- After the summer break, the community of the Centocelle Archaeological Park meets on September 22 for the fourth workshop, organized by LabGov and facilitated by Paola Santoro. We start with a recap of previous meetings:
LAB #1: aims to build together a territorial working group that promotes the collaborative and shared management/redevelopment of the Park. The VALUES that we have in common have been identified, and finally the many SKILLS that the group has to carry out concrete and participatory actions.
LAB #2: the minimum working action that we can activate to build a first value has been identified and the draft of a first project that will see this group compete, a project that will “test the team”: Operation Festa del Parco has been defined.
LAB #3: it has been made clear that the goal of the Festival is not to bring as many people as possible into the park during the celebration, but to involve as much as possible the territory (associations, private individuals and institutions) for the organization of the party. The party will be a real participatory action on the park.
The fourth workshop starts from Operation Festa del Parco
The operation is a specific action that must respond to required needs, through easily executable activities that involve the territory (partners), that mobilize resources on the territory and that provide collaborative solutions to cover costs.
Step 1 – map of (possible) partners
The first real operational phase of the workshop consisted in building the map of the parties interested in the activities for the Park, that is the stakeholders (stakeholders) to our activities.
Step 2 – Impact and Interest Analysis
Once identified, they were analyzed one by one by the participants, to understand what kind of impact and interest these can have on the Park. The criteria used were the following: common interest (their interest in the park coincides with ours?) and the impact that they can have on future redevelopment activities.
Stakeholders have been included in this matrix, thanks to which the community has drawn a much clearer picture of the ecosystem that revolves around the Park. In the light of this picture, the micro-regeneration actions identified during the previous meeting were then reviewed.
This comparison revealed the important safety problem that can be remedied by bringing the park to life. To give security to people, you have to make the park live. A lived park is a park put in safety: opening then, and not closing. To bring people to the Park you must therefore activate as soon as possible small but significant actions of regeneration.
Step 3 – the action plan
In this step we return to the stakeholders who have been analyzed just before, and we reason for each group on some important aspects:
- identify their goals and interests to find a meeting point
- define the type of relationship to be established
- define a strategy for involvement
- define what kind of action we can bring to completion with their contribution (what added value can they bring?
- establish a group contact for each stakeholder
The workshop ends with these indications for participants. Next appointment on October 3!
