The joint contribution of grassroots artistic practices to the alternative and vital city. The case of Bologna and Venice (Italy)

Morea, Valeria; Sabatini, Francesca

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2023.104234

“…The case study is based on a mapping and thematic examination of the art collectives in Venice dedicated to designing urban interventions with a local impact (Morea and Sabatini, 2023). This mirrors Beyes’ (2015a; 2015b) depiction of public-entrepreneurship initiatives.…”

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Scratching the surface of urban change: Art collectives as public entrepreneurs

Morea,

Dalla Chiesa

2024

International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurs

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This article examines art collectives in Venice that use their artistic and cultural projects to act as public entrepreneurs seeking to improve urban welfare and elicit social change for reasons of societal betterment. These ventures are developed against a backdrop of ongoing socio-economic challenges arising from exploitative tourism in the city. Interviews with some art collective members revealed that: (1) their local rootedness is shaped by issues of gentrification and a search for a city that benefits all; (2) their core values are translated into artistic propositions addressing local demands and institutional voids and (3) their private goals have a public-service background. Our study unveils a unique type of entrepreneur that mediates local demands but has no significant impact at the policy level, thus only scratching the surface of institutional change. This insight contributes to our understanding of artists as public entrepreneurs who, despite their use of activist language channelling public demands, are constrained by the very institutional voids they seek to close.

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“…These phenomena have a twofold nature: on the one hand, they are localized and they operate in a tangible and spatially evident environment which articulates the nodes of the urban fabric (Orioli & Massari, 2023) -they are social centers, cultural organizations, and neighborhood committees, "intermediate places" (Massari, 2019) that offer informal services, share information, enable, produce local agency; as hybrid governance configurations they often combine a societal vocation, cultural programming and political initiatives for the sustainable transition of cities (Sabatini, 2022), while contributing by both their actions and the imageries that they produce to enacting an "alternative city", which opposes the current status quo (Morea & Sabatini, 2023). On the other hand, they are networked at both the local/national level and to broader national and international environments (Boulanger & Massari, 2022), producing a local-global feedback loop (Tsutsui, 2017).…”

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(Systemic) Design for Sustainable Territorial Transition: A Literature Review of State of the Art

Aulisio,

Barbero,

Pereno

2024

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Sustainable territorial development is one of the crucial elements of most governmental strategies and action plans at the international level, which have to adapt to the local context in which they are implemented. In its different scales of application, the discipline of Design is increasingly called upon, permeating skills and tools within policy and governmental contexts that contribute to the definition of strategies to address complex problems. This paper presents a systematic literature review to map the specific declinations of the design field, with a closer look at the disciplinary areas close to Systemic Design methodologies, which are most involved in this field of research. The emerging tools and methods aim to support decision-makers or stakeholders in a necessary social, economic, and environmental transition process.

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“…These phenomena have a twofold nature: on the one hand, they are localized and they operate in a tangible and spatially evident environment which articulates the nodes of the urban fabric (Orioli & Massari, 2023) -they are social centers, cultural organizations, and neighborhood committees, "intermediate places" (Massari, 2019) that offer informal services, share information, enable, produce local agency; as hybrid governance configurations they often combine a societal vocation, cultural programming and political initiatives for the sustainable transition of cities (Sabatini, 2022), while contributing by both their actions and the imageries that they produce to enacting an "alternative city", which opposes the current status quo (Morea & Sabatini, 2023). On the other hand, they are networked at both the local/national level and to broader national and international environments (Boulanger & Massari, 2022), producing a local-global feedback loop (Tsutsui, 2017).…”

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Beyond Collaboration: A Network Analysis of Local Stances and Global Frameworks in the Collective Design of the City

Sabatini,

Massari,

Boulager

2024

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The research observes practices of collective city-making beyond the participatory framework of institutional urban governance. In particular, it looks at how grassroots organizations in Bologna are able to produce a dual movement between the local and the global, mutually informing global movements and local practices oriented toward the sustainable growth of cities. The first section introduces the theoretical framework, based on participatory governance, urban commons and grassroots networks; it presents the methodology in the second section, introducing the criteria for the dataset and the network analysis consisting of local and global nodes within the city of Bologna; it then presents the results of the analysis, discusses them and draws the conclusions in the final section.

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The joint contribution of grassroots artistic practices to the alternative and vital city. The case of Bologna and Venice (Italy)

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Scratching the surface of urban change: Art collectives as public entrepreneurs

Scratching the surface of urban change: Art collectives as public entrepreneurs

(Systemic) Design for Sustainable Territorial Transition: A Literature Review of State of the Art

Beyond Collaboration: A Network Analysis of Local Stances and Global Frameworks in the Collective Design of the City

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