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CITYLABS AS INSTRUMENTS FOR URBAN CHANGE: co-learning and scaling-up workshop – March 2nd 2023 – Lisbon

The event will take place on March 2nd 2023 in Lisbon at the Centro de Informação Urbana de Lisboa CIUL.
The event will be freely accessible to the public, but there will be not the online streaming of the event.
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As part of our dissemination strategy, SMARTDEST partnership invites leading experts and practitioners in the field to present their own experience with participatory methodologies (city labs, urban living labs, etc.).
The specific objective of this event is to present the results of the project’s 7 city labs and to establish a dialogue with researchers, civil society, and stakeholders who have engaged in similar experiences and faced the challenge of scaling up micro level results into local, national, and European scales and their policy dimensions.
At this point, the project team is conducting city labs in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Jerusalem, Lisbon, Ljubljana, Turin, and Venice. In all 7 cities, participatory fora have been created, solutions have been co-designed and concept tested in articulation with affected communities and other stakeholders.

Participatory methods and urban issues
This session brings together researchers with consolidated experience in participatory methods, including urban living labs and other similar fora Our aim is to learn from past or ongoing labs, and to discuss their innovation potential and social impact.

Scaling up challenges and policy interventions
This session brings together practitioners and stakeholders who have faced the challenge of translating results from participatory methodologies into policy at different scales local, national, or European. We are interested in learning from your experiences and discussing the potentials and limitations of policy making and policy implementation resulting from city labs.

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A new SMARTDEST scientific publication: Labour precarity in the visitor economy and decisions to move out

The scientific paper Labour precarity in the visitor economy and decisions to move out, by Riccardo Valente, Benito Zaragozí & Antonio Paolo Russo (2023), is now openly accessible at the following link of the Tourism Geographies journal:
https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2023.2172603

The more the tourist economy grows, and makes itself space in the interstices of the social fabric of a city, the more its very workforce results marginalized and ends up expelled from it. The case of Barcelona can be a template to argue that tourism growth must be a means to generate diffused prosperity and not an end in itself, and when those conditions are not given, for instance because the housing market is hijacked by speculators and short-term rentals, it becomes necessary to step back and rethink the fundamentals of economic development strategies. This paper is in open access and aims at contributing to the design of more effective and contextualized inclusion policies.

SMARTDEST 2nd Intermediate Workshop-Friday, October 21st 2022

SMARTDEST Project is organizing its 2nd Intermediate Scientific Workshop

Hosted by:
Polytechnic of Turin

The H2020 SMARTDEST Project is organizing its 2nd Intermediate Scientific Workshop, on 21 October in Turin, hosted by the Polytechnic of Turin.

The workshop, entitled SOCIAL EXCLUSION AND THE RIGHT TO THE CITY IN THE AGE OF URBAN MOBILITIES, will be an opportunity to present key outputs from the project, especially in the field of housing exclusion, precarious labour and neighbourhood transformation in cities that are hubs of tourism and related transnational mobilities. Key authors external to the consortium will also present their work on these topics, and will engage in a collective debate about the future of urban research in the age of mobilities.

Contributors include:

  • Loris Servillo, Politecnico di Torino
  • Riccardo Valente, Universitat Rovira i Virgili
  • Mara Ferreri, Politecnico di Torino
  • Franz Buhr, Universidade de Lisboa
  • Filippo Celata, Università di Roma La Sapienza
  • Antonio Paolo Russo, Universitat Rovira i Virgili
  • Zélia Breda, Universidade de Aveiro

The workshop will start at 9:30 (CETT) at the Polytechnic of Turn, Castello del Valentino (Sala Vigliano), and can be attended either in person or on line at the Zoom link, entering the room as guest and indicating your full name and affiliation.

Attendants in person are kindly required to send their registration in advance to Monica Postiglione at PoliTo (monica.postiglione@polito.it).

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