NEWS COVERAGE, Porto — January 4, 2021 [PORTO 🇵🇹] VIDEO: A Healthy Corridor for Porto, Campanhã: preliminary version (Nov. 2020)
PUBLICATIONS — January 1, 2021 [Research Paper 🇧🇷] BRAZIL: Co-criação de Soluções baseadas na Natureza envolvendo comunidades e oportunidades de diálogo Europa ABSTRACT: Transformations around modes of production have changed the way citizens, users, and consumers are considered and recognized in the processes of cocreation and co-production. However, at the same time that the spaces for networking and sharing are expanding, new challenges arise for co-production and co-government.
PUBLICATIONS, Sofia — January 1, 2021 [Research Paper 🇧🇬] SOFIA: Sustainable management of open public space in a large housing estate in Sofia ABSTRACT: Designed as social space according to CIAM principles in the second half of the 20th century, the open public space in the large housing estates in the periphery of Sofia was transformed for the recent 30 years due to the changing socio-economic, political, and cultural conditions. The broad open spaces have been adapting to the arising societal demands, changing lifestyles and mixed uses by accommodating competing or complementary uses, generating new activities or “waiting” update or re-design.
CONFERENCE, PUBLICATIONS, Sofia — December 30, 2020 [Conference paper] Urban Morphology and Mobility Patterns: Myths and Real-Life Transformations of a Large housing Estate in Sofia
NEWS COVERAGE, Porto — December 23, 2020 [In the News 🇵🇹] Photographer awarded grant for project on URBiNAT local implementation The Porto-based photographer Carlos Barradas is one of the winners of the "Cities in the City" open call for proposals in connection with the Bienal’21 Fotografia do Porto.
NEWS COVERAGE, Siena — December 23, 2020 [SIENA 🇮🇹] Technical Visit: Recap of meetings between consortium members and citizens or Ravacciano & San Miniato October 2020 October 2020. Representatives of citizens' associations from Ravacciano and San Miniato, and other stakeholders involved in the local implementation of the URBiNAT project, met with consortium members for series of co-planning meetings and walk-throughs.
CONFERENCE — December 21, 2020 [NBS Policy] Challenges and opportunities of institutionalising participatory processes within municipal contexts
PUBLICATIONS — December 21, 2020 [Research Paper] The innovative potential and social co-production in urban regeneration solutions
NEWS COVERAGE, Nantes — December 1, 2020 [NANTES 🇫🇷] Les thématiques du projet URBiNAT au programme de la Fête de la Science 2020