What kind of information do such methods bring to the planning table? Is it possible to open up rather rigid and formatted planning processes for local knowledge?
In this webinar we focus on how to accumulate local knowledge and nurture ongoing regeneration processes of large-scale social estates.
We are especially interested in practices at the crossroads of art, ethnography, architecture and urban planning.
Agenda
Introduction (5’)
Pilot project SoHoLab: Jeanne Mosseray (10’)
Mirror project: Sophie Ricard, Construire (10’)
Keynote lecture: Ferdinando Fava, DiSSGeA (25’)
Debate (30’)
Summary (5’)
Visit http://www.soholab.org/news/soholab-webinars for more information and to register
The SoHoLab project was a 3-year research addressing resident involvement, local knowledge and stakeholder collaboration in the context of the regeneration of large-scale social estates. The project identified Urban Living Labs as potentially innovative approaches to launch open and collaborative processes in the policy context of urban regeneration. Considering multiple failures of so-called ‘participatory approaches’, the SoHolab tried to find out which tools and methods could be applied in order to more effectively open up the policy design and implementation phases for local voices, topics and concerns. By evaluating and developing Living Lab approaches in different contexts, the three research units involved focused on defining research and practice characteristics supporting more participatory regeneration processes. In this webinar series, we want to disseminate the knowledge acquired during three years of research, entering in
dialogue with similar practices, while addressing open questions and venues for further research.