LED2LEAP 2021 - Bologna Team 1
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| Area | Salus Space | |
| Place | Bologna | |
| Country | Italy | |
| Topics | Landscape democracy, community-idenity, participation, sustainability, social justice, integration | |
| Author(s) | Sara Fornaciari, Alberto Grassetti, Serena Pagliula, Francesca Pinotti | |
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Landscape Democracy Rationale
“The goal was to inspire a transformation of landscape planning education both at the European level and within the partner universities, engender a new culture of engagement and social responsibility, and prepare students to serve as catalysts of democratic landscape change across cultures andgeographical contexts”. Ruggeri, D. (2019), The What, Why and How of Landscape Education for Democracy, in_bo, vol. 10 n. 4, (https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-1602/9844).
Our goal is to collaborate with the community to know its peculiarities, but also the landscape and social injustices, trying to involve the different stakeholders. Keeping in mind how democracy, social justice and participation are important in landscape architecture and planning education.
Location and Scope
Salus Space, Bologna
The themes on which the Salus Space project is focused are: social inclusion of migrants and refugees, urban poverty, energy transition, development of new jobs. The general objective of the project, lasting 3 years, is the integration in the local context of a center of hospitality, work, intercultural welfare and well-being in the broad sense.
To be involved are the area and buildings of the former private clinic called "Villa Salus", which for many years have been in a state of neglect and decay. The project, in its entirety, is accompanied by a strong communication campaign aimed at the city, a participatory communication, which involves both the project partners and the community of inhabitants of the area.
Salus Space wants to define an innovative model of hospitality and integration, which can be replicated in other European contexts.
Phase A: Mapping Your Community
Welcome to Your Community and Their Landscape
Salus Space is located in the eastern part of the municipality of Bologna, Italy. The location is quite far form the city centre: for this reason it is hard to get to it, especially with public transport or by bike. However, the location permits to get in touch with the nature which characterizes all the neighborhood.
If we look to the surroundings of the Salus Space, we can notice the strong presence of green areas and the Savena river. The area is also characterized by the presence of one of the biggest military areas of the city and the big 60s' neighborhoods.
The project of the Salus Space is a working project. Today the area is not in its final configuration but it is in a temporary configuration which will last for 2 years from the beginning of April 2021. This period is a testing period when all the stakeholders will progressively give all the power to the community itself. It is also a testing period to implement the area with all the functions which will permit the sustenance of the community.
The challenges of the community are about the relationships inside the community itself and the relationships between the community anche the neighborhood/city. This project wants to be a model for Italian and European zero waste communities and this is really challenging.
Location
Challenges
Groups of Actors and Stakeholders in Your Community
Groups of actors that are involved in the project, can be divided into actors whitin the comunity and external actors.
The community is made up of cohousing residents that we can divide into some sub-communities: the people selected through a public notice and the students of the University of Bologna are the most active members who share the sense of belonging to something. Other members have yet to arrive in Salus such as those who come from the humanitarian corridors or the workers from ETA BETA. The relationship between these very various groups is one of the democratic challenges.
The external actors are also divided into sub-groups that work on the development of the project. The monitoring commitee is leaded by the munincipality of Bologna that has the task of monitoring progress. The more active gruop is the managing agent made by a temporary union of associations leaded by ETA BETA, which is in carghe of coordinating the various activities that make up the project.
Salus Space comunity the community aims to become a model of life fully inserted in the society of Bologna.
Actors
Relationships Between Your Actors and Groups
There are many subjects who have worked for the conception, implementation and support of this project, including those represented in the images below.The municipality of Bologna was the first to participate in the implementation and is currently responsible for supervising and coordinating the project. While the ATS deals with the management of the economic and social activities envisaged by the European project. The inhabitants, on the other hand, through the assembly tool, take care of the management of the common spaces and modify the points of the rules of collaborative coexistence.
As for the relationships that have been established within the community, it is not yet possible to give a precise picture, as the first inhabitants entered at the beginning of April, still six apartments are not inhabited but the ideas proposed by the community show a proactive attitude. The future desire to create spaces and events that involve the community is part of all the subjects who were interviewed.
Relationship outside the community
Relationship inside the community
Summary of Your Learnings from the Transnational Discussion Panel
Having the opportunity to meet the communities is not obvious. We had to take care of the moment to obtain the information necessary to set up the collaboration, remembering that the key is to weave a network of relationships. It is important to show all the material we had the possibility to analyze (photos).
The debate with students and designers from other European realities was useful for learning about new ways of working towards communities and the landscape. It was interesting to be able to see how many landscape democracy challenges can be found in different contexts.
An interesting advice, emerged during the discussion, is to write something about the main topics of this project. In this way, we can have a deeper understanding and reflection about what we do and what we see.
Theory Reflection
During this phase A, we have found some difficulties linked to the fact that the community is very recent and not completed at this moment. Moreover, it is not so easy to organize meetings due to the COVID-19 restrictions and to interact with some members of the community.
We would like to use the keywords highlighted as starting point to continue our research and develop the concept within the LED2LEAP’s scopes.
References and keywords
References
- http://www.saluspace.eu/
- Council of Europe, Landscape Convention Contribution to human rights, democracy and sustainable development, 2018
- Randolph Hester, Design for Ecological Democracy, 2006
- LED Team, Landscape Education for Democracy, in InBo Special Issue, 2019
Phase B: Democratic Landscape Analysis and Assessment
Alberto Grassetti and Antonia Čubelić Correspondence
Me and Antonia strade writing form the first session of the B phase. We used real formal layouts and it was quite funny and we liked it. Our correspondence started with greetings and knowing each other: we talked about our LED projects and our university studies, about our hobbies and our exceptions for the future. This first part was really useful because in the second part, after having read the bibliography we could spend some words related to our projects and our lives. After the second session of the B phase we start reading the chapters ("Why community matters?", "At the boundaries", "Design as democracy" 2nd chapter). This kind of correspondence was quite useful and challenging to us especially because it requires a lot of time to write down in a good way our thoughts about the topics and the bibliography. This is perfectly coherent with one of the most important themes we discussed about which is reflection and this kind of layout was optimal for that. This correspondence gave us the opportunity to get in touch with a different culture, a different case study and gave us a lot of stimuli to deeper our thoughts about participation and democratically challenges in our projects.
Sara Fornaciari and Katarina Adulmar Correspondence
Katarina and I started the email correspondence by trying to know and discover the landscapes and communities we are working with. Beginning to read the assigned texts, we then discovered many common points, although the places and challenges were different. We have reflected on the prejudices reserved for people who share a place but come from very different cultural and family backgrounds and what effects affect the landscape. We then agreed that it is necessary to include teachings in our study paths that too often tend to favor technical or artistic knowledge instead of the human sphere. The exchange allowed us to analyze the challenges of the respective projects with a new perspective, which is why we decided to stay in touch
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Phase C: Collaborative Visioning and Goal Setting
The Actors in Your Story of Visioning
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Reflect on Your Story of Visioning
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Phase D: Collaborative Design, Transformation and Planning
Your Prototyping Action
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The Evolution of Your Prototyping Action
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The Plan Behind Your Prototyping Action
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The Realization of Your Prototyping Action
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Reflect on Your Prototyping Action
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Phase E: Collaborative Evaluation and Future Agendas
Collaborative Evaluation and Landscape Democracy Reflection
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The Actors in your Collaborative Evaluation
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Reflection on the Online Seminar
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Reflection on the Living Lab Process
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Your Living Lab Code of Conduct
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Process Reflection
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