The third year of work is resumed with the organization of numerous workshops organized by ENEA in collaboration with LabGov – LUISS. The first of these was a series of four meetings on the subject of the circular economy. The workshops were held by industry experts who provided the numerous participants with new extrusion skills in order to implement initiatives that enhance the neighborhood and exploit its potential. The activities in fact have been mainly focused on the development and creation of projects on urban sustainability through models of circular economy and new models of governance.
Once these four meetings were completed and the winter holidays were over, the work of the so-called Centoc Laboratory was resumed and facilitated by LabGov with the support of ENEA: the first meeting, in addition to being a moment of restart, has served to share ideas and reflections to consolidate the work carried out up to that moment and to begin to put into practice what has been acquired on the circular economy, through an initial brainstorming activity.
A first part of the workshop was dedicated to the sharing of planning and working hypotheses to start building a first action plan; during the second part, participants worked on maps through a collaborative mapping activity, that served to transfer to them the touchpoints emerged from the analysis of needs. This activity has meant that among those present began a dialogue and a shared reasoning on how and what to intervene for the redevelopment of the entire district. What started to do through collaborative mapping was resumed and completed during the second meeting, in which new citizens and associations took part. This activity has allowed to geolocalize needs and ideas and to identify new proposals and problems, which in the second part have been transformed into first project drafts. In addition to acquiring knowledge and skills related to the circular economy, they were also given project writing tools that helped to bring out and cultivate the entrepreneurial nature of the group. An important achievement was to present the project, entitled Co-Lab and born from the synthesis of the projects of the individual working groups, the call Culturability.
In addition, from these workshops emerged the three strands of work of the future community cooperative, namely culture, circular economy and collaborative neighborhood services.
In parallel, the ENEA – LabGov team carried out similar co-design workshops at the Francesco D’Assisi high school, as part of the school-work alternation program. Even the students of this high school have thus ventured into the analysis of the needs of their territory through interviews conducted for the neighborhoods, the results of which were collected and transformed into projects that provided new centers of reuse, cultural and recreational centers to meet all the needs of citizens and make those places even more livable. This was also possible thanks to an important contribution made by the Community for the Centocelle Public Park that joined them during the workshops, together with LabGov and ENEA.
