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COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN PLANNING – PILOT PROJECT IN AVEIROVIVÓ BAIRRO

José Carlos Mota, Fernando Nogueira, Catarina Isidoro, Universidade de Aveiro

(em colaboração com Marina Vieira, Ana Pedro, Alice Júlio, Janaina Teles, Anais Creoulo, Lívia Gonçalves)

Community Participation in Planning

The project aims to:

• Develop a shared understanding of participation operating in different planning systems across the partnering European countries.

• Explore how communities of interest, place, practice, and learning can be more meaningfully involved in planning processes e.g. Local area planning and community or integrated public service planning.

• Co-design and test novel ways of empowering stakeholders to shape local services and place-making functions, through the learning on the project, in order to deliver better outcomes.

• Share ideas and exchange good practice and learning amongst the range of participants involved in the project – and to share this learning with others.

• Enhance the quality and relevance of the learning offered in higher education modules by informing curriculum development and innovative approaches on engagement in planning processes.

Community Participation in Planning (CPiP) is a two year collaborative project exploring the concept, application and teaching of participation in planning activities.

PARTICIPATION – THE CONCEPT

PILOT PROJECT – AVEIRO CITY CENTER

Community involvement for the construction of an urban regeneration strategy for the city center of Aveiro

CORDA is an association of shopkeepers and residents that aims to give life to the historic neighborhood

2. CORDA, THE LOCAL ORGANIZATION

Activity centered on the promotion of events with increasing impact in the community but with few permanent results in the revitalization of the neighborhood

3. VIVÓ BAIRRO, REVITALIZATION AND ANIMATION OF THE HISTORIC NEIGHBORHOOD

VIVÓ BAIRRO an opportunity for the collaboration between CORDA and the European project COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN PLANNING (DCSPT-UA)

VIVÓ BAIRRO is a challenge to bring more life to the historical area of the city of Aveiro, through• Valuing local resources (memory and

memories, knowledge and experiences, interesting buildings and spaces, people)

• Understanding the needs and the collective dreams of the community

• Collaboratively construct a set of actions that respond to the dreams and resources, taking advantage of the scientific, technological, artistic and civic potential existing in the city and in the university

Experimental Event – 4 and 5 of June 2016


RESOURCES DREAMS ACTIONS

THE IMPORTANCE OF THE METHOD - THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE SURVEY RESPONDENTS


COLLECTIVE DREAMS

IDENTITY / FEELING OF BELONGING

• Fortalecer o espírito de Bairro; Trazer vida permanente; Valorizar a história e a identidade do Bairro; Fortalecer o espírito intergeracional;

NEW LIFE AND FUNCTIONS

• Trazer as novas gerações para morar no Bairro; Atrair crianças e jovens; Regresso de funções públicas; Reposicionar o bairro como um local atrativo para empreender e comprar; O bairro como laboratório e montra de produtos e serviços inovadores (ciência, tecnologia, design,…); Valorizar as tecnologias da cidade na promoção de atividades pelo bairro;Um bairro que cultiva a música

COMFORT AND ATTRACTIVITY

• Tornar o bairro mais confortável (bancos e mobiliário urbano); As ruas enfeitadas (flores, cobertura); Ligar o bairro histórico à cidade; Bairro mais acessível (para todos e com mais TP); Bairro seguro (iluminado e seguro); Um bairro mais sustentável (mais ecopontos);

RESOURCES

MEMORY AND MEMORIES• Fotografias antigas

KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE• Artes e ofícios tradicionais (retrosarias, alfaiates, costureiras,…); Artes contemporâneas (Design, Ilustração, Livro,…); Doçaria conventual; Eventos CORDA

INTERESTING BUILDINGS AND SPACES• Teatro Aveirense, Museu de Aveiro, Igreja das Carmelitas, Misericórdia, Bancos, Praças, Jardim do Museu, Edifícios desocupados, Azulejo, Cerâmica artística, Montras e varandas

PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS• Comunidades académicas (ESHC, Escola Glória), PSP, Recreio Artístico, Atendimento dos comerciantes, Loja JLP (vídeo), Cantor de fado (…)

CITY PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS / LOCAL KNOWLEDGECMA, Universidade, Artistas e Escolas de música da cidade, Empresas TICE da cidade, Associações culturais da cidade, Ilustradores de Aveiro, Conservatório de Música, Banda Amizade, Grupos de Teatro

CALL FOR PROPOSALSThe reflection on RESOURCES / DREAMS / PROPOSALS OF ACTION constitutes the specifications of the community for the neighborhood

A call was launched to the presentation of projects that respond to the wishes and dreams / resources of the community, to be developed in the- public spaces- built spaces whose shop owners or want to mobilize for this event.

Responding to the following characteristics:• Aligned with the specifications;• Be made in articulation with the owners and

with the VIVO BAIRRO organization;• Running Until 4/5 June• Self-financing;• Innovative


60 events,150 animators100 institutions and companies800 children

No budget, only with good will!


The combination of events took a few thousand people to the historic neighborhood ("it did not look like Aveiro"),

4. VIVÓ BAIRRO - RESULTS

The community involvement in the construction of the project has increased the sense of belonging in the area and showed that it is possible to "give life to the neighborhood" even in a framework of scarce resources;


Cooperative work between the associations created the desire to carry out new projects (Bairro à Letra). However, there was no evolution towards an inter-associative organization framework;


The public organizations felt challenged (the institutional framework evolved);


There is a willingness to replicate the event but there is some civic and associative wear;


The benefits of the project weren't felt equally by everyone


1. People participate when they are involved and when there is a common goal;

2. Tactical interventions (urban acupuncture) have the capacity of transforming the urban landscape;

3. Aveiro (and cities in general) have (invisible) resources that aren’t always valued;

4. The role of the local administration is crucial to support the change;

5. It is possible to give (more) life to the neighborhood.

5. VIVÓ BAIRRO - LEARNINGS

Aveiro has an unlimited civic energy. We need to know how to take advantage of it!

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