#Housing as a #commons!
From #collaborative #housing to #community housing

In June #LabGov - in partnership with #Federcasa and #Potenza and #Matera Public Housing Agencies - hosted a workshop on #publichousing as a social infrastructure for #urbanregeneration and development in the framework of Federcasa General Assembly and presented a research analyzing new forms of living, tested in Italy a and abroad, based on social, cognitive and technological innovation processes faci...litating urban regeneration and generating forms of urban #cogovernance.

Read the first post of the new #LabGov #UrbanMediaLab!

Based on a recent in depth research about the political organization of informal waste pickers in Buenos Aires, Cosima Malandrino analyzes the potential of collective action in designing new #governance models that allow communities to self-manage common resources like #waste in a #sustainable way. The case of Buenos Aires waste pickers' cooperatives provides us with an interesting example on how to implement public polic...ies that integrate informal workers in the municipal #wastemanagement system.