"Planing beyond the Institutions" CivilScape En-route Turin

Landscape Observatories

as key-medium-bodies

between Communities and Institutions

Planning beyond the Institutions

UNISCAPE En-Route

International Seminar

Landscape Observatories in Europe II

Author:

Carmine Nigro

Affiliation:

Politecnico di Torino

Torino , 23 September 2014

Castello del Valentino,10v

• Key points of this Work

• What can we learn from Landscape Observatories experiences

• “Strategic Ideas” for :

Receiving Legitimacy by Community

Being Recognized by Institutions

• General Suggestions

Contents

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Key Points of this Work (1)

• Interconnected 'Domino effect‘ Crisis

Generate a reduction of legitimacy given by people to Institutions

Distance between Citizens and Institutions

• ‘’Vacatio Sedis‘’

“Space of dissolving governance“ (Healey)

Absence of Bodies to be a Medium

Key Points of this Work (2)

• Planning as ‘Community Planning’ :

“Planning carried out with the active participation of

the end users” (Wates 2006)

Participatory Landscape Planning

•Key -Medium- Bodies :

Bodyes that can help Planning acting inbetween Institutions

and Community

LANDSCAPE OBSERVATORIES

• Different backgrounds but similar tools, methods and approaches

• Capacity of gathering experts of diverse aspects and the Community at a same

roundtable

• Capacity of awareness raising (first important step before effectiveness! )

• Capacity of being perceived as non Governmental/Institutional bodies due to

their way of acting (better participation)

• Statutory absence of other interests in the area by the members (better

participation, better results)

• Capacity to generate “virtuous patterns” of multilevel Governance

What can we learn from Landscape Observatories experiences

The work is based on the symmetrical analysis of two medium-bodyes:

an English Trust two Italian Landscape Observatories

Brenta

Channel

Moraine

Amphitheatre

of Ivrea

Glendale

Gateway

Trust

“Strategic Ideas”

Receiving legitimacy by

Community

Being recognized by

Institutions

Strategic Thinking

Not a preset strategy (Healey,2007)

Ideas and attitudes to be used to be a successful Bodies :

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• Comprehensive Involvement

• Awareness Raising

• Commitment and citizenship of operators

• Feeling of "something new“

• Capacity to communicate people

perceptions to institutions

• Use web/social media (marketing)

• Networking with other Associations

“Strategic Ideas” for:

PROBLEMS

• Need to "start from“ awareness raising

• Difficulties to include all the parts of the Community and Stakeholders

Obtain consensus

"Be different

from Institutions"

Extend Audience

and "Community

voice"

Receiving legitimacy by Community

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Being recognized by Institutions

• Work with Institutionalized bodies

• Enhance dialogue

• Economic Independence > finding

money

• Push for "Horizontal Dialogue“

• Be capable to communicate Institutions’

ideas to people

PROBLEMS

• More flexibility/ independence for organizations

Show constant

proactivity

Maintain "intellectual

independence"

Show usefulness

“Strategic Ideas” for:

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• Maintaining a balanced /independent position in choices and proposals

• Maintaining an attitude to dialogue (mediating between different points

of view)

• Be up-to-date on changes of Community structure and perception and

in Institutional projects

• Become hub and incubator ("a yeast") for ideas of Community,

Organizations and Institutions

• Have an entrepreneurial attitude > to overcome crisis, be recognized as

proactive

General Suggestions

PROBLEMS

• Limit expenditure / costly expertise >>>> connecting with

Academics >>> Become boot-camp

(who to follow "both patterns“)

Thank you for your attention.

UNISCAPE En-Route

International Seminar

Landscape Observatories in Europe II

T o r i n o

22-23 Sept. 2014

Castello del Valentino,10v