Backyards micro-scale revitalisation
The microscale revitalization of the backyards in the Lodz case is an example of a collective transformation of neighborhoods through active engagement of children and young people. By supporting their ...
Blue House & Youth Checks Vacancies
The aim of the Blue House project was to create a meeting place in the Union Quarter through a better leisure offer but also as a strategy to provide qualification opportunities for long-term unemployed ...
Citizen Filmmaking
Citizen filmmaking can inform participants and audiences of what is happening in their area, allowing them to meaningfully contribute to the regeneration process. The films act as a record of citizens’ ...
Community Cafe U-Jack
The Community Cafe “U-Jack” in Dortmund provides local people with the opportunity to learn new skills within the field of service, cooking and hospitality. On a local scale, the Community Cafe provides ...
Developer as an Early Tenant
In the Manifattura Tabacchi regeneration project, the intuition of the property and development company has been to follow the evolution of the construction site side by side with the city, “prototyping ...
Empty Spaces in La Friche
Keeping open and empty spaces to test new activities and functions allows spontaneous, bottom-up initiatives to happen and evolve. The "empty spaces" are flexible and adaptable and can answer different ...
Giving ownership to local groups to design the space
Giving ownership to local groups of spaces is a solution to increase ownership and empower those local groups who are already using a vacant space for their own purpose. It allows to manage the space in ...
God is Green
God is Green is a festival inspired by a consultation process run in the regeneration area of Manifattura Tabacchi in Florence. Meanwhile uses and workshops implemented in the festival involved a plethora ...
Grand Tour by bike
The Grand Tour by bike is an activity to share with citizens the history of neighbourhoods surrounding the regeneration area. It is a way to engage different publics in the discovery of the neighbourhood, ...
Hangar in Can Ricart
Can Ricart - a formerly abandoned industrial complex - hosts today a Youth Centre where many youth associations and residents in Poblenou convene together. Can Ricart has been promoted by a grassroot movement ...
King's Cross Constructions Skills Centre
Long term regeneration projects and construction programmes (10-30 years) provide the opportunity to create pathways to employment for local people which has the capacity to represent a substantial ...
King’s Cross Local Recruitment Center
The recruitment service acts as a placement or referral agency between those wanting a job in the development area and those offering such jobs. These services are designed to level the playing field and ...
Many Possible Cities - a festival dedicated to Urban Regeneration in Manifattura Tabacchi
The story describes how a festival on urban regeneration, hosted within a regeneration area, can become a relational and self-reflection practice for all the actors involved in the regeneration process. ...
Pla Buits: an Open call for meanwhile uses
An open and competitive process aimed at stimulating the temporary use of vacant spaces in ways that contribute to landowner objectives, promote active citizenry, regenerate social and urban fabric and ...
Projectgarden: Creating social encountering through gardening
The story presents the Projectgarden in Dortmund, an example of a green space in an urban area activated as a driver of social relationships, nature-humans relation rediscovery and capacity building for ...
Public Contestation of Temporary Swimming Pond
A natural pond installed as a temporary amenity in King’s Cross regeneration site. The pond quickly became a public success for both locals and visitors. Though it was initially intended as a temporary ...
Skate Park Utopia
Skate Park Utopia was regarded as having been a meanwhile use that greatly increased the cultural value of the neighbourhood and that instilled a heightened sense of place and belonging for its users and ...
Skip Garden in King’s Cross
King’s Cross Skip Garden developed from the idea of using skips as moveable planters as a garden. Between 2009 and 2019 the Skip Garden had four different locations across the King’s Cross development ...
Stitching up the city
A way of developing an urban policy and spatial development concept for an area under regeneration, based on an innovative approach to urban issues and interdisciplinary cooperation between specialists ...
Vox Pop events
Vox pop videos are short films that show participants voicing their concerns, perspectives and values. Making the films uncovers local challenges and opportunities. Showing the films at public events provides ...