the co-living experience as engine for social innovations in the "sassi" complex in matera
DESCRIPTION
The severe economic framework of the last years gradually eroded the buying power of the families and in particular made more difficult to buy or rent an apartment, also due to myopic housing policies which favour the builders and their profits instead of answer to needs and necessities of population. Besides this there is also a lack of design sensibility from the ones who design and build houses: they base their operational strategy on statistic and beliefs which date back to the 80s and fix the traditional family unit of father, mother and two/three children as the standard one. On the last years there’s a new trend: peoples from various class origins and occupations are setting up teams with the aim of doing community actions for fighting the economic crisis, for example purchasing groups, ecovillages, cohousing and coworking, useful to hold down the costs but also to arrange social innovation models. The aim of this paper is to introduce two operative experiences which, starting from a social innovation process, set up shared working and living places and allow the fruition and maintenance of spaces located on the “Sassi” complex in Matera, which represent a sort of forerunner model of cohousing. The first experience is ‘UnMonastery’ where “unmonks”, drawing inspiration from the monastic life, work and live together in the stately mansion of Palazzo del Casale and each one, with different background, has the mission to answer the social needs of the Matera community and to encourage radical forms of social innovation and collaboration. The second experience is ‘Casa Netural’ placed in a house close to the characteristic setting of the Duomo of Matera. It represents an experimental initiative which supplies various services to the community, for example the co-living: a week of cohousing with other social innovators during which is possible to meet the neighbours, set up pilot projects or experimentations, visit Matera and its surroundings.TRANSCRIPT
The co-living experience as engine for social innovations in the “Sassi” complex in Matera
Cohousing. Programs and projects to recover heritage buildings Symposium – 24.oct.2014 – Roma
Giovanni Perrucci – PhD student @ Roma Tre University “Spinal network” – Anthony Mattox
Giovanni Perrucci – PhD student @ Roma Tre University – [email protected]
Italian families consumption till 2013 (ISTAT, CER-IRES)
Italian families income till 2013 (CER-IRES)
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Investments on dwellings in Italy (ANCE)
Dwellings market comparison (SAVILLS)
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Family typology amount x1,000 %
no units 8,319 33.2
one member 7,667 30.6
more members 652 2.6
one unit 14,879 63.8
couples without children 4,629 59.6
couples with children 8,062 18.5
a parent with children 2,188 8.8
one unit with other persons 1,062 4.2
couples without children 339 1.3
couples with children 471 1.9
a parent with children 251 1.0
two or more units 350 1,4
TOTAL 24,611
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Source: 2013 Census - ISTAT
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Family typology %
no units 33.2
one member 30.6
more members 2.6
one unit 63.8
couples without children 59.6
couples with children 18.5
a parent with children 8.8
one unit with other persons 4.2
couples without children 1.3
couples with children 1.9
a parent with children 1.0
two or more units 1,4
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63,8 %
33,2 %
4,2 %
Giovanni Perrucci – PhD student @ Roma Tre University – [email protected]
INNOVATION FACTORS – THE SHARING CROWD
Giovanni Perrucci – PhD student @ Roma Tre University – [email protected] “Crowdsourcing giclèe” – James Jean
crowdsourcing
INNOVATION FACTORS – THE SHARING CROWD
Giovanni Perrucci – PhD student @ Roma Tre University – [email protected]
crowdfunding
crowdfunding
INNOVATION FACTORS – THE SHARING CROWD
Giovanni Perrucci – PhD student @ Roma Tre University – [email protected]
crowdmapping
crowdmapping
INNOVATION FACTORS – THE “CO” FACTOR
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coworking
coworking
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- FIRST TIME IN SAN FRANCISCO, 2005 - IN ITALY THERE ARE 285 RUNNING EXPERIENCES OF COWORKING, 190 IN THE NORTH, 55 IN THE CENTER, 40 IN THE SOUTH - WHO ARE THE COWORKERS?
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- WHY COWORK?
INNOVATION FACTORS – THE “CO” FACTOR
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cohousing
cohousing
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BOFAELLESKABER PARTICIPATED DESIGN THROUGH THE THREE TIERS PROCESS (MORTOLA, MECARELLI, 2012): 1) WHOLENESS
2) VISIONING
3) UNFOLDING
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Giovanni Perrucci – PhD student @ Roma Tre University – [email protected]
Giovanni Perrucci – PhD student @ Roma Tre University – [email protected]
Giovanni Perrucci – PhD student @ Roma Tre University – [email protected]
Giovanni Perrucci – PhD student @ Roma Tre University – [email protected]
5 KEY CHALLENGES
SIGNIFICANT LACK OF OFFLINE ENGAGEMENT OR VISIBILITY OF HAPPENINGS THROUGHOUT THE CITY LACK OF INTER-GENERATIONAL SPACES LACK OF SPACES FOR CHILDREN FOCUSED ON DEVELOPING SKILLS, SPECIFICALLY TECHNOLOGY LACK OF GLOBAL VIEW ON THE CITY MANY HOUSES AND BUILDINGS ARE NOT IN USE AND THERE IS NO ARCHITECTURAL RENOVATION
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ASSET MAPPING TOOLKIT: MAPPING THE COMMONS + OPEN STREET MAP
WALKING ETNOGRAPHIES – UNTRANSIT – UNGUIDE
Giovanni Perrucci – PhD student @ Roma Tre University – [email protected]
ASSET MAPPING TOOLKIT: MAPPING THE COMMONS + OPEN STREET MAP
Giovanni Perrucci – PhD student @ Roma Tre University – [email protected]
ARDUINO: OPEN SOURCE SOLAR TRACKER + KIDERWIND
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ARDUINO: OPEN SOURCE SOLAR TRACKER + KIDERWIND
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LONG TERM INITIATIVE OPENSOURCE TOOLKIT FOR NEW UNMONASTERIES TRANSMIT KNOW-HOWS AND DOCUMENTATIONS SHARE EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
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Giovanni Perrucci – PhD student @ Roma Tre University – [email protected]
Giovanni Perrucci – PhD student @ Roma Tre University – [email protected]
Giovanni Perrucci – PhD student @ Roma Tre University – [email protected]
Giovanni Perrucci – PhD student @ Roma Tre University – [email protected]
AGRI-NETURAL
1) MAPPING ABANDONED SPACES
2) CULTIVATION SPECIES SELECTION
3) SETUP OF A COMMUNITY TO MEET THE DEMAND
4) DESIGN THE URBAN VEGETABLES GARDEN
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The awareness of the community
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The community is the strong point of a saving process
Innovation doesn’t happen in isolation
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PICTURES CREDITS slide 1 – Anthony Mattox slide 7 – startupgirl.it slide 8 – Vincenzo Di Maria/comboproject.com slide 9 – James Jean slide 10 – nalato.com slide 11, 25 – Simone Cortesi slide 12 – escapeplanfilms.com slide 13 – mycowo.com slide 14 – quaderns.coac.net slide 16 – benetural.com slide 18 – luceradente.com (1)
lacittadelluomo.it (2,3) wikimatera.it (4)
slide 19 – edgeryders.eu (1,3) ecodellamontagna.altervista.com (2)
slide 20 – sassiland.com (1) rsablogs.org.uk (2,3)
slide 21, 23, 24, 26-28 – edgeryders.eu slide 29, 32-35 – benetural.com slide 36 – comboproject.com slide 37 – Vincenzo Di Maria slide 38 – newbuckland.com
Giovanni Perrucci PhD student @ Roma Tre University
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