#Innovation

‘Menjar rajoles?’ (‘Shall we eat bricks?’) is a temporary installation for the Miradors de l’Horta 2025 festival organised by Turisme Carraixet. Is the vegetable garden a place for growing fruit and vegetables, or a vacant plot earmarked for property development?

The installation is situated in Bonrepòs i Mirambell, on one of the vacant plots bordering the urban environment. The proposal invites reflection on the vegetable garden as a space for food production in contrast to the dynamics of the property market. Brick, a traditional local material and a symbol of urban development pressure, is used to create walls, arches and pillars that sprout like crops, representing the tension between agriculture and urbanisation. It is a minimalist installation that invites reflection and discussion on the cultural and natural value of the vegetable garden.

In collaboration with Piano Piano and Miguel Hernández

The Foro València Sostenible is a platform where various key stakeholders in the city of Valencia come together to develop, from a technical and strategic perspective, initiatives that enhance the resilience of the city and its citizens to the effects of climate change.

The organisations participating in the Foro València Sostenible adhere to criteria of balance between the different sectors and the themes of Valencia City Council’s Climate Action Plan (Mobility, Energy, Biodiversity and Adaptation, Urban Planning and Housing, Innovation, Economy and Tourism, Water, Food and Waste Management). A cross-cutting area has also been incorporated to bring together perspectives on sustainability from the fields of education, culture and just transition.

At Carpe, we have supported the coordination and facilitation of this multi-sectoral collaborative body during its set-up and launch phase. Together with Fundació Clima i Energia (OAM València Sostenible), a process was designed to promote distributed leadership and the collaborative creation of projects with a local impact. To this end, tools are used that promote collective action based on principles of shared responsibility, dialogue and multi-sectoral mobilisation, transparency and an eco-social transition approach.

Foro València Sostenible is a project co-funded by the European Union (InterReg) through the URBACT network.

Design and activation of the sustainable Valencia panel within the framework of the European project URBACT IV ‘Cities for Sustainability Governance’.

A collaborative workspace is created, open to the 5 helixes of society, from which to lead the city’s Climate Mission in a cross-cutting manner. The proposal seeks the activation of Collective Intelligence based on open and innovative processes with multi-sectoral involvement for a shared governance of the Mission.

The activation strategy is based on the Double Diamond method of co-creation and public innovation developed by the Design Council to design services that respond to people’s needs.

Program for the acceleration and consolidation of collaborative housing projects in the Valencian Community. A total of ten promoter groups are selected and accompanied throughout 2022. During this period, different training sessions are held and the situation and needs of each group are studied in order to carry out feasibility studies of properties and analysis of the economic and financial viability of the group, with the aim of providing them with tools and guiding them for their future development.

Developed in collaboration with FECOVI, Crearqció Coop. V. and El Rogle Coop. V.

Ciuta-lab’s Collaborative Production Workshop is a space for co-creation oriented towards the prototyping of citizen projects. Carpe developed its dynamisation with the aim of bringing together diverse agents to collectively think of innovative solutions.

The different sessions were focused on collaboratively obtaining innovative solutions to address the challenges of the city’s Climate Mission, and its specific theme: the circular economy. A mediation methodology was designed and implemented for the sessions. The intervention ended with the delivery of a participation evaluation report.

In addition, the needs of the Collaborative Production Workshops were evaluated through the Civimetro methodology, which served to establish a basis on which to develop and implement the evaluation indicators for future calls.

A regional strategy for the reactivation of housing in municipalities at risk of depopulation.

Nou Servef is participatory process for improving the Valencian Employment and Training Service, through the involvement of all the stakeholders it works with. Workshops, interviews and surveys are used to draw up a strategic document for the innovation of the entity which has more than 1,000 employees in the regions of Castelló, València and Alacant.

Assessment for the decision-making process of Concomitentes, an organisation that promotes the creation of artworks and mediates between civil society, which commissions them, and the artists, who produce them. The process is based on the fact of thinking, which gathers, organises and relates the diversity of views on the project in relation to its main challenges. In order to facilitate decision-making, 4 main challenges are identified, their strengths and challenges, as well as the basic needs to face. A short term roadmap is proposed which, together with a canvas, organises the decision-making process and facilitates the transformation of the organisation.

In collaboration with Pascual Pérez and Juan López-Aranguren.

Proposal for a building for the Espai Dones i Igualtat service of the City Council of Valencia, in El Carmen neighbourhood. The project aims to integrate the uses of the new building from a gender approach with the archaeological remains of the ancient city. In collaboration with Piano Piano Studio, Miguel Hernández Alonso and Manu Monteagudo.

Urban planning instrument that takes the methodology of Ecological Urbanism, Life Cycle Analysis and Programming Applied to Design. It provides a guide to the cities that undertake the Climate Mission.

Plan.Cero is composed by a multidisciplinary team from the Universitat Politècnica de Valènica, Arqueha and Carpe. We assume the management and execution of the Citizen Participation and Innovation strategy that will ensure the social transfer and the civic engagement in the project.

Winning project of the call València Ciutat de la Innovació 2021.

Proposal for the renovation and the extension of an innovative public housing building in Castelló de Plana. Awarded third place in the Projecte Pilot ideas competition of the Regional Ministry of Housing and Bioclimatic Architecture.

La Masovera is a platform to connect people in order to facilitate masoveria projects (renovation exchange for rent). This platform offers different resources and services to facilitate the process of transferring the use of a property in exchange for its rehabilitation.

A guide for evaluation of civic labs. Through 7 simple steps, Civímetro facilitates the implementation of a complete Evaluation Plan: from the definition of goals, to the field work and the drawing up of conclusions. Its methodology has been tested in different Civic Labs.

Research for the activation of a pilot office of Labora (Valencian Employment and Training Service) that would take into account the principles of collaborative work, caring spacesr and learning. The result is a non-regulatory document that defines a new model of Espai Labora, the elements that make it up and the environmental conditions they should have.

In collaboration with Sebastiano Pirisi and Estudio Menta.