Apresentação final óbidos

José Carlos Mota Department of Social, Political and

Territorial Science - University of Aveiro jcmota@ua.pt

'Making more with less:

Low-Cost & High-Value

Ideas for Cities’

9th June, Óbidos

INTRODUCTION

• The future… smallsteps?

• Creative Clusters Conference

• Óbidos municiality, a national reference

• Invitation

CONTEXT

Crisis (different dimensions)

• Economic/Finantial

• Political

• Social

• Civic

• Spatial & EconomicDevelopment model

The guilty!

Understanding the problem & doing something about it!

CHALLENGES OFMODERN SOCIETIES -ROLE OF CITIES!

• The role of Cities andcitizenship to stimulateeconomic ‘recovery’!

• The future of Local Government regarding‘Troika memorandum’ (‘a consolidation plan to reorganise and significantly reduce the number of local government administration entities’)

NEWS WAYS OF THINKING ABOUT THE FUTURE (OF CITIES)

• Fixing the future!

• ‘Transition’ vs ‘Recovery’

• Focused on Cities

• Tactical Planning -Placemaking

• Bottom-up & Grassroots

• Collaborative Rationality

• ‘Knowledge based’

MOVIMENTO CIDADES PELA RETOMA, REFORMA E TRANSIÇÃO

• Context & Origins

• Organization

• Activities

• Future?

MOVIMENTO ‘CIDADES PELA RETOMA, REFORMA E TRANSIÇÃO’Context & Origins

• The civic initiative 'NO ECONOMIC RECOVERY WITHOUT CITIES & CITIZENS' (or ‘CIDADES PELA RETOMA’), based in Portugal, is a collective challenge to discuss and promote the role of cities and citizens in the transition of ‘economic & social’ paradigms

• It departs from the notion that there is a specific quality of cities that makes social change possible. The agglomeration of people, infrastructure and ideas generates features of innovation, collective action and mutual gain that other spatial and social contexts cannot create.

CITY CIVIC TASK FORCEmultidisciplinar team with

diferent backgrounds

SPATIAL PLANNING

ARCHITECTURE

SOCIOLOGY ECONOMY

MANAGEMENT

ENVIRONMENT & NATURAL RESOURCES TECHNOLOGY CULTURE

MOBILITY

DESIGN

DECISION MAKERS & DECISION MAKERS & PROFESSIONALSPROFESSIONALS

RESEARCHERSRESEARCHERS

CITIZENSCITIZENS

ARTISTSARTISTS

ENTREPRENEURS &ENTREPRENEURS &MANAGERSMANAGERS

MOVIMENTO ‘CIDADES PELA RETOMA, REFORMA E TRANSIÇÃO’Organization

MIGUEL BARBOT | RODRIGO CARDOSO | FRANCISCO FLORIDO | VÍTOR SILVA | JOSÉ CARLOS MOTA | FERNANDO NOGUEIRA | GONÇALO SANTINHA | SUSANA LOUREIRO | CATARINA RODRIGUES | GIL RIBEIRO | FREDERICO LUCAS | RUI MATOSO |JOÃO SEIXAS | MÁRIO ALVES | BRUNO LAGE | JORGE REISEQUIPA VOLUNTEER PONTOC | REDE ‘GLOBAL CITY 2.0’ (BRASIL, ESPANHA, ARGENTINA, EUA, …)

220

2.870

20CIVIC TASK FORCE

PORTO, AVEIRO, COIMBRA, GUARDA, COVILHÃ,

TORRES VEDRAS, LISBOA, FARO

MOVIMENTO ‘CIDADES PELA RETOMA, REFORMA E TRANSIÇÃO’Organization

10.000

MOVIMENTO ‘CIDADES PELA RETOMA, REFORMA E TRANSIÇÃO’Activities

OPORTO, OCT 2010

FARO, DEC 2010; FEB 2011; APR 2011

LISBON, APR 2011

OPORTO, JUN 2011

2011… TORRES VEDRAS, COIMBRA, FARO, …

MEDIA / IMPACT

MOVIMENTO ‘CIDADES PELA RETOMA, REFORMA E TRANSIÇÃO’

CIDADES PELA RETOMA, REFORMA E TRANSIÇÃOnoeconomicrecoverywithoutcities.blogs.sapo.pt

www.facebook.com/CidadespelaRetomagroups.google.com/group/cidadespelaretoma

LOW-COST & HIGH-VALUE

URBANINITIATIVES

CITIES CIVIC ‘THINK TANK’

REPOSITÓRIO CONHECIMENTO

globalcity.blogs.sapo.pt

http://ideasforcities.blogs.sapo.pt/

citiescivicthinktank.blogs.sapo.pt

‘GLOBAL CITY 2.0’NETWORK

AGENDA LOCAL PARA A RETOMA’

agendalocalpelaretoma.blogs.sapo.pt

‘GREAT PLACES’

http://greatplaces.blogs.sapo.pt/

MOVIMENTO ‘CIDADES PELA RETOMA, REFORMA E TRANSIÇÃO’Activities

‘GLOBAL CITY 2.0’• world network to think about the

ROLE OF 'CIVIC CITY MOVEMENTS' and its potential to transformcities, specially in these hardeconomic times

• '2011 European Year of Volunteering to promote more active citizenship’

• Network: Brazil, Argentina, Spain, USA, Australia, UK, Estonia, Portugal,

• currently producing a list/map of ’blogs [or sites] of streets, neighbourhoods, villages or cities’promoted by citizens or groups of citizens that whish to think collectively about the future of the places they live and/or work

‘LOW-COST & HIGH-VALUE IDEAS FOR CITIES’

• Idea/Concept

• Inspiration

• Examples

• Next steps

Idea/Concept• New urban ideas for

economic recovery, reformand transition;

• Discuss the LOW-COST & HIGH-VALUE FOR CITIES concept

• Urban initiatives withpotential for economicgrowth, employment, spatial & social development

‘LOW-COST & HIGH-VALUE IDEAS FOR CITIES’

‘LOW-COST & HIGH-VALUE IDEAS FOR CITIES’

Inspiration• Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper: A

Low-Cost, High-Impact Approach (PPS, Eric Reynolds, Founding Director of Urban Space Management)

• ‘based on taking incremental steps, using low-cost experiments, and tapping into local talents; smaller-scale projects implemented in a variety of environments, including on streets, squares, waterfronts, and even parking lots’

• Similar concepts: TacticalUrbanism, DIY Urbanism, Pop-upcity;

A comunidade a pensar o seu futuro (Lisboa, Porto ou NY);

Residências Artísticas em lojas devolutas (1/3/6 meses); Oferecer a montra vazia para a valorização de um talento ou competência local; com troca de pequenas obras/limpezas;

Ateliers artísticos aproveitando fábricas devolutas (Seres – Caldas da Rainha);

Habitação Low-Cost (Porto) – estimular mercado de arrendamento nas zonas antigas das cidades; Co-work (espaços de trabalho colaborativo);

Fablab – espaços colectivos de prototipagem rápida;

http://www.guerrillagardening.org/

Jardinagem de Guerrilha

Hortas comunitárias

Jardins amovíveis; Park(ing) Day- espaço público temporário

Limpezas performativas

www.c-e-m.org

Re-make (ilustração de textos em espaço público – José Luís Peixoto);

‘communal oven also becomes a focus for social life (“focus” is Latin for “hearth”), a place to gather and gossip and escape the solitude of cooking at home’

Vias Recreativas aos domingos;

Espaços públicos temporários – NY

Espaços públicos temporários – NY

‘LOW-COST & HIGH-VALUE IDEAS FOR CITIES’

Next steps:

• Mapping ‘low-cost & high-value’ideas for cities

• Network

• New site: sharing ideas

• International conference

• Crowdfunding

Final

• We can’t wait for miracles!

• The crisis can be an opportunity to think collectively about the future, a different future!

• This is not their (politicians) problem, it’s our problem!

• But we need (new?) local leadership to engage this urban / civic / knowledge / entrepreneurship potential to answer new challenges!

More information:

No economic Recovery without Cities | Cidades pela Retomahttp://noeconomicrecoverywithoutcities.blogs.sapo.pt/http://groups.google.pt/group/cidadespelaretomahttp://www.facebook.com/CidadespelaRetoma

Global City 2.0 (City Civic Movement Network)http://globalcity.blogs.sapo.pt/https://www.facebook.com/GlobalCityTwoPointZero

Low-Cost & High-Value Ideas for Citieshttp://ideasforcities.blogs.sapo.pt/https://www.facebook.com/IdeasforCities

Great Placeshttp://greatplaces.blogs.sapo.pt/https://www.facebook.com/CitiesGreatPlaces

email: cidadespelaretoma@gmail.com | globalcitytwopointzero@gmail.com