Networked Urbanism

design thinking initiatives for a better urban life

Design critics: Belinda Tato and Jose Luis Vallejo, principals of Ecosistema Urbano
Alghero School of Architecture

Master Studio carried on during the spring semester at the Alghero School of Architecture, Urbanism, Architecture and Design Department, University of Sassari. Exploring the Nurra Region in Sardinia, the territory with the lowest population density in Italy, with 5 inhabitants per km². This Region is facing important challenges in order to develop within a sustainable model. Resources, waste, economy, social, mobility, landscape (natural+man made), urban voids, digital layer,… are the topics chosen as a starting point for a deeper understanding of the actual reality and future challenges of Nurra.

AIM

Create a social network to let people participate into an inclusive community

WHY?

To involve local stakeholders affected by a common problem

and make them participate in decision making process

WHO?

• a politician who guarantees the administrative process

• a strong and assertive technician who coordinates the process

• local and external stakeholders

HOW?

• integrating different points of view

• endorsing different positions

• involving actors who don’t usually meet

WHEN?

• when there are strong conflicts (actual or potential)

• when we need skills and expert  knowledge

STRATEGY

• identify a conflict

• define the actors

• involve stakeholders

 

5 OPERATIVE STEPS:

1. social analysis

2. place knowledge

3. gain the confidence

4. planning a process

5. start interaction: interactive space, meetings, collaborations

Resume map

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VIDEO:

[re SMLP_A model to build participatory and inclusive societies]

NEXT STEP

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ACTIVITY

• eco design products as street furniture

• artistic installations

• writers contest

• children artistic lab

• green lab

SOCIAL NET: we are preparing for the event!

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Meet-in Marchà Fan page

We keep on working to realize a real event  in Tottubella. This event will be at the end of June, and in order to do that we are still building our network of participants.

We built a new page on FB expanding our contacts and also to external people. We also kept the FB profile in order to have two levels of communications.

 

Mostra Mercato in Tottubella #2 Mostra Mercato in Tottubella #1

Yesterday we have been to the local “Mostra Mercato” in Tottubella, and chatting with the event organizer we realize the common aim we have. So we decided to work together, and tomorrow we will have a meeting again in Tottubella in order to discuss all the points we could share and in which way their event and their process need to be implemented and improved.

They seemed to be very open to discussion and new ideas. So they started to introduce us to other key-people who attended the event yesterday, who are really oriented in doing a free-exchange.

So far we collected the following key-people:

– Young people from Tottubella – The great part who really deserves this new process – we have several experts with specific skills or products;

– “MostraMercato” organizer – They already know how to organize an event in Tottubella, and they already have all necessary contacts with municipality – They already presents our project to the politicians who showed a good interest;

– Small producers who supports our strategy of free-exchange – (at least 3. next attendants waited for this next tuesday);

– the Priest in Tottubella – key-person for connection with families;

– AlfaUno Association – voluntary Association in Tottubella who works in the real society helping citizens – They showed us a very good help spirit and good connection with local press and media;

– Group of artists from all over Sardinia – They accepted to attend the next event without be payed – Still in process terms of exchange;

– Lollove – Online press focused on new developing process in Sardinia, art, architecture, design – We will have an article;

 


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Following our general concept, here we focus on a single project tool: a catalogue of 50 ideas.

This catalogue grows out of an overlapping process, ultra-layers to apply to a basic configuration (layer O); physically is a book that plays with a rotation and overlapping of trasparent layers.

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it’s time to recap our last weeks work!
first of all, this is an updated diagram of our intervention strategy:

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here it’s possible to find the same concepts explained in our last post weekly update with new entries and a new set-up.
in particular, after the interviews and the void mapping and selection, here we present the first idea for the LAYER O focused on Santa Maria La Palma’s Consorzio Agrario:
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Claudio, Eleonora, Giuseppe.

 


you can see the general concept of our idea and the strategy developed to reach our aim here!


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My update for the work is pubblished by Anna Maria Zandara


My update for the work is pubblished by Anna Maria Zandara


Our new brand zandara anna maria


In order to present our new brand for a new market project in the Nurra area, we planned a meeting event in Tottubella, published on project’s Facebook page called “Tottu in Pares Tottubella” (Sardinian language sentence for “All together Tottubella”).

We printed out several flyiers to show citizens how the project could be developed and which step we could pass trhough to get the goal.

Flyiers

Once there we met some guys who are interested into partecipate and we found out there is an Volountary Association called “Alfa uno”, who are going to help us in order to realize our project. They offered us to meet each other together with their president, some members and the young guys, who welcomed us, in one own house of them. When we were sitting at the table all together, we had the chance to present and propose our project, distribuiting our flyiers to each one of them, and having a nice and peaceful conversation about the aim and the way to realize a real market event in TottuBella at the end of June.

They offerd us to clean up and set up an old abandoned kindergarten, that is now a storage but unused by citizen, even if it is a public building.

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We planned better a strategy to produce something really different and we tried to figure out who could be the key people for the event, also realizing which activities we could really produce without paying any taxes.

In order to produce a flexible prototype for the market desk we tried to check which material we could have for free and how we could have them. Citizens seemed to be very interested and involved in the process, so far.

We are looking forward to go further and push the work to produce a real social and economical movement in the Nurra area.

 

 


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