LED Workshop Zingonia 2016
Key dates
June 19-29, Zingonia, Italy
Interactions
Zingonia is a town where a process of regeneration is taking place. A number of residents, companies, associations and institutions have begun to collaborate with local and foreign partners to develop urban regeneration programs. Universities have already intervened in this process with a project of urban analysis particularly dedicated and realized in collaboration with local school students.
This program has been useful to identify communities and stakeholders such as:
Institutions:
- 5 municipalities;
- one local public school
- Parish’s oratory
Associations:
- Sengalese Association
- “Orti Sociali” [social gardens] association
Groups:
- Citizens
- Virtual groups “Quelli della Zingonia”
The workshop would like to interact with these stakeholders, trying to build relationships among different subjects and contributing to the development of a common new design.
Stakeholders' specific profiles suggest a few themes:
- production and economy
- urban farming, ecology, nature
- housing, co-housing and dwelling
- public spaces, infrastructures
- cultural, community building processes, school.
Synthesis
- The results of these investigations will most definitely demand new forms of representation and mapping in order to capture the non-physical attributes of the landscape.
- Each layer produces a different representation of the same physical space. By overlapping all graphics and maps, it will perhaps be possible to recognize special spaces as 'social condenser': places, and phenomena, which could be challenging in order to emphasize processes for a democratic participation in planning and urban management.
- The workshop will mix communication by invited researchers, interdisciplinary team-work and relations with citizens and stakeholders.
- After this analysis, workshop participants will be asked for a draft proposal of a new “social condenser” and develop in tandem with local participants (administrators, stakeholders, focus groups etc.) a strategic plan for a future which will nurture and allow such spaces to continue and grow within the city.