Description: “gE.CO Living Lab” aims to map and study, for the first time, the statutes of formal and informal organizations born in the EU after the 2008 economic crisis. These are spaces such as hubs, fab-labs, incubators, co-creation spaces and social centers, usually created within urban voids and reclaimed from abandonment and neglect. A variety of activities and contexts that arise from collaboration between institutions and local communities, generating new models of urban governance. These innovative practices are called generative commons as they give rise to new forms of collaboration between public administrations and local communities, outlining new models of urban governance based on solidarity inclusion, participation, environmental and economic sustainability. The project studies these realities at the European level, which are very diverse from a legal and economic point of view, and starting from a group of pilot cases, through the FirsLife platform, it aims to map the initiatives of citizens and Public Administrations involved in these new forms of partnership.
Location: The project is developed between different cities of the European Union.
Period: 2019-2021
Partners: Università̀ degli Studi di Torino (IT), New Castle University (UK), Openlab Athens (GR), Community Land Trust Bruxelles – Brussel (BG), Universitat de Barcelona (ES), Spazi Indecisi (IT), gravalosdimonte arquitectos (ES), Eutropian (AT).
Users contribution description: Within the project, coordinated by the University of Turin, FirstLife will be the main tool through which mapped communities can meet and exchange best practices, publish initiatives and events, and then collect and analyze data in order to assess sustainability and scalability of generative commons in terms of innovative local policies.
https://generative-commons.eu/
