#Labs

The mediation process for the renovation of buildings and homes aims to ensure that public programmes effectively reach the communities for which they were designed. Beyond simply disseminating information, the aim is to support, interpret and make available the resources on offer, placing people at the heart of the process of improving their homes.

In the Housing Programme, we have worked with residents from different neighbourhoods in the city of Valencia to inform them about energy-efficiency renovation grants under the programmes promoted by the Valencian Regional Government with Next Generation EU funds. The approach focuses on transforming a technical and administrative opportunity into a process that is accessible, understandable and participatory, enabling citizens to gain real and effective access to the benefits these programmes offer.

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.

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.

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.

Process of co-design of a Civic Lab from which to face the challenges of the city of Valencia. A space to bosst civic innovation, and at the same time, to take care of the people who design, manage and draw up proposals for improving their environment. Throughout different face-to-face and digital formats, we explore current civic labs models, incorporate their learning and co-design a specific-context Lab.

We involved people linked to community culture, social movements and neighbourhood projects. It has been developed with the support of Grigri Projects and OFIC.

Civic Lab for co-creating citizen projects in the neighbourhood of Orriols, Valencia. Orriols Crea supports the community with the coordination, visibility, communication and dissemination of existing projects and facilitates the generation of new collective proposals. Through collaborative work methodologies, a roadmap is drawn up for each project, which allows them to work independently.

Project promoted by the Orriols Convive association.

A programme for discussion, experimentation and dissemination of innovative urban solutions. Through discussion, experimentation and dissemination activities, different sectors of society are connected about an urban topic.

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.

A conference for debating, creating and collective researching that comes from the need to explore new ways of making the city from a transdisciplinary perspective. A series of practical workshops, conferences and debates are held in which universities, professionals and citizens work together. In 2015, after two editions (2013 and 2014) at the ETSA-UPV, Ciudad Sensible is taking to the streets with ContextoArquitectura and Orriols Convive association with the aim of transferring knowledge directly to the city.