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Small Participated Steps to Urban Micro‐Regenerations

Recount of an experience of participatory planning in the city of SassariRecount of an experience of participatory planning in the city of Sassari

P l Idi iPaola Idini

T a M a L a C aGruppo di ricerca e azione per la città dei diritti

Laboratorio di Analisi e Modelli per la Pianificazione (LaMP)Dipartimento di Architettura, Design, Urbanistica dell’Università di Sassari


Methodological References

Urban Rights in developed countries.

b l f f d h h f h f hUrban Quality of Life and the right of every person with its specificities to reach a

good level of urban quality of life.

Develop projects and actions starting from people (which are citizens and

inhabitants) and specificities (of person, of places, of spaces).

Sen A., 2010; BrownA., KristiansenA. (2009); Sennet R. (2003).


Objective: to build together different chances of reconquest of urban

environments, from specific needs to the common benefit.

Working method: focuses on deny urban rights of one of the most marginal

group of citizens: children.group of citizens: children.

We believe thatworking on children specificities can be a good way to promoteWe believe thatworking on children specificities can be a good way to promote

urban quality of life, to every citizen’s benefit .

Ward C. (1978 ); PabaG. (1998), (2006),(2009).


Ideas of PaC project

[Periferie al Centro. Bambine e bambini alla conquista della città]

Objective of PaC is: to promoting quality of urban life starting from

specificities of places and direct contribution of childrenspecificities of places and direct contribution of children.

A h i f P CAnchor points of PaC:

•To work on derelict and marginal urban areas

•To work inside schools with school communities•To work inside schools with school communities

•To activate and develop participatory process without to predetermine results


PaC

from 2005 until now

8 districts

14 schools

a lot of projects and actions


PortaColori

It contains every PaC fundamental ingredients: a derelict urban area, a school

made by a strengthen and active community, a big wish of change.

PortaColori is the result of a participatory design processwith children, teachers

and parents last 5 years.

It is a first realization of a wider project: the reconquest of the elementary school

playground in a critical district of Sassari, called Monte Rosello.


P C l iPortaColori

Now it is an effective public space, lived by different users during all day time.


Steps of PortaColori Project –Process_1

Activation of participatory planning laboratories with about

150 children, 70 teenagers, 8 teachers, a lot of parents.

Laboratories and some outcomes



Some children’s wishes:

• to leave the space free and accessible to everyone (especially to disabledp y ( p y

people).

• to have a welcoming tidy colourful and soft spaceto have a welcoming, tidy, colourful, and soft space.

• to have a protected space where “to play and to look at the others playing”

and where “to stay and to talk with friends”and where to stay and to talk with friends .



Translation of common wishes and needs into an executive project,

and realization.and realization.

The space before intervention and under construction



Translation of common wishes and needs into an executive project,

and realization.and realization.

The space under construction



Fundamental common criteria of project:

• to build a space that does not communicate any prohibitions. On the contrary it

should invite to fantasy and unconventional use, respecting the safety school

rules.u es

• to build a “contagious” space, which can create possibilities of bigger urban

transformationstransformations.

Ward C. (1978 ); Francis M. (1987); PabaG. (1998), (2006),(2009).



To live and care the re‐conquered space.

Now it is an effective public space, lived by different users during all day time.



To live and care the reconquest space.

Some details: creative handrails and graffiti.


Conclusions

PortaColori has product different kind of results: urban, social, pedagogical.

It opens the school to the district and the district to the school.

But the best result reached through this small project, it is to demonstrateg p j ,

everybody –children, parents, teachers, political representatives, citizens– that it

is possible to work well together to reach common purposesis possible to work well together to reach common purposes,

and to show that it is possible to think and to build together a child‐friendly city,

for children of all agesfor children of all ages.

PabaG. (2006)


Future directions

New PaC steps now are moving beyond the border of school spacesNew PaC steps now are moving beyond the border of school spaces.

It is an extension of our reasoning with school’s community beyond the wall that

divides school and districtdivides school and district.

Perhaps we would gradually decide together that that wall is unnecessary.

Michelucci G.(1949); Ward C.(1978).


Thank you for your attentiony y

Paola Idini

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