A Code for Pakistan Civic Innovation Lab is a group of volunteers who meet regularly to collaborate with government, non-profits and media organization on technology, data, policy and design projects that strengthen their communities. Every lab is led by a lab Manager who is responsible for building the community and maintaining the relationship between the Lab and the local partners. Lab members meet at least monthly; most CIL meet with greater frequency and have a range of monthly programming. All Labs are connected through an online forum in order to share stories and support each other’s work.
Labs are also closely coordinated with Code for Pakistan’s other programs: the Fellowship, the Accelerator, and the Peer Network.
Logo source: https://ocupatucalle.com/
Image source : Arturo Diaz Quiroz, from https://ocupatucalle.com
Country
Peru
City
Lima
Name
Ocupa tu calle
Date
2014
Description of the project
Ocupa tu calle (Take over of your Street) is a strategy promoted by the Observatory Lima Cómo Vamos and supported by the AVINA Foundation that seeks to intervene the city by generating more and better public spaces that citizens can enjoy.
Through localized urban interventions, the project promotes the recovery of disused city spaces, the enhancement of existing spaces and the generation of new public places. Thus, through the implementation of parklets, pilot routes, cycle paths, temporary closures of streets and avenues or other interventions, not only a better city is achieved, but relations between citizens and the well-being of the community are fostered.
Engage Liverpool is a social enterprise run by volunteers run by volunteers who live in the apartments of the Waterfront and of the City Centre. They care passionately about sustainable living in the City Centre and are committed to making it a place where people would want to live out the whole of their lives and not just for a brief transitional period in their youth. It is a fully democratic institution where all Board members are elected by residents who are members of Engage and who hold the Board to account at each AGM. They have run projects that make a positive contribution to the liveability of the City Centre and Waterfront, and they encourage and promote debate about urban living in our annual Seminar Series. They also hold Workshops to assist residents and leaseholders to better manage the apartment buildings where they live. Their mission statement is to improve the quality of life for people living in Liverpool City Centre and Waterfront neighborhoods by empowering residents through aspirational engagement and action to bring about positive transformation and progress
Credits: picture from http://www.publicworksgroup.net/about/
Country
United Kingdom
City
London
Name
Public works
Date
2004
Description
Public works is a critical design practice set up in 2004 that occupies the terrain in-between architecture, art, performance and activism
Together with their interdisciplinary network, they re-work the city’s opportunities towards citizen driven development and nurturing their rights over the city.
Public works’ projects are interested in what constitutes civic in the city and how to re-design structures that restrict it. The work gives space to and facilitates civic practices which promote direct involvement and collective action in order to transform and re-appropriate contemporary public life.
Their outputs are not limited to buildings, or art objects, but they include discursive events, research, campaigns, urban strategies, participatory art and architecture across all scales.
Their means of output is defined by what is most appropriate for the project and the urban context, ranging in scale from pamphlets to urban strategies. Its aesthetic and spatiality are determined by external collaborators involved, which makes every public works project aesthetically varied.
La Casa Invisible is a social and cultural center co-managed by citizens that was born in 2007 when a network of citizens .and social innovators decided to give new life to a beautiful building owned by the municipality and versing in a state of abandon and degrade. The aim of this group of citizens were:
to stimulate processes of social auto-organization that strenghthen the social movements working for social justice;
to create a lab of cultural experimentation based on cooperation, collaboration and free culture criteria;
to facilitate paths of learning for topics (social sciences, politics, ICT, arts) that stimulate critical thought, social creativity and collective action;
to experiment new models of collective management of commons.