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Research Project
Regeneration and Optimisation of Cultural heritage in creative and Knowledge cities
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Smart-Up Urbanism: Critical Reflections on a Hub, Urban Regeneration & Smart Cultural Imaginaries in Lisbon. Position Paper
Publication . Goransson, Joel
Cities have always been built upon techniques and technologies. If we define technologies not as
bleeping, high-tech gadgets but rather as the sum total of the human use of tools and related skill sets,
then it is hard to think of a qualitative leap in urban development without an adjacent technological
development. During the last decade, Lisbon has witnessed an increased frequency of so-called Smart
City projects. The rhetoric surrounding the Smart City, at times make it sound as though the Smart City
is bringing techniques & technologies to the city. As if cities were naturalized sites to which
technologies are introduced. This is, of course, not the case. What does set the Smart City apart
though, at least as it is envisioned, is that the development of IoT techniques, now quite literally, allows
for a technological monitoring of the city. An all-encompassing retrofitting of the old. By implementing
sensors and meters into ordinary objects – streetlights, buildings, roads, and traffic lights - they
become aware of their surroundings. They become Smart. At least so in theory.
Bibliogammers Report. 11-17 Março 2019 Report. Document produced for the Horizon 2020 project ‘ROCK’
Publication . Falanga, Roberto; Nunes, Mafalda Corrêa; Martins, João Carlos
Bibliogamers
2019
was
an
event
that
aimed
to
promote
information
and
knowledge
about
the
history
and
heritage
of
the
Marvila
territory
through
a
series
of
educational
activities
related
to
the
conception
and
programming
of
videogames.
The
majority
of
the
initiatives
took
place
in
the
Marvila
Library,
with
some
special
seminars
directed
particularly
to
media
and
technology
students
at
the
nearby
D.
Dínis
secondary
school.
All
of
the
activities
were
free
and
most
of
them
were
open
to
the
wider
public.
Only
some
workshops
and
the
Game
Jam
required
the
inscription
of
the
participants.
Sustainability and Cultural Heritage
Publication . Falanga, Roberto; Bonoli, Alessandra
The Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon (ICSUL) is
one of the academic partners of the ROCK project. ICSUL’s commitment
towards cultural heritage-led regeneration has been developed through
the application of an innovative community-based action research
with local stakeholders and residents on the eastern side of Lisbon, in
a demonstration area across the neighbouroods of Marvila and Beato.
Acknowledgung that the optimization of tangible and intangible heritage
was based on goals of social inclusion and participation for more effective
solutions, we approached the demonstration area by triangulating
qualitative and quantitative methods (i.e. participant observation,
interviews with key actors, and both intensive and extensive surveys).
Data were collected and made available in open access through scientifc
and policy publications. The creation of the Lisbon Living Lab in partnership with the Lisbon city
council provided needed conditions to promote a wide array of initiatives
and to implement three major actions: one Pop-Up based on the reuse of
empty stores led by the local NGO Rés do Chão; the co-design of an edible
garden named “garden for all” by the local NGOs Muita Fruta and Coletivo
Warehouse; and the creation of a new interpretive Centre of Beato and
Marvila in the public library, co-led by the city council and ICSUL.
Critical Cartography as a way to renew our approach to a territory and find stories. Research Note
Publication . Berardi, Francesca
Tackling urban disparities through participatory culture-led urban regeneration. Insights from Lisbon
Publication . Falanga, Roberto; Nunes, Mafalda Corrêa
In the last few decades, the diffusion of culture-led urban regeneration schemes has intercepted the growth of participatory approaches across a wide range of policy domains. Partnerships between private and public agencies have sought, accordingly, the engagement of citizens and stakeholders to push forward context-specific interventions. From the participatory action research developed in Lisbon, one of the cities funded under the EU-funded project ROCK, we analyse the ways in which this project has tackled spatial divides and socioeconomic inequalities in the project demonstration area. Our main argument is that operational decisions and substantive mismatches have given rise to opportunities and bottlenecks throughout the implementation of the project. While the public investment has been directed to regenerate a deprived area, it has fallen short of promoting greater connections within the area and with the surrounding neighbourhoods. ROCK’s actions have only partially met local community expectations regarding the project’s objectives for the optimisation of tangible and intangible cultural heritage, with impacts over degrees of citizen engagement in the local Living Lab.
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Funding agency
European Commission
Funding programme
H2020
Funding Award Number
730280