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Database of Lisbon projects & initiatives

2023-04-20T20:41:47Z

Duncan Crowley: /* Stage 1: Focusing on Marvila */

The Lisbon UrbanA partner [https://ce3c.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/research/projects/ver.php?id=206 FC.ID] is choosing to ground the UrbanA project in the city of Lisbon and to develop a local '''[[UrbanA_Community_of_Practice|Community of Practice]]''' (CoP) for the duration of the project. The objectives are to identify and connect “city makers”, to better understand how to create sustainable and just cities, and to explore how best can the needs of local Lisbon communities can be supported by the UrbanA Lisbon CoP. Work developed in a series of stages.

==Projects & initiatives==
[[File:UrbanA_Lisbon_Local_Arena_1_Mouraria.jpg|thumb|right|400px|link=https://www.facebook.com/pg/urbana.portugal/photos/?tab=album&album_id=153385982704145|UrbanA Lisbon Community of Practice]]

===Stage 1: Local Arena in Mouraria===
The first section of this process culminated with the first Lisbon “local arena” on November 12th 2019. The event happened in one of the city’s oldest neighbourhoods, which is also considered the most multi-cultural neighbourhood in the country, Mouraria<ref>Lonely Planet: Mouraria: The Multicultural District. Available at: https://www.lonelyplanet.com/portugal/lisbon/activities/mouraria-the-multicultural-district-private-walking-tour/a/pa-act/v-17131P3/360366</ref>.

A central question to UrbanA´s implementation in Lisbon was “How might an urban CoP help manifest the dream of a Sustainable and Just Lisbon?” (PDF presentation available [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ry2_Vv7Lr1SBV8WgkZqyEUT0dEIWHTAR/view here]). The day was divided into two parts, a walking tour during the morning around the streets including Rua Dos Lagares, considered to be the epicentre of current evictions, followed by an afternoon at Mouraria Creative Hub, with more than 30 representatives from 24 different groups, or projects, active in the city. A Graphic register captured insights from the day and noted 5 main conclusions:
# Many solutions exist, but complex problems persist
# Tailor solutions to reality and local participation
# Need for articulation to better connect people and projects
# Continuity and cross-pollination is essential.
# Inform about citizen intervention starting points

The groups who participated included:
*[[Bela Flor Respira]]
*[[CAS Sustainable Architects]]
*[[CIM (Mouraria Creative Hub)]]
*[[FabLab Lisbon]]
*[[Fundação Friedrich Ebert Portugal]]
*[[Gaia Education]]
*[[Habita]]
*[[Impact Hub Lisbon]]
*[[Largo Residências]]
*[[Lisbon City Hall]]
*[[Locals]]
*[[Mario Yanez regenerative projects]]
*[[Mouraria residents]]
*[[Movimento Jardim no Martim Moniz]]
*[[Rede Decrescimento]]
*[[Rede DLBC (Associação de Desenvolvimento Local de Base Comunitária para a cidade de Lisboa)]]
*[[ROCK (Regeneration and Optimisation of Cultural heritage in creative and Knowledge cities)]]
*[[SEEDS]]
*[[Stop Despejos]]
*[[TUR (Technopolitics In Urban Regeneration)]]
*[[Urban Future Global Conference]]
*[[UrbanLab]]
*[[Viver Telheiras]]

===Stage 2: Focusing on Marvila===
From the start of 2020, the Lisbon CoP changed its focus from Mouraria, to Marvila. After starting out with high momentum, things were cut short by the arrival of [https://wiki.urban-arena.eu/index.php?title=Cities,_justice,_sustainability_and_covid-19 COVID]. 2020 was also the year that Lisbon was selected as Europe's "Green Capital" by the EGCA body<ref>European Commission: Lisbon is the 2020 European Green Capital Award winner! https://ec.europa.eu/environment/europeangreencapital/lisbon-is-the-2020-european-green-capital-award-winner/</ref> <ref>European Commission: European Green Capital Award 2020 ‐ Technical Assessment Synopsis Report PDF https://ec.europa.eu/environment/europeangreencapital/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/EGCA_2020_Technical_Assessment_Synopsis_Report.pdf </ref>.
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|UrbanA Lisbon shifted its focus to Marvila to identify how best can the needs of the local communities be supported by the UrbanA CoP and the project´s tools. Initial meetings happened with Jessica Verheij and Margarida Reis E Silva from [[ROCK]] and Luís Matos of [https://resdochao.org/ Rés do Chão] (Ground Floor). This led to a book chapter for "Urban Hub 20 - Accelerating City Change in a VUCA World" (VUCA: Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous)<ref>Crowley, Duncan; Belchior, Constança; Hamilton, Marilyn: "Creating a Sustainable & Just Lisbon", chapter in "Urban Hub 20 - Accelerating City Change in a VUCA World", pages 184 – 192. Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340314530_Creating_a_Sustainable_Just_Lisbon_Urban_Hub_20</ref>, with UrbanA fellow and [https://integralcity.com/ Integral Cities] founder Marilyn Hamilton. (UrbanA's May podcast with Marilyn is available on [https://open.spotify.com/episode/1otPLecPiziltBy7T5fudZ?si=kW56FPR5Roqrc4vk7eENtQ Spotify] and the [https://urban-arena.eu/resources/#podcast UrbanA website])

Marvila is, a rapidly transforming riverside neighbourhood on the Eastern side of Lisbon. This port industry and working class area was forgotten about for many decades and housed one of Lisbon’s largest shanty towns, the Chinese Neighbourhood. This was replaced in the late 1990’s by fragmented modern housing blocks of high rise towers, amidst large, empty, unused spaces. The latest urban transformation sees rent and land prices rise rapidly, established communities being forced to leave and even evictions happening. Marvila is beaming with transformation potential. Many research and social innovation groups are already active here, working with the local government and communities to increase citizen collaboration in planning processes and to explore issues of equality and urban sustainability.
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The main UrbanA CoP adapted to COVID as best it could, [[UrbanA Community Conversations]] (CoCos) began from April 2020. Some of the Lisbon groups participated in these online only events. Lisbon was chosen for the first "City Series" CoCo on May 26th, which explored “Is Lisbon a Sustainable and Just City? Perspectives from Europe´s 2020 Green Capital”<ref>Crowley, Duncan. "Is Lisbon a Sustainable and Just City? Perspectives from Europe´s 2020 Green Capital", Jun, 2020. Available at: https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/is-lisbon-a-sustainable-and-just-city-perspectives-from-europe-s-2020-green-capital-c106d61b326f</ref>. The event was facilitated by Constança Belchior from the UrbanA Portugal team and included perspectives from UrbanA Fellow Rafael Calado of Fablab Lisboa, Luís Matos of [https://resdochao.org/ Rés do Chão] and Patrícia Robalo of Morar em Lisboa and Lisbon’s Housing Movement about a range of issues including urban greening<ref>Jessica Verheij & Mafalda Corrêa Nunes (2020) Justice and power relations in urban greening: can Lisbon’s urban greening strategies lead to more environmental justice?, Local Environment, DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2020.1801616 Available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13549839.2020.1801616?journalCode=cloe20</ref>, evictions<ref>Ara.Cat: Lisboa, la nova capital de la gentrificació i els desallotjaments (Lisbon, the new capital of gentrification and evictions) https://www.ara.cat/internacional/Lisboa-nova-capital-gentrificacio-desallotjaments_0_2320567954.html</ref>, gentrification<ref>Luis Mendes (2020) Anti-Displacement Social Movements in Lisbon: A Perspective from the Trenches in the Fight Against Transnational Gentrification. Chapter in "Gentrification around the World, Volume II". DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-41341-5_6 Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342825156_Anti-Displacement_Social_Movements_in_Lisbon_A_Perspective_from_the_Trenches_in_the_Fight_Against_Transnational_Gentrification</ref>, civic engagement and local community solutions in this fast-changing city<ref>Crowley, Duncan. "Lisbon, a changing city", Jun 2, 2020. Available at: https://medium.com/@fuspey/lisbon-a-changing-city-a44472d2abbc</ref>.

Luís Matos outlined dynamics behind the Community-led initiative (CLI) proposal [https://www.facebook.com/transformarmarvila Transformar Marvila com Jardim e Ciclovias] (Transforming Marvila with parks and bikeways). Four local neighbourhoods combined to form [https://www.facebook.com/GrupoComunitario4Crescente 4Crescente]. They rejected a proposed plan for housing blocks, arguing instead for parks and play areas they were long promised. They fought and won. The council committed to the proposal and launched an urban design project to qualify 144.000m2 of public vacant land into a city-scale public park
<ref>Sofia Cristino (2019) "Descampados junto à biblioteca de Marvila vão ter jardim e pavilhão em vez de prédios de renda acessível". Published in "O Corvo", March, 2019. Available at: https://ocorvo.pt/descampados-junto-a-biblioteca-de-marvila-vao-ter-jardim-campo-de-jogos-e-pavilhao-em-vez-de-predios-de-renda-acessivel/</ref> <ref>Renata Lima (2020) "Há mais um parque verde a caminho de Marvila". Published in Time Out, November 2020. Available at: https://www.timeout.pt/lisboa/pt/noticias/hamais-um-parque-verde-a-caminho-de-marvila-111220</ref>. Luis argues this bold, ambitious project is a CLI because:
# The initial idea came from the tenants of this public housing neighbourhood
# Using the resources available (and backed by the local community group) the tenants made clear their will
# Efforts were made to make every decision making step as participative as possible
# A community representative is part of the jury to select the final project

===Stage 3: Looking deeper at some Lisbon initiatives===
In 2021, UrbanA Lisbon CoP seeks to develop a deeper relationship with a selection of CLIs it has begun to develop a relationship with. These are geographically based communities, which have been supported by projects / groups who have been participating or following the wider UrbanA process so far. These are at Bela Flor, Ajuda, Marvila, or BAM for short.

==Main UrbanA approaches investigated==
[[File:Final image artist rep.jpg|thumb|right|400px|link=https://wiki.urban-arena.eu/images/d/d9/Final_image_artist_rep.jpg|Graphic register from 1st UrbanA Portugal "Local Arena"]]
*[[Co-learning and knowledge brokerage]]
*[[Community gardens and food]]
*[[Degrowth movement (YOU ARE WELCOME TO CONTRIBUTE TO THIS PAGE!)]]
*[[Digital fabrication]]
*[[Financial practices and instruments]]
*[[Governance and participation processes]]
*[[Participatory budgeting]]
*[[Policies and practices for inclusion of disadvantaged groups]]
*[[Right to housing]]
*[[Social food movements]]
*[[Municipalities in Transition]]
*[[Urban development through cultural solutions]]

==Further Reading==
* "Lisbon, the new capital of gentrification & evictions" in UrbanA City Zine, Page 19. December 2019. Available at: https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Zine-final-version_Optimised.pdf
* "UrbanA Arena Local Lisbon 1" (12 November 2019), [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ry2_Vv7Lr1SBV8WgkZqyEUT0dEIWHTAR/view 19 page PDF]
* ROCK: Lisbon highlights the story of Marvila residents. https://rockproject.eu/news-details/221

==Images, Videos, Podcasts and Social Media==
* UrbanA Podcast: [https://podcasts.ceu.edu/content/fablabs FabLabs] (Urban Arena's March podcast was from Lisbon. Ian Cook and Lucia talk with Rafael Calado, UrbanA fellow and the Programme and Operations Manager of FabLab Lisboa. Also available on [https://open.spotify.com/episode/6GNpUtNF3LalGiCCqz9x9s Spotify])
* "The UrbanA project kicked off in Lisbon yesterday", [https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2980261025532863&id=113459253363485 Post event video at CIM] (Video on facebook)
* Photos from the 1st UrbanA 'Local Arena' in Mouraria, Lisbon; [https://twitter.com/pt_urbana/status/1196853524623187968 Twitter] & Instagram ([https://www.instagram.com/p/B5BFe8sAV9o/ 1], [https://www.instagram.com/p/B421r-3iypB/ 2])
* [https://www.facebook.com/pg/urbana.portugal/photos/?tab=album&album_id=153385982704145 Primeira Arena Local do projecto Urbana] (First Local Arena of the UrbanA project - Photo album on facebook)
* [https://www.facebook.com/pg/urbana.portugal/photos/?tab=album&album_id=151457029563707 Arena Local UrbanA #1 - Passeio imersivo na Mouraria] (Immersive tour in Mouraria - Photo album on facebook)
* UrbanA Portugal on Social Media: [https://www.facebook.com/urbana.portugal/ Facebook], [https://www.facebook.com/urbana.portugal/ Twitter] + Instagram support from [https://www.instagram.com/ecocitylisboa/ Ecocity Lisboa]
* GET together with Jessica Verheij and Mafalda Nunes on 5th November 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAx4B8D_OOM

==References==
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UrbanA side events

2023-04-20T19:05:52Z

Duncan Crowley: link to photo album for UMUNDU festival event

UrbanA side events are a part of the [[UrbanA Community of Practice]] (CoP). They started out as special events before each of the main UrbanA arenas, but soon evolved into diverse investigations of UrbanA findings with local communities in consortium member cities. Originally they were planned to be physical, but with COVID some were purely online, some were blended. Some side events happened before Arenas as official [[UrbanA Community Conversations]], some were public, some were just for guests of the upcoming Arena. Other side events happened as fully public Open Webinars, within an Arena. Later side events developed relationships formed in the CoP to further expand CoP activities, there were film night and urban walking tours. Others were "nested events", where UrbanA invited the CoP to participate in wider conferences, festivals and movements, thereby diversifying both the community and themes being explored.

==UrbanA Side Events==
===Local Arena Mouraria (Lisbon)===
[[File:Mouraria event.jpg|right|350px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/how-governance-arrangements-foster-both-urban-sustainability-and-justice-be7ab3786b46]]

The event happened in one of the city’s oldest neighbourhoods, which is also considered the most multi-cultural neighbourhood in the country, Mouraria.

A central question to UrbanA´s implementation in Lisbon was “How might an urban CoP help manifest the dream of a Sustainable and Just Lisbon?” (PDF presentation available here). The day was divided into two parts, a walking tour during the morning around the streets including Rua Dos Lagares, considered to be the epicentre of current evictions, followed by an afternoon at Mouraria Creative Hub, with more than 30 representatives from 24 different groups, or projects, active in the city. A Graphic register captured insights from the day and noted 5 main conclusions:

# Many solutions exist, but complex problems persist
# Tailor solutions to reality and local participation
# Need for articulation to better connect people and projects
# Continuity and cross-pollination is essential.
# Inform about citizen intervention starting points

November 12, 2019. Participants walking tour, 15. Workshop 30. More infos [https://wiki.urban-arena.eu/index.php?title=Database_of_Lisbon_projects_%26_initiatives here])

===How governance arrangements foster both urban sustainability and justice (Freiburg)===
[[File:Twitter Community Conversations Governance copy.jpg|right|350px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/how-governance-arrangements-foster-both-urban-sustainability-and-justice-be7ab3786b46]]
(NOTE: This event was a CoCo and also appears on the [[UrbanA Community Conversations]] list)

Building on the momentum and enthusiasm generated by UrbanA’s online ‘Barcelona’ Arena earlier in the month, 44 people joined the fifth UrbanA Community Conversation on June 23rd. This digital gathering marked the beginning of a new stage in the project — which has so far journeyed from approaches for just and sustainable cities at the Rotterdam Arena, to drivers of injustice in urban sustainability at the second, recent Arena, and now to questions of governance and how to learn between cities for just sustainability.

The Freiburg team has also begun crafting very brief scenarios designed to catch the attention of city-makers in order to lead them to further relevant information. If you are interested, check out the new (and evolving!) [[Database of governance scenarios]] on the UrbanA wiki. The Freiburg University team used examples to illustrate four broader governance ambitions that have potential to avoid injustice in a more durable, long-term way:
# Policy integration,
# Bridging institutional logics,
# Engaging inhabitants, and
# Alternative metrics.

(June 23rd, 44 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/how-governance-arrangements-foster-both-urban-sustainability-and-justice-be7ab3786b46 Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/UrbanA_CoCo-6-23-final.pdf Slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ1o7zGc300 Video] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-governance-tools/ Event Post])

==UrbanA Open Webinars==
===Covid19, justice and sustainability in city (Barcelona)===
[[File:BCN-arena-open-webinar.jpg|right|350px|]]
Can COVID-19 be a turning point on how we imagine and plan our cities? This session will include a short lecture followed by an online conversation on how the COVID-19 has exacerbated urban environmental and health inequalities and how it can be a unique chance to create more just and sustainable urban futures.

The following questions were discussed:

# What are the main manifestations of health and environmental inequalities and related, emergent questions around urban justice in times of pandemic and social confinement?
# To what extent (and where) are such inequalities being addressed in bold, radical ways that can redefine urban futures?
# How does COVID-19 redefine and force us to rethink urban infrastructure (housing, transit, and public space) need, use, and inequalities?
# What lessons can we draw from a crisis such as COVID-19 to build more just and sustainable cities, especially so in the context of a changing climate?

(June 5, 2020. Participants (online, watching on youtube). More infos [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-open-webinar-covid19-justice-and-sustainability-in-city/ here])

==UrbanA Movie Nights==
===“PUSH – The Film” (Rotterdam)===
[[File:PUSH-Rotterdam film night.jpg|right|350px|]]
The covid-19 crisis has exposed several inequities in our cities and at its core is the issue of access to adequate and affordable housing. Long before the shocks of covid-19 crisis, the commodification of the housing market has threatened our right to housing, and constantly changed the very nature and rules of living in cities. PUSH – The Film captures the complexity of this global housing crisis and makes the invisible power relations more tangible. The event will begin with a short introduction to the general theme of Sustainable and Just Cities. After the movie there is an interactive World Café to explore the intersection of the housing crisis with wider challenges of social and ecological (in)justice and the resulting challenges, tensions, possibilities and opportunities for the future.

June 17, 2020. More infos at: [https://urban-arena.eu/event/movie-night-on-sustainablejustcities-the-right-to-housing-with-push-the-film/ Movie Night on #SustainableJustCities: The Right to Housing with “PUSH – The Film” ]

===“Tomorrow” (Rotterdam)===
[[File:Movie night 2.jpg|right|350px|]]
The second online “Movie Night on #SustainableJustCities” was organized on the 1st of December 2020 with the “TomorrowOpens external” documentary, which focuses on creative solutions from sustainable communities across the world. It was organized as part of the Vital Cities & Citizens (VCC) initiative of the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, in collaboration with the UrbanA project and DRIFT.

The movie night event consisted of three main sections spread over 3.5 hours:

# Dr. Flor Avelino gave a a short introduction on sustainable and just cities
# Participants watched the documentary individually on Vimeo. This was followed by
# an interactive World Café discussion, using break-out groups with 3-5 people over two rounds of 15 minutes each. The discussion was self-organized and allowed the participants to share the learnings from the documentary and their engagement with justice and sustainability. This was followed by a short plenary session. Ideas were harvested.

A total of 220 people registered for the event, of which 125 people attended the introduction and movie, and 40 people attended the World Café discussion afterwards. About 30% of these participants were from the Netherlands while others joined from both European and non-European countries including USA, UK, Portugal, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Ireland, India and Hungary. Most of these participants were researchers and/or teachers, students, activists, entrepreneurs and others.

December 1, 2020. 125 Participants - More infos [https://www.eur.nl/en/news/movie-night-sustainablejustcities-community-stories-around-world-tomorrow here] and [https://drift.eur.nl/agenda/movie-night-on-sustainablejustcities-2/ here]

==UrbanA walking tours==
===From Green to Blue. An UrbanA walking tour (Lisbon)===
[[File:UrbanA Lisbon walking tour.jpg|right|350px|]]
An Urban walking tour from Lisbon's green heart, Gulbenkian Park, along the Alcantara valley to the river Tejo. Stops included visits to urban projects on the route: The Bela Flor community are using urban permaculture for both ecological and social change. The Alvito community explore how culture can transform the city, working with the cities communities past and future visions. The new Alcantara valley is one of the highlight projects for Lisbon, Europe's 2020 Green Capital, the old river was remembered. The tour finished at the Alcantara river docks to explore the idea of rivers as organising tools for a fractal form of community led planning process to respond to climate breakdown.

This walking tour led into the later UMUNDU festival, described below. COVID rules were respected. The tour acted as a playful, celebrational activity to stitch the city and its communities.

(October 10, 2020. 5 Participants. More infos [https://www.facebook.com/events/3521283924614952/ here])

==Nested Events==

===Eco City Open Campus===
[[File:Ecocity copy.jpg|right|350px|]]
UrbanA participated in the Ecocity Builders event "Eco City Open Campus". Friends and colleagues from the UrbanA CoP were invited to attend, to share their insights on creating ecocities, #SustainableJustCities, eco projects & communities. It has a “Pay What You Want” register fee, to allow for greater accessibility.who are also involved in creating ecocities. It was an experimental forum, using the VirBELA platform (like an avatar game) to try to connect with other city makers. Groups participated from outside Europe, including many from South East Asia. The main Bangladesh partners were the [https://www.facebook.com/InstOfWellbeing/ Institute of Wellbeing] and [https://www.facebook.com/WBBTrust/ Work for a Better Bangladesh].

(September 8, 2020. Further infos [https://urban-arena.eu/event/eco-city-open-campus/ here] & [https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=UrbanArena.project&set=a.168462108206029 Photo Album] on UrbanA facebook page & [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1301240583776804865 UrbanA twitter thread])

===UMUNDU festival Lisbon===
[[File:Umundu-urbana-Lisbon.jpg|right|350px|]]

Creating Sustainable and Just Cities – The UrbanA experiment: Followed a walking tour in the city, this discussion explored what UrbanA issues might mean in urban transformations happening in the changing city of Lisbon today. The event built on earlier discussions about Lisbon with local city makers and the UrbanA community, whether Europe´s 2020 Green Capital is helping transform Lisbon into a Sustainable and Just City. This event was part of the Umundu eco festival in Lisbon (9-17 October). It was a “Blended event”, an experimental hybrid space, connecting both participants in a physical location, with others online through new communication technologies. Physical event was limited to 20 places, due to COVID restrictions.

(October 10, 2020. @ 20 (15 physical, 5 online). [https://www.facebook.com/miza.monteiro.7/posts/pfbid0yB6NckpPzU2PUh16zTkSk33wLpa1Et2y2oYVc7D71BNTMiTvNdZH64SK2K7je8kol Photo Album], further infos [https://urban-arena.eu/event/creating-sustainable-and-just-cities-the-urbana-experiment/ here])

===Communities for Future===
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The third “Communities for Future” online session explored what is a Community of Practice (CoP) and what can be their role in strengthening community-led responses to societal challenges. Three CoPs from the ECOLISE network at different stages of their evolution were represented; BLAST (Blended Adult Learning for the Social-ecological Transition), Municipalities in Transition (MiT) and UrbanA (Urban Arenas for Sustainable and Just Cities). Davie Phillip outlined how BLAST is establishing processes for their group and assessing best practice and insights from different CoPs within the ECOLISE ecosystem. Together guests explored the shared idea of an eco-social just transition.

(December 02, 2020. 55 Participants. - [https://medium.com/communities-for-future/communities-of-practice-leveraging-impact-by-learning-together-621a27410ca5 Blog post] - [https://communitiesforfuture.org/event/communities-of-practice-leveraging-impact-by-learning-together/ Event Post] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT9izqBV6IQ Video] - Social Media: ([https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1338815690950774785 Twitter])

===The Nature of Cities Festival (TNOC)===
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UrbanA, ECOLISE and Communities for Future joined forces to lead an experimental seed session on the first day of The Nature of Cities Festival (TNOC). About 25 people turned up from different corners of the planet, to explore the topic of “Translocal adventures in developing an Urban Systems Community of Practice”. The event was hosted by Giorgia Silvestri & Duncan Crowley from UrbanA and Sara Silva from ECOLISE. The domain that this Urban Systems Community of Practice Ecosystem supports is nothing less than full eco-social just transition, to return the scope of human activity back within the limits of planet earth. The TNOC event was an experimental step, aiming to share the story so far, maximize guest participation, allow diverse discussions to develop, harvest insights from the group and encourage wider participation in the CfF CoPs Ecosystem. The events structure was based on UrbanA’s “Community Conversation” (CoCo) format and was part of the 3rd stage development of the UrbanA Community of Practice (CoP).

(February 22, 2021. 25 participants - [https://medium.com/communities-for-future/translocal-adventures-communities-of-practice-and-the-tnoc-festival-d134346f9789 Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TNOC-FEST-PREZ_.pdf Presentation slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62lH5eOzFpg Video] - [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1htoUpFLj2NBdztW0E_1FHOgXldThEicyvWDTVYB6eGg/edit Harvest Document] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/translocal-adventures-in-developing-an-urban-systems-community-of-practice-with-urbana-and-ecolise/ Event Post] - Social Media: ([https://www.facebook.com/events/190884266158491/ Facebook Event Post] [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1361314428088692736 Twitter] [https://www.instagram.com/p/CLUONvVMWYS/ Instagram]) - Guests presentations ([https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TNOC-Listening-Room-MiTS-Telheiras.pdf Municipalities in Transition Telheiras] , [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TNOC-MMS_-miquel-telheieres.pdf Local energy transition Telheiras], [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TNOC-FEST-ecocity-PREZ.pdf Community-led Ecocity Transformation])

===Cities for Change===
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This event is one of the “Transition Talks” that are happening as part of the “Cities for Change” summit. It is part of the “Energy and Climate” track, is fully online. Cities for Change Forum is a 2-month online program showcasing world-changing ideas in digital and interactive events for building a just, sustainable and equal society from the ground up. The “Transition Talks” are on from May 24th until May 28th.

ECOLISE invited 8 communities to respond to 4 specific questions about Regeneration; Social, Cultural, Ecology, Economy.

# Social: How can we bring regenerative design ideas from ecovillages to our cities, especially when urban injustice continues to grow? (Global Ecovillage Network & UrbanA)
# Cultural: How can we bring about a culture of resistance and regeneration that is accessible to all? (Fridays for Future + Communities for Future)
# Ecology: How can we bring our ecological ideas out of the academic and activist ghettos to the streets and everyday social movements? (Degrowth & Transition Network)
# Economy: Imagining an end to capitalism, instead of the end to the world… How best can community-led initiatives bring about territorial transformation, policy change and system change? (Doughnut Economics & Regenerative Practitioners)

(May 26, 2021. 37 Participants - [https://duncan-crowley.medium.com/from-fridays-for-future-to-communities-for-future-1c8f421e7c74 Blog post] - [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1WwFyc668KgxZbE4Jwt_QjztVAHSWPERecZNQVH6kN1o/edit#slide=id.p1 Harvest Document] - [https://vimeo.com/554678665 Video] More infos at: [https://urban-arena.eu/event/from-fridays-for-future-to-communities-for-future-how-can-community-led-initiatives-bring-about-system-change/ UrbanA events] + [https://citiesforchange.org/conferences/cities-for-change/f/16/meetings/50 Cities for Change] + [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1395717595362435074 UrbanA Twitter])

UrbanA

2022-11-02T10:56:11Z

Duncan Crowley:

{{Construction}}

==History of UrbanaA==

History of UrbanA and Wiki

link to [https://wiki.sustainablejustcities.eu/UrbanA_Keys keys]

link to [https://wiki.sustainablejustcities.eu/index.php?title=UrbanA_Community_of_Practice community of practice]

==The Arenas==
A total of four [https://urban-arena.eu/sustainable-just-cities-2/ Arenas] took place over the course of the project:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
!Arena number!!Date!!Location!!Host!!Discussion focus!!Resources
|-
|1||November 28th & 29th 2019||Rotterdam||[[Dutch Research Institute for Transition (DRIFT)]]||''"'''Mapping''' approaches to urban sustainability and justice"'' [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Zine-final-version_Optimised.pdf]||
|-
|2|| June 4th & 5th 2020||Barcelona||[[Barcelona Lab for Environmental Justice and Sustainability]]||'''"''Justice'''''<nowiki/>'' challenges in urban sustainability"'' [https://urban-arena.eu/barcelona-arena/]||[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dx2B3R9jTc Recording]
|-
|3||March 18th & 19th 2021||Berlin||[[Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg]]||'''"''Governance arrangements'''''<nowiki/>'' for sustainable and just cities"'' [https://urban-arena.eu/berlin-arena/]||
|-
|4||October 18th & 19th 2021||Brussels||[[ICLEI (Local Governments for Sustainability)]]||'''"''Policy'''''<nowiki/>'' action for sustainable and just cities"'' [https://urban-arena.eu/brussels-arena/]||
|}

The Arenas culminated in the proposition of [[Database of keys|17 keys]][https://urban-arena.eu/resources/keys/] for sustainable and just cities.

UrbanA

2022-11-02T10:54:00Z

Duncan Crowley:

{{Construction}}

==History of UrbanaA==

History of UrbanA and Wiki

link to keys

link to [https://wiki.sustainablejustcities.eu/index.php?title=UrbanA_Community_of_Practice community of practice]

==The Arenas==
A total of four [https://urban-arena.eu/sustainable-just-cities-2/ Arenas] took place over the course of the project:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
!Arena number!!Date!!Location!!Host!!Discussion focus!!Resources
|-
|1||November 28th & 29th 2019||Rotterdam||[[Dutch Research Institute for Transition (DRIFT)]]||''"'''Mapping''' approaches to urban sustainability and justice"'' [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Zine-final-version_Optimised.pdf]||
|-
|2|| June 4th & 5th 2020||Barcelona||[[Barcelona Lab for Environmental Justice and Sustainability]]||'''"''Justice'''''<nowiki/>'' challenges in urban sustainability"'' [https://urban-arena.eu/barcelona-arena/]||[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dx2B3R9jTc Recording]
|-
|3||March 18th & 19th 2021||Berlin||[[Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg]]||'''"''Governance arrangements'''''<nowiki/>'' for sustainable and just cities"'' [https://urban-arena.eu/berlin-arena/]||
|-
|4||October 18th & 19th 2021||Brussels||[[ICLEI (Local Governments for Sustainability)]]||'''"''Policy'''''<nowiki/>'' action for sustainable and just cities"'' [https://urban-arena.eu/brussels-arena/]||
|}

The Arenas culminated in the proposition of [[Database of keys|17 keys]][https://urban-arena.eu/resources/keys/] for sustainable and just cities.

UrbanA side events

2022-06-16T13:31:36Z

Duncan Crowley:

UrbanA side events are a part of the [[UrbanA Community of Practice]] (CoP). They started out as special events before each of the main UrbanA arenas, but soon evolved into diverse investigations of UrbanA findings with local communities in consortium member cities. Originally they were planned to be physical, but with COVID some were purely online, some were blended. Some side events happened before Arenas as official [[UrbanA Community Conversations]], some were public, some were just for guests of the upcoming Arena. Other side events happened as fully public Open Webinars, within an Arena. Later side events developed relationships formed in the CoP to further expand CoP activities, there were film night and urban walking tours. Others were "nested events", where UrbanA invited the CoP to participate in wider conferences, festivals and movements, thereby diversifying both the community and themes being explored.

==UrbanA Side Events==
===Local Arena Mouraria (Lisbon)===
[[File:Mouraria event.jpg|right|350px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/how-governance-arrangements-foster-both-urban-sustainability-and-justice-be7ab3786b46]]

The event happened in one of the city’s oldest neighbourhoods, which is also considered the most multi-cultural neighbourhood in the country, Mouraria.

A central question to UrbanA´s implementation in Lisbon was “How might an urban CoP help manifest the dream of a Sustainable and Just Lisbon?” (PDF presentation available here). The day was divided into two parts, a walking tour during the morning around the streets including Rua Dos Lagares, considered to be the epicentre of current evictions, followed by an afternoon at Mouraria Creative Hub, with more than 30 representatives from 24 different groups, or projects, active in the city. A Graphic register captured insights from the day and noted 5 main conclusions:

# Many solutions exist, but complex problems persist
# Tailor solutions to reality and local participation
# Need for articulation to better connect people and projects
# Continuity and cross-pollination is essential.
# Inform about citizen intervention starting points

November 12, 2019. Participants walking tour, 15. Workshop 30. More infos [https://wiki.urban-arena.eu/index.php?title=Database_of_Lisbon_projects_%26_initiatives here])

===How governance arrangements foster both urban sustainability and justice (Freiburg)===
[[File:Twitter Community Conversations Governance copy.jpg|right|350px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/how-governance-arrangements-foster-both-urban-sustainability-and-justice-be7ab3786b46]]
(NOTE: This event was a CoCo and also appears on the [[UrbanA Community Conversations]] list)

Building on the momentum and enthusiasm generated by UrbanA’s online ‘Barcelona’ Arena earlier in the month, 44 people joined the fifth UrbanA Community Conversation on June 23rd. This digital gathering marked the beginning of a new stage in the project — which has so far journeyed from approaches for just and sustainable cities at the Rotterdam Arena, to drivers of injustice in urban sustainability at the second, recent Arena, and now to questions of governance and how to learn between cities for just sustainability.

The Freiburg team has also begun crafting very brief scenarios designed to catch the attention of city-makers in order to lead them to further relevant information. If you are interested, check out the new (and evolving!) [[Database of governance scenarios]] on the UrbanA wiki. The Freiburg University team used examples to illustrate four broader governance ambitions that have potential to avoid injustice in a more durable, long-term way:
# Policy integration,
# Bridging institutional logics,
# Engaging inhabitants, and
# Alternative metrics.

(June 23rd, 44 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/how-governance-arrangements-foster-both-urban-sustainability-and-justice-be7ab3786b46 Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/UrbanA_CoCo-6-23-final.pdf Slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ1o7zGc300 Video] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-governance-tools/ Event Post])

==UrbanA Open Webinars==
===Covid19, justice and sustainability in city (Barcelona)===
[[File:BCN-arena-open-webinar.jpg|right|350px|]]
Can COVID-19 be a turning point on how we imagine and plan our cities? This session will include a short lecture followed by an online conversation on how the COVID-19 has exacerbated urban environmental and health inequalities and how it can be a unique chance to create more just and sustainable urban futures.

The following questions were discussed:

# What are the main manifestations of health and environmental inequalities and related, emergent questions around urban justice in times of pandemic and social confinement?
# To what extent (and where) are such inequalities being addressed in bold, radical ways that can redefine urban futures?
# How does COVID-19 redefine and force us to rethink urban infrastructure (housing, transit, and public space) need, use, and inequalities?
# What lessons can we draw from a crisis such as COVID-19 to build more just and sustainable cities, especially so in the context of a changing climate?

(June 5, 2020. Participants (online, watching on youtube). More infos [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-open-webinar-covid19-justice-and-sustainability-in-city/ here])

==UrbanA Movie Nights==
===“PUSH – The Film” (Rotterdam)===
[[File:PUSH-Rotterdam film night.jpg|right|350px|]]
The covid-19 crisis has exposed several inequities in our cities and at its core is the issue of access to adequate and affordable housing. Long before the shocks of covid-19 crisis, the commodification of the housing market has threatened our right to housing, and constantly changed the very nature and rules of living in cities. PUSH – The Film captures the complexity of this global housing crisis and makes the invisible power relations more tangible. The event will begin with a short introduction to the general theme of Sustainable and Just Cities. After the movie there is an interactive World Café to explore the intersection of the housing crisis with wider challenges of social and ecological (in)justice and the resulting challenges, tensions, possibilities and opportunities for the future.

June 17, 2020. More infos at: [https://urban-arena.eu/event/movie-night-on-sustainablejustcities-the-right-to-housing-with-push-the-film/ Movie Night on #SustainableJustCities: The Right to Housing with “PUSH – The Film” ]

===“Tomorrow” (Rotterdam)===
[[File:Movie night 2.jpg|right|350px|]]
The second online “Movie Night on #SustainableJustCities” was organized on the 1st of December 2020 with the “TomorrowOpens external” documentary, which focuses on creative solutions from sustainable communities across the world. It was organized as part of the Vital Cities & Citizens (VCC) initiative of the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, in collaboration with the UrbanA project and DRIFT.

The movie night event consisted of three main sections spread over 3.5 hours:

# Dr. Flor Avelino gave a a short introduction on sustainable and just cities
# Participants watched the documentary individually on Vimeo. This was followed by
# an interactive World Café discussion, using break-out groups with 3-5 people over two rounds of 15 minutes each. The discussion was self-organized and allowed the participants to share the learnings from the documentary and their engagement with justice and sustainability. This was followed by a short plenary session. Ideas were harvested.

A total of 220 people registered for the event, of which 125 people attended the introduction and movie, and 40 people attended the World Café discussion afterwards. About 30% of these participants were from the Netherlands while others joined from both European and non-European countries including USA, UK, Portugal, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Ireland, India and Hungary. Most of these participants were researchers and/or teachers, students, activists, entrepreneurs and others.

December 1, 2020. 125 Participants - More infos [https://www.eur.nl/en/news/movie-night-sustainablejustcities-community-stories-around-world-tomorrow here] and [https://drift.eur.nl/agenda/movie-night-on-sustainablejustcities-2/ here]

==UrbanA walking tours==
===From Green to Blue. An UrbanA walking tour (Lisbon)===
[[File:UrbanA Lisbon walking tour.jpg|right|350px|]]
An Urban walking tour from Lisbon's green heart, Gulbenkian Park, along the Alcantara valley to the river Tejo. Stops included visits to urban projects on the route: The Bela Flor community are using urban permaculture for both ecological and social change. The Alvito community explore how culture can transform the city, working with the cities communities past and future visions. The new Alcantara valley is one of the highlight projects for Lisbon, Europe's 2020 Green Capital, the old river was remembered. The tour finished at the Alcantara river docks to explore the idea of rivers as organising tools for a fractal form of community led planning process to respond to climate breakdown.

This walking tour led into the later UMUNDU festival, described below. COVID rules were respected. The tour acted as a playful, celebrational activity to stitch the city and its communities.

(October 10, 2020. 5 Participants. More infos [https://www.facebook.com/events/3521283924614952/ here])

==Nested Events==

===Eco City Open Campus===
[[File:Ecocity copy.jpg|right|350px|]]
UrbanA participated in the Ecocity Builders event "Eco City Open Campus". Friends and colleagues from the UrbanA CoP were invited to attend, to share their insights on creating ecocities, #SustainableJustCities, eco projects & communities. It has a “Pay What You Want” register fee, to allow for greater accessibility.who are also involved in creating ecocities. It was an experimental forum, using the VirBELA platform (like an avatar game) to try to connect with other city makers. Groups participated from outside Europe, including many from South East Asia. The main Bangladesh partners were the [https://www.facebook.com/InstOfWellbeing/ Institute of Wellbeing] and [https://www.facebook.com/WBBTrust/ Work for a Better Bangladesh].

(September 8, 2020. Further infos [https://urban-arena.eu/event/eco-city-open-campus/ here] & [https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=UrbanArena.project&set=a.168462108206029 Photo Album] on UrbanA facebook page & [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1301240583776804865 UrbanA twitter thread])

===UMUNDU festival Lisbon===
[[File:Umundu-urbana-Lisbon.jpg|right|350px|]]

Creating Sustainable and Just Cities – The UrbanA experiment: Followed a walking tour in the city, this discussion explored what UrbanA issues might mean in urban transformations happening in the changing city of Lisbon today. The event built on earlier discussions about Lisbon with local city makers and the UrbanA community, whether Europe´s 2020 Green Capital is helping transform Lisbon into a Sustainable and Just City. This event was part of the Umundu eco festival in Lisbon (9-17 October). It was a “Blended event”, an experimental hybrid space, connecting both participants in a physical location, with others online through new communication technologies. Physical event was limited to 20 places, due to COVID restrictions.

(October 10, 2020. Links coming soon, further infos [https://urban-arena.eu/event/creating-sustainable-and-just-cities-the-urbana-experiment/ here])

===Communities for Future===
[[File:1*hCnjyAC4V2rSxwfPGK xOA copy.jpg|right|350px|]]

The third “Communities for Future” online session explored what is a Community of Practice (CoP) and what can be their role in strengthening community-led responses to societal challenges. Three CoPs from the ECOLISE network at different stages of their evolution were represented; BLAST (Blended Adult Learning for the Social-ecological Transition), Municipalities in Transition (MiT) and UrbanA (Urban Arenas for Sustainable and Just Cities). Davie Phillip outlined how BLAST is establishing processes for their group and assessing best practice and insights from different CoPs within the ECOLISE ecosystem. Together guests explored the shared idea of an eco-social just transition.

(December 02, 2020. 55 Participants. - [https://medium.com/communities-for-future/communities-of-practice-leveraging-impact-by-learning-together-621a27410ca5 Blog post] - [https://communitiesforfuture.org/event/communities-of-practice-leveraging-impact-by-learning-together/ Event Post] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT9izqBV6IQ Video] - Social Media: ([https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1338815690950774785 Twitter])

===The Nature of Cities Festival (TNOC)===
[[File:Tnoc post.jpeg|right|350px|]]

UrbanA, ECOLISE and Communities for Future joined forces to lead an experimental seed session on the first day of The Nature of Cities Festival (TNOC). About 25 people turned up from different corners of the planet, to explore the topic of “Translocal adventures in developing an Urban Systems Community of Practice”. The event was hosted by Giorgia Silvestri & Duncan Crowley from UrbanA and Sara Silva from ECOLISE. The domain that this Urban Systems Community of Practice Ecosystem supports is nothing less than full eco-social just transition, to return the scope of human activity back within the limits of planet earth. The TNOC event was an experimental step, aiming to share the story so far, maximize guest participation, allow diverse discussions to develop, harvest insights from the group and encourage wider participation in the CfF CoPs Ecosystem. The events structure was based on UrbanA’s “Community Conversation” (CoCo) format and was part of the 3rd stage development of the UrbanA Community of Practice (CoP).

(February 22, 2021. 25 participants - [https://medium.com/communities-for-future/translocal-adventures-communities-of-practice-and-the-tnoc-festival-d134346f9789 Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TNOC-FEST-PREZ_.pdf Presentation slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62lH5eOzFpg Video] - [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1htoUpFLj2NBdztW0E_1FHOgXldThEicyvWDTVYB6eGg/edit Harvest Document] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/translocal-adventures-in-developing-an-urban-systems-community-of-practice-with-urbana-and-ecolise/ Event Post] - Social Media: ([https://www.facebook.com/events/190884266158491/ Facebook Event Post] [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1361314428088692736 Twitter] [https://www.instagram.com/p/CLUONvVMWYS/ Instagram]) - Guests presentations ([https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TNOC-Listening-Room-MiTS-Telheiras.pdf Municipalities in Transition Telheiras] , [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TNOC-MMS_-miquel-telheieres.pdf Local energy transition Telheiras], [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TNOC-FEST-ecocity-PREZ.pdf Community-led Ecocity Transformation])

===Cities for Change===
[[File:CFC-final-poster-copy.jpg|right|350px|]]
This event is one of the “Transition Talks” that are happening as part of the “Cities for Change” summit. It is part of the “Energy and Climate” track, is fully online. Cities for Change Forum is a 2-month online program showcasing world-changing ideas in digital and interactive events for building a just, sustainable and equal society from the ground up. The “Transition Talks” are on from May 24th until May 28th.

ECOLISE invited 8 communities to respond to 4 specific questions about Regeneration; Social, Cultural, Ecology, Economy.

# Social: How can we bring regenerative design ideas from ecovillages to our cities, especially when urban injustice continues to grow? (Global Ecovillage Network & UrbanA)
# Cultural: How can we bring about a culture of resistance and regeneration that is accessible to all? (Fridays for Future + Communities for Future)
# Ecology: How can we bring our ecological ideas out of the academic and activist ghettos to the streets and everyday social movements? (Degrowth & Transition Network)
# Economy: Imagining an end to capitalism, instead of the end to the world… How best can community-led initiatives bring about territorial transformation, policy change and system change? (Doughnut Economics & Regenerative Practitioners)

(May 26, 2021. 37 Participants - [https://duncan-crowley.medium.com/from-fridays-for-future-to-communities-for-future-1c8f421e7c74 Blog post] - [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1WwFyc668KgxZbE4Jwt_QjztVAHSWPERecZNQVH6kN1o/edit#slide=id.p1 Harvest Document] - [https://vimeo.com/554678665 Video] More infos at: [https://urban-arena.eu/event/from-fridays-for-future-to-communities-for-future-how-can-community-led-initiatives-bring-about-system-change/ UrbanA events] + [https://citiesforchange.org/conferences/cities-for-change/f/16/meetings/50 Cities for Change] + [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1395717595362435074 UrbanA Twitter])

UrbanA side events

2022-06-16T13:30:15Z

Duncan Crowley:

UrbanA side events are a part of the [[UrbanA Community of Practice]] (CoP). They started out as special events before each of the main UrbanA arenas, but soon evolved into diverse investigations of UrbanA findings with local communities in consortium member cities. Originally they were planned to be physical, but with COVID some were purely online, some were blended. Some side events happened before Arenas as official [[UrbanA Community Conversations]], some were public, some were just for guests of the upcoming Arena. Other side events happened as fully public Open Webinars, within an Arena. Later side events developed relationships formed in the CoP to further expand CoP activities, there were film night and urban walking tours. Others were "nested events", where UrbanA invited the CoP to participate in wider conferences, festivals and movements, thereby diversifying both the community and themes being explored.

==UrbanA Side Events==
===Local Arena Mouraria (Lisbon)===
[[File:Mouraria event.jpg|right|350px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/how-governance-arrangements-foster-both-urban-sustainability-and-justice-be7ab3786b46]]

The event happened in one of the city’s oldest neighbourhoods, which is also considered the most multi-cultural neighbourhood in the country, Mouraria.

A central question to UrbanA´s implementation in Lisbon was “How might an urban CoP help manifest the dream of a Sustainable and Just Lisbon?” (PDF presentation available here). The day was divided into two parts, a walking tour during the morning around the streets including Rua Dos Lagares, considered to be the epicentre of current evictions, followed by an afternoon at Mouraria Creative Hub, with more than 30 representatives from 24 different groups, or projects, active in the city. A Graphic register captured insights from the day and noted 5 main conclusions:

# Many solutions exist, but complex problems persist
# Tailor solutions to reality and local participation
# Need for articulation to better connect people and projects
# Continuity and cross-pollination is essential.
# Inform about citizen intervention starting points

November 12, 2019. Participants walking tour, 15. Workshop 30. More infos [https://wiki.urban-arena.eu/index.php?title=Database_of_Lisbon_projects_%26_initiatives here])

===How governance arrangements foster both urban sustainability and justice (Freiburg)===
[[File:Twitter Community Conversations Governance copy.jpg|right|350px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/how-governance-arrangements-foster-both-urban-sustainability-and-justice-be7ab3786b46]]
(NOTE: This event was a CoCo and also appears on the [[UrbanA Community Conversations]] list)

Building on the momentum and enthusiasm generated by UrbanA’s online ‘Barcelona’ Arena earlier in the month, 44 people joined the fifth UrbanA Community Conversation on June 23rd. This digital gathering marked the beginning of a new stage in the project — which has so far journeyed from approaches for just and sustainable cities at the Rotterdam Arena, to drivers of injustice in urban sustainability at the second, recent Arena, and now to questions of governance and how to learn between cities for just sustainability.

The Freiburg team has also begun crafting very brief scenarios designed to catch the attention of city-makers in order to lead them to further relevant information. If you are interested, check out the new (and evolving!) [[Database of governance scenarios]] on the UrbanA wiki. The Freiburg University team used examples to illustrate four broader governance ambitions that have potential to avoid injustice in a more durable, long-term way:
# Policy integration,
# Bridging institutional logics,
# Engaging inhabitants, and
# Alternative metrics.

(June 23rd, 44 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/how-governance-arrangements-foster-both-urban-sustainability-and-justice-be7ab3786b46 Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/UrbanA_CoCo-6-23-final.pdf Slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ1o7zGc300 Video] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-governance-tools/ Event Post])

==UrbanA Open Webinars==
===Covid19, justice and sustainability in city (Barcelona)===
[[File:BCN-arena-open-webinar.jpg|right|350px|]]
Can COVID-19 be a turning point on how we imagine and plan our cities? This session will include a short lecture followed by an online conversation on how the COVID-19 has exacerbated urban environmental and health inequalities and how it can be a unique chance to create more just and sustainable urban futures.

The following questions were discussed:

# What are the main manifestations of health and environmental inequalities and related, emergent questions around urban justice in times of pandemic and social confinement?
# To what extent (and where) are such inequalities being addressed in bold, radical ways that can redefine urban futures?
# How does COVID-19 redefine and force us to rethink urban infrastructure (housing, transit, and public space) need, use, and inequalities?
# What lessons can we draw from a crisis such as COVID-19 to build more just and sustainable cities, especially so in the context of a changing climate?

(June 5, 2020. Participants (online, watching on youtube). More infos [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-open-webinar-covid19-justice-and-sustainability-in-city/ here])

==UrbanA Movie Nights==
===“PUSH – The Film” (Rotterdam)===
[[File:PUSH-Rotterdam film night.jpg|right|350px|]]
The covid-19 crisis has exposed several inequities in our cities and at its core is the issue of access to adequate and affordable housing. Long before the shocks of covid-19 crisis, the commodification of the housing market has threatened our right to housing, and constantly changed the very nature and rules of living in cities. PUSH – The Film captures the complexity of this global housing crisis and makes the invisible power relations more tangible. The event will begin with a short introduction to the general theme of Sustainable and Just Cities. After the movie there is an interactive World Café to explore the intersection of the housing crisis with wider challenges of social and ecological (in)justice and the resulting challenges, tensions, possibilities and opportunities for the future.

June 17, 2020. More infos at: [https://urban-arena.eu/event/movie-night-on-sustainablejustcities-the-right-to-housing-with-push-the-film/ Movie Night on #SustainableJustCities: The Right to Housing with “PUSH – The Film” ]

===“Tomorrow” (Rotterdam)===
[[File:Movie night 2.jpg|right|350px|]]
The second online “Movie Night on #SustainableJustCities” was organized on the 1st of December 2020 with the “TomorrowOpens external” documentary, which focuses on creative solutions from sustainable communities across the world. It was organized as part of the Vital Cities & Citizens (VCC) initiative of the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, in collaboration with the UrbanA project and DRIFT.

The movie night event consisted of three main sections spread over 3.5 hours:

# Dr. Flor Avelino gave a a short introduction on sustainable and just cities
# Participants watched the documentary individually on Vimeo. This was followed by
# an interactive World Café discussion, using break-out groups with 3-5 people over two rounds of 15 minutes each. The discussion was self-organized and allowed the participants to share the learnings from the documentary and their engagement with justice and sustainability. This was followed by a short plenary session. Ideas were harvested.

A total of 220 people registered for the event, of which 125 people attended the introduction and movie, and 40 people attended the World Café discussion afterwards. About 30% of these participants were from the Netherlands while others joined from both European and non-European countries including USA, UK, Portugal, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Ireland, India and Hungary. Most of these participants were researchers and/or teachers, students, activists, entrepreneurs and others.

December 1, 2020. 125 Participants - More infos [https://www.eur.nl/en/news/movie-night-sustainablejustcities-community-stories-around-world-tomorrow here] and [https://drift.eur.nl/agenda/movie-night-on-sustainablejustcities-2/ here]

==UrbanA walking tours==
===From Green to Blue. An UrbanA walking tour (Lisbon)===
[[File:UrbanA Lisbon walking tour.jpg|right|350px|]]
An Urban walking tour from Lisbon's green heart, Gulbenkian Park, along the Alcantara valley to the river Tejo. Stops included visits to urban projects on the route: The Bela Flor community are using urban permaculture for both ecological and social change. The Alvito community explore how culture can transform the city, working with the cities communities past and future visions. The new Alcantara valley is one of the highlight projects for Lisbon, Europe's 2020 Green Capital, the old river was remembered. The tour finished at the Alcantara river docks to explore the idea of rivers as organising tools for a fractal form of community led planning process to respond to climate breakdown.

This walking tour led into the later UMUNDU festival, described below. COVID rules were respected. The tour acted as a playful, celebrational activity to stitch the city and its communities.

(October 10, 2020. 5 Participants. More infos [https://www.facebook.com/events/3521283924614952/ here])

==Nested Events==

===Eco City Open Campus===
[[File:Ecocity copy.jpg|right|350px|]]
UrbanA participated in the Ecocity Builders event "Eco City Open Campus". Friends and colleagues from the UrbanA CoP were invited to attend, to share their insights on creating ecocities, #SustainableJustCities, eco projects & communities. It has a “Pay What You Want” register fee, to allow for greater accessibility.who are also involved in creating ecocities. It was an experimental forum, using the VirBELA platform (like an avatar game) to try to connect with other city makers. Groups participated from outside Europe, including many from South East Asia. The main Bangladesh partners were the [https://www.facebook.com/InstOfWellbeing/ Institute of Wellbeing] and [https://www.facebook.com/WBBTrust/ Work for a Better Bangladesh].

(September 8, 2020. Further infos [https://urban-arena.eu/event/eco-city-open-campus/ here] & [https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=UrbanArena.project&set=a.168462108206029 Photo Album] on UrbanA facebook page & [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1301240583776804865 UrbanA twitter thread])

===UMUNDU festival Lisbon===
[[File:Umundu-urbana-Lisbon.jpg|right|350px|]]

Creating Sustainable and Just Cities – The UrbanA experiment: Followed a walking tour in the city, this discussion explored what UrbanA issues might mean in urban transformations happening in the changing city of Lisbon today. The event built on earlier discussions about Lisbon with local city makers and the UrbanA community, whether Europe´s 2020 Green Capital is helping transform Lisbon into a Sustainable and Just City. This event was part of the Umundu eco festival in Lisbon (9-17 October). It was a “Blended event”, an experimental hybrid space, connecting both participants in a physical location, with others online through new communication technologies. Physical event was limited to 20 places, due to COVID restrictions.

(October 10, 2020. Links coming soon, further infos [https://urban-arena.eu/event/creating-sustainable-and-just-cities-the-urbana-experiment/ here])

===Communities for Future===
[[File:1*hCnjyAC4V2rSxwfPGK xOA copy.jpg|right|350px|]]

The third “Communities for Future” online session explored what is a Community of Practice (CoP) and what can be their role in strengthening community-led responses to societal challenges. Three CoPs from the ECOLISE network at different stages of their evolution were represented; BLAST (Blended Adult Learning for the Social-ecological Transition), Municipalities in Transition (MiT) and UrbanA (Urban Arenas for Sustainable and Just Cities). Davie Phillip outlined how BLAST is establishing processes for their group and assessing best practice and insights from different CoPs within the ECOLISE ecosystem. Together guests explored the shared idea of an eco-social just transition.

(December 02, 2020. 55 Participants. - [https://medium.com/communities-for-future/communities-of-practice-leveraging-impact-by-learning-together-621a27410ca5 Blog post] - [https://communitiesforfuture.org/event/communities-of-practice-leveraging-impact-by-learning-together/ Event Post] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT9izqBV6IQ Video] - Social Media: ([https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1338815690950774785 Twitter])

===The Nature of Cities Festival (TNOC)===
[[File:Tnoc post.jpeg|right|350px|]]

UrbanA, ECOLISE and Communities for Future joined forces to lead an experimental seed session on the first day of The Nature of Cities Festival (TNOC). About 25 people turned up from different corners of the planet, to explore the topic of “Translocal adventures in developing an Urban Systems Community of Practice”. The event was hosted by Giorgia Silvestri & Duncan Crowley from UrbanA and Sara Silva from ECOLISE. The domain that this Urban Systems Community of Practice Ecosystem supports is nothing less than full eco-social just transition, to return the scope of human activity back within the limits of planet earth. The TNOC event was an experimental step, aiming to share the story so far, maximize guest participation, allow diverse discussions to develop, harvest insights from the group and encourage wider participation in the CfF CoPs Ecosystem. The events structure was based on UrbanA’s “Community Conversation” (CoCo) format and was part of the 3rd stage development of the UrbanA Community of Practice (CoP).

(February 22, 2021. 25 participants - [https://medium.com/communities-for-future/translocal-adventures-communities-of-practice-and-the-tnoc-festival-d134346f9789 Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TNOC-FEST-PREZ_.pdf Presentation slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62lH5eOzFpg Video] - [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1htoUpFLj2NBdztW0E_1FHOgXldThEicyvWDTVYB6eGg/edit Harvest Document] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/translocal-adventures-in-developing-an-urban-systems-community-of-practice-with-urbana-and-ecolise/ Event Post] - Social Media: ([https://www.facebook.com/events/190884266158491/ Facebook Event Post] [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1361314428088692736 Twitter] [https://www.instagram.com/p/CLUONvVMWYS/ Instagram]) - Guests presentations ([https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TNOC-Listening-Room-MiTS-Telheiras.pdf Municipalities in Transition Telheiras] , [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TNOC-MMS_-miquel-telheieres.pdf Local energy transition Telheiras], [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TNOC-FEST-ecocity-PREZ.pdf Community-led Ecocity Transformation])

===Cities for Change===
[[File:CFC-final-poster-copy.jpg|right|350px|]]
This event is one of the “Transition Talks” that are happening as part of the “Cities for Change” summit. It is part of the “Energy and Climate” track, is fully online. Cities for Change Forum is a 2-month online program showcasing world-changing ideas in digital and interactive events for building a just, sustainable and equal society from the ground up. The “Transition Talks” are on from May 24th until May 28th.

ECOLISE invited 8 communities to respond to 4 specific questions about Regeneration; Social, Cultural, Ecology, Economy.

# Social: How can we bring regenerative design ideas from ecovillages to our cities, especially when urban injustice continues to grow? (Global Ecovillage Network & UrbanA)
# Cultural: How can we bring about a culture of resistance and regeneration that is accessible to all? (Fridays for Future + Communities for Future)
# Ecology: How can we bring our ecological ideas out of the academic and activist ghettos to the streets and everyday social movements? (Degrowth & Transition Network)
# Economy: Imagining an end to capitalism, instead of the end to the world… How best can community-led initiatives bring about territorial transformation, policy change and system change? (Doughnut Economics & Regenerative Practitioners)

(May 26, 2021. 37 Participants - [https://duncan-crowley.medium.com/from-fridays-for-future-to-communities-for-future-1c8f421e7c74 Blog post] - [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1htoUpFLj2NBdztW0E_1FHOgXldThEicyvWDTVYB6eGg/edit Harvest Document] - [https://vimeo.com/554678665 Video] More infos at: [https://urban-arena.eu/event/from-fridays-for-future-to-communities-for-future-how-can-community-led-initiatives-bring-about-system-change/ UrbanA events] + [https://citiesforchange.org/conferences/cities-for-change/f/16/meetings/50 Cities for Change] + [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1395717595362435074 UrbanA Twitter])

UrbanA side events

2021-07-22T09:46:49Z

Duncan Crowley: /* Eco City Open Campus */

UrbanA side events are a part of the [[UrbanA Community of Practice]] (CoP). They started out as special events before each of the main UrbanA arenas, but soon evolved into diverse investigations of UrbanA findings with local communities in consortium member cities. Originally they were planned to be physical, but with COVID some were purely online, some were blended. Some side events happened before Arenas as official [[UrbanA Community Conversations]], some were public, some were just for guests of the upcoming Arena. Other side events happened as fully public Open Webinars, within an Arena. Later side events developed relationships formed in the CoP to further expand CoP activities, there were film night and urban walking tours. Others were "nested events", where UrbanA invited the CoP to participate in wider conferences, festivals and movements, thereby diversifying both the community and themes being explored.

==UrbanA Side Events==
===Local Arena Mouraria (Lisbon)===
[[File:Mouraria event.jpg|right|350px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/how-governance-arrangements-foster-both-urban-sustainability-and-justice-be7ab3786b46]]

The event happened in one of the city’s oldest neighbourhoods, which is also considered the most multi-cultural neighbourhood in the country, Mouraria.

A central question to UrbanA´s implementation in Lisbon was “How might an urban CoP help manifest the dream of a Sustainable and Just Lisbon?” (PDF presentation available here). The day was divided into two parts, a walking tour during the morning around the streets including Rua Dos Lagares, considered to be the epicentre of current evictions, followed by an afternoon at Mouraria Creative Hub, with more than 30 representatives from 24 different groups, or projects, active in the city. A Graphic register captured insights from the day and noted 5 main conclusions:

# Many solutions exist, but complex problems persist
# Tailor solutions to reality and local participation
# Need for articulation to better connect people and projects
# Continuity and cross-pollination is essential.
# Inform about citizen intervention starting points

November 12, 2019. Participants walking tour, 15. Workshop 30. More infos [https://wiki.urban-arena.eu/index.php?title=Database_of_Lisbon_projects_%26_initiatives here])

===How governance arrangements foster both urban sustainability and justice (Freiburg)===
[[File:Twitter Community Conversations Governance copy.jpg|right|350px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/how-governance-arrangements-foster-both-urban-sustainability-and-justice-be7ab3786b46]]
(NOTE: This event was a CoCo and also appears on the [[UrbanA Community Conversations]] list)

Building on the momentum and enthusiasm generated by UrbanA’s online ‘Barcelona’ Arena earlier in the month, 44 people joined the fifth UrbanA Community Conversation on June 23rd. This digital gathering marked the beginning of a new stage in the project — which has so far journeyed from approaches for just and sustainable cities at the Rotterdam Arena, to drivers of injustice in urban sustainability at the second, recent Arena, and now to questions of governance and how to learn between cities for just sustainability.

The Freiburg team has also begun crafting very brief scenarios designed to catch the attention of city-makers in order to lead them to further relevant information. If you are interested, check out the new (and evolving!) [[Database of governance scenarios]] on the UrbanA wiki. The Freiburg University team used examples to illustrate four broader governance ambitions that have potential to avoid injustice in a more durable, long-term way:
# Policy integration,
# Bridging institutional logics,
# Engaging inhabitants, and
# Alternative metrics.

(June 23rd, 44 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/how-governance-arrangements-foster-both-urban-sustainability-and-justice-be7ab3786b46 Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/UrbanA_CoCo-6-23-final.pdf Slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ1o7zGc300 Video] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-governance-tools/ Event Post])

==UrbanA Open Webinars==
===Covid19, justice and sustainability in city (Barcelona)===
[[File:BCN-arena-open-webinar.jpg|right|350px|]]
Can COVID-19 be a turning point on how we imagine and plan our cities? This session will include a short lecture followed by an online conversation on how the COVID-19 has exacerbated urban environmental and health inequalities and how it can be a unique chance to create more just and sustainable urban futures.

The following questions were discussed:

# What are the main manifestations of health and environmental inequalities and related, emergent questions around urban justice in times of pandemic and social confinement?
# To what extent (and where) are such inequalities being addressed in bold, radical ways that can redefine urban futures?
# How does COVID-19 redefine and force us to rethink urban infrastructure (housing, transit, and public space) need, use, and inequalities?
# What lessons can we draw from a crisis such as COVID-19 to build more just and sustainable cities, especially so in the context of a changing climate?

(June 5, 2020. Participants (online, watching on youtube). More infos [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-open-webinar-covid19-justice-and-sustainability-in-city/ here])

==UrbanA Movie Nights==
===“PUSH – The Film” (Rotterdam)===
[[File:PUSH-Rotterdam film night.jpg|right|350px|]]
The covid-19 crisis has exposed several inequities in our cities and at its core is the issue of access to adequate and affordable housing. Long before the shocks of covid-19 crisis, the commodification of the housing market has threatened our right to housing, and constantly changed the very nature and rules of living in cities. PUSH – The Film captures the complexity of this global housing crisis and makes the invisible power relations more tangible. The event will begin with a short introduction to the general theme of Sustainable and Just Cities. After the movie there is an interactive World Café to explore the intersection of the housing crisis with wider challenges of social and ecological (in)justice and the resulting challenges, tensions, possibilities and opportunities for the future.

June 17, 2020. More infos at: [https://urban-arena.eu/event/movie-night-on-sustainablejustcities-the-right-to-housing-with-push-the-film/ Movie Night on #SustainableJustCities: The Right to Housing with “PUSH – The Film” ]

===“Tomorrow” (Rotterdam)===
[[File:Movie night 2.jpg|right|350px|]]
The second online “Movie Night on #SustainableJustCities” was organized on the 1st of December 2020 with the “TomorrowOpens external” documentary, which focuses on creative solutions from sustainable communities across the world. It was organized as part of the Vital Cities & Citizens (VCC) initiative of the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, in collaboration with the UrbanA project and DRIFT.

The movie night event consisted of three main sections spread over 3.5 hours:

# Dr. Flor Avelino gave a a short introduction on sustainable and just cities
# Participants watched the documentary individually on Vimeo. This was followed by
# an interactive World Café discussion, using break-out groups with 3-5 people over two rounds of 15 minutes each. The discussion was self-organized and allowed the participants to share the learnings from the documentary and their engagement with justice and sustainability. This was followed by a short plenary session. Ideas were harvested.

A total of 220 people registered for the event, of which 125 people attended the introduction and movie, and 40 people attended the World Café discussion afterwards. About 30% of these participants were from the Netherlands while others joined from both European and non-European countries including USA, UK, Portugal, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Ireland, India and Hungary. Most of these participants were researchers and/or teachers, students, activists, entrepreneurs and others.

December 1, 2020. 125 Participants - More infos [https://www.eur.nl/en/news/movie-night-sustainablejustcities-community-stories-around-world-tomorrow here] and [https://drift.eur.nl/agenda/movie-night-on-sustainablejustcities-2/ here]

==UrbanA walking tours==
===From Green to Blue. An UrbanA walking tour (Lisbon)===
[[File:UrbanA Lisbon walking tour.jpg|right|350px|]]
An Urban walking tour from Lisbon's green heart, Gulbenkian Park, along the Alcantara valley to the river Tejo. Stops included visits to urban projects on the route: The Bela Flor community are using urban permaculture for both ecological and social change. The Alvito community explore how culture can transform the city, working with the cities communities past and future visions. The new Alcantara valley is one of the highlight projects for Lisbon, Europe's 2020 Green Capital, the old river was remembered. The tour finished at the Alcantara river docks to explore the idea of rivers as organising tools for a fractal form of community led planning process to respond to climate breakdown.

This walking tour led into the later UMUNDU festival, described below. COVID rules were respected. The tour acted as a playful, celebrational activity to stitch the city and its communities.

(October 10, 2020. 5 Participants. More infos [https://www.facebook.com/events/3521283924614952/ here])

==Nested Events==

===Eco City Open Campus===
[[File:Ecocity copy.jpg|right|350px|]]
UrbanA participated in the Ecocity Builders event "Eco City Open Campus". Friends and colleagues from the UrbanA CoP were invited to attend, to share their insights on creating ecocities, #SustainableJustCities, eco projects & communities. It has a “Pay What You Want” register fee, to allow for greater accessibility.who are also involved in creating ecocities. It was an experimental forum, using the VirBELA platform (like an avatar game) to try to connect with other city makers. Groups participated from outside Europe, including many from South East Asia. The main Bangladesh partners were the [https://www.facebook.com/InstOfWellbeing/ Institute of Wellbeing] and [https://www.facebook.com/WBBTrust/ Work for a Better Bangladesh].

(September 8, 2020. Further infos [https://urban-arena.eu/event/eco-city-open-campus/ here] & [https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=UrbanArena.project&set=a.168462108206029 Photo Album] on UrbanA facebook page & [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1301240583776804865 UrbanA twitter thread])

===UMUNDU festival Lisbon===
[[File:Umundu-urbana-Lisbon.jpg|right|350px|]]

Creating Sustainable and Just Cities – The UrbanA experiment: Followed a walking tour in the city, this discussion explored what UrbanA issues might mean in urban transformations happening in the changing city of Lisbon today. The event built on earlier discussions about Lisbon with local city makers and the UrbanA community, whether Europe´s 2020 Green Capital is helping transform Lisbon into a Sustainable and Just City. This event was part of the Umundu eco festival in Lisbon (9-17 October). It was a “Blended event”, an experimental hybrid space, connecting both participants in a physical location, with others online through new communication technologies. Physical event was limited to 20 places, due to COVID restrictions.

(October 10, 2020. Links coming soon, further infos [https://urban-arena.eu/event/creating-sustainable-and-just-cities-the-urbana-experiment/ here])

===Communities for Future===
[[File:1*hCnjyAC4V2rSxwfPGK xOA copy.jpg|right|350px|]]

The third “Communities for Future” online session explored what is a Community of Practice (CoP) and what can be their role in strengthening community-led responses to societal challenges. Three CoPs from the ECOLISE network at different stages of their evolution were represented; BLAST (Blended Adult Learning for the Social-ecological Transition), Municipalities in Transition (MiT) and UrbanA (Urban Arenas for Sustainable and Just Cities). Davie Phillip outlined how BLAST is establishing processes for their group and assessing best practice and insights from different CoPs within the ECOLISE ecosystem. Together guests explored the shared idea of an eco-social just transition.

(December 02, 2020. 55 Participants. - [https://medium.com/communities-for-future/communities-of-practice-leveraging-impact-by-learning-together-621a27410ca5 Blog post] - [https://communitiesforfuture.org/event/communities-of-practice-leveraging-impact-by-learning-together/ Event Post] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT9izqBV6IQ Video] - Social Media: ([https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1338815690950774785 Twitter])

===The Nature of Cities Festival (TNOC)===
[[File:Tnoc post.jpeg|right|350px|]]

UrbanA, ECOLISE and Communities for Future joined forces to lead an experimental seed session on the first day of The Nature of Cities Festival (TNOC). About 25 people turned up from different corners of the planet, to explore the topic of “Translocal adventures in developing an Urban Systems Community of Practice”. The event was hosted by Giorgia Silvestri & Duncan Crowley from UrbanA and Sara Silva from ECOLISE. The domain that this Urban Systems Community of Practice Ecosystem supports is nothing less than full eco-social just transition, to return the scope of human activity back within the limits of planet earth. The TNOC event was an experimental step, aiming to share the story so far, maximize guest participation, allow diverse discussions to develop, harvest insights from the group and encourage wider participation in the CfF CoPs Ecosystem. The events structure was based on UrbanA’s “Community Conversation” (CoCo) format and was part of the 3rd stage development of the UrbanA Community of Practice (CoP).

(February 22, 2021. 25 participant - [https://medium.com/communities-for-future/translocal-adventures-communities-of-practice-and-the-tnoc-festival-d134346f9789 Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TNOC-FEST-PREZ_.pdf Presentation slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62lH5eOzFpg Video] - [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1htoUpFLj2NBdztW0E_1FHOgXldThEicyvWDTVYB6eGg/edit Harvest Document] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/translocal-adventures-in-developing-an-urban-systems-community-of-practice-with-urbana-and-ecolise/ Event Post] - Social Media: ([https://www.facebook.com/events/190884266158491/ Facebook Event Post] [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1361314428088692736 Twitter] [https://www.instagram.com/p/CLUONvVMWYS/ Instagram]) - Guests presentations ([https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TNOC-Listening-Room-MiTS-Telheiras.pdf Municipalities in Transition Telheiras] , [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TNOC-MMS_-miquel-telheieres.pdf Local energy transition Telheiras], [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TNOC-FEST-ecocity-PREZ.pdf Community-led Ecocity Transformation])

===Cities for Change===
[[File:CFC-final-poster-copy.jpg|right|350px|]]
This event is one of the “Transition Talks” that are happening as part of the “Cities for Change” summit. It is part of the “Energy and Climate” track, is fully online. Cities for Change Forum is a 2-month online program showcasing world-changing ideas in digital and interactive events for building a just, sustainable and equal society from the ground up. The “Transition Talks” are on from May 24th until May 28th.

ECOLISE invited 8 communities to respond to 4 specific questions about Regeneration; Social, Cultural, Ecology, Economy.

# Social: How can we bring regenerative design ideas from ecovillages to our cities, especially when urban injustice continues to grow? (Global Ecovillage Network & UrbanA)
# Cultural: How can we bring about a culture of resistance and regeneration that is accessible to all? (Fridays for Future + Communities for Future)
# Ecology: How can we bring our ecological ideas out of the academic and activist ghettos to the streets and everyday social movements? (Degrowth & Transition Network)
# Economy: Imagining an end to capitalism, instead of the end to the world… How best can community-led initiatives bring about territorial transformation, policy change and system change? (Doughnut Economics & Regenerative Practitioners)

(May 26, 2021. 37 Participants. More infos at: [https://urban-arena.eu/event/from-fridays-for-future-to-communities-for-future-how-can-community-led-initiatives-bring-about-system-change/ UrbanA events] + [https://citiesforchange.org/conferences/cities-for-change/f/16/meetings/50 Cities for Change] + [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1395717595362435074 UrbanA Twitter])

UrbanA side events

2021-07-02T12:29:20Z

Duncan Crowley: /* Cities for Change */

UrbanA side events are a part of the [[UrbanA Community of Practice]] (CoP). They started out as special events before each of the main UrbanA arenas, but soon evolved into diverse investigations of UrbanA findings with local communities in consortium member cities. Originally they were planned to be physical, but with COVID some were purely online, some were blended. Some side events happened before Arenas as official [[UrbanA Community Conversations]], some were public, some were just for guests of the upcoming Arena. Other side events happened as fully public Open Webinars, within an Arena. Later side events developed relationships formed in the CoP to further expand CoP activities, there were film night and urban walking tours. Others were "nested events", where UrbanA invited the CoP to participate in wider conferences, festivals and movements, thereby diversifying both the community and themes being explored.

==UrbanA Side Events==
===Local Arena Mouraria (Lisbon)===
[[File:Mouraria event.jpg|right|350px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/how-governance-arrangements-foster-both-urban-sustainability-and-justice-be7ab3786b46]]

The event happened in one of the city’s oldest neighbourhoods, which is also considered the most multi-cultural neighbourhood in the country, Mouraria.

A central question to UrbanA´s implementation in Lisbon was “How might an urban CoP help manifest the dream of a Sustainable and Just Lisbon?” (PDF presentation available here). The day was divided into two parts, a walking tour during the morning around the streets including Rua Dos Lagares, considered to be the epicentre of current evictions, followed by an afternoon at Mouraria Creative Hub, with more than 30 representatives from 24 different groups, or projects, active in the city. A Graphic register captured insights from the day and noted 5 main conclusions:

# Many solutions exist, but complex problems persist
# Tailor solutions to reality and local participation
# Need for articulation to better connect people and projects
# Continuity and cross-pollination is essential.
# Inform about citizen intervention starting points

November 12, 2019. Participants walking tour, 15. Workshop 30. More infos [https://wiki.urban-arena.eu/index.php?title=Database_of_Lisbon_projects_%26_initiatives here])

===How governance arrangements foster both urban sustainability and justice (Freiburg)===
[[File:Twitter Community Conversations Governance copy.jpg|right|350px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/how-governance-arrangements-foster-both-urban-sustainability-and-justice-be7ab3786b46]]
(NOTE: This event was a CoCo and also appears on the [[UrbanA Community Conversations]] list)

Building on the momentum and enthusiasm generated by UrbanA’s online ‘Barcelona’ Arena earlier in the month, 44 people joined the fifth UrbanA Community Conversation on June 23rd. This digital gathering marked the beginning of a new stage in the project — which has so far journeyed from approaches for just and sustainable cities at the Rotterdam Arena, to drivers of injustice in urban sustainability at the second, recent Arena, and now to questions of governance and how to learn between cities for just sustainability.

The Freiburg team has also begun crafting very brief scenarios designed to catch the attention of city-makers in order to lead them to further relevant information. If you are interested, check out the new (and evolving!) [[Database of governance scenarios]] on the UrbanA wiki. The Freiburg University team used examples to illustrate four broader governance ambitions that have potential to avoid injustice in a more durable, long-term way:
# Policy integration,
# Bridging institutional logics,
# Engaging inhabitants, and
# Alternative metrics.

(June 23rd, 44 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/how-governance-arrangements-foster-both-urban-sustainability-and-justice-be7ab3786b46 Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/UrbanA_CoCo-6-23-final.pdf Slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ1o7zGc300 Video] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-governance-tools/ Event Post])

==UrbanA Open Webinars==
===Covid19, justice and sustainability in city (Barcelona)===
[[File:BCN-arena-open-webinar.jpg|right|350px|]]
Can COVID-19 be a turning point on how we imagine and plan our cities? This session will include a short lecture followed by an online conversation on how the COVID-19 has exacerbated urban environmental and health inequalities and how it can be a unique chance to create more just and sustainable urban futures.

The following questions were discussed:

# What are the main manifestations of health and environmental inequalities and related, emergent questions around urban justice in times of pandemic and social confinement?
# To what extent (and where) are such inequalities being addressed in bold, radical ways that can redefine urban futures?
# How does COVID-19 redefine and force us to rethink urban infrastructure (housing, transit, and public space) need, use, and inequalities?
# What lessons can we draw from a crisis such as COVID-19 to build more just and sustainable cities, especially so in the context of a changing climate?

(June 5, 2020. Participants (online, watching on youtube). More infos [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-open-webinar-covid19-justice-and-sustainability-in-city/ here])

==UrbanA Movie Nights==
===“PUSH – The Film” (Rotterdam)===
[[File:PUSH-Rotterdam film night.jpg|right|350px|]]
The covid-19 crisis has exposed several inequities in our cities and at its core is the issue of access to adequate and affordable housing. Long before the shocks of covid-19 crisis, the commodification of the housing market has threatened our right to housing, and constantly changed the very nature and rules of living in cities. PUSH – The Film captures the complexity of this global housing crisis and makes the invisible power relations more tangible. The event will begin with a short introduction to the general theme of Sustainable and Just Cities. After the movie there is an interactive World Café to explore the intersection of the housing crisis with wider challenges of social and ecological (in)justice and the resulting challenges, tensions, possibilities and opportunities for the future.

June 17, 2020. More infos at: [https://urban-arena.eu/event/movie-night-on-sustainablejustcities-the-right-to-housing-with-push-the-film/ Movie Night on #SustainableJustCities: The Right to Housing with “PUSH – The Film” ]

===“Tomorrow” (Rotterdam)===
[[File:Movie night 2.jpg|right|350px|]]
The second online “Movie Night on #SustainableJustCities” was organized on the 1st of December 2020 with the “TomorrowOpens external” documentary, which focuses on creative solutions from sustainable communities across the world. It was organized as part of the Vital Cities & Citizens (VCC) initiative of the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, in collaboration with the UrbanA project and DRIFT.

The movie night event consisted of three main sections spread over 3.5 hours:

# Dr. Flor Avelino gave a a short introduction on sustainable and just cities
# Participants watched the documentary individually on Vimeo. This was followed by
# an interactive World Café discussion, using break-out groups with 3-5 people over two rounds of 15 minutes each. The discussion was self-organized and allowed the participants to share the learnings from the documentary and their engagement with justice and sustainability. This was followed by a short plenary session. Ideas were harvested.

A total of 220 people registered for the event, of which 125 people attended the introduction and movie, and 40 people attended the World Café discussion afterwards. About 30% of these participants were from the Netherlands while others joined from both European and non-European countries including USA, UK, Portugal, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Ireland, India and Hungary. Most of these participants were researchers and/or teachers, students, activists, entrepreneurs and others.

December 1, 2020. 125 Participants - More infos [https://www.eur.nl/en/news/movie-night-sustainablejustcities-community-stories-around-world-tomorrow here] and [https://drift.eur.nl/agenda/movie-night-on-sustainablejustcities-2/ here]

==UrbanA walking tours==
===From Green to Blue. An UrbanA walking tour (Lisbon)===
[[File:UrbanA Lisbon walking tour.jpg|right|350px|]]
An Urban walking tour from Lisbon's green heart, Gulbenkian Park, along the Alcantara valley to the river Tejo. Stops included visits to urban projects on the route: The Bela Flor community are using urban permaculture for both ecological and social change. The Alvito community explore how culture can transform the city, working with the cities communities past and future visions. The new Alcantara valley is one of the highlight projects for Lisbon, Europe's 2020 Green Capital, the old river was remembered. The tour finished at the Alcantara river docks to explore the idea of rivers as organising tools for a fractal form of community led planning process to respond to climate breakdown.

This walking tour led into the later UMUNDU festival, described below. COVID rules were respected. The tour acted as a playful, celebrational activity to stitch the city and its communities.

(October 10, 2020. 5 Participants. More infos [https://www.facebook.com/events/3521283924614952/ here])

==Nested Events==

===Eco City Open Campus===
[[File:Ecocity copy.jpg|right|350px|]]
UrbanA participated in the Ecocity Builders event "Eco City Open Campus". Friends and colleagues from the UrbanA CoP were invited to attend, to share their insights on creating ecocities, #SustainableJustCities, eco projects & communities. It has a “Pay What You Want” register fee, to allow for greater accessibility.who are also involved in creating ecocities. It was an experimental forum, using the VirBELA platform (like an avatar game) to try to connect with other city makers. Groups participated from outside Europe, including many from South East Asia.

(September 8, 2020. Links coming soon, further infos [https://urban-arena.eu/event/eco-city-open-campus/ here])

===UMUNDU festival Lisbon===
[[File:Umundu-urbana-Lisbon.jpg|right|350px|]]

Creating Sustainable and Just Cities – The UrbanA experiment: Followed a walking tour in the city, this discussion explored what UrbanA issues might mean in urban transformations happening in the changing city of Lisbon today. The event built on earlier discussions about Lisbon with local city makers and the UrbanA community, whether Europe´s 2020 Green Capital is helping transform Lisbon into a Sustainable and Just City. This event was part of the Umundu eco festival in Lisbon (9-17 October). It was a “Blended event”, an experimental hybrid space, connecting both participants in a physical location, with others online through new communication technologies. Physical event was limited to 20 places, due to COVID restrictions.

(October 10, 2020. Links coming soon, further infos [https://urban-arena.eu/event/creating-sustainable-and-just-cities-the-urbana-experiment/ here])

===Communities for Future===
[[File:1*hCnjyAC4V2rSxwfPGK xOA copy.jpg|right|350px|]]

The third “Communities for Future” online session explored what is a Community of Practice (CoP) and what can be their role in strengthening community-led responses to societal challenges. Three CoPs from the ECOLISE network at different stages of their evolution were represented; BLAST (Blended Adult Learning for the Social-ecological Transition), Municipalities in Transition (MiT) and UrbanA (Urban Arenas for Sustainable and Just Cities). Davie Phillip outlined how BLAST is establishing processes for their group and assessing best practice and insights from different CoPs within the ECOLISE ecosystem. Together guests explored the shared idea of an eco-social just transition.

(December 02, 2020. 55 Participants. - [https://medium.com/communities-for-future/communities-of-practice-leveraging-impact-by-learning-together-621a27410ca5 Blog post] - [https://communitiesforfuture.org/event/communities-of-practice-leveraging-impact-by-learning-together/ Event Post] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT9izqBV6IQ Video] - Social Media: ([https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1338815690950774785 Twitter])

===The Nature of Cities Festival (TNOC)===
[[File:Tnoc post.jpeg|right|350px|]]

UrbanA, ECOLISE and Communities for Future joined forces to lead an experimental seed session on the first day of The Nature of Cities Festival (TNOC). About 25 people turned up from different corners of the planet, to explore the topic of “Translocal adventures in developing an Urban Systems Community of Practice”. The event was hosted by Giorgia Silvestri & Duncan Crowley from UrbanA and Sara Silva from ECOLISE. The domain that this Urban Systems Community of Practice Ecosystem supports is nothing less than full eco-social just transition, to return the scope of human activity back within the limits of planet earth. The TNOC event was an experimental step, aiming to share the story so far, maximize guest participation, allow diverse discussions to develop, harvest insights from the group and encourage wider participation in the CfF CoPs Ecosystem. The events structure was based on UrbanA’s “Community Conversation” (CoCo) format and was part of the 3rd stage development of the UrbanA Community of Practice (CoP).

(February 22, 2021. 25 participant - [https://medium.com/communities-for-future/translocal-adventures-communities-of-practice-and-the-tnoc-festival-d134346f9789 Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TNOC-FEST-PREZ_.pdf Presentation slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62lH5eOzFpg Video] - [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1htoUpFLj2NBdztW0E_1FHOgXldThEicyvWDTVYB6eGg/edit Harvest Document] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/translocal-adventures-in-developing-an-urban-systems-community-of-practice-with-urbana-and-ecolise/ Event Post] - Social Media: ([https://www.facebook.com/events/190884266158491/ Facebook Event Post] [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1361314428088692736 Twitter] [https://www.instagram.com/p/CLUONvVMWYS/ Instagram]) - Guests presentations ([https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TNOC-Listening-Room-MiTS-Telheiras.pdf Municipalities in Transition Telheiras] , [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TNOC-MMS_-miquel-telheieres.pdf Local energy transition Telheiras], [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TNOC-FEST-ecocity-PREZ.pdf Community-led Ecocity Transformation])

===Cities for Change===
[[File:CFC-final-poster-copy.jpg|right|350px|]]
This event is one of the “Transition Talks” that are happening as part of the “Cities for Change” summit. It is part of the “Energy and Climate” track, is fully online. Cities for Change Forum is a 2-month online program showcasing world-changing ideas in digital and interactive events for building a just, sustainable and equal society from the ground up. The “Transition Talks” are on from May 24th until May 28th.

ECOLISE invited 8 communities to respond to 4 specific questions about Regeneration; Social, Cultural, Ecology, Economy.

# Social: How can we bring regenerative design ideas from ecovillages to our cities, especially when urban injustice continues to grow? (Global Ecovillage Network & UrbanA)
# Cultural: How can we bring about a culture of resistance and regeneration that is accessible to all? (Fridays for Future + Communities for Future)
# Ecology: How can we bring our ecological ideas out of the academic and activist ghettos to the streets and everyday social movements? (Degrowth & Transition Network)
# Economy: Imagining an end to capitalism, instead of the end to the world… How best can community-led initiatives bring about territorial transformation, policy change and system change? (Doughnut Economics & Regenerative Practitioners)

(May 26, 2021. 37 Participants. More infos at: [https://urban-arena.eu/event/from-fridays-for-future-to-communities-for-future-how-can-community-led-initiatives-bring-about-system-change/ UrbanA events] + [https://citiesforchange.org/conferences/cities-for-change/f/16/meetings/50 Cities for Change] + [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1395717595362435074 UrbanA Twitter])

UrbanA side events

2021-07-02T12:28:20Z

Duncan Crowley: /* Cities for Change */

UrbanA side events are a part of the [[UrbanA Community of Practice]] (CoP). They started out as special events before each of the main UrbanA arenas, but soon evolved into diverse investigations of UrbanA findings with local communities in consortium member cities. Originally they were planned to be physical, but with COVID some were purely online, some were blended. Some side events happened before Arenas as official [[UrbanA Community Conversations]], some were public, some were just for guests of the upcoming Arena. Other side events happened as fully public Open Webinars, within an Arena. Later side events developed relationships formed in the CoP to further expand CoP activities, there were film night and urban walking tours. Others were "nested events", where UrbanA invited the CoP to participate in wider conferences, festivals and movements, thereby diversifying both the community and themes being explored.

==UrbanA Side Events==
===Local Arena Mouraria (Lisbon)===
[[File:Mouraria event.jpg|right|350px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/how-governance-arrangements-foster-both-urban-sustainability-and-justice-be7ab3786b46]]

The event happened in one of the city’s oldest neighbourhoods, which is also considered the most multi-cultural neighbourhood in the country, Mouraria.

A central question to UrbanA´s implementation in Lisbon was “How might an urban CoP help manifest the dream of a Sustainable and Just Lisbon?” (PDF presentation available here). The day was divided into two parts, a walking tour during the morning around the streets including Rua Dos Lagares, considered to be the epicentre of current evictions, followed by an afternoon at Mouraria Creative Hub, with more than 30 representatives from 24 different groups, or projects, active in the city. A Graphic register captured insights from the day and noted 5 main conclusions:

# Many solutions exist, but complex problems persist
# Tailor solutions to reality and local participation
# Need for articulation to better connect people and projects
# Continuity and cross-pollination is essential.
# Inform about citizen intervention starting points

November 12, 2019. Participants walking tour, 15. Workshop 30. More infos [https://wiki.urban-arena.eu/index.php?title=Database_of_Lisbon_projects_%26_initiatives here])

===How governance arrangements foster both urban sustainability and justice (Freiburg)===
[[File:Twitter Community Conversations Governance copy.jpg|right|350px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/how-governance-arrangements-foster-both-urban-sustainability-and-justice-be7ab3786b46]]
(NOTE: This event was a CoCo and also appears on the [[UrbanA Community Conversations]] list)

Building on the momentum and enthusiasm generated by UrbanA’s online ‘Barcelona’ Arena earlier in the month, 44 people joined the fifth UrbanA Community Conversation on June 23rd. This digital gathering marked the beginning of a new stage in the project — which has so far journeyed from approaches for just and sustainable cities at the Rotterdam Arena, to drivers of injustice in urban sustainability at the second, recent Arena, and now to questions of governance and how to learn between cities for just sustainability.

The Freiburg team has also begun crafting very brief scenarios designed to catch the attention of city-makers in order to lead them to further relevant information. If you are interested, check out the new (and evolving!) [[Database of governance scenarios]] on the UrbanA wiki. The Freiburg University team used examples to illustrate four broader governance ambitions that have potential to avoid injustice in a more durable, long-term way:
# Policy integration,
# Bridging institutional logics,
# Engaging inhabitants, and
# Alternative metrics.

(June 23rd, 44 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/how-governance-arrangements-foster-both-urban-sustainability-and-justice-be7ab3786b46 Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/UrbanA_CoCo-6-23-final.pdf Slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ1o7zGc300 Video] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-governance-tools/ Event Post])

==UrbanA Open Webinars==
===Covid19, justice and sustainability in city (Barcelona)===
[[File:BCN-arena-open-webinar.jpg|right|350px|]]
Can COVID-19 be a turning point on how we imagine and plan our cities? This session will include a short lecture followed by an online conversation on how the COVID-19 has exacerbated urban environmental and health inequalities and how it can be a unique chance to create more just and sustainable urban futures.

The following questions were discussed:

# What are the main manifestations of health and environmental inequalities and related, emergent questions around urban justice in times of pandemic and social confinement?
# To what extent (and where) are such inequalities being addressed in bold, radical ways that can redefine urban futures?
# How does COVID-19 redefine and force us to rethink urban infrastructure (housing, transit, and public space) need, use, and inequalities?
# What lessons can we draw from a crisis such as COVID-19 to build more just and sustainable cities, especially so in the context of a changing climate?

(June 5, 2020. Participants (online, watching on youtube). More infos [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-open-webinar-covid19-justice-and-sustainability-in-city/ here])

==UrbanA Movie Nights==
===“PUSH – The Film” (Rotterdam)===
[[File:PUSH-Rotterdam film night.jpg|right|350px|]]
The covid-19 crisis has exposed several inequities in our cities and at its core is the issue of access to adequate and affordable housing. Long before the shocks of covid-19 crisis, the commodification of the housing market has threatened our right to housing, and constantly changed the very nature and rules of living in cities. PUSH – The Film captures the complexity of this global housing crisis and makes the invisible power relations more tangible. The event will begin with a short introduction to the general theme of Sustainable and Just Cities. After the movie there is an interactive World Café to explore the intersection of the housing crisis with wider challenges of social and ecological (in)justice and the resulting challenges, tensions, possibilities and opportunities for the future.

June 17, 2020. More infos at: [https://urban-arena.eu/event/movie-night-on-sustainablejustcities-the-right-to-housing-with-push-the-film/ Movie Night on #SustainableJustCities: The Right to Housing with “PUSH – The Film” ]

===“Tomorrow” (Rotterdam)===
[[File:Movie night 2.jpg|right|350px|]]
The second online “Movie Night on #SustainableJustCities” was organized on the 1st of December 2020 with the “TomorrowOpens external” documentary, which focuses on creative solutions from sustainable communities across the world. It was organized as part of the Vital Cities & Citizens (VCC) initiative of the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, in collaboration with the UrbanA project and DRIFT.

The movie night event consisted of three main sections spread over 3.5 hours:

# Dr. Flor Avelino gave a a short introduction on sustainable and just cities
# Participants watched the documentary individually on Vimeo. This was followed by
# an interactive World Café discussion, using break-out groups with 3-5 people over two rounds of 15 minutes each. The discussion was self-organized and allowed the participants to share the learnings from the documentary and their engagement with justice and sustainability. This was followed by a short plenary session. Ideas were harvested.

A total of 220 people registered for the event, of which 125 people attended the introduction and movie, and 40 people attended the World Café discussion afterwards. About 30% of these participants were from the Netherlands while others joined from both European and non-European countries including USA, UK, Portugal, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Ireland, India and Hungary. Most of these participants were researchers and/or teachers, students, activists, entrepreneurs and others.

December 1, 2020. 125 Participants - More infos [https://www.eur.nl/en/news/movie-night-sustainablejustcities-community-stories-around-world-tomorrow here] and [https://drift.eur.nl/agenda/movie-night-on-sustainablejustcities-2/ here]

==UrbanA walking tours==
===From Green to Blue. An UrbanA walking tour (Lisbon)===
[[File:UrbanA Lisbon walking tour.jpg|right|350px|]]
An Urban walking tour from Lisbon's green heart, Gulbenkian Park, along the Alcantara valley to the river Tejo. Stops included visits to urban projects on the route: The Bela Flor community are using urban permaculture for both ecological and social change. The Alvito community explore how culture can transform the city, working with the cities communities past and future visions. The new Alcantara valley is one of the highlight projects for Lisbon, Europe's 2020 Green Capital, the old river was remembered. The tour finished at the Alcantara river docks to explore the idea of rivers as organising tools for a fractal form of community led planning process to respond to climate breakdown.

This walking tour led into the later UMUNDU festival, described below. COVID rules were respected. The tour acted as a playful, celebrational activity to stitch the city and its communities.

(October 10, 2020. 5 Participants. More infos [https://www.facebook.com/events/3521283924614952/ here])

==Nested Events==

===Eco City Open Campus===
[[File:Ecocity copy.jpg|right|350px|]]
UrbanA participated in the Ecocity Builders event "Eco City Open Campus". Friends and colleagues from the UrbanA CoP were invited to attend, to share their insights on creating ecocities, #SustainableJustCities, eco projects & communities. It has a “Pay What You Want” register fee, to allow for greater accessibility.who are also involved in creating ecocities. It was an experimental forum, using the VirBELA platform (like an avatar game) to try to connect with other city makers. Groups participated from outside Europe, including many from South East Asia.

(September 8, 2020. Links coming soon, further infos [https://urban-arena.eu/event/eco-city-open-campus/ here])

===UMUNDU festival Lisbon===
[[File:Umundu-urbana-Lisbon.jpg|right|350px|]]

Creating Sustainable and Just Cities – The UrbanA experiment: Followed a walking tour in the city, this discussion explored what UrbanA issues might mean in urban transformations happening in the changing city of Lisbon today. The event built on earlier discussions about Lisbon with local city makers and the UrbanA community, whether Europe´s 2020 Green Capital is helping transform Lisbon into a Sustainable and Just City. This event was part of the Umundu eco festival in Lisbon (9-17 October). It was a “Blended event”, an experimental hybrid space, connecting both participants in a physical location, with others online through new communication technologies. Physical event was limited to 20 places, due to COVID restrictions.

(October 10, 2020. Links coming soon, further infos [https://urban-arena.eu/event/creating-sustainable-and-just-cities-the-urbana-experiment/ here])

===Communities for Future===
[[File:1*hCnjyAC4V2rSxwfPGK xOA copy.jpg|right|350px|]]

The third “Communities for Future” online session explored what is a Community of Practice (CoP) and what can be their role in strengthening community-led responses to societal challenges. Three CoPs from the ECOLISE network at different stages of their evolution were represented; BLAST (Blended Adult Learning for the Social-ecological Transition), Municipalities in Transition (MiT) and UrbanA (Urban Arenas for Sustainable and Just Cities). Davie Phillip outlined how BLAST is establishing processes for their group and assessing best practice and insights from different CoPs within the ECOLISE ecosystem. Together guests explored the shared idea of an eco-social just transition.

(December 02, 2020. 55 Participants. - [https://medium.com/communities-for-future/communities-of-practice-leveraging-impact-by-learning-together-621a27410ca5 Blog post] - [https://communitiesforfuture.org/event/communities-of-practice-leveraging-impact-by-learning-together/ Event Post] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT9izqBV6IQ Video] - Social Media: ([https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1338815690950774785 Twitter])

===The Nature of Cities Festival (TNOC)===
[[File:Tnoc post.jpeg|right|350px|]]

UrbanA, ECOLISE and Communities for Future joined forces to lead an experimental seed session on the first day of The Nature of Cities Festival (TNOC). About 25 people turned up from different corners of the planet, to explore the topic of “Translocal adventures in developing an Urban Systems Community of Practice”. The event was hosted by Giorgia Silvestri & Duncan Crowley from UrbanA and Sara Silva from ECOLISE. The domain that this Urban Systems Community of Practice Ecosystem supports is nothing less than full eco-social just transition, to return the scope of human activity back within the limits of planet earth. The TNOC event was an experimental step, aiming to share the story so far, maximize guest participation, allow diverse discussions to develop, harvest insights from the group and encourage wider participation in the CfF CoPs Ecosystem. The events structure was based on UrbanA’s “Community Conversation” (CoCo) format and was part of the 3rd stage development of the UrbanA Community of Practice (CoP).

(February 22, 2021. 25 participant - [https://medium.com/communities-for-future/translocal-adventures-communities-of-practice-and-the-tnoc-festival-d134346f9789 Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TNOC-FEST-PREZ_.pdf Presentation slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62lH5eOzFpg Video] - [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1htoUpFLj2NBdztW0E_1FHOgXldThEicyvWDTVYB6eGg/edit Harvest Document] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/translocal-adventures-in-developing-an-urban-systems-community-of-practice-with-urbana-and-ecolise/ Event Post] - Social Media: ([https://www.facebook.com/events/190884266158491/ Facebook Event Post] [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1361314428088692736 Twitter] [https://www.instagram.com/p/CLUONvVMWYS/ Instagram]) - Guests presentations ([https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TNOC-Listening-Room-MiTS-Telheiras.pdf Municipalities in Transition Telheiras] , [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TNOC-MMS_-miquel-telheieres.pdf Local energy transition Telheiras], [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TNOC-FEST-ecocity-PREZ.pdf Community-led Ecocity Transformation])

===Cities for Change===
[[File:CFC-final-poster-copy.jpg|right|350px|]]
This event is one of the “Transition Talks” that are happening as part of the “Cities for Change” summit. It is part of the “Energy and Climate” track, is fully online. Cities for Change Forum is a 2-month online program showcasing world-changing ideas in digital and interactive events for building a just, sustainable and equal society from the ground up. The “Transition Talks” are on from May 24th until May 28th.

ECOLISE invited 8 communities to respond to 4 specific questions about Regeneration; Social, Cultural, Ecology, Economy.

# Social: How can we bring regenerative design ideas from ecovillages to our cities, especially when urban injustice continues to grow? (Global Ecovillage Network & UrbanA)
# Cultural: How can we bring about a culture of resistance and regeneration that is accessible to all? (Fridays for Future + Communities for Future)
# Ecology: How can we bring our ecological ideas out of the academic and activist ghettos to the streets and everyday social movements? (Degrowth & Transition Network)
# Economy: Imagining an end to capitalism, instead of the end to the world… How best can community-led initiatives bring about territorial transformation, policy change and system change? (Doughnut Economics & Regenerative Practitioners)

(April 26, 2021. 37 Participants. More infos at: [https://urban-arena.eu/event/from-fridays-for-future-to-communities-for-future-how-can-community-led-initiatives-bring-about-system-change/ UrbanA events] + [https://citiesforchange.org/conferences/cities-for-change/f/16/meetings/50 Cities for Change] + [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1395717595362435074 UrbanA Twitter])

UrbanA side events

2021-06-16T10:02:16Z

Duncan Crowley: /* Community stories from around the world with “Tomorrow”(Rotterdam) */

UrbanA side events are a part of the [[UrbanA Community of Practice]] (CoP). They started out as special events before each of the main UrbanA arenas, but soon evolved into diverse investigations of UrbanA findings with local communities in consortium member cities. Originally they were planned to be physical, but with COVID some were purely online, some were blended. Some side events happened before Arenas as official [[UrbanA Community Conversations]], some were public, some were just for guests of the upcoming Arena. Other side events happened as fully public Open Webinars, within an Arena. Later side events developed relationships formed in the CoP to further expand CoP activities, there were film night and urban walking tours. Others were "nested events", where UrbanA invited the CoP to participate in wider conferences, festivals and movements, thereby diversifying both the community and themes being explored.

==UrbanA Side Events==
===Local Arena Mouraria (Lisbon)===
[[File:Mouraria event.jpg|right|350px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/how-governance-arrangements-foster-both-urban-sustainability-and-justice-be7ab3786b46]]

The event happened in one of the city’s oldest neighbourhoods, which is also considered the most multi-cultural neighbourhood in the country, Mouraria.

A central question to UrbanA´s implementation in Lisbon was “How might an urban CoP help manifest the dream of a Sustainable and Just Lisbon?” (PDF presentation available here). The day was divided into two parts, a walking tour during the morning around the streets including Rua Dos Lagares, considered to be the epicentre of current evictions, followed by an afternoon at Mouraria Creative Hub, with more than 30 representatives from 24 different groups, or projects, active in the city. A Graphic register captured insights from the day and noted 5 main conclusions:

# Many solutions exist, but complex problems persist
# Tailor solutions to reality and local participation
# Need for articulation to better connect people and projects
# Continuity and cross-pollination is essential.
# Inform about citizen intervention starting points

November 12, 2019. Participants walking tour, 15. Workshop 30. More infos [https://wiki.urban-arena.eu/index.php?title=Database_of_Lisbon_projects_%26_initiatives here])

===How governance arrangements foster both urban sustainability and justice (Freiburg)===
[[File:Twitter Community Conversations Governance copy.jpg|right|350px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/how-governance-arrangements-foster-both-urban-sustainability-and-justice-be7ab3786b46]]
(NOTE: This event was a CoCo and also appears on the [[UrbanA Community Conversations]] list)

Building on the momentum and enthusiasm generated by UrbanA’s online ‘Barcelona’ Arena earlier in the month, 44 people joined the fifth UrbanA Community Conversation on June 23rd. This digital gathering marked the beginning of a new stage in the project — which has so far journeyed from approaches for just and sustainable cities at the Rotterdam Arena, to drivers of injustice in urban sustainability at the second, recent Arena, and now to questions of governance and how to learn between cities for just sustainability.

The Freiburg team has also begun crafting very brief scenarios designed to catch the attention of city-makers in order to lead them to further relevant information. If you are interested, check out the new (and evolving!) [[Database of governance scenarios]] on the UrbanA wiki. The Freiburg University team used examples to illustrate four broader governance ambitions that have potential to avoid injustice in a more durable, long-term way:
# Policy integration,
# Bridging institutional logics,
# Engaging inhabitants, and
# Alternative metrics.

(June 23rd, 44 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/how-governance-arrangements-foster-both-urban-sustainability-and-justice-be7ab3786b46 Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/UrbanA_CoCo-6-23-final.pdf Slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ1o7zGc300 Video] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-governance-tools/ Event Post])

==UrbanA Open Webinars==
===Covid19, justice and sustainability in city (Barcelona)===
[[File:BCN-arena-open-webinar.jpg|right|350px|]]
Can COVID-19 be a turning point on how we imagine and plan our cities? This session will include a short lecture followed by an online conversation on how the COVID-19 has exacerbated urban environmental and health inequalities and how it can be a unique chance to create more just and sustainable urban futures.

The following questions were discussed:

# What are the main manifestations of health and environmental inequalities and related, emergent questions around urban justice in times of pandemic and social confinement?
# To what extent (and where) are such inequalities being addressed in bold, radical ways that can redefine urban futures?
# How does COVID-19 redefine and force us to rethink urban infrastructure (housing, transit, and public space) need, use, and inequalities?
# What lessons can we draw from a crisis such as COVID-19 to build more just and sustainable cities, especially so in the context of a changing climate?

(June 5, 2020. Participants (online, watching on youtube). More infos [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-open-webinar-covid19-justice-and-sustainability-in-city/ here])

==UrbanA Movie Nights==
===“PUSH – The Film” (Rotterdam)===
[[File:PUSH-Rotterdam film night.jpg|right|350px|]]
The covid-19 crisis has exposed several inequities in our cities and at its core is the issue of access to adequate and affordable housing. Long before the shocks of covid-19 crisis, the commodification of the housing market has threatened our right to housing, and constantly changed the very nature and rules of living in cities. PUSH – The Film captures the complexity of this global housing crisis and makes the invisible power relations more tangible. The event will begin with a short introduction to the general theme of Sustainable and Just Cities. After the movie there is an interactive World Café to explore the intersection of the housing crisis with wider challenges of social and ecological (in)justice and the resulting challenges, tensions, possibilities and opportunities for the future.

June 17, 2020. More infos at: [https://urban-arena.eu/event/movie-night-on-sustainablejustcities-the-right-to-housing-with-push-the-film/ Movie Night on #SustainableJustCities: The Right to Housing with “PUSH – The Film” ]

===“Tomorrow” (Rotterdam)===
[[File:Movie night 2.jpg|right|350px|]]
The second online “Movie Night on #SustainableJustCities” was organized on the 1st of December 2020 with the “TomorrowOpens external” documentary, which focuses on creative solutions from sustainable communities across the world. It was organized as part of the Vital Cities & Citizens (VCC) initiative of the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, in collaboration with the UrbanA project and DRIFT.

The movie night event consisted of three main sections spread over 3.5 hours:

# Dr. Flor Avelino gave a a short introduction on sustainable and just cities
# Participants watched the documentary individually on Vimeo. This was followed by
# an interactive World Café discussion, using break-out groups with 3-5 people over two rounds of 15 minutes each. The discussion was self-organized and allowed the participants to share the learnings from the documentary and their engagement with justice and sustainability. This was followed by a short plenary session. Ideas were harvested.

A total of 220 people registered for the event, of which 125 people attended the introduction and movie, and 40 people attended the World Café discussion afterwards. About 30% of these participants were from the Netherlands while others joined from both European and non-European countries including USA, UK, Portugal, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Ireland, India and Hungary. Most of these participants were researchers and/or teachers, students, activists, entrepreneurs and others.

December 1, 2020. 125 Participants - More infos [https://www.eur.nl/en/news/movie-night-sustainablejustcities-community-stories-around-world-tomorrow here] and [https://drift.eur.nl/agenda/movie-night-on-sustainablejustcities-2/ here]

==UrbanA walking tours==
===From Green to Blue. An UrbanA walking tour (Lisbon)===
[[File:UrbanA Lisbon walking tour.jpg|right|350px|]]
An Urban walking tour from Lisbon's green heart, Gulbenkian Park, along the Alcantara valley to the river Tejo. Stops included visits to urban projects on the route: The Bela Flor community are using urban permaculture for both ecological and social change. The Alvito community explore how culture can transform the city, working with the cities communities past and future visions. The new Alcantara valley is one of the highlight projects for Lisbon, Europe's 2020 Green Capital, the old river was remembered. The tour finished at the Alcantara river docks to explore the idea of rivers as organising tools for a fractal form of community led planning process to respond to climate breakdown.

This walking tour led into the later UMUNDU festival, described below. COVID rules were respected. The tour acted as a playful, celebrational activity to stitch the city and its communities.

(October 10, 2020. 5 Participants. More infos [https://www.facebook.com/events/3521283924614952/ here])

==Nested Events==

===Eco City Open Campus===
[[File:Ecocity copy.jpg|right|350px|]]
UrbanA participated in the Ecocity Builders event "Eco City Open Campus". Friends and colleagues from the UrbanA CoP were invited to attend, to share their insights on creating ecocities, #SustainableJustCities, eco projects & communities. It has a “Pay What You Want” register fee, to allow for greater accessibility.who are also involved in creating ecocities. It was an experimental forum, using the VirBELA platform (like an avatar game) to try to connect with other city makers. Groups participated from outside Europe, including many from South East Asia.

(September 8, 2020. Links coming soon, further infos [https://urban-arena.eu/event/eco-city-open-campus/ here])

===UMUNDU festival Lisbon===
[[File:Umundu-urbana-Lisbon.jpg|right|350px|]]

Creating Sustainable and Just Cities – The UrbanA experiment: Followed a walking tour in the city, this discussion explored what UrbanA issues might mean in urban transformations happening in the changing city of Lisbon today. The event built on earlier discussions about Lisbon with local city makers and the UrbanA community, whether Europe´s 2020 Green Capital is helping transform Lisbon into a Sustainable and Just City. This event was part of the Umundu eco festival in Lisbon (9-17 October). It was a “Blended event”, an experimental hybrid space, connecting both participants in a physical location, with others online through new communication technologies. Physical event was limited to 20 places, due to COVID restrictions.

(October 10, 2020. Links coming soon, further infos [https://urban-arena.eu/event/creating-sustainable-and-just-cities-the-urbana-experiment/ here])

===Communities for Future===
[[File:1*hCnjyAC4V2rSxwfPGK xOA copy.jpg|right|350px|]]

The third “Communities for Future” online session explored what is a Community of Practice (CoP) and what can be their role in strengthening community-led responses to societal challenges. Three CoPs from the ECOLISE network at different stages of their evolution were represented; BLAST (Blended Adult Learning for the Social-ecological Transition), Municipalities in Transition (MiT) and UrbanA (Urban Arenas for Sustainable and Just Cities). Davie Phillip outlined how BLAST is establishing processes for their group and assessing best practice and insights from different CoPs within the ECOLISE ecosystem. Together guests explored the shared idea of an eco-social just transition.

(December 02, 2020. 55 Participants. - [https://medium.com/communities-for-future/communities-of-practice-leveraging-impact-by-learning-together-621a27410ca5 Blog post] - [https://communitiesforfuture.org/event/communities-of-practice-leveraging-impact-by-learning-together/ Event Post] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT9izqBV6IQ Video] - Social Media: ([https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1338815690950774785 Twitter])

===The Nature of Cities Festival (TNOC)===
[[File:Tnoc post.jpeg|right|350px|]]

UrbanA, ECOLISE and Communities for Future joined forces to lead an experimental seed session on the first day of The Nature of Cities Festival (TNOC). About 25 people turned up from different corners of the planet, to explore the topic of “Translocal adventures in developing an Urban Systems Community of Practice”. The event was hosted by Giorgia Silvestri & Duncan Crowley from UrbanA and Sara Silva from ECOLISE. The domain that this Urban Systems Community of Practice Ecosystem supports is nothing less than full eco-social just transition, to return the scope of human activity back within the limits of planet earth. The TNOC event was an experimental step, aiming to share the story so far, maximize guest participation, allow diverse discussions to develop, harvest insights from the group and encourage wider participation in the CfF CoPs Ecosystem. The events structure was based on UrbanA’s “Community Conversation” (CoCo) format and was part of the 3rd stage development of the UrbanA Community of Practice (CoP).

(February 22, 2021. 25 participant - [https://medium.com/communities-for-future/translocal-adventures-communities-of-practice-and-the-tnoc-festival-d134346f9789 Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TNOC-FEST-PREZ_.pdf Presentation slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62lH5eOzFpg Video] - [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1htoUpFLj2NBdztW0E_1FHOgXldThEicyvWDTVYB6eGg/edit Harvest Document] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/translocal-adventures-in-developing-an-urban-systems-community-of-practice-with-urbana-and-ecolise/ Event Post] - Social Media: ([https://www.facebook.com/events/190884266158491/ Facebook Event Post] [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1361314428088692736 Twitter] [https://www.instagram.com/p/CLUONvVMWYS/ Instagram]) - Guests presentations ([https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TNOC-Listening-Room-MiTS-Telheiras.pdf Municipalities in Transition Telheiras] , [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TNOC-MMS_-miquel-telheieres.pdf Local energy transition Telheiras], [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TNOC-FEST-ecocity-PREZ.pdf Community-led Ecocity Transformation])

===Cities for Change===
[[File:CFC-final-poster-copy.jpg|right|350px|]]
This event is one of the “Transition Talks” that are happening as part of the “Cities for Change” summit. It is part of the “Energy and Climate” track, is fully online. Cities for Change Forum is a 2-month online program showcasing world-changing ideas in digital and interactive events for building a just, sustainable and equal society from the ground up. The “Transition Talks” are on from May 24th until May 28th.

ECOLISE invited 8 communities to respond to 4 specific questions about Regeneration; Social, Cultural, Ecology, Economy.

# Social: How can we bring regenerative design ideas from ecovillages to our cities, especially when urban injustice continues to grow? (Global Ecovillage Network & UrbanA)
# Cultural: How can we bring about a culture of resistance and regeneration that is accessible to all? (Fridays for Future + Communities for Future)
# Ecology: How can we bring our ecological ideas out of the academic and activist ghettos to the streets and everyday social movements? (Degrowth & Transition Network)
# Economy: Imagining an end to capitalism, instead of the end to the world… How best can community-led initiatives bring about territorial transformation, policy change and system change? (Doughnut Economics & Regenerative Practitioners)

(April 26, 2021. 37 Participants. More infos at: [https://urban-arena.eu/event/from-fridays-for-future-to-communities-for-future-how-can-community-led-initiatives-bring-about-system-change/ From Fridays for Future to Communities for Future. How can community-led initiatives bring about system change? ])

UrbanA side events

2021-06-16T10:01:30Z

Duncan Crowley: /* Translocal adventures in developing an Urban Systems Community of Practice */

UrbanA side events are a part of the [[UrbanA Community of Practice]] (CoP). They started out as special events before each of the main UrbanA arenas, but soon evolved into diverse investigations of UrbanA findings with local communities in consortium member cities. Originally they were planned to be physical, but with COVID some were purely online, some were blended. Some side events happened before Arenas as official [[UrbanA Community Conversations]], some were public, some were just for guests of the upcoming Arena. Other side events happened as fully public Open Webinars, within an Arena. Later side events developed relationships formed in the CoP to further expand CoP activities, there were film night and urban walking tours. Others were "nested events", where UrbanA invited the CoP to participate in wider conferences, festivals and movements, thereby diversifying both the community and themes being explored.

==UrbanA Side Events==
===Local Arena Mouraria (Lisbon)===
[[File:Mouraria event.jpg|right|350px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/how-governance-arrangements-foster-both-urban-sustainability-and-justice-be7ab3786b46]]

The event happened in one of the city’s oldest neighbourhoods, which is also considered the most multi-cultural neighbourhood in the country, Mouraria.

A central question to UrbanA´s implementation in Lisbon was “How might an urban CoP help manifest the dream of a Sustainable and Just Lisbon?” (PDF presentation available here). The day was divided into two parts, a walking tour during the morning around the streets including Rua Dos Lagares, considered to be the epicentre of current evictions, followed by an afternoon at Mouraria Creative Hub, with more than 30 representatives from 24 different groups, or projects, active in the city. A Graphic register captured insights from the day and noted 5 main conclusions:

# Many solutions exist, but complex problems persist
# Tailor solutions to reality and local participation
# Need for articulation to better connect people and projects
# Continuity and cross-pollination is essential.
# Inform about citizen intervention starting points

November 12, 2019. Participants walking tour, 15. Workshop 30. More infos [https://wiki.urban-arena.eu/index.php?title=Database_of_Lisbon_projects_%26_initiatives here])

===How governance arrangements foster both urban sustainability and justice (Freiburg)===
[[File:Twitter Community Conversations Governance copy.jpg|right|350px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/how-governance-arrangements-foster-both-urban-sustainability-and-justice-be7ab3786b46]]
(NOTE: This event was a CoCo and also appears on the [[UrbanA Community Conversations]] list)

Building on the momentum and enthusiasm generated by UrbanA’s online ‘Barcelona’ Arena earlier in the month, 44 people joined the fifth UrbanA Community Conversation on June 23rd. This digital gathering marked the beginning of a new stage in the project — which has so far journeyed from approaches for just and sustainable cities at the Rotterdam Arena, to drivers of injustice in urban sustainability at the second, recent Arena, and now to questions of governance and how to learn between cities for just sustainability.

The Freiburg team has also begun crafting very brief scenarios designed to catch the attention of city-makers in order to lead them to further relevant information. If you are interested, check out the new (and evolving!) [[Database of governance scenarios]] on the UrbanA wiki. The Freiburg University team used examples to illustrate four broader governance ambitions that have potential to avoid injustice in a more durable, long-term way:
# Policy integration,
# Bridging institutional logics,
# Engaging inhabitants, and
# Alternative metrics.

(June 23rd, 44 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/how-governance-arrangements-foster-both-urban-sustainability-and-justice-be7ab3786b46 Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/UrbanA_CoCo-6-23-final.pdf Slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ1o7zGc300 Video] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-governance-tools/ Event Post])

==UrbanA Open Webinars==
===Covid19, justice and sustainability in city (Barcelona)===
[[File:BCN-arena-open-webinar.jpg|right|350px|]]
Can COVID-19 be a turning point on how we imagine and plan our cities? This session will include a short lecture followed by an online conversation on how the COVID-19 has exacerbated urban environmental and health inequalities and how it can be a unique chance to create more just and sustainable urban futures.

The following questions were discussed:

# What are the main manifestations of health and environmental inequalities and related, emergent questions around urban justice in times of pandemic and social confinement?
# To what extent (and where) are such inequalities being addressed in bold, radical ways that can redefine urban futures?
# How does COVID-19 redefine and force us to rethink urban infrastructure (housing, transit, and public space) need, use, and inequalities?
# What lessons can we draw from a crisis such as COVID-19 to build more just and sustainable cities, especially so in the context of a changing climate?

(June 5, 2020. Participants (online, watching on youtube). More infos [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-open-webinar-covid19-justice-and-sustainability-in-city/ here])

==UrbanA Movie Nights==
===“PUSH – The Film” (Rotterdam)===
[[File:PUSH-Rotterdam film night.jpg|right|350px|]]
The covid-19 crisis has exposed several inequities in our cities and at its core is the issue of access to adequate and affordable housing. Long before the shocks of covid-19 crisis, the commodification of the housing market has threatened our right to housing, and constantly changed the very nature and rules of living in cities. PUSH – The Film captures the complexity of this global housing crisis and makes the invisible power relations more tangible. The event will begin with a short introduction to the general theme of Sustainable and Just Cities. After the movie there is an interactive World Café to explore the intersection of the housing crisis with wider challenges of social and ecological (in)justice and the resulting challenges, tensions, possibilities and opportunities for the future.

June 17, 2020. More infos at: [https://urban-arena.eu/event/movie-night-on-sustainablejustcities-the-right-to-housing-with-push-the-film/ Movie Night on #SustainableJustCities: The Right to Housing with “PUSH – The Film” ]

===Community stories from around the world with “Tomorrow”(Rotterdam)===
[[File:Movie night 2.jpg|right|350px|]]
The second online “Movie Night on #SustainableJustCities” was organized on the 1st of December 2020 with the “TomorrowOpens external” documentary, which focuses on creative solutions from sustainable communities across the world. It was organized as part of the Vital Cities & Citizens (VCC) initiative of the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, in collaboration with the UrbanA project and DRIFT.

The movie night event consisted of three main sections spread over 3.5 hours:

# Dr. Flor Avelino gave a a short introduction on sustainable and just cities
# Participants watched the documentary individually on Vimeo. This was followed by
# an interactive World Café discussion, using break-out groups with 3-5 people over two rounds of 15 minutes each. The discussion was self-organized and allowed the participants to share the learnings from the documentary and their engagement with justice and sustainability. This was followed by a short plenary session. Ideas were harvested.

A total of 220 people registered for the event, of which 125 people attended the introduction and movie, and 40 people attended the World Café discussion afterwards. About 30% of these participants were from the Netherlands while others joined from both European and non-European countries including USA, UK, Portugal, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Ireland, India and Hungary. Most of these participants were researchers and/or teachers, students, activists, entrepreneurs and others.

December 1, 2020. 125 Participants - More infos [https://www.eur.nl/en/news/movie-night-sustainablejustcities-community-stories-around-world-tomorrow here] and [https://drift.eur.nl/agenda/movie-night-on-sustainablejustcities-2/ here]

==UrbanA walking tours==
===From Green to Blue. An UrbanA walking tour (Lisbon)===
[[File:UrbanA Lisbon walking tour.jpg|right|350px|]]
An Urban walking tour from Lisbon's green heart, Gulbenkian Park, along the Alcantara valley to the river Tejo. Stops included visits to urban projects on the route: The Bela Flor community are using urban permaculture for both ecological and social change. The Alvito community explore how culture can transform the city, working with the cities communities past and future visions. The new Alcantara valley is one of the highlight projects for Lisbon, Europe's 2020 Green Capital, the old river was remembered. The tour finished at the Alcantara river docks to explore the idea of rivers as organising tools for a fractal form of community led planning process to respond to climate breakdown.

This walking tour led into the later UMUNDU festival, described below. COVID rules were respected. The tour acted as a playful, celebrational activity to stitch the city and its communities.

(October 10, 2020. 5 Participants. More infos [https://www.facebook.com/events/3521283924614952/ here])

==Nested Events==

===Eco City Open Campus===
[[File:Ecocity copy.jpg|right|350px|]]
UrbanA participated in the Ecocity Builders event "Eco City Open Campus". Friends and colleagues from the UrbanA CoP were invited to attend, to share their insights on creating ecocities, #SustainableJustCities, eco projects & communities. It has a “Pay What You Want” register fee, to allow for greater accessibility.who are also involved in creating ecocities. It was an experimental forum, using the VirBELA platform (like an avatar game) to try to connect with other city makers. Groups participated from outside Europe, including many from South East Asia.

(September 8, 2020. Links coming soon, further infos [https://urban-arena.eu/event/eco-city-open-campus/ here])

===UMUNDU festival Lisbon===
[[File:Umundu-urbana-Lisbon.jpg|right|350px|]]

Creating Sustainable and Just Cities – The UrbanA experiment: Followed a walking tour in the city, this discussion explored what UrbanA issues might mean in urban transformations happening in the changing city of Lisbon today. The event built on earlier discussions about Lisbon with local city makers and the UrbanA community, whether Europe´s 2020 Green Capital is helping transform Lisbon into a Sustainable and Just City. This event was part of the Umundu eco festival in Lisbon (9-17 October). It was a “Blended event”, an experimental hybrid space, connecting both participants in a physical location, with others online through new communication technologies. Physical event was limited to 20 places, due to COVID restrictions.

(October 10, 2020. Links coming soon, further infos [https://urban-arena.eu/event/creating-sustainable-and-just-cities-the-urbana-experiment/ here])

===Communities for Future===
[[File:1*hCnjyAC4V2rSxwfPGK xOA copy.jpg|right|350px|]]

The third “Communities for Future” online session explored what is a Community of Practice (CoP) and what can be their role in strengthening community-led responses to societal challenges. Three CoPs from the ECOLISE network at different stages of their evolution were represented; BLAST (Blended Adult Learning for the Social-ecological Transition), Municipalities in Transition (MiT) and UrbanA (Urban Arenas for Sustainable and Just Cities). Davie Phillip outlined how BLAST is establishing processes for their group and assessing best practice and insights from different CoPs within the ECOLISE ecosystem. Together guests explored the shared idea of an eco-social just transition.

(December 02, 2020. 55 Participants. - [https://medium.com/communities-for-future/communities-of-practice-leveraging-impact-by-learning-together-621a27410ca5 Blog post] - [https://communitiesforfuture.org/event/communities-of-practice-leveraging-impact-by-learning-together/ Event Post] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT9izqBV6IQ Video] - Social Media: ([https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1338815690950774785 Twitter])

===The Nature of Cities Festival (TNOC)===
[[File:Tnoc post.jpeg|right|350px|]]

UrbanA, ECOLISE and Communities for Future joined forces to lead an experimental seed session on the first day of The Nature of Cities Festival (TNOC). About 25 people turned up from different corners of the planet, to explore the topic of “Translocal adventures in developing an Urban Systems Community of Practice”. The event was hosted by Giorgia Silvestri & Duncan Crowley from UrbanA and Sara Silva from ECOLISE. The domain that this Urban Systems Community of Practice Ecosystem supports is nothing less than full eco-social just transition, to return the scope of human activity back within the limits of planet earth. The TNOC event was an experimental step, aiming to share the story so far, maximize guest participation, allow diverse discussions to develop, harvest insights from the group and encourage wider participation in the CfF CoPs Ecosystem. The events structure was based on UrbanA’s “Community Conversation” (CoCo) format and was part of the 3rd stage development of the UrbanA Community of Practice (CoP).

(February 22, 2021. 25 participant - [https://medium.com/communities-for-future/translocal-adventures-communities-of-practice-and-the-tnoc-festival-d134346f9789 Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TNOC-FEST-PREZ_.pdf Presentation slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62lH5eOzFpg Video] - [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1htoUpFLj2NBdztW0E_1FHOgXldThEicyvWDTVYB6eGg/edit Harvest Document] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/translocal-adventures-in-developing-an-urban-systems-community-of-practice-with-urbana-and-ecolise/ Event Post] - Social Media: ([https://www.facebook.com/events/190884266158491/ Facebook Event Post] [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1361314428088692736 Twitter] [https://www.instagram.com/p/CLUONvVMWYS/ Instagram]) - Guests presentations ([https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TNOC-Listening-Room-MiTS-Telheiras.pdf Municipalities in Transition Telheiras] , [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TNOC-MMS_-miquel-telheieres.pdf Local energy transition Telheiras], [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TNOC-FEST-ecocity-PREZ.pdf Community-led Ecocity Transformation])

===Cities for Change===
[[File:CFC-final-poster-copy.jpg|right|350px|]]
This event is one of the “Transition Talks” that are happening as part of the “Cities for Change” summit. It is part of the “Energy and Climate” track, is fully online. Cities for Change Forum is a 2-month online program showcasing world-changing ideas in digital and interactive events for building a just, sustainable and equal society from the ground up. The “Transition Talks” are on from May 24th until May 28th.

ECOLISE invited 8 communities to respond to 4 specific questions about Regeneration; Social, Cultural, Ecology, Economy.

# Social: How can we bring regenerative design ideas from ecovillages to our cities, especially when urban injustice continues to grow? (Global Ecovillage Network & UrbanA)
# Cultural: How can we bring about a culture of resistance and regeneration that is accessible to all? (Fridays for Future + Communities for Future)
# Ecology: How can we bring our ecological ideas out of the academic and activist ghettos to the streets and everyday social movements? (Degrowth & Transition Network)
# Economy: Imagining an end to capitalism, instead of the end to the world… How best can community-led initiatives bring about territorial transformation, policy change and system change? (Doughnut Economics & Regenerative Practitioners)

(April 26, 2021. 37 Participants. More infos at: [https://urban-arena.eu/event/from-fridays-for-future-to-communities-for-future-how-can-community-led-initiatives-bring-about-system-change/ From Fridays for Future to Communities for Future. How can community-led initiatives bring about system change? ])

UrbanA side events

2021-06-16T10:01:00Z

Duncan Crowley: /* UrbanA Lisbon UMUNDU festival */

UrbanA side events are a part of the [[UrbanA Community of Practice]] (CoP). They started out as special events before each of the main UrbanA arenas, but soon evolved into diverse investigations of UrbanA findings with local communities in consortium member cities. Originally they were planned to be physical, but with COVID some were purely online, some were blended. Some side events happened before Arenas as official [[UrbanA Community Conversations]], some were public, some were just for guests of the upcoming Arena. Other side events happened as fully public Open Webinars, within an Arena. Later side events developed relationships formed in the CoP to further expand CoP activities, there were film night and urban walking tours. Others were "nested events", where UrbanA invited the CoP to participate in wider conferences, festivals and movements, thereby diversifying both the community and themes being explored.

==UrbanA Side Events==
===Local Arena Mouraria (Lisbon)===
[[File:Mouraria event.jpg|right|350px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/how-governance-arrangements-foster-both-urban-sustainability-and-justice-be7ab3786b46]]

The event happened in one of the city’s oldest neighbourhoods, which is also considered the most multi-cultural neighbourhood in the country, Mouraria.

A central question to UrbanA´s implementation in Lisbon was “How might an urban CoP help manifest the dream of a Sustainable and Just Lisbon?” (PDF presentation available here). The day was divided into two parts, a walking tour during the morning around the streets including Rua Dos Lagares, considered to be the epicentre of current evictions, followed by an afternoon at Mouraria Creative Hub, with more than 30 representatives from 24 different groups, or projects, active in the city. A Graphic register captured insights from the day and noted 5 main conclusions:

# Many solutions exist, but complex problems persist
# Tailor solutions to reality and local participation
# Need for articulation to better connect people and projects
# Continuity and cross-pollination is essential.
# Inform about citizen intervention starting points

November 12, 2019. Participants walking tour, 15. Workshop 30. More infos [https://wiki.urban-arena.eu/index.php?title=Database_of_Lisbon_projects_%26_initiatives here])

===How governance arrangements foster both urban sustainability and justice (Freiburg)===
[[File:Twitter Community Conversations Governance copy.jpg|right|350px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/how-governance-arrangements-foster-both-urban-sustainability-and-justice-be7ab3786b46]]
(NOTE: This event was a CoCo and also appears on the [[UrbanA Community Conversations]] list)

Building on the momentum and enthusiasm generated by UrbanA’s online ‘Barcelona’ Arena earlier in the month, 44 people joined the fifth UrbanA Community Conversation on June 23rd. This digital gathering marked the beginning of a new stage in the project — which has so far journeyed from approaches for just and sustainable cities at the Rotterdam Arena, to drivers of injustice in urban sustainability at the second, recent Arena, and now to questions of governance and how to learn between cities for just sustainability.

The Freiburg team has also begun crafting very brief scenarios designed to catch the attention of city-makers in order to lead them to further relevant information. If you are interested, check out the new (and evolving!) [[Database of governance scenarios]] on the UrbanA wiki. The Freiburg University team used examples to illustrate four broader governance ambitions that have potential to avoid injustice in a more durable, long-term way:
# Policy integration,
# Bridging institutional logics,
# Engaging inhabitants, and
# Alternative metrics.

(June 23rd, 44 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/how-governance-arrangements-foster-both-urban-sustainability-and-justice-be7ab3786b46 Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/UrbanA_CoCo-6-23-final.pdf Slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ1o7zGc300 Video] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-governance-tools/ Event Post])

==UrbanA Open Webinars==
===Covid19, justice and sustainability in city (Barcelona)===
[[File:BCN-arena-open-webinar.jpg|right|350px|]]
Can COVID-19 be a turning point on how we imagine and plan our cities? This session will include a short lecture followed by an online conversation on how the COVID-19 has exacerbated urban environmental and health inequalities and how it can be a unique chance to create more just and sustainable urban futures.

The following questions were discussed:

# What are the main manifestations of health and environmental inequalities and related, emergent questions around urban justice in times of pandemic and social confinement?
# To what extent (and where) are such inequalities being addressed in bold, radical ways that can redefine urban futures?
# How does COVID-19 redefine and force us to rethink urban infrastructure (housing, transit, and public space) need, use, and inequalities?
# What lessons can we draw from a crisis such as COVID-19 to build more just and sustainable cities, especially so in the context of a changing climate?

(June 5, 2020. Participants (online, watching on youtube). More infos [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-open-webinar-covid19-justice-and-sustainability-in-city/ here])

==UrbanA Movie Nights==
===“PUSH – The Film” (Rotterdam)===
[[File:PUSH-Rotterdam film night.jpg|right|350px|]]
The covid-19 crisis has exposed several inequities in our cities and at its core is the issue of access to adequate and affordable housing. Long before the shocks of covid-19 crisis, the commodification of the housing market has threatened our right to housing, and constantly changed the very nature and rules of living in cities. PUSH – The Film captures the complexity of this global housing crisis and makes the invisible power relations more tangible. The event will begin with a short introduction to the general theme of Sustainable and Just Cities. After the movie there is an interactive World Café to explore the intersection of the housing crisis with wider challenges of social and ecological (in)justice and the resulting challenges, tensions, possibilities and opportunities for the future.

June 17, 2020. More infos at: [https://urban-arena.eu/event/movie-night-on-sustainablejustcities-the-right-to-housing-with-push-the-film/ Movie Night on #SustainableJustCities: The Right to Housing with “PUSH – The Film” ]

===Community stories from around the world with “Tomorrow”(Rotterdam)===
[[File:Movie night 2.jpg|right|350px|]]
The second online “Movie Night on #SustainableJustCities” was organized on the 1st of December 2020 with the “TomorrowOpens external” documentary, which focuses on creative solutions from sustainable communities across the world. It was organized as part of the Vital Cities & Citizens (VCC) initiative of the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, in collaboration with the UrbanA project and DRIFT.

The movie night event consisted of three main sections spread over 3.5 hours:

# Dr. Flor Avelino gave a a short introduction on sustainable and just cities
# Participants watched the documentary individually on Vimeo. This was followed by
# an interactive World Café discussion, using break-out groups with 3-5 people over two rounds of 15 minutes each. The discussion was self-organized and allowed the participants to share the learnings from the documentary and their engagement with justice and sustainability. This was followed by a short plenary session. Ideas were harvested.

A total of 220 people registered for the event, of which 125 people attended the introduction and movie, and 40 people attended the World Café discussion afterwards. About 30% of these participants were from the Netherlands while others joined from both European and non-European countries including USA, UK, Portugal, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Ireland, India and Hungary. Most of these participants were researchers and/or teachers, students, activists, entrepreneurs and others.

December 1, 2020. 125 Participants - More infos [https://www.eur.nl/en/news/movie-night-sustainablejustcities-community-stories-around-world-tomorrow here] and [https://drift.eur.nl/agenda/movie-night-on-sustainablejustcities-2/ here]

==UrbanA walking tours==
===From Green to Blue. An UrbanA walking tour (Lisbon)===
[[File:UrbanA Lisbon walking tour.jpg|right|350px|]]
An Urban walking tour from Lisbon's green heart, Gulbenkian Park, along the Alcantara valley to the river Tejo. Stops included visits to urban projects on the route: The Bela Flor community are using urban permaculture for both ecological and social change. The Alvito community explore how culture can transform the city, working with the cities communities past and future visions. The new Alcantara valley is one of the highlight projects for Lisbon, Europe's 2020 Green Capital, the old river was remembered. The tour finished at the Alcantara river docks to explore the idea of rivers as organising tools for a fractal form of community led planning process to respond to climate breakdown.

This walking tour led into the later UMUNDU festival, described below. COVID rules were respected. The tour acted as a playful, celebrational activity to stitch the city and its communities.

(October 10, 2020. 5 Participants. More infos [https://www.facebook.com/events/3521283924614952/ here])

==Nested Events==

===Eco City Open Campus===
[[File:Ecocity copy.jpg|right|350px|]]
UrbanA participated in the Ecocity Builders event "Eco City Open Campus". Friends and colleagues from the UrbanA CoP were invited to attend, to share their insights on creating ecocities, #SustainableJustCities, eco projects & communities. It has a “Pay What You Want” register fee, to allow for greater accessibility.who are also involved in creating ecocities. It was an experimental forum, using the VirBELA platform (like an avatar game) to try to connect with other city makers. Groups participated from outside Europe, including many from South East Asia.

(September 8, 2020. Links coming soon, further infos [https://urban-arena.eu/event/eco-city-open-campus/ here])

===UMUNDU festival Lisbon===
[[File:Umundu-urbana-Lisbon.jpg|right|350px|]]

Creating Sustainable and Just Cities – The UrbanA experiment: Followed a walking tour in the city, this discussion explored what UrbanA issues might mean in urban transformations happening in the changing city of Lisbon today. The event built on earlier discussions about Lisbon with local city makers and the UrbanA community, whether Europe´s 2020 Green Capital is helping transform Lisbon into a Sustainable and Just City. This event was part of the Umundu eco festival in Lisbon (9-17 October). It was a “Blended event”, an experimental hybrid space, connecting both participants in a physical location, with others online through new communication technologies. Physical event was limited to 20 places, due to COVID restrictions.

(October 10, 2020. Links coming soon, further infos [https://urban-arena.eu/event/creating-sustainable-and-just-cities-the-urbana-experiment/ here])

===Communities for Future===
[[File:1*hCnjyAC4V2rSxwfPGK xOA copy.jpg|right|350px|]]

The third “Communities for Future” online session explored what is a Community of Practice (CoP) and what can be their role in strengthening community-led responses to societal challenges. Three CoPs from the ECOLISE network at different stages of their evolution were represented; BLAST (Blended Adult Learning for the Social-ecological Transition), Municipalities in Transition (MiT) and UrbanA (Urban Arenas for Sustainable and Just Cities). Davie Phillip outlined how BLAST is establishing processes for their group and assessing best practice and insights from different CoPs within the ECOLISE ecosystem. Together guests explored the shared idea of an eco-social just transition.

(December 02, 2020. 55 Participants. - [https://medium.com/communities-for-future/communities-of-practice-leveraging-impact-by-learning-together-621a27410ca5 Blog post] - [https://communitiesforfuture.org/event/communities-of-practice-leveraging-impact-by-learning-together/ Event Post] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT9izqBV6IQ Video] - Social Media: ([https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1338815690950774785 Twitter])

===Translocal adventures in developing an Urban Systems Community of Practice===
[[File:Tnoc post.jpeg|right|350px|]]

UrbanA, ECOLISE and Communities for Future joined forces to lead an experimental seed session on the first day of The Nature of Cities Festival (TNOC). About 25 people turned up from different corners of the planet, to explore the topic of “Translocal adventures in developing an Urban Systems Community of Practice”. The event was hosted by Giorgia Silvestri & Duncan Crowley from UrbanA and Sara Silva from ECOLISE. The domain that this Urban Systems Community of Practice Ecosystem supports is nothing less than full eco-social just transition, to return the scope of human activity back within the limits of planet earth. The TNOC event was an experimental step, aiming to share the story so far, maximize guest participation, allow diverse discussions to develop, harvest insights from the group and encourage wider participation in the CfF CoPs Ecosystem. The events structure was based on UrbanA’s “Community Conversation” (CoCo) format and was part of the 3rd stage development of the UrbanA Community of Practice (CoP).

(February 22, 2021. 25 participant - [https://medium.com/communities-for-future/translocal-adventures-communities-of-practice-and-the-tnoc-festival-d134346f9789 Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TNOC-FEST-PREZ_.pdf Presentation slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62lH5eOzFpg Video] - [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1htoUpFLj2NBdztW0E_1FHOgXldThEicyvWDTVYB6eGg/edit Harvest Document] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/translocal-adventures-in-developing-an-urban-systems-community-of-practice-with-urbana-and-ecolise/ Event Post] - Social Media: ([https://www.facebook.com/events/190884266158491/ Facebook Event Post] [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1361314428088692736 Twitter] [https://www.instagram.com/p/CLUONvVMWYS/ Instagram]) - Guests presentations ([https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TNOC-Listening-Room-MiTS-Telheiras.pdf Municipalities in Transition Telheiras] , [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TNOC-MMS_-miquel-telheieres.pdf Local energy transition Telheiras], [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TNOC-FEST-ecocity-PREZ.pdf Community-led Ecocity Transformation])

===Cities for Change===
[[File:CFC-final-poster-copy.jpg|right|350px|]]
This event is one of the “Transition Talks” that are happening as part of the “Cities for Change” summit. It is part of the “Energy and Climate” track, is fully online. Cities for Change Forum is a 2-month online program showcasing world-changing ideas in digital and interactive events for building a just, sustainable and equal society from the ground up. The “Transition Talks” are on from May 24th until May 28th.

ECOLISE invited 8 communities to respond to 4 specific questions about Regeneration; Social, Cultural, Ecology, Economy.

# Social: How can we bring regenerative design ideas from ecovillages to our cities, especially when urban injustice continues to grow? (Global Ecovillage Network & UrbanA)
# Cultural: How can we bring about a culture of resistance and regeneration that is accessible to all? (Fridays for Future + Communities for Future)
# Ecology: How can we bring our ecological ideas out of the academic and activist ghettos to the streets and everyday social movements? (Degrowth & Transition Network)
# Economy: Imagining an end to capitalism, instead of the end to the world… How best can community-led initiatives bring about territorial transformation, policy change and system change? (Doughnut Economics & Regenerative Practitioners)

(April 26, 2021. 37 Participants. More infos at: [https://urban-arena.eu/event/from-fridays-for-future-to-communities-for-future-how-can-community-led-initiatives-bring-about-system-change/ From Fridays for Future to Communities for Future. How can community-led initiatives bring about system change? ])

UrbanA Community of Practice

2021-06-16T09:58:19Z

Duncan Crowley: /* Who is part of the UrbanA Community of Practice? */

The UrbanA Community of Practice (CoP) is an open network of individuals committed to taking constructive action on urban social inequality and ecological unsustainability in the ambition to create more just and sustainable cities.

This page is part of an ongoing, open-ended online collaborative database, which collects relevant approaches that can be used by city-makers to tackle unsustainability and injustice in cities. This page makes no claims of authoritative completeness and welcomes your suggestions.

== What is a Community of Practice (CoP)? ==

A [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_of_practice Community of Practice] is a group of people who share a common interest and who collaborate and learn together about how to develop this interest and apply it in practice. An [[UrbanA Community of Practice case study]] was written in September 2020. Like any other community of practice, the UrbanA CoP has the three main elements:

'''A shared interest''' – in this case justice and sustainability in cities.

'''A community that shares this interest''' – all active participants in, contributors to and followers of the project.

'''What the community undertakes together''' – ongoing engagement in UrbanA through the four Arena events, [[UrbanA side events]] and other project activities.

== Who is part of the UrbanA Community of Practice? ==

[[File:UrbanACoP.jpg|frame|left|300px|Degrees of participation in the UrbanA CoP]]

The structure of the UrbanA CoP can be represented as a series of concentric circles, each indicating different levels of engagement (see diagram). The most central circles represent the highest levels of commitment to and involvement in the project.

- At the centre are the project consortium, who have a professional commitment to management and delivery of the project over its three-year duration

- [https://urban-arena.eu/people/#fellows UrbanA Fellows] commit to attend all four Arena events and actively contribute to other CoP activities such as writing blog posts and hosting online events.

- Beyond this are other Arena participants, then people not participating in arenas themselves but following the project and reading or otherwise its outputs, and finally all those whose lives are indirectly touched by UrbanA's contributions to urban sustainability and justice.

The UrbanA CoP is sustained on an ongoing basis by targeted communications activities and social learning processes. [[UrbanA Community Conversations]] are interactive webinars that occurred every 2/3 weeks during a section of the UrbanA project (2019 - 2020) focusing on urban justice and sustainability. [[UrbanA side events]] saw the UrbanA CoP participate in wider conferences, festivals and movements. These webinars as well as UrbanA tools, reports, podcasts, blogs and participation in wider events, all to be collated on the UrbanA website, are developed together by the UrbanA consortium and the wider UrbanA CoP members, with the final aim of building a stronger community. An [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1etAbeDxHlh5MALod3p_rnarSqsI2vcDH/view UrbanA CoP PDF] was prepared for the [https://urban-arena.eu/barcelona-arena/ Barcelona Arena] in June 2020.

== How can you join the UrbanA Community of Practice? ==

'''Join the UrbanA discussion.''' Become a member of our [https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13794274/ UrbanA CoP LinkedIn group] and the [https://communitiesforfuture.org/collaborate/groups/urban-sustainability-and-justice/forum/ Urban Sustainability and Justice Forum] on the [[Communities for Future]] (CfF) action platform. There we share anything relevant to our community and we initiate discussions.

'''Join our [[UrbanA Community Conversations]] on Zoom.''' These are not classic “only-listen-webinars”, the participatory component is essential to us: we want to give as much space as possible to questions, comments and exchange. You can find the last updates on when the next webinar takes place on our [https://urban-arena.eu/event/ website] and [https://twitter.com/arena_urban Twitter account], or by checking the [https://twitter.com/hashtag/UrbanaCoCo?src=hashtag_click&f=live #UrbanACoCo] hashtag.

'''Participate in [[UrbanA side events]].''' Starting out as pre event before each of the 4 main arenas, they have developed to investigations of UrbanA findings with local communities in consortium member cities and include film nights, urban tours and participation in wider conferences and festivals.

'''Contribute to the [https://wiki.urban-arena.eu/index.php?title=Main_Page Wiki on Just and Sustainable cities].''' Together we have created the [https://wiki.urban-arena.eu/index.php?title=Main_Page Wiki on Just and Sustainable cities], an important part of UrbanA’s [[knowledge commons]]. Anytime you want, you can create a Wiki account, and contribute to this knowledge! Read this call for co-creation to know more.

'''Subscribe to our newsletter.''' We won’t spam you. We send a newsletter every couple of months as a recap to UrbanA’s most important updates. Subscribe here and see here the past newsletter.

'''Listen to our Podcasts.''' The [[UrbanA Podcasts]] are available on the main systems, like Spotify and from our [https://urban-arena.eu/resources/#podcast website]. If you're feeling really motivated, you can take the [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/the-urbana-challenge-216946158b2d UrbanA Challenge].

'''Follow our social & multimedia.''' You find us on [https://twitter.com/arena_urban Twitter], [https://www.linkedin.com/company/14840769/admin/ Linkedin], [https://www.instagram.com/arena_urbana/ Instagram], [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZCzSNtUty6Q4DOQr7u_CUg Youtube], [https://www.facebook.com/UrbanArena.project Facebook] and we have a lot of good content on our [https://urban-arena.eu/ website] too. You can also read our [https://urban-arena.eu/resources/#publications publications] and our [https://urban-arena.eu/news/ news blogs] - all about urban justice and sustainability.

UrbanA side events

2021-06-16T09:21:53Z

Duncan Crowley:

UrbanA side events are a part of the [[UrbanA Community of Practice]] (CoP). They started out as special events before each of the main UrbanA arenas, but soon evolved into diverse investigations of UrbanA findings with local communities in consortium member cities. Originally they were planned to be physical, but with COVID some were purely online, some were blended. Some side events happened before Arenas as official [[UrbanA Community Conversations]], some were public, some were just for guests of the upcoming Arena. Other side events happened as fully public Open Webinars, within an Arena. Later side events developed relationships formed in the CoP to further expand CoP activities, there were film night and urban walking tours. Others were "nested events", where UrbanA invited the CoP to participate in wider conferences, festivals and movements, thereby diversifying both the community and themes being explored.

==UrbanA Side Events==
===Local Arena Mouraria (Lisbon)===
[[File:Mouraria event.jpg|right|350px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/how-governance-arrangements-foster-both-urban-sustainability-and-justice-be7ab3786b46]]

The event happened in one of the city’s oldest neighbourhoods, which is also considered the most multi-cultural neighbourhood in the country, Mouraria.

A central question to UrbanA´s implementation in Lisbon was “How might an urban CoP help manifest the dream of a Sustainable and Just Lisbon?” (PDF presentation available here). The day was divided into two parts, a walking tour during the morning around the streets including Rua Dos Lagares, considered to be the epicentre of current evictions, followed by an afternoon at Mouraria Creative Hub, with more than 30 representatives from 24 different groups, or projects, active in the city. A Graphic register captured insights from the day and noted 5 main conclusions:

# Many solutions exist, but complex problems persist
# Tailor solutions to reality and local participation
# Need for articulation to better connect people and projects
# Continuity and cross-pollination is essential.
# Inform about citizen intervention starting points

November 12, 2019. Participants walking tour, 15. Workshop 30. More infos [https://wiki.urban-arena.eu/index.php?title=Database_of_Lisbon_projects_%26_initiatives here])

===How governance arrangements foster both urban sustainability and justice (Freiburg)===
[[File:Twitter Community Conversations Governance copy.jpg|right|350px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/how-governance-arrangements-foster-both-urban-sustainability-and-justice-be7ab3786b46]]
(NOTE: This event was a CoCo and also appears on the [[UrbanA Community Conversations]] list)

Building on the momentum and enthusiasm generated by UrbanA’s online ‘Barcelona’ Arena earlier in the month, 44 people joined the fifth UrbanA Community Conversation on June 23rd. This digital gathering marked the beginning of a new stage in the project — which has so far journeyed from approaches for just and sustainable cities at the Rotterdam Arena, to drivers of injustice in urban sustainability at the second, recent Arena, and now to questions of governance and how to learn between cities for just sustainability.

The Freiburg team has also begun crafting very brief scenarios designed to catch the attention of city-makers in order to lead them to further relevant information. If you are interested, check out the new (and evolving!) [[Database of governance scenarios]] on the UrbanA wiki. The Freiburg University team used examples to illustrate four broader governance ambitions that have potential to avoid injustice in a more durable, long-term way:
# Policy integration,
# Bridging institutional logics,
# Engaging inhabitants, and
# Alternative metrics.

(June 23rd, 44 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/how-governance-arrangements-foster-both-urban-sustainability-and-justice-be7ab3786b46 Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/UrbanA_CoCo-6-23-final.pdf Slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ1o7zGc300 Video] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-governance-tools/ Event Post])

==UrbanA Open Webinars==
===Covid19, justice and sustainability in city (Barcelona)===
[[File:BCN-arena-open-webinar.jpg|right|350px|]]
Can COVID-19 be a turning point on how we imagine and plan our cities? This session will include a short lecture followed by an online conversation on how the COVID-19 has exacerbated urban environmental and health inequalities and how it can be a unique chance to create more just and sustainable urban futures.

The following questions were discussed:

# What are the main manifestations of health and environmental inequalities and related, emergent questions around urban justice in times of pandemic and social confinement?
# To what extent (and where) are such inequalities being addressed in bold, radical ways that can redefine urban futures?
# How does COVID-19 redefine and force us to rethink urban infrastructure (housing, transit, and public space) need, use, and inequalities?
# What lessons can we draw from a crisis such as COVID-19 to build more just and sustainable cities, especially so in the context of a changing climate?

(June 5, 2020. Participants (online, watching on youtube). More infos [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-open-webinar-covid19-justice-and-sustainability-in-city/ here])

==UrbanA Movie Nights==
===“PUSH – The Film” (Rotterdam)===
[[File:PUSH-Rotterdam film night.jpg|right|350px|]]
The covid-19 crisis has exposed several inequities in our cities and at its core is the issue of access to adequate and affordable housing. Long before the shocks of covid-19 crisis, the commodification of the housing market has threatened our right to housing, and constantly changed the very nature and rules of living in cities. PUSH – The Film captures the complexity of this global housing crisis and makes the invisible power relations more tangible. The event will begin with a short introduction to the general theme of Sustainable and Just Cities. After the movie there is an interactive World Café to explore the intersection of the housing crisis with wider challenges of social and ecological (in)justice and the resulting challenges, tensions, possibilities and opportunities for the future.

June 17, 2020. More infos at: [https://urban-arena.eu/event/movie-night-on-sustainablejustcities-the-right-to-housing-with-push-the-film/ Movie Night on #SustainableJustCities: The Right to Housing with “PUSH – The Film” ]

===Community stories from around the world with “Tomorrow”(Rotterdam)===
[[File:Movie night 2.jpg|right|350px|]]
The second online “Movie Night on #SustainableJustCities” was organized on the 1st of December 2020 with the “TomorrowOpens external” documentary, which focuses on creative solutions from sustainable communities across the world. It was organized as part of the Vital Cities & Citizens (VCC) initiative of the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, in collaboration with the UrbanA project and DRIFT.

The movie night event consisted of three main sections spread over 3.5 hours:

# Dr. Flor Avelino gave a a short introduction on sustainable and just cities
# Participants watched the documentary individually on Vimeo. This was followed by
# an interactive World Café discussion, using break-out groups with 3-5 people over two rounds of 15 minutes each. The discussion was self-organized and allowed the participants to share the learnings from the documentary and their engagement with justice and sustainability. This was followed by a short plenary session. Ideas were harvested.

A total of 220 people registered for the event, of which 125 people attended the introduction and movie, and 40 people attended the World Café discussion afterwards. About 30% of these participants were from the Netherlands while others joined from both European and non-European countries including USA, UK, Portugal, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Ireland, India and Hungary. Most of these participants were researchers and/or teachers, students, activists, entrepreneurs and others.

December 1, 2020. 125 Participants - More infos [https://www.eur.nl/en/news/movie-night-sustainablejustcities-community-stories-around-world-tomorrow here] and [https://drift.eur.nl/agenda/movie-night-on-sustainablejustcities-2/ here]

==UrbanA walking tours==
===From Green to Blue. An UrbanA walking tour (Lisbon)===
[[File:UrbanA Lisbon walking tour.jpg|right|350px|]]
An Urban walking tour from Lisbon's green heart, Gulbenkian Park, along the Alcantara valley to the river Tejo. Stops included visits to urban projects on the route: The Bela Flor community are using urban permaculture for both ecological and social change. The Alvito community explore how culture can transform the city, working with the cities communities past and future visions. The new Alcantara valley is one of the highlight projects for Lisbon, Europe's 2020 Green Capital, the old river was remembered. The tour finished at the Alcantara river docks to explore the idea of rivers as organising tools for a fractal form of community led planning process to respond to climate breakdown.

This walking tour led into the later UMUNDU festival, described below. COVID rules were respected. The tour acted as a playful, celebrational activity to stitch the city and its communities.

(October 10, 2020. 5 Participants. More infos [https://www.facebook.com/events/3521283924614952/ here])

==Nested Events==

===Eco City Open Campus===
[[File:Ecocity copy.jpg|right|350px|]]
UrbanA participated in the Ecocity Builders event "Eco City Open Campus". Friends and colleagues from the UrbanA CoP were invited to attend, to share their insights on creating ecocities, #SustainableJustCities, eco projects & communities. It has a “Pay What You Want” register fee, to allow for greater accessibility.who are also involved in creating ecocities. It was an experimental forum, using the VirBELA platform (like an avatar game) to try to connect with other city makers. Groups participated from outside Europe, including many from South East Asia.

(September 8, 2020. Links coming soon, further infos [https://urban-arena.eu/event/eco-city-open-campus/ here])

===UrbanA Lisbon UMUNDU festival===
[[File:Umundu-urbana-Lisbon.jpg|right|350px|]]

Creating Sustainable and Just Cities – The UrbanA experiment: Followed a walking tour in the city, this discussion explored what UrbanA issues might mean in urban transformations happening in the changing city of Lisbon today. The event built on earlier discussions about Lisbon with local city makers and the UrbanA community, whether Europe´s 2020 Green Capital is helping transform Lisbon into a Sustainable and Just City. This event was part of the Umundu eco festival in Lisbon (9-17 October). It was a “Blended event”, an experimental hybrid space, connecting both participants in a physical location, with others online through new communication technologies. Physical event was limited to 20 places, due to COVID restrictions.

(October 10, 2020. Links coming soon, further infos [https://urban-arena.eu/event/creating-sustainable-and-just-cities-the-urbana-experiment/ here])

===Communities for Future===
[[File:1*hCnjyAC4V2rSxwfPGK xOA copy.jpg|right|350px|]]

The third “Communities for Future” online session explored what is a Community of Practice (CoP) and what can be their role in strengthening community-led responses to societal challenges. Three CoPs from the ECOLISE network at different stages of their evolution were represented; BLAST (Blended Adult Learning for the Social-ecological Transition), Municipalities in Transition (MiT) and UrbanA (Urban Arenas for Sustainable and Just Cities). Davie Phillip outlined how BLAST is establishing processes for their group and assessing best practice and insights from different CoPs within the ECOLISE ecosystem. Together guests explored the shared idea of an eco-social just transition.

(December 02, 2020. 55 Participants. - [https://medium.com/communities-for-future/communities-of-practice-leveraging-impact-by-learning-together-621a27410ca5 Blog post] - [https://communitiesforfuture.org/event/communities-of-practice-leveraging-impact-by-learning-together/ Event Post] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT9izqBV6IQ Video] - Social Media: ([https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1338815690950774785 Twitter])

===Translocal adventures in developing an Urban Systems Community of Practice===
[[File:Tnoc post.jpeg|right|350px|]]

UrbanA, ECOLISE and Communities for Future joined forces to lead an experimental seed session on the first day of The Nature of Cities Festival (TNOC). About 25 people turned up from different corners of the planet, to explore the topic of “Translocal adventures in developing an Urban Systems Community of Practice”. The event was hosted by Giorgia Silvestri & Duncan Crowley from UrbanA and Sara Silva from ECOLISE. The domain that this Urban Systems Community of Practice Ecosystem supports is nothing less than full eco-social just transition, to return the scope of human activity back within the limits of planet earth. The TNOC event was an experimental step, aiming to share the story so far, maximize guest participation, allow diverse discussions to develop, harvest insights from the group and encourage wider participation in the CfF CoPs Ecosystem. The events structure was based on UrbanA’s “Community Conversation” (CoCo) format and was part of the 3rd stage development of the UrbanA Community of Practice (CoP).

(February 22, 2021. 25 participant - [https://medium.com/communities-for-future/translocal-adventures-communities-of-practice-and-the-tnoc-festival-d134346f9789 Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TNOC-FEST-PREZ_.pdf Presentation slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62lH5eOzFpg Video] - [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1htoUpFLj2NBdztW0E_1FHOgXldThEicyvWDTVYB6eGg/edit Harvest Document] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/translocal-adventures-in-developing-an-urban-systems-community-of-practice-with-urbana-and-ecolise/ Event Post] - Social Media: ([https://www.facebook.com/events/190884266158491/ Facebook Event Post] [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1361314428088692736 Twitter] [https://www.instagram.com/p/CLUONvVMWYS/ Instagram]) - Guests presentations ([https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TNOC-Listening-Room-MiTS-Telheiras.pdf Municipalities in Transition Telheiras] , [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TNOC-MMS_-miquel-telheieres.pdf Local energy transition Telheiras], [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TNOC-FEST-ecocity-PREZ.pdf Community-led Ecocity Transformation])

===Cities for Change===
[[File:CFC-final-poster-copy.jpg|right|350px|]]
This event is one of the “Transition Talks” that are happening as part of the “Cities for Change” summit. It is part of the “Energy and Climate” track, is fully online. Cities for Change Forum is a 2-month online program showcasing world-changing ideas in digital and interactive events for building a just, sustainable and equal society from the ground up. The “Transition Talks” are on from May 24th until May 28th.

ECOLISE invited 8 communities to respond to 4 specific questions about Regeneration; Social, Cultural, Ecology, Economy.

# Social: How can we bring regenerative design ideas from ecovillages to our cities, especially when urban injustice continues to grow? (Global Ecovillage Network & UrbanA)
# Cultural: How can we bring about a culture of resistance and regeneration that is accessible to all? (Fridays for Future + Communities for Future)
# Ecology: How can we bring our ecological ideas out of the academic and activist ghettos to the streets and everyday social movements? (Degrowth & Transition Network)
# Economy: Imagining an end to capitalism, instead of the end to the world… How best can community-led initiatives bring about territorial transformation, policy change and system change? (Doughnut Economics & Regenerative Practitioners)

(April 26, 2021. 37 Participants. More infos at: [https://urban-arena.eu/event/from-fridays-for-future-to-communities-for-future-how-can-community-led-initiatives-bring-about-system-change/ From Fridays for Future to Communities for Future. How can community-led initiatives bring about system change? ])

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2021-06-16T08:19:01Z

Duncan Crowley: Communities for Future - Event 3 - Communities of Practice

== Summary ==
Communities for Future - Event 3 - Communities of Practice

UrbanA side events

2021-06-09T14:49:46Z

Duncan Crowley: /* Translocal adventures in developing an Urban Systems Community of Practice */

UrbanA side events are a part of the [[UrbanA Community of Practice]] (CoP). They started out as special events before each of the main UrbanA arenas, but soon evolved into diverse investigations of UrbanA findings with local communities in consortium member cities. Originally they were planned to be physical, but with COVID some were purely online, some were blended. Some side events happened before Arenas as official [[UrbanA Community Conversations]], some were public, some were just for guests of the upcoming Arena. Other side events happened as fully public Open Webinars, within an Arena. Later side events developed relationships formed in the CoP to further expand CoP activities, there were film night and urban walking tours. Others were "nested events", where UrbanA invited the CoP to participate in wider conferences, festivals and movements, thereby diversifying both the community and themes being explored.

==UrbanA Side Events==
===Local Arena Mouraria (Lisbon)===
[[File:Mouraria event.jpg|right|350px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/how-governance-arrangements-foster-both-urban-sustainability-and-justice-be7ab3786b46]]

The event happened in one of the city’s oldest neighbourhoods, which is also considered the most multi-cultural neighbourhood in the country, Mouraria.

A central question to UrbanA´s implementation in Lisbon was “How might an urban CoP help manifest the dream of a Sustainable and Just Lisbon?” (PDF presentation available here). The day was divided into two parts, a walking tour during the morning around the streets including Rua Dos Lagares, considered to be the epicentre of current evictions, followed by an afternoon at Mouraria Creative Hub, with more than 30 representatives from 24 different groups, or projects, active in the city. A Graphic register captured insights from the day and noted 5 main conclusions:

# Many solutions exist, but complex problems persist
# Tailor solutions to reality and local participation
# Need for articulation to better connect people and projects
# Continuity and cross-pollination is essential.
# Inform about citizen intervention starting points

November 12, 2019. Participants walking tour, 15. Workshop 30. More infos [https://wiki.urban-arena.eu/index.php?title=Database_of_Lisbon_projects_%26_initiatives here])

===How governance arrangements foster both urban sustainability and justice (Freiburg)===
[[File:Twitter Community Conversations Governance copy.jpg|right|350px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/how-governance-arrangements-foster-both-urban-sustainability-and-justice-be7ab3786b46]]
(NOTE: This event was a CoCo and also appears on the [[UrbanA Community Conversations]] list)

Building on the momentum and enthusiasm generated by UrbanA’s online ‘Barcelona’ Arena earlier in the month, 44 people joined the fifth UrbanA Community Conversation on June 23rd. This digital gathering marked the beginning of a new stage in the project — which has so far journeyed from approaches for just and sustainable cities at the Rotterdam Arena, to drivers of injustice in urban sustainability at the second, recent Arena, and now to questions of governance and how to learn between cities for just sustainability.

The Freiburg team has also begun crafting very brief scenarios designed to catch the attention of city-makers in order to lead them to further relevant information. If you are interested, check out the new (and evolving!) [[Database of governance scenarios]] on the UrbanA wiki. The Freiburg University team used examples to illustrate four broader governance ambitions that have potential to avoid injustice in a more durable, long-term way:
# Policy integration,
# Bridging institutional logics,
# Engaging inhabitants, and
# Alternative metrics.

(June 23rd, 44 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/how-governance-arrangements-foster-both-urban-sustainability-and-justice-be7ab3786b46 Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/UrbanA_CoCo-6-23-final.pdf Slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ1o7zGc300 Video] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-governance-tools/ Event Post])

==UrbanA Open Webinars==
===Covid19, justice and sustainability in city (Barcelona)===
[[File:BCN-arena-open-webinar.jpg|right|350px|]]
Can COVID-19 be a turning point on how we imagine and plan our cities? This session will include a short lecture followed by an online conversation on how the COVID-19 has exacerbated urban environmental and health inequalities and how it can be a unique chance to create more just and sustainable urban futures.

The following questions were discussed:

# What are the main manifestations of health and environmental inequalities and related, emergent questions around urban justice in times of pandemic and social confinement?
# To what extent (and where) are such inequalities being addressed in bold, radical ways that can redefine urban futures?
# How does COVID-19 redefine and force us to rethink urban infrastructure (housing, transit, and public space) need, use, and inequalities?
# What lessons can we draw from a crisis such as COVID-19 to build more just and sustainable cities, especially so in the context of a changing climate?

(June 5, 2020. Participants (online, watching on youtube). More infos [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-open-webinar-covid19-justice-and-sustainability-in-city/ here])

==UrbanA Movie Nights==
===“PUSH – The Film” (Rotterdam)===
[[File:PUSH-Rotterdam film night.jpg|right|350px|]]
The covid-19 crisis has exposed several inequities in our cities and at its core is the issue of access to adequate and affordable housing. Long before the shocks of covid-19 crisis, the commodification of the housing market has threatened our right to housing, and constantly changed the very nature and rules of living in cities. PUSH – The Film captures the complexity of this global housing crisis and makes the invisible power relations more tangible. The event will begin with a short introduction to the general theme of Sustainable and Just Cities. After the movie there is an interactive World Café to explore the intersection of the housing crisis with wider challenges of social and ecological (in)justice and the resulting challenges, tensions, possibilities and opportunities for the future.

June 17, 2020. More infos at: [https://urban-arena.eu/event/movie-night-on-sustainablejustcities-the-right-to-housing-with-push-the-film/ Movie Night on #SustainableJustCities: The Right to Housing with “PUSH – The Film” ]

===Community stories from around the world with “Tomorrow”(Rotterdam)===
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The second online “Movie Night on #SustainableJustCities” was organized on the 1st of December 2020 with the “TomorrowOpens external” documentary, which focuses on creative solutions from sustainable communities across the world. It was organized as part of the Vital Cities & Citizens (VCC) initiative of the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, in collaboration with the UrbanA project and DRIFT.

The movie night event consisted of three main sections spread over 3.5 hours:

# Dr. Flor Avelino gave a a short introduction on sustainable and just cities
# Participants watched the documentary individually on Vimeo. This was followed by
# an interactive World Café discussion, using break-out groups with 3-5 people over two rounds of 15 minutes each. The discussion was self-organized and allowed the participants to share the learnings from the documentary and their engagement with justice and sustainability. This was followed by a short plenary session. Ideas were harvested.

A total of 220 people registered for the event, of which 125 people attended the introduction and movie, and 40 people attended the World Café discussion afterwards. About 30% of these participants were from the Netherlands while others joined from both European and non-European countries including USA, UK, Portugal, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Ireland, India and Hungary. Most of these participants were researchers and/or teachers, students, activists, entrepreneurs and others.

December 1, 2020. 125 Participants - More infos [https://www.eur.nl/en/news/movie-night-sustainablejustcities-community-stories-around-world-tomorrow here] and [https://drift.eur.nl/agenda/movie-night-on-sustainablejustcities-2/ here]

==UrbanA walking tours==
===From Green to Blue. An UrbanA walking tour (Lisbon)===
[[File:UrbanA Lisbon walking tour.jpg|right|350px|]]
An Urban walking tour from Lisbon's green heart, Gulbenkian Park, along the Alcantara valley to the river Tejo. Stops included visits to urban projects on the route: The Bela Flor community are using urban permaculture for both ecological and social change. The Alvito community explore how culture can transform the city, working with the cities communities past and future visions. The new Alcantara valley is one of the highlight projects for Lisbon, Europe's 2020 Green Capital, the old river was remembered. The tour finished at the Alcantara river docks to explore the idea of rivers as organising tools for a fractal form of community led planning process to respond to climate breakdown.

This walking tour led into the later UMUNDU festival, described below. COVID rules were respected. The tour acted as a playful, celebrational activity to stitch the city and its communities.

(October 10, 2020. 5 Participants. More infos [https://www.facebook.com/events/3521283924614952/ here])

==Nested Events==

===Eco City Open Campus===
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UrbanA participated in the Ecocity Builders event "Eco City Open Campus". Friends and colleagues from the UrbanA CoP were invited to attend, to share their insights on creating ecocities, #SustainableJustCities, eco projects & communities. It has a “Pay What You Want” register fee, to allow for greater accessibility.who are also involved in creating ecocities. It was an experimental forum, using the VirBELA platform (like an avatar game) to try to connect with other city makers. Groups participated from outside Europe, including many from South East Asia.

(September 8, 2020. Links coming soon, further infos [https://urban-arena.eu/event/eco-city-open-campus/ here])

===UrbanA Lisbon UMUNDU festival===
[[File:Umundu-urbana-Lisbon.jpg|right|350px|]]

Creating Sustainable and Just Cities – The UrbanA experiment: Followed a walking tour in the city, this discussion explored what UrbanA issues might mean in urban transformations happening in the changing city of Lisbon today. The event built on earlier discussions about Lisbon with local city makers and the UrbanA community, whether Europe´s 2020 Green Capital is helping transform Lisbon into a Sustainable and Just City. This event was part of the Umundu eco festival in Lisbon (9-17 October). It was a “Blended event”, an experimental hybrid space, connecting both participants in a physical location, with others online through new communication technologies. Physical event was limited to 20 places, due to COVID restrictions.

(October 10, 2020. Links coming soon, further infos [https://urban-arena.eu/event/creating-sustainable-and-just-cities-the-urbana-experiment/ here])

===Translocal adventures in developing an Urban Systems Community of Practice===
[[File:Tnoc post.jpeg|right|350px|]]

UrbanA, ECOLISE and Communities for Future joined forces to lead an experimental seed session on the first day of The Nature of Cities Festival (TNOC). About 25 people turned up from different corners of the planet, to explore the topic of “Translocal adventures in developing an Urban Systems Community of Practice”. The event was hosted by Giorgia Silvestri & Duncan Crowley from UrbanA and Sara Silva from ECOLISE. The domain that this Urban Systems Community of Practice Ecosystem supports is nothing less than full eco-social just transition, to return the scope of human activity back within the limits of planet earth. The TNOC event was an experimental step, aiming to share the story so far, maximize guest participation, allow diverse discussions to develop, harvest insights from the group and encourage wider participation in the CfF CoPs Ecosystem. The events structure was based on UrbanA’s “Community Conversation” (CoCo) format and was part of the 3rd stage development of the UrbanA Community of Practice (CoP).

(February 22, 2021. 25 participant - [https://medium.com/communities-for-future/translocal-adventures-communities-of-practice-and-the-tnoc-festival-d134346f9789 Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TNOC-FEST-PREZ_.pdf Presentation slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62lH5eOzFpg Video] - [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1htoUpFLj2NBdztW0E_1FHOgXldThEicyvWDTVYB6eGg/edit Harvest Document] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/translocal-adventures-in-developing-an-urban-systems-community-of-practice-with-urbana-and-ecolise/ Event Post] - Social Media: ([https://www.facebook.com/events/190884266158491/ Facebook Event Post] [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1361314428088692736 Twitter] [https://www.instagram.com/p/CLUONvVMWYS/ Instagram]) - Guests presentations ([https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TNOC-Listening-Room-MiTS-Telheiras.pdf Municipalities in Transition Telheiras] , [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TNOC-MMS_-miquel-telheieres.pdf Local energy transition Telheiras], [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TNOC-FEST-ecocity-PREZ.pdf Community-led Ecocity Transformation])

===Cities for Change===
[[File:CFC-final-poster-copy.jpg|right|350px|]]
This event is one of the “Transition Talks” that are happening as part of the “Cities for Change” summit. It is part of the “Energy and Climate” track, is fully online. Cities for Change Forum is a 2-month online program showcasing world-changing ideas in digital and interactive events for building a just, sustainable and equal society from the ground up. The “Transition Talks” are on from May 24th until May 28th.

ECOLISE invited 8 communities to respond to 4 specific questions about Regeneration; Social, Cultural, Ecology, Economy.

# Social: How can we bring regenerative design ideas from ecovillages to our cities, especially when urban injustice continues to grow? (Global Ecovillage Network & UrbanA)
# Cultural: How can we bring about a culture of resistance and regeneration that is accessible to all? (Fridays for Future + Communities for Future)
# Ecology: How can we bring our ecological ideas out of the academic and activist ghettos to the streets and everyday social movements? (Degrowth & Transition Network)
# Economy: Imagining an end to capitalism, instead of the end to the world… How best can community-led initiatives bring about territorial transformation, policy change and system change? (Doughnut Economics & Regenerative Practitioners)

(April 26, 2021. 37 Participants. More infos at: [https://urban-arena.eu/event/from-fridays-for-future-to-communities-for-future-how-can-community-led-initiatives-bring-about-system-change/ From Fridays for Future to Communities for Future. How can community-led initiatives bring about system change? ])

UrbanA Community Conversations

2021-05-31T12:17:04Z

Duncan Crowley:

UrbanA Community Conversations are a series of regular (nearly biweekly) online events that bring together people with a passion for urban sustainability and justice to connect, learn, discuss and have fun. They are a core part of the [[UrbanA Community of Practice]]. Each Community Conversation, CoCo for short, involves one or more short presentations of the work of an UrbanA fellow, followed by a participation section for guests to explore the themes explored. In time the CoP evolved to explore different forms of event, as outlined in [[UrbanA side events]]. All CoCos reports and videos can be found on our blog on [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities Medium] and by following the '''#UrbanACoCo''' on social media ([https://twitter.com/hashtag/UrbanaCoCo?src=hashtag_click&f=live twitter], [https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/UrbanaCoCo/ instagram], [https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/UrbanaCoCo/ facebook]).

==Designing a local climate adaptation plan==
[[File:Joao twitter copy 2.jpg|right|350px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/the-first-urbana-community-conversation-designing-a-local-climate-adaptation-plan-a9375cdd9318]]

João Dinis, from Cascais Municipality in the metropolitan area of Lisbon, Portugal, gave a rich and exciting presentation on Cascais’ local climate adaptation plan, the very first in Portugal. Although participants asked many questions during the webinar, time constraints did not allow us to answer them all. Fortunately, João kindly provided written answers following the webinar, which you can see in the blog post.

(April 7th, 30 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/the-first-urbana-community-conversation-designing-a-local-climate-adaptation-plan-a9375cdd9318 Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/UrbanA_JDinis_V4.pdf Slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6didug88czQ video])

==Everyone can Wiki — online meeting provides practical hands-on experience==
[[File:Twitter Community Conversations Wiki copy.jpg|right|350px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/everyone-can-wiki-online-meeting-provides-practical-hands-on-experience-95ec2c529d7d]]

Tom Henfrey of UrbanA partner ECOLISE, began with a short background piece on commons and their importance to the theme of sustainable and just cities. Karlijn Schipper of UrbanA partner DRIFT, then gave participants a tour of the wiki and facilitated practical exercises in creating a wiki user page and setting up a new wiki page.

The call helped us grow our community of wiki users and contributors. Around thirty people signed up for new wiki accounts following the call for co-creation launched in the run-up to the call, and during the call itself. Call participants created new wiki pages on several topics, including [[Open Food Network]], art as a pedagogical tool for urban resilience, the Crafting Future Urban Economies project, Socratic digital democracy, and the Social Innovation Strategies for Sustainability Transitions project.

(April 21st, 30+ participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/everyone-can-wiki-online-meeting-provides-practical-hands-on-experience-95ec2c529d7d Blog post] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64bK0v3CXRg Video])

==Transformative Cities: linking local and translocal perspectives on sustainable and just cities==
[[File:Twitter Community Conversations Transformative cities copy.jpg|right|350px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/transformative-cities-linking-local-and-translocal-perspectives-on-sustainable-and-just-cities-f164f36659ab]]

The third UrbanA Community Conversation was a dialogue between UrbanA Fellow Emma Erwin of Transition Stirling (Scotland) and Sol Trumbo Villa, Coordinator of the Transformative Cities project at the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam (in which UrbanA Fellow Erick Palomares is project researcher).

The call opened with a discussion between Emma and Sol about the relationship between Transformative Cities and Transition Stirling. Transition Cities identifies, showcases and connects exemplary urban transformation projects worldwide, while Transition Stirling facilitates positive local responses to climate change through community-scale projects

(April 28th, 40 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/transformative-cities-linking-local-and-translocal-perspectives-on-sustainable-and-just-cities-f164f36659ab Blog post] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4jS-1YxORM Video])

==Is Lisbon a Sustainable and Just City? Perspectives from Europe´s 2020 Green Capital==
[[File:Twitter Community Conversations Lisbon copy.jpg|right|350px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/is-lisbon-a-sustainable-and-just-city-perspectives-from-europe-s-2020-green-capital-c106d61b326f]]

Nearly 60 people attended the fourth UrbanA Community Conversation, on May 26th. It was also the first in our new “City Series” of community conversations, for which we visited the current European Green Capital, Lisbon. The event was facilitated by Constança Belchior from the UrbanA Portugal team and included perspectives from UrbanA Fellow Rafael Calado of Fablab Lisboa, Luís Matos of Rés do Chão and Patrícia Robalo of Morar em Lisboa and Lisbon’s Housing Movement about a range of issues including urban greening, evictions, gentrification, civic engagement and local community solutions in this [https://medium.com/@fuspey/lisbon-a-changing-city-a44472d2abbc fast-changing city].

(May 26, 60 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/is-lisbon-a-sustainable-and-just-city-perspectives-from-europe-s-2020-green-capital-c106d61b326f Blog post] - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/18R2TIIoNa4swRWaRrtFTmzflc52pWH3S/view Slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-8dpY1ISwE Video] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-lisbon/ Event Post] - [https://www.facebook.com/events/542806376597995/ Facebook Event Post] - [https://www.facebook.com/urbana.portugal/photos/?tab=album&album_id=272393960803346 Images])

==How governance arrangements foster both urban sustainability and justice==
[[File:Twitter Community Conversations Governance copy.jpg|right|350px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/how-governance-arrangements-foster-both-urban-sustainability-and-justice-be7ab3786b46]]

Building on the momentum and enthusiasm generated by UrbanA’s online ‘Barcelona’ Arena earlier in the month, 44 people joined the fifth UrbanA Community Conversation on June 23rd. This digital gathering marked the beginning of a new stage in the project — which has so far journeyed from approaches for just and sustainable cities at the Rotterdam Arena, to drivers of injustice in urban sustainability at the second, recent Arena, and now to questions of governance and how to learn between cities for just sustainability.

The Freiburg team has also begun crafting very brief scenarios designed to catch the attention of city-makers in order to lead them to further relevant information. If you are interested, check out the new (and evolving!) [[Database of governance scenarios]] on the UrbanA wiki. The Freiburg University team used examples to illustrate four broader governance ambitions that have potential to avoid injustice in a more durable, long-term way:
# Policy integration,
# Bridging institutional logics,
# Engaging inhabitants, and
# Alternative metrics.

(June 23rd, 44 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/how-governance-arrangements-foster-both-urban-sustainability-and-justice-be7ab3786b46 Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/UrbanA_CoCo-6-23-final.pdf Slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ1o7zGc300 Video] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-governance-tools/ Event Post])

==Addressing poverty via food solidarity in cities==
[[File:Twitter food poverty copy.jpg|right|350px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/addressing-poverty-via-food-solidarity-in-cities-6cb7acf1e959]]

People of varied backgrounds and from all over the world met to address the question of food poverty and solidarity. UrbanA Fellow Marcelline Bonneau, an expert in both the URBACT programme and the Urban Innovation Actions initiative, led the conversation. She began by sharing her experience and understanding of how European municipalities have approached food poverty during the COVID19 crisis. She focused on three questions:
* How have cities supported those in need of food during the crisis?
* How have cities reorganized traditional food aid systems, such as funded meals in canteens or regular food distributions?
* How can food more widely address (urban) poverty?

(June 30th, @ 20 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/addressing-poverty-via-food-solidarity-in-cities-6cb7acf1e959 Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/UrbanA_DD_Foodsolidarity_M-Bonneau.pdf Slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMjYiyQpGK0 Video] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-food-poverty/ Event Post] - [https://www.facebook.com/events/748124352683062/ Facebook Event Post] - Related URBACT article: [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-governance-tools/ Covid-19: a springboard for more food solidarity?])

==Feminist perspectives for sustainable just cities==
[[File:Twitter Feminist copy punt 6 copy 2.jpg|right|350px|link=https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-feminist-perspective-for-sustainable-just-cities/]]

Sara Ortiz Escalante will open this CoCo speaking about the relevance of gender perspectives to create sustainable and just cities. Sara works at [http://www.punt6.org/en/ Col·lectiu Punt 6] (Collective Point 6), a cooperative engaged on [[feminist urbanism]] to “make our cities more inclusive and make the people who inhabit them the experts of the spaces that surround us.”

The CoCo addressed the following questions:

* How have cities reorganised work and what have been the gender consequences of the Covid-19 crisis in the distribution of care?
* How have cities supported care of dependents in the Covid-19 crisis?
* How have cities responded to the diversity of needs, households and people?
* What can cities change to place care and people’s life at the center in the new scenario post-Covid?

The first part was videod. A listening room was set up for the second section, from which a half hour audio recording was made.

(July 21, 70 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/feminist-perspectives-for-sustainable-just-cities-the-last-urbana-coco-before-the-summer-f3cd4ab8a731 Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/UrbanACoCo_FeministPerspectives_Punt6_21.7.2020.pdf Slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWv2gL7sOxY&feature=youtu.be Video] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-feminist-perspective-for-sustainable-just-cities/ Event Post] - [https://www.facebook.com/events/1136226070094541 Facebook Event Post] - Wiki entry: [[Feminist perspectives for sustainable just cities]])

==An Avantgardenist Approach, Creating Peace Gardens in the Urban Realm==
[[File:Copy of Twitter peace gardens.png|right|350px|link=https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-feminist-perspective-for-sustainable-just-cities/]]

The first event of our second [https://twitter.com/hashtag/UrbanACoCo?src=hashtag_click #UrbanACoCo] series was a very special and emotional event. Nearly 30 people turned up to listen to UrbanA fellow [https://www.linkedin.com/in/burcu-eke-schneider-227bab17/ Burcu Eke Schneider] and other team members from the Avantgardenist Peace activists from the [http://www.wuppertals-urbane-gaerten.de/ Wuppertal urban garden] at the Aleviten Culture Center, in the heart of Wuppertal city in Germany. With team members including native Germans and newer arrivals from Turkey, Syria and further afield, the talk looked at the power of community gardens to create peace and heal war trauma, while contributing to environmental sustainability such as a boost in biodiversity.

Peacebuilding is an invaluable method for promoting urban sustainability and justice that contributes to understanding the root causes of problems at the micro level and finding solutions. An important intervention for preventing violence, it works with inclusiveness to help enable emergence of a common understanding in three main ways:

* First, it can support inclusive processes of just urban transition that respect diversity of cultural backgrounds and ethnicity.
* Second, it can promote more environmentally friendly behaviour and attitudes among participants.
* Third, it can convey new meanings of "collective struggle for a common future" in different languages, cultures and sacred places.

The event included a "Listening Room", where Burcu talked in greater depth and answered specific questions, and the "Breakout Rooms" where guests broke into smaller groups to discuss what the following questions mean for their communities or cities:

* Do you know examples of cities working with peace initiatives,
* How can urban gardens contribute to peace and inclusivity.
* How can we transform community spaces to be more eco-friendly?

(September 15, 30 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/an-avantgardenist-approach-creating-peace-gardens-in-the-urban-realm-17f8aaddaa9f Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/UrbanACoCo_CreatingPeaceGardens.pdf Presentation slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bP4u3Ykri0 Video] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/creating-peace-gardens-in-the-urban-realm/ Event Post] - [https://www.facebook.com/events/1252985551705871/ Facebook Event Post] Wuppertal urban garden: [http://www.wuppertals-urbane-gaerten.de/ web] - [https://www.facebook.com/groups/491783505092197/ facebook group] - [https://www.instagram.com/urbangardening_friedensprojekt/ Instagram])

==Municipalities in Transition, how can citizens and municipalities work better together?==
[[File:Twitter MiT.png|right|350px|link=https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-feminist-perspective-for-sustainable-just-cities/]]

On the 29th of September, about 60 people connected for another inspiring Community Conversation. This time it was about [https://municipalitiesintransition.org/ Municipalities in Transition] (MiT), part of the larger [https://transitionnetwork.org/ Transition Network Movement]. Like every Community Conversation, it started with a 20 minutes presentation by Cristiano Bottone, who presented what Municipalities in Transition is all about.

This was also the last “[https://events.communitiesforfuture.org/event/webinar-case-studies-from-the-municipalities-in-transition-project/ European Day of Sustainable Communities]” event and it celebrated its part of the “[[Communities for Future]]” (CfF) launch by playing the CfF [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYBFLLm5Rpg video], made by the [https://www.ecolise.eu/communities-for-future-launches-across-europe-with-a-series-of-online-workshops/ ECOLISE] team.

There was a listening room where Cristiano Bottone explained MiT in greater detail and in the breakout rooms, our CoP explored the following questions:

* What really prevents us from making effective decisions in communities?
* How do you feel the Municipalities in Transition methodology could be received by local administrations?
* How polarization, fake news and social media are conditioning our decisions about the future?

(September 29, 60 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/municipalities-in-transition-how-can-citizens-and-municipalities-work-better-together-5b81d4021752 Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/UrbanACoCo_Municipalities-in-Transition.pdf Presentation slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha5E34XuAFM Video] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-municipalities-in-transition/ Event Post] - [https://www.facebook.com/events/307519283813498/ Facebook Event Post] Municipalities in Transition: [https://municipalitiesintransition.org/ web] - [https://www.facebook.com/municipalitiesintransition/ facebook] - [https://twitter.com/MunicipalitiesT twitter])

==Planning Eco-inclusive Districts==
[[File:Twitter eco-inclusive district copy.jpg|right|350px|link=https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-feminist-perspective-for-sustainable-just-cities/]]

On the 10th of November, about 35 people came together to learn, share and discuss what urban planners can do to plan eco-inclusive districts that fulfil both social and environmental sustainability goals. The CoCo was opened by UrbanA fellow [https://twitter.com/MaartenMarkus Maarten Markus] and his colleague Marije Ruigrok, both working for the Dutch urban development agency [https://www.am.nl/ AM]. AM initiated a consortium taking an interdisciplinary approach for sustainable and just neighbourhood development, involving universities, governments, private business and other consultancies.

Marije Ruigrok outlined an AM case study in greater detail in the listening room. In the breakout rooms, participants explored the following questions in smaller groups:

* How would you formulate smart targets for eco-inclusive districts?
* Pulling public/private resources for eco-inclusive districts is difficult due to institutional structures and the long term planning vs. short term politics. How could we mainstream this idea?
* Participation is key to be inclusive, yet paradoxically many people don’t want to participate. How can we solve this paradox and built local networks and ownership?
* What alternatives can you add? And what makes them them succesful?
* Can you make a top 5 of (potentially) most inclusive participation processes?

(November 10, 35 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/planning-eco-inclusive-districts-54c3318cc51c Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/UrbanA-CoCo_Nov-11th_Eco-Inclusive-Districts.pdf Presentation slides] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/UrbanA-CoCo_Nov-11th_Eco-inclusive-Districts_CASE-STUDY.pdf Listening Room Presentation slides] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Community-harvesting-slides_UrbanA-CoCo_Nov-11th_Eco-inclusive-districts.pdf Breakout Rooms Harvest Document] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inPnC0yuceA Video] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-planning-eco-sustainable-districts/ Event Post] - [https://www.facebook.com/events/663025367730050 Facebook Event Post] - [https://twitter.com/MaartenMarkus Maarten Markus (twitter)] - [https://www.am.nl/ AM website])

==Co-creating Just and Sustainable Cities With Children==
[[File:Twitter children(1) copy.jpg|right|350px|link=https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-feminist-perspective-for-sustainable-just-cities/]]

On the 24th of November, 65 people came together to discuss children’s involvement in urban issues and show examples of addressing urban conflicts together with them. This CoCo’s presenters were Kitti Baracsi and Tuline Gülgönen. Kitti is an educator, researcher, activist specialising in critical pedagogies and collaborative methods, her work involves children and young people on projects addressing urban conflicts, her work can be seen at [https://periferiasdibujadas.tumblr.com/ Periferias Dibujadas](drawn peripheries). Tuline Gülgönen is a researcher and filmmaker. She carries out multidisciplinary investigation on the perception and engagement of children in the city in various urban contexts. She recently created the documentary [https://ciudadgrande.com/ Ciudad Grande] (Big City) about Mexico city. The guests invited participants to co create an UrbanA wiki entry: [[Children and urbanism]].

The CoCo explored how can we create more just and sustainable cities from the children’s point of view? How can we produce knowledge on our cities in collaboration with children? How can we as scholars, urban planners or activists overcome our adultcentrism? What is the pandemic teaching us about justice and sustainability from the children’s point of view? The guests shared case studies in the Listening Room and the breakout rooms focused on the following single question:

* How could you, or how are you incorporating the children's point of view in your work, activism etc

(November 24, 65 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/co-creating-just-and-sustainable-cities-with-children-e9698cac5c4a?source=collection_home---6------3----------------------- Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/UrbanACoC_Nov_24th_Co-creating-just-and-sustainable-cities-with-children.pdf Presentation slides (both general and listening room] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CommunityHarvestingSlides_UrbanACoCo_Nov24th_Co-creatingJustSustWithChildren.pdf Breakout Rooms Harvest Document] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW-nebM2wbY Video] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-co-creating-just-and-sustainable-cities-with-children/ Event Post] - [https://www.facebook.com/events/787713051775674 Facebook Event Post] - [https://twitter.com/BaracsiKitti Kitti Baracsi] - [https://periferiasdibujadas.tumblr.com/ Periferias Dibujadas] - [https://ciudadgrande.com/ Ciudad Grande] - [https://independent.academia.edu/TulineG%C3%BClg%C3%B6nen Tuline Gülgönen on Academia] UrbanA wiki post: [[Children and urbanism]] (Still being edited)

==Participatory challenges – Committing local businesses to climate action==
[[File:Businesses to climate action.jpg|right|350px|link=https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-feminist-perspective-for-sustainable-just-cities/]]

On the 16th of February, about 30 people came together to explore current challenges the German city of Gelsenkirchen is facing under the current pandemic. Local authorities are finding it increasingly difficult to involve the economic bodies of the city in committing to more ambitious climate action and align with the city’s targets. Gelsenkichen is part of the [https://urbantransitions.org/ Urban Transition Alliance], a platform for cities with an industrial legacy. Stephan Rath from the [https://urbantransitions.org/ Gelsenkirchen Science Park] and [https://talkofthecities.iclei.org/putting-the-circular-economy-into-action/ Ying-Chih Deng] from ICLEI World Secretariat led the CoCo. Some of the initiatives that Gelsenkirchen is undertaking to include the private sector more strongly are the development of an inclusive Climate Action Plan (2030–2050), and the creation of a Climate Forum. CoCo participants shared key insights for the city to explore, in response to the breakout question:

* How to motivate local businesses to start taking climate action into their own hands?

(February 16 2021, 30 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/what-can-cities-do-to-commit-businesses-to-climate-action-the-case-of-gelsenkirchen-germany-c2fe38c6ee20 Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/UrbanA-CoCo-Gelsenkirchen-Feb-2021.pdf Presentation slides (both general and listening room] - [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1uw_RsUWhchGdADG3tM2jP6GZAwMe7QGyOLeOhf1M2aA/edit#slide=id.gacecb40cc3_0_124 Breakout Rooms Harvest Document] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF0OR3rlNO0 Video] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-participatory-challenges-committing-local-business-to-climate-action/ Event Post] - [https://www.facebook.com/events/1553184751736867/ Facebook Event Post] - [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1354412771656478720 Twitter post and discussion] - [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK8ubXksbIE/ Instagram]

UrbanA side events

2021-05-31T12:14:41Z

Duncan Crowley:

UrbanA side events are a part of the [[UrbanA Community of Practice]] (CoP). They started out as special events before each of the main UrbanA arenas, but soon evolved into diverse investigations of UrbanA findings with local communities in consortium member cities. Originally they were planned to be physical, but with COVID some were purely online, some were blended. Some side events happened before Arenas as official [[UrbanA Community Conversations]], some were public, some were just for guests of the upcoming Arena. Other side events happened as fully public Open Webinars, within an Arena. Later side events developed relationships formed in the CoP to further expand CoP activities, there were film night and urban walking tours. Others were "nested events", where UrbanA invited the CoP to participate in wider conferences, festivals and movements, thereby diversifying both the community and themes being explored.

==UrbanA Side Events==
===Local Arena Mouraria (Lisbon)===
[[File:Mouraria event.jpg|right|350px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/how-governance-arrangements-foster-both-urban-sustainability-and-justice-be7ab3786b46]]

The event happened in one of the city’s oldest neighbourhoods, which is also considered the most multi-cultural neighbourhood in the country, Mouraria.

A central question to UrbanA´s implementation in Lisbon was “How might an urban CoP help manifest the dream of a Sustainable and Just Lisbon?” (PDF presentation available here). The day was divided into two parts, a walking tour during the morning around the streets including Rua Dos Lagares, considered to be the epicentre of current evictions, followed by an afternoon at Mouraria Creative Hub, with more than 30 representatives from 24 different groups, or projects, active in the city. A Graphic register captured insights from the day and noted 5 main conclusions:

# Many solutions exist, but complex problems persist
# Tailor solutions to reality and local participation
# Need for articulation to better connect people and projects
# Continuity and cross-pollination is essential.
# Inform about citizen intervention starting points

November 12, 2019. Participants walking tour, 15. Workshop 30. More infos [https://wiki.urban-arena.eu/index.php?title=Database_of_Lisbon_projects_%26_initiatives here])

===How governance arrangements foster both urban sustainability and justice (Freiburg)===
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(NOTE: This event was a CoCo and also appears on the [[UrbanA Community Conversations]] list)

Building on the momentum and enthusiasm generated by UrbanA’s online ‘Barcelona’ Arena earlier in the month, 44 people joined the fifth UrbanA Community Conversation on June 23rd. This digital gathering marked the beginning of a new stage in the project — which has so far journeyed from approaches for just and sustainable cities at the Rotterdam Arena, to drivers of injustice in urban sustainability at the second, recent Arena, and now to questions of governance and how to learn between cities for just sustainability.

The Freiburg team has also begun crafting very brief scenarios designed to catch the attention of city-makers in order to lead them to further relevant information. If you are interested, check out the new (and evolving!) [[Database of governance scenarios]] on the UrbanA wiki. The Freiburg University team used examples to illustrate four broader governance ambitions that have potential to avoid injustice in a more durable, long-term way:
# Policy integration,
# Bridging institutional logics,
# Engaging inhabitants, and
# Alternative metrics.

(June 23rd, 44 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/how-governance-arrangements-foster-both-urban-sustainability-and-justice-be7ab3786b46 Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/UrbanA_CoCo-6-23-final.pdf Slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ1o7zGc300 Video] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-governance-tools/ Event Post])

==UrbanA Open Webinars==
===Covid19, justice and sustainability in city (Barcelona)===
[[File:BCN-arena-open-webinar.jpg|right|350px|]]
Can COVID-19 be a turning point on how we imagine and plan our cities? This session will include a short lecture followed by an online conversation on how the COVID-19 has exacerbated urban environmental and health inequalities and how it can be a unique chance to create more just and sustainable urban futures.

The following questions were discussed:

# What are the main manifestations of health and environmental inequalities and related, emergent questions around urban justice in times of pandemic and social confinement?
# To what extent (and where) are such inequalities being addressed in bold, radical ways that can redefine urban futures?
# How does COVID-19 redefine and force us to rethink urban infrastructure (housing, transit, and public space) need, use, and inequalities?
# What lessons can we draw from a crisis such as COVID-19 to build more just and sustainable cities, especially so in the context of a changing climate?

(June 5, 2020. Participants (online, watching on youtube). More infos [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-open-webinar-covid19-justice-and-sustainability-in-city/ here])

==UrbanA Movie Nights==
===“PUSH – The Film” (Rotterdam)===
[[File:PUSH-Rotterdam film night.jpg|right|350px|]]
The covid-19 crisis has exposed several inequities in our cities and at its core is the issue of access to adequate and affordable housing. Long before the shocks of covid-19 crisis, the commodification of the housing market has threatened our right to housing, and constantly changed the very nature and rules of living in cities. PUSH – The Film captures the complexity of this global housing crisis and makes the invisible power relations more tangible. The event will begin with a short introduction to the general theme of Sustainable and Just Cities. After the movie there is an interactive World Café to explore the intersection of the housing crisis with wider challenges of social and ecological (in)justice and the resulting challenges, tensions, possibilities and opportunities for the future.

June 17, 2020. More infos at: [https://urban-arena.eu/event/movie-night-on-sustainablejustcities-the-right-to-housing-with-push-the-film/ Movie Night on #SustainableJustCities: The Right to Housing with “PUSH – The Film” ]

===Community stories from around the world with “Tomorrow”(Rotterdam)===
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The second online “Movie Night on #SustainableJustCities” was organized on the 1st of December 2020 with the “TomorrowOpens external” documentary, which focuses on creative solutions from sustainable communities across the world. It was organized as part of the Vital Cities & Citizens (VCC) initiative of the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, in collaboration with the UrbanA project and DRIFT.

The movie night event consisted of three main sections spread over 3.5 hours:

# Dr. Flor Avelino gave a a short introduction on sustainable and just cities
# Participants watched the documentary individually on Vimeo. This was followed by
# an interactive World Café discussion, using break-out groups with 3-5 people over two rounds of 15 minutes each. The discussion was self-organized and allowed the participants to share the learnings from the documentary and their engagement with justice and sustainability. This was followed by a short plenary session. Ideas were harvested.

A total of 220 people registered for the event, of which 125 people attended the introduction and movie, and 40 people attended the World Café discussion afterwards. About 30% of these participants were from the Netherlands while others joined from both European and non-European countries including USA, UK, Portugal, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Ireland, India and Hungary. Most of these participants were researchers and/or teachers, students, activists, entrepreneurs and others.

December 1, 2020. 125 Participants - More infos [https://www.eur.nl/en/news/movie-night-sustainablejustcities-community-stories-around-world-tomorrow here] and [https://drift.eur.nl/agenda/movie-night-on-sustainablejustcities-2/ here]

==UrbanA walking tours==
===From Green to Blue. An UrbanA walking tour (Lisbon)===
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An Urban walking tour from Lisbon's green heart, Gulbenkian Park, along the Alcantara valley to the river Tejo. Stops included visits to urban projects on the route: The Bela Flor community are using urban permaculture for both ecological and social change. The Alvito community explore how culture can transform the city, working with the cities communities past and future visions. The new Alcantara valley is one of the highlight projects for Lisbon, Europe's 2020 Green Capital, the old river was remembered. The tour finished at the Alcantara river docks to explore the idea of rivers as organising tools for a fractal form of community led planning process to respond to climate breakdown.

This walking tour led into the later UMUNDU festival, described below. COVID rules were respected. The tour acted as a playful, celebrational activity to stitch the city and its communities.

(October 10, 2020. 5 Participants. More infos [https://www.facebook.com/events/3521283924614952/ here])

==Nested Events==

===Eco City Open Campus===
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UrbanA participated in the Ecocity Builders event "Eco City Open Campus". Friends and colleagues from the UrbanA CoP were invited to attend, to share their insights on creating ecocities, #SustainableJustCities, eco projects & communities. It has a “Pay What You Want” register fee, to allow for greater accessibility.who are also involved in creating ecocities. It was an experimental forum, using the VirBELA platform (like an avatar game) to try to connect with other city makers. Groups participated from outside Europe, including many from South East Asia.

(September 8, 2020. Links coming soon, further infos [https://urban-arena.eu/event/eco-city-open-campus/ here])

===UrbanA Lisbon UMUNDU festival===
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Creating Sustainable and Just Cities – The UrbanA experiment: Followed a walking tour in the city, this discussion explored what UrbanA issues might mean in urban transformations happening in the changing city of Lisbon today. The event built on earlier discussions about Lisbon with local city makers and the UrbanA community, whether Europe´s 2020 Green Capital is helping transform Lisbon into a Sustainable and Just City. This event was part of the Umundu eco festival in Lisbon (9-17 October). It was a “Blended event”, an experimental hybrid space, connecting both participants in a physical location, with others online through new communication technologies. Physical event was limited to 20 places, due to COVID restrictions.

(October 10, 2020. Links coming soon, further infos [https://urban-arena.eu/event/creating-sustainable-and-just-cities-the-urbana-experiment/ here])

===Translocal adventures in developing an Urban Systems Community of Practice===
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UrbanA, ECOLISE and Communities for Future joined forces to lead an experimental seed session on the first day of The Nature of Cities Festival (TNOC). About 25 people turned up from different corners of the planet, to explore the topic of “Translocal adventures in developing an Urban Systems Community of Practice”. The event was hosted by Giorgia Silvestri & Duncan Crowley from UrbanA and Sara Silva from ECOLISE. The domain that this Urban Systems Community of Practice Ecosystem supports is nothing less than full eco-social just transition, to return the scope of human activity back within the limits of planet earth. The TNOC event was an experimental step, aiming to share the story so far, maximize guest participation, allow diverse discussions to develop, harvest insights from the group and encourage wider participation in the CfF CoPs Ecosystem. The events structure was based on UrbanA’s “Community Conversation” (CoCo) format and was part of the 3rd stage development of the UrbanA Community of Practice (CoP).

(February 22, 2021. 25 participant - [https://medium.com/communities-for-future/translocal-adventures-communities-of-practice-and-the-tnoc-festival-d134346f9789 Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/UrbanACoCo_CreatingPeaceGardens.pdf Presentation slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62lH5eOzFpg Video] - [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1htoUpFLj2NBdztW0E_1FHOgXldThEicyvWDTVYB6eGg/edit Harvest Document] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/translocal-adventures-in-developing-an-urban-systems-community-of-practice-with-urbana-and-ecolise/ Event Post] - Social Media: ([https://www.facebook.com/events/190884266158491/ Facebook Event Post] [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1361314428088692736 Twitter] [https://www.instagram.com/p/CLUONvVMWYS/ Instagram]) - Guests presentations ([https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TNOC-Listening-Room-MiTS-Telheiras.pdf Municipalities in Transition Telheiras] , [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TNOC-MMS_-miquel-telheieres.pdf Local energy transition Telheiras], [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TNOC-FEST-ecocity-PREZ.pdf Community-led Ecocity Transformation])

===Cities for Change===
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This event is one of the “Transition Talks” that are happening as part of the “Cities for Change” summit. It is part of the “Energy and Climate” track, is fully online. Cities for Change Forum is a 2-month online program showcasing world-changing ideas in digital and interactive events for building a just, sustainable and equal society from the ground up. The “Transition Talks” are on from May 24th until May 28th.

ECOLISE invited 8 communities to respond to 4 specific questions about Regeneration; Social, Cultural, Ecology, Economy.

# Social: How can we bring regenerative design ideas from ecovillages to our cities, especially when urban injustice continues to grow? (Global Ecovillage Network & UrbanA)
# Cultural: How can we bring about a culture of resistance and regeneration that is accessible to all? (Fridays for Future + Communities for Future)
# Ecology: How can we bring our ecological ideas out of the academic and activist ghettos to the streets and everyday social movements? (Degrowth & Transition Network)
# Economy: Imagining an end to capitalism, instead of the end to the world… How best can community-led initiatives bring about territorial transformation, policy change and system change? (Doughnut Economics & Regenerative Practitioners)

(April 26, 2021. 37 Participants. More infos at: [https://urban-arena.eu/event/from-fridays-for-future-to-communities-for-future-how-can-community-led-initiatives-bring-about-system-change/ From Fridays for Future to Communities for Future. How can community-led initiatives bring about system change? ])

UrbanA side events

2021-05-31T12:13:51Z

Duncan Crowley:

UrbanA side events are a part of the [[UrbanA Community of Practice]] (CoP). They started out as special events before each of the main UrbanA arenas, but soon evolved into diverse investigations of UrbanA findings with local communities in consortium member cities. Originally they were planned to be physical, but with COVID some were purely online, some were blended. Some side events happened before Arenas as official [[UrbanA Community Conversations]], some were public, some were just for guests of the upcoming Arena. Other side events happened as fully public Open Webinars, within an Arena. Later side events developed relationships formed in the CoP to further expand CoP activities, there were film night and urban walking tours. Others were "nested events", where UrbanA invited the CoP to participate in wider conferences, festivals and movements, thereby diversifying both the community and themes being explored.

==UrbanA Side Events==
===Local Arena Mouraria (Lisbon)===
[[File:Mouraria event.jpg|right|350px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/how-governance-arrangements-foster-both-urban-sustainability-and-justice-be7ab3786b46]]

The event happened in one of the city’s oldest neighbourhoods, which is also considered the most multi-cultural neighbourhood in the country, Mouraria.

A central question to UrbanA´s implementation in Lisbon was “How might an urban CoP help manifest the dream of a Sustainable and Just Lisbon?” (PDF presentation available here). The day was divided into two parts, a walking tour during the morning around the streets including Rua Dos Lagares, considered to be the epicentre of current evictions, followed by an afternoon at Mouraria Creative Hub, with more than 30 representatives from 24 different groups, or projects, active in the city. A Graphic register captured insights from the day and noted 5 main conclusions:

# Many solutions exist, but complex problems persist
# Tailor solutions to reality and local participation
# Need for articulation to better connect people and projects
# Continuity and cross-pollination is essential.
# Inform about citizen intervention starting points

November 12, 2019. Participants walking tour, 15. Workshop 30. More infos [https://wiki.urban-arena.eu/index.php?title=Database_of_Lisbon_projects_%26_initiatives here])

===How governance arrangements foster both urban sustainability and justice (Freiburg)===
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(NOTE: This event was a CoCo and also appears on the [[UrbanA Community Conversations]] list)

Building on the momentum and enthusiasm generated by UrbanA’s online ‘Barcelona’ Arena earlier in the month, 44 people joined the fifth UrbanA Community Conversation on June 23rd. This digital gathering marked the beginning of a new stage in the project — which has so far journeyed from approaches for just and sustainable cities at the Rotterdam Arena, to drivers of injustice in urban sustainability at the second, recent Arena, and now to questions of governance and how to learn between cities for just sustainability.

The Freiburg team has also begun crafting very brief scenarios designed to catch the attention of city-makers in order to lead them to further relevant information. If you are interested, check out the new (and evolving!) [[Database of governance scenarios]] on the UrbanA wiki. The Freiburg University team used examples to illustrate four broader governance ambitions that have potential to avoid injustice in a more durable, long-term way:
# Policy integration,
# Bridging institutional logics,
# Engaging inhabitants, and
# Alternative metrics.

(June 23rd, 44 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/how-governance-arrangements-foster-both-urban-sustainability-and-justice-be7ab3786b46 Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/UrbanA_CoCo-6-23-final.pdf Slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ1o7zGc300 Video] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-governance-tools/ Event Post])

==UrbanA Open Webinars==
===Covid19, justice and sustainability in city (Barcelona)===
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Can COVID-19 be a turning point on how we imagine and plan our cities? This session will include a short lecture followed by an online conversation on how the COVID-19 has exacerbated urban environmental and health inequalities and how it can be a unique chance to create more just and sustainable urban futures.

The following questions were discussed:

# What are the main manifestations of health and environmental inequalities and related, emergent questions around urban justice in times of pandemic and social confinement?
# To what extent (and where) are such inequalities being addressed in bold, radical ways that can redefine urban futures?
# How does COVID-19 redefine and force us to rethink urban infrastructure (housing, transit, and public space) need, use, and inequalities?
# What lessons can we draw from a crisis such as COVID-19 to build more just and sustainable cities, especially so in the context of a changing climate?

(June 5, 2020. Participants (online, watching on youtube). More infos [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-open-webinar-covid19-justice-and-sustainability-in-city/ here])

==UrbanA Movie Nights==
===“PUSH – The Film” (Rotterdam)===
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The covid-19 crisis has exposed several inequities in our cities and at its core is the issue of access to adequate and affordable housing. Long before the shocks of covid-19 crisis, the commodification of the housing market has threatened our right to housing, and constantly changed the very nature and rules of living in cities. PUSH – The Film captures the complexity of this global housing crisis and makes the invisible power relations more tangible. The event will begin with a short introduction to the general theme of Sustainable and Just Cities. After the movie there is an interactive World Café to explore the intersection of the housing crisis with wider challenges of social and ecological (in)justice and the resulting challenges, tensions, possibilities and opportunities for the future.

June 17, 2020. More infos at: [https://urban-arena.eu/event/movie-night-on-sustainablejustcities-the-right-to-housing-with-push-the-film/ Movie Night on #SustainableJustCities: The Right to Housing with “PUSH – The Film” ]

===Community stories from around the world with “Tomorrow”(Rotterdam)===
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The second online “Movie Night on #SustainableJustCities” was organized on the 1st of December 2020 with the “TomorrowOpens external” documentary, which focuses on creative solutions from sustainable communities across the world. It was organized as part of the Vital Cities & Citizens (VCC) initiative of the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, in collaboration with the UrbanA project and DRIFT.

The movie night event consisted of three main sections spread over 3.5 hours:

# Dr. Flor Avelino gave a a short introduction on sustainable and just cities
# Participants watched the documentary individually on Vimeo. This was followed by
# an interactive World Café discussion, using break-out groups with 3-5 people over two rounds of 15 minutes each. The discussion was self-organized and allowed the participants to share the learnings from the documentary and their engagement with justice and sustainability. This was followed by a short plenary session. Ideas were harvested.

A total of 220 people registered for the event, of which 125 people attended the introduction and movie, and 40 people attended the World Café discussion afterwards. About 30% of these participants were from the Netherlands while others joined from both European and non-European countries including USA, UK, Portugal, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Ireland, India and Hungary. Most of these participants were researchers and/or teachers, students, activists, entrepreneurs and others.

December 1, 2020. 125 Participants - More infos [https://www.eur.nl/en/news/movie-night-sustainablejustcities-community-stories-around-world-tomorrow here] and [https://drift.eur.nl/agenda/movie-night-on-sustainablejustcities-2/ here]

===From Green to Blue. An UrbanA walking tour (Lisbon)===
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An Urban walking tour from Lisbon's green heart, Gulbenkian Park, along the Alcantara valley to the river Tejo. Stops included visits to urban projects on the route: The Bela Flor community are using urban permaculture for both ecological and social change. The Alvito community explore how culture can transform the city, working with the cities communities past and future visions. The new Alcantara valley is one of the highlight projects for Lisbon, Europe's 2020 Green Capital, the old river was remembered. The tour finished at the Alcantara river docks to explore the idea of rivers as organising tools for a fractal form of community led planning process to respond to climate breakdown.

This walking tour led into the later UMUNDU festival, described below. COVID rules were respected. The tour acted as a playful, celebrational activity to stitch the city and its communities.

(October 10, 2020. 5 Participants. More infos [https://www.facebook.com/events/3521283924614952/ here])

==Nested Events==

===Eco City Open Campus===
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UrbanA participated in the Ecocity Builders event "Eco City Open Campus". Friends and colleagues from the UrbanA CoP were invited to attend, to share their insights on creating ecocities, #SustainableJustCities, eco projects & communities. It has a “Pay What You Want” register fee, to allow for greater accessibility.who are also involved in creating ecocities. It was an experimental forum, using the VirBELA platform (like an avatar game) to try to connect with other city makers. Groups participated from outside Europe, including many from South East Asia.

(September 8, 2020. Links coming soon, further infos [https://urban-arena.eu/event/eco-city-open-campus/ here])

===UrbanA Lisbon UMUNDU festival===
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Creating Sustainable and Just Cities – The UrbanA experiment: Followed a walking tour in the city, this discussion explored what UrbanA issues might mean in urban transformations happening in the changing city of Lisbon today. The event built on earlier discussions about Lisbon with local city makers and the UrbanA community, whether Europe´s 2020 Green Capital is helping transform Lisbon into a Sustainable and Just City. This event was part of the Umundu eco festival in Lisbon (9-17 October). It was a “Blended event”, an experimental hybrid space, connecting both participants in a physical location, with others online through new communication technologies. Physical event was limited to 20 places, due to COVID restrictions.

(October 10, 2020. Links coming soon, further infos [https://urban-arena.eu/event/creating-sustainable-and-just-cities-the-urbana-experiment/ here])

===Translocal adventures in developing an Urban Systems Community of Practice===
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UrbanA, ECOLISE and Communities for Future joined forces to lead an experimental seed session on the first day of The Nature of Cities Festival (TNOC). About 25 people turned up from different corners of the planet, to explore the topic of “Translocal adventures in developing an Urban Systems Community of Practice”. The event was hosted by Giorgia Silvestri & Duncan Crowley from UrbanA and Sara Silva from ECOLISE. The domain that this Urban Systems Community of Practice Ecosystem supports is nothing less than full eco-social just transition, to return the scope of human activity back within the limits of planet earth. The TNOC event was an experimental step, aiming to share the story so far, maximize guest participation, allow diverse discussions to develop, harvest insights from the group and encourage wider participation in the CfF CoPs Ecosystem. The events structure was based on UrbanA’s “Community Conversation” (CoCo) format and was part of the 3rd stage development of the UrbanA Community of Practice (CoP).

(February 22, 2021. 25 participant - [https://medium.com/communities-for-future/translocal-adventures-communities-of-practice-and-the-tnoc-festival-d134346f9789 Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/UrbanACoCo_CreatingPeaceGardens.pdf Presentation slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62lH5eOzFpg Video] - [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1htoUpFLj2NBdztW0E_1FHOgXldThEicyvWDTVYB6eGg/edit Harvest Document] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/translocal-adventures-in-developing-an-urban-systems-community-of-practice-with-urbana-and-ecolise/ Event Post] - Social Media: ([https://www.facebook.com/events/190884266158491/ Facebook Event Post] [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1361314428088692736 Twitter] [https://www.instagram.com/p/CLUONvVMWYS/ Instagram]) - Guests presentations ([https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TNOC-Listening-Room-MiTS-Telheiras.pdf Municipalities in Transition Telheiras] , [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TNOC-MMS_-miquel-telheieres.pdf Local energy transition Telheiras], [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TNOC-FEST-ecocity-PREZ.pdf Community-led Ecocity Transformation])

===Cities for Change===
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This event is one of the “Transition Talks” that are happening as part of the “Cities for Change” summit. It is part of the “Energy and Climate” track, is fully online. Cities for Change Forum is a 2-month online program showcasing world-changing ideas in digital and interactive events for building a just, sustainable and equal society from the ground up. The “Transition Talks” are on from May 24th until May 28th.

ECOLISE invited 8 communities to respond to 4 specific questions about Regeneration; Social, Cultural, Ecology, Economy.

# Social: How can we bring regenerative design ideas from ecovillages to our cities, especially when urban injustice continues to grow? (Global Ecovillage Network & UrbanA)
# Cultural: How can we bring about a culture of resistance and regeneration that is accessible to all? (Fridays for Future + Communities for Future)
# Ecology: How can we bring our ecological ideas out of the academic and activist ghettos to the streets and everyday social movements? (Degrowth & Transition Network)
# Economy: Imagining an end to capitalism, instead of the end to the world… How best can community-led initiatives bring about territorial transformation, policy change and system change? (Doughnut Economics & Regenerative Practitioners)

(April 26, 2021. 37 Participants. More infos at: [https://urban-arena.eu/event/from-fridays-for-future-to-communities-for-future-how-can-community-led-initiatives-bring-about-system-change/ From Fridays for Future to Communities for Future. How can community-led initiatives bring about system change? ])

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Duncan Crowley: Mouraria Local Arena - Lisbon 2019

== Summary ==
Mouraria Local Arena - Lisbon 2019

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Duncan Crowley: Movie Night 2 - Tomorrow

== Summary ==
Movie Night 2 - Tomorrow

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2021-05-31T11:21:58Z

Duncan Crowley: UrbanA Lisbon walking tour

== Summary ==
UrbanA Lisbon walking tour

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Duncan Crowley: PUSH Rotterdam film night

== Summary ==
PUSH Rotterdam film night

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2021-05-31T10:45:55Z

Duncan Crowley: BCN open webinar

== Summary ==
BCN open webinar

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2021-05-31T10:26:20Z

Duncan Crowley: Umundu-Lisbon

== Summary ==
Umundu-Lisbon

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2021-05-31T10:22:38Z

Duncan Crowley: Cities For Change Summit

== Summary ==
Cities For Change Summit

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2021-05-31T10:15:46Z

Duncan Crowley: Eco City Open Campus

== Summary ==
Eco City Open Campus

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2021-05-31T09:49:39Z

Duncan Crowley: TNOC festival - The Nature of Cities Festival 2021

== Summary ==
TNOC festival - The Nature of Cities Festival 2021

UrbanA Community Conversations

2021-03-08T18:51:24Z

Duncan Crowley: /* Feminist perspectives for sustainable just cities */

UrbanA Community Conversations are a series of regular (nearly biweekly) online events that bring together people with a passion for urban sustainability and justice to connect, learn, discuss and have fun. They are a core part of the [[UrbanA Community of Practice]]. Each Community Conversation, CoCo for short, involves one or more short presentations of the work of an UrbanA fellow, followed by a participation section for guests to explore the themes explored. All CoCos reports and videos can be found on our blog on [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities Medium] and by following the '''#UrbanACoCo''' on social media ([https://twitter.com/hashtag/UrbanaCoCo?src=hashtag_click&f=live twitter], [https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/UrbanaCoCo/ instagram], [https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/UrbanaCoCo/ facebook]).

==Designing a local climate adaptation plan==
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João Dinis, from Cascais Municipality in the metropolitan area of Lisbon, Portugal, gave a rich and exciting presentation on Cascais’ local climate adaptation plan, the very first in Portugal. Although participants asked many questions during the webinar, time constraints did not allow us to answer them all. Fortunately, João kindly provided written answers following the webinar, which you can see in the blog post.

(April 7th, 30 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/the-first-urbana-community-conversation-designing-a-local-climate-adaptation-plan-a9375cdd9318 Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/UrbanA_JDinis_V4.pdf Slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6didug88czQ video])

==Everyone can Wiki — online meeting provides practical hands-on experience==
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Tom Henfrey of UrbanA partner ECOLISE, began with a short background piece on commons and their importance to the theme of sustainable and just cities. Karlijn Schipper of UrbanA partner DRIFT, then gave participants a tour of the wiki and facilitated practical exercises in creating a wiki user page and setting up a new wiki page.

The call helped us grow our community of wiki users and contributors. Around thirty people signed up for new wiki accounts following the call for co-creation launched in the run-up to the call, and during the call itself. Call participants created new wiki pages on several topics, including [[Open Food Network]], art as a pedagogical tool for urban resilience, the Crafting Future Urban Economies project, Socratic digital democracy, and the Social Innovation Strategies for Sustainability Transitions project.

(April 21st, 30+ participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/everyone-can-wiki-online-meeting-provides-practical-hands-on-experience-95ec2c529d7d Blog post] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64bK0v3CXRg Video])

==Transformative Cities: linking local and translocal perspectives on sustainable and just cities==
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The third UrbanA Community Conversation was a dialogue between UrbanA Fellow Emma Erwin of Transition Stirling (Scotland) and Sol Trumbo Villa, Coordinator of the Transformative Cities project at the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam (in which UrbanA Fellow Erick Palomares is project researcher).

The call opened with a discussion between Emma and Sol about the relationship between Transformative Cities and Transition Stirling. Transition Cities identifies, showcases and connects exemplary urban transformation projects worldwide, while Transition Stirling facilitates positive local responses to climate change through community-scale projects

(April 28th, 40 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/transformative-cities-linking-local-and-translocal-perspectives-on-sustainable-and-just-cities-f164f36659ab Blog post] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4jS-1YxORM Video])

==Is Lisbon a Sustainable and Just City? Perspectives from Europe´s 2020 Green Capital==
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Nearly 60 people attended the fourth UrbanA Community Conversation, on May 26th. It was also the first in our new “City Series” of community conversations, for which we visited the current European Green Capital, Lisbon. The event was facilitated by Constança Belchior from the UrbanA Portugal team and included perspectives from UrbanA Fellow Rafael Calado of Fablab Lisboa, Luís Matos of Rés do Chão and Patrícia Robalo of Morar em Lisboa and Lisbon’s Housing Movement about a range of issues including urban greening, evictions, gentrification, civic engagement and local community solutions in this [https://medium.com/@fuspey/lisbon-a-changing-city-a44472d2abbc fast-changing city].

(May 26, 60 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/is-lisbon-a-sustainable-and-just-city-perspectives-from-europe-s-2020-green-capital-c106d61b326f Blog post] - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/18R2TIIoNa4swRWaRrtFTmzflc52pWH3S/view Slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-8dpY1ISwE Video] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-lisbon/ Event Post] - [https://www.facebook.com/events/542806376597995/ Facebook Event Post] - [https://www.facebook.com/urbana.portugal/photos/?tab=album&album_id=272393960803346 Images])

==How governance arrangements foster both urban sustainability and justice==
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Building on the momentum and enthusiasm generated by UrbanA’s online ‘Barcelona’ Arena earlier in the month, 44 people joined the fifth UrbanA Community Conversation on June 23rd. This digital gathering marked the beginning of a new stage in the project — which has so far journeyed from approaches for just and sustainable cities at the Rotterdam Arena, to drivers of injustice in urban sustainability at the second, recent Arena, and now to questions of governance and how to learn between cities for just sustainability.

The Freiburg team has also begun crafting very brief scenarios designed to catch the attention of city-makers in order to lead them to further relevant information. If you are interested, check out the new (and evolving!) [[Database of governance scenarios]] on the UrbanA wiki. The Freiburg University team used examples to illustrate four broader governance ambitions that have potential to avoid injustice in a more durable, long-term way:
# Policy integration,
# Bridging institutional logics,
# Engaging inhabitants, and
# Alternative metrics.

(June 23rd, 44 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/how-governance-arrangements-foster-both-urban-sustainability-and-justice-be7ab3786b46 Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/UrbanA_CoCo-6-23-final.pdf Slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ1o7zGc300 Video] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-governance-tools/ Event Post])

==Addressing poverty via food solidarity in cities==
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People of varied backgrounds and from all over the world met to address the question of food poverty and solidarity. UrbanA Fellow Marcelline Bonneau, an expert in both the URBACT programme and the Urban Innovation Actions initiative, led the conversation. She began by sharing her experience and understanding of how European municipalities have approached food poverty during the COVID19 crisis. She focused on three questions:
* How have cities supported those in need of food during the crisis?
* How have cities reorganized traditional food aid systems, such as funded meals in canteens or regular food distributions?
* How can food more widely address (urban) poverty?

(June 30th, @ 20 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/addressing-poverty-via-food-solidarity-in-cities-6cb7acf1e959 Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/UrbanA_DD_Foodsolidarity_M-Bonneau.pdf Slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMjYiyQpGK0 Video] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-food-poverty/ Event Post] - [https://www.facebook.com/events/748124352683062/ Facebook Event Post] - Related URBACT article: [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-governance-tools/ Covid-19: a springboard for more food solidarity?])

==Feminist perspectives for sustainable just cities==
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Sara Ortiz Escalante will open this CoCo speaking about the relevance of gender perspectives to create sustainable and just cities. Sara works at [http://www.punt6.org/en/ Col·lectiu Punt 6] (Collective Point 6), a cooperative engaged on [[feminist urbanism]] to “make our cities more inclusive and make the people who inhabit them the experts of the spaces that surround us.”

The CoCo addressed the following questions:

* How have cities reorganised work and what have been the gender consequences of the Covid-19 crisis in the distribution of care?
* How have cities supported care of dependents in the Covid-19 crisis?
* How have cities responded to the diversity of needs, households and people?
* What can cities change to place care and people’s life at the center in the new scenario post-Covid?

The first part was videod. A listening room was set up for the second section, from which a half hour audio recording was made.

(July 21, 70 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/feminist-perspectives-for-sustainable-just-cities-the-last-urbana-coco-before-the-summer-f3cd4ab8a731 Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/UrbanACoCo_FeministPerspectives_Punt6_21.7.2020.pdf Slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWv2gL7sOxY&feature=youtu.be Video] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-feminist-perspective-for-sustainable-just-cities/ Event Post] - [https://www.facebook.com/events/1136226070094541 Facebook Event Post] - Wiki entry: [[Feminist perspectives for sustainable just cities]])

==An Avantgardenist Approach, Creating Peace Gardens in the Urban Realm==
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The first event of our second [https://twitter.com/hashtag/UrbanACoCo?src=hashtag_click #UrbanACoCo] series was a very special and emotional event. Nearly 30 people turned up to listen to UrbanA fellow [https://www.linkedin.com/in/burcu-eke-schneider-227bab17/ Burcu Eke Schneider] and other team members from the Avantgardenist Peace activists from the [http://www.wuppertals-urbane-gaerten.de/ Wuppertal urban garden] at the Aleviten Culture Center, in the heart of Wuppertal city in Germany. With team members including native Germans and newer arrivals from Turkey, Syria and further afield, the talk looked at the power of community gardens to create peace and heal war trauma, while contributing to environmental sustainability such as a boost in biodiversity.

Peacebuilding is an invaluable method for promoting urban sustainability and justice that contributes to understanding the root causes of problems at the micro level and finding solutions. An important intervention for preventing violence, it works with inclusiveness to help enable emergence of a common understanding in three main ways:

* First, it can support inclusive processes of just urban transition that respect diversity of cultural backgrounds and ethnicity.
* Second, it can promote more environmentally friendly behaviour and attitudes among participants.
* Third, it can convey new meanings of "collective struggle for a common future" in different languages, cultures and sacred places.

The event included a "Listening Room", where Burcu talked in greater depth and answered specific questions, and the "Breakout Rooms" where guests broke into smaller groups to discuss what the following questions mean for their communities or cities:

* Do you know examples of cities working with peace initiatives,
* How can urban gardens contribute to peace and inclusivity.
* How can we transform community spaces to be more eco-friendly?

(September 15, 30 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/an-avantgardenist-approach-creating-peace-gardens-in-the-urban-realm-17f8aaddaa9f Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/UrbanACoCo_CreatingPeaceGardens.pdf Presentation slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bP4u3Ykri0 Video] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/creating-peace-gardens-in-the-urban-realm/ Event Post] - [https://www.facebook.com/events/1252985551705871/ Facebook Event Post] Wuppertal urban garden: [http://www.wuppertals-urbane-gaerten.de/ web] - [https://www.facebook.com/groups/491783505092197/ facebook group] - [https://www.instagram.com/urbangardening_friedensprojekt/ Instagram])

==Municipalities in Transition, how can citizens and municipalities work better together?==
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On the 29th of September, about 60 people connected for another inspiring Community Conversation. This time it was about [https://municipalitiesintransition.org/ Municipalities in Transition] (MiT), part of the larger [https://transitionnetwork.org/ Transition Network Movement]. Like every Community Conversation, it started with a 20 minutes presentation by Cristiano Bottone, who presented what Municipalities in Transition is all about.

This was also the last “[https://events.communitiesforfuture.org/event/webinar-case-studies-from-the-municipalities-in-transition-project/ European Day of Sustainable Communities]” event and it celebrated its part of the “[[Communities for Future]]” (CfF) launch by playing the CfF [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYBFLLm5Rpg video], made by the [https://www.ecolise.eu/communities-for-future-launches-across-europe-with-a-series-of-online-workshops/ ECOLISE] team.

There was a listening room where Cristiano Bottone explained MiT in greater detail and in the breakout rooms, our CoP explored the following questions:

* What really prevents us from making effective decisions in communities?
* How do you feel the Municipalities in Transition methodology could be received by local administrations?
* How polarization, fake news and social media are conditioning our decisions about the future?

(September 29, 60 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/municipalities-in-transition-how-can-citizens-and-municipalities-work-better-together-5b81d4021752 Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/UrbanACoCo_Municipalities-in-Transition.pdf Presentation slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha5E34XuAFM Video] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-municipalities-in-transition/ Event Post] - [https://www.facebook.com/events/307519283813498/ Facebook Event Post] Municipalities in Transition: [https://municipalitiesintransition.org/ web] - [https://www.facebook.com/municipalitiesintransition/ facebook] - [https://twitter.com/MunicipalitiesT twitter])

==Planning Eco-inclusive Districts==
[[File:Twitter eco-inclusive district copy.jpg|right|350px|link=https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-feminist-perspective-for-sustainable-just-cities/]]

On the 10th of November, about 35 people came together to learn, share and discuss what urban planners can do to plan eco-inclusive districts that fulfil both social and environmental sustainability goals. The CoCo was opened by UrbanA fellow [https://twitter.com/MaartenMarkus Maarten Markus] and his colleague Marije Ruigrok, both working for the Dutch urban development agency [https://www.am.nl/ AM]. AM initiated a consortium taking an interdisciplinary approach for sustainable and just neighbourhood development, involving universities, governments, private business and other consultancies.

Marije Ruigrok outlined an AM case study in greater detail in the listening room. In the breakout rooms, participants explored the following questions in smaller groups:

* How would you formulate smart targets for eco-inclusive districts?
* Pulling public/private resources for eco-inclusive districts is difficult due to institutional structures and the long term planning vs. short term politics. How could we mainstream this idea?
* Participation is key to be inclusive, yet paradoxically many people don’t want to participate. How can we solve this paradox and built local networks and ownership?
* What alternatives can you add? And what makes them them succesful?
* Can you make a top 5 of (potentially) most inclusive participation processes?

(November 10, 35 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/planning-eco-inclusive-districts-54c3318cc51c Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/UrbanA-CoCo_Nov-11th_Eco-Inclusive-Districts.pdf Presentation slides] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/UrbanA-CoCo_Nov-11th_Eco-inclusive-Districts_CASE-STUDY.pdf Listening Room Presentation slides] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Community-harvesting-slides_UrbanA-CoCo_Nov-11th_Eco-inclusive-districts.pdf Breakout Rooms Harvest Document] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inPnC0yuceA Video] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-planning-eco-sustainable-districts/ Event Post] - [https://www.facebook.com/events/663025367730050 Facebook Event Post] - [https://twitter.com/MaartenMarkus Maarten Markus (twitter)] - [https://www.am.nl/ AM website])

==Co-creating Just and Sustainable Cities With Children==
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On the 24th of November, 65 people came together to discuss children’s involvement in urban issues and show examples of addressing urban conflicts together with them. This CoCo’s presenters were Kitti Baracsi and Tuline Gülgönen. Kitti is an educator, researcher, activist specialising in critical pedagogies and collaborative methods, her work involves children and young people on projects addressing urban conflicts, her work can be seen at [https://periferiasdibujadas.tumblr.com/ Periferias Dibujadas](drawn peripheries). Tuline Gülgönen is a researcher and filmmaker. She carries out multidisciplinary investigation on the perception and engagement of children in the city in various urban contexts. She recently created the documentary [https://ciudadgrande.com/ Ciudad Grande] (Big City) about Mexico city. The guests invited participants to co create an UrbanA wiki entry: [[Children and urbanism]].

The CoCo explored how can we create more just and sustainable cities from the children’s point of view? How can we produce knowledge on our cities in collaboration with children? How can we as scholars, urban planners or activists overcome our adultcentrism? What is the pandemic teaching us about justice and sustainability from the children’s point of view? The guests shared case studies in the Listening Room and the breakout rooms focused on the following single question:

* How could you, or how are you incorporating the children's point of view in your work, activism etc

(November 24, 65 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/co-creating-just-and-sustainable-cities-with-children-e9698cac5c4a?source=collection_home---6------3----------------------- Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/UrbanACoC_Nov_24th_Co-creating-just-and-sustainable-cities-with-children.pdf Presentation slides (both general and listening room] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CommunityHarvestingSlides_UrbanACoCo_Nov24th_Co-creatingJustSustWithChildren.pdf Breakout Rooms Harvest Document] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW-nebM2wbY Video] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-co-creating-just-and-sustainable-cities-with-children/ Event Post] - [https://www.facebook.com/events/787713051775674 Facebook Event Post] - [https://twitter.com/BaracsiKitti Kitti Baracsi] - [https://periferiasdibujadas.tumblr.com/ Periferias Dibujadas] - [https://ciudadgrande.com/ Ciudad Grande] - [https://independent.academia.edu/TulineG%C3%BClg%C3%B6nen Tuline Gülgönen on Academia] UrbanA wiki post: [[Children and urbanism]] (Still being edited)

==Participatory challenges – Committing local businesses to climate action==
[[File:Businesses to climate action.jpg|right|350px|link=https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-feminist-perspective-for-sustainable-just-cities/]]

On the 16th of February, about 30 people came together to explore current challenges the German city of Gelsenkirchen is facing under the current pandemic. Local authorities are finding it increasingly difficult to involve the economic bodies of the city in committing to more ambitious climate action and align with the city’s targets. Gelsenkichen is part of the [https://urbantransitions.org/ Urban Transition Alliance], a platform for cities with an industrial legacy. Stephan Rath from the [https://urbantransitions.org/ Gelsenkirchen Science Park] and [https://talkofthecities.iclei.org/putting-the-circular-economy-into-action/ Ying-Chih Deng] from ICLEI World Secretariat led the CoCo. Some of the initiatives that Gelsenkirchen is undertaking to include the private sector more strongly are the development of an inclusive Climate Action Plan (2030–2050), and the creation of a Climate Forum. CoCo participants shared key insights for the city to explore, in response to the breakout question:

* How to motivate local businesses to start taking climate action into their own hands?

(February 16 2021, 30 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/what-can-cities-do-to-commit-businesses-to-climate-action-the-case-of-gelsenkirchen-germany-c2fe38c6ee20 Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/UrbanA-CoCo-Gelsenkirchen-Feb-2021.pdf Presentation slides (both general and listening room] - [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1uw_RsUWhchGdADG3tM2jP6GZAwMe7QGyOLeOhf1M2aA/edit#slide=id.gacecb40cc3_0_124 Breakout Rooms Harvest Document] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF0OR3rlNO0 Video] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-participatory-challenges-committing-local-business-to-climate-action/ Event Post] - [https://www.facebook.com/events/1553184751736867/ Facebook Event Post] - [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1354412771656478720 Twitter post and discussion] - [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK8ubXksbIE/ Instagram]

UrbanA side events

2021-02-27T21:50:26Z

Duncan Crowley:

UrbanA side events are a part of the [[UrbanA Community of Practice]]. They started out as special events before each of the 4 main arenas, but they soon developed into investigations of UrbanA findings with local communities in consortium member cities. They sometimes develop on relationships formed in the [[UrbanA Community Conversations]]. They include film nights, urban tours and participation in wider conferences and festivals.

==Translocal adventures in developing an Urban Systems Community of Practice==
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(More coming tomorrow)

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2021-02-27T11:53:15Z

Duncan Crowley: Translocal adventures in developing an Urban Systems Community of Practice

== Summary ==
Translocal adventures in developing an Urban Systems Community of Practice

UrbanA Community of Practice

2021-02-27T11:46:29Z

Duncan Crowley: /* How can you join the UrbanA Community of Practice? */

The UrbanA Community of Practice (CoP) is an open network of individuals committed to taking constructive action on urban social inequality and ecological unsustainability in the ambition to create more just and sustainable cities.

This page is part of an ongoing, open-ended online collaborative database, which collects relevant approaches that can be used by city-makers to tackle unsustainability and injustice in cities. This page makes no claims of authoritative completeness and welcomes your suggestions.

== What is a Community of Practice (CoP)? ==

A [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_of_practice Community of Practice] is a group of people who share a common interest and who collaborate and learn together about how to develop this interest and apply it in practice. An [[UrbanA Community of Practice case study]] was written in September 2020. Like any other community of practice, the UrbanA CoP has the three main elements:

'''A shared interest''' – in this case justice and sustainability in cities.

'''A community that shares this interest''' – all active participants in, contributors to and followers of the project.

'''What the community undertakes together''' – ongoing engagement in UrbanA through the four Arena events, [[UrbanA side events]] and other project activities.

== Who is part of the UrbanA Community of Practice? ==

[[File:UrbanACoP.jpg|frame|left|300px|Degrees of participation in the UrbanA CoP]]

The structure of the UrbanA CoP can be represented as a series of concentric circles, each indicating different levels of engagement (see diagram). The most central circles represent the highest levels of commitment to and involvement in the project.

- At the centre are the project consortium, who have a professional commitment to management and delivery of the project over its three-year duration

- [https://urban-arena.eu/people/#fellows UrbanA Fellows] commit to attend all four Arena events and actively contribute to other CoP activities such as writing blog posts and hosting online events.

- Beyond this are other Arena participants, then people not participating in arenas themselves but following the project and reading or otherwise its outputs, and finally all those whose lives are indirectly touched by UrbanA's contributions to urban sustainability and justice.

The UrbanA CoP is sustained on an ongoing basis by targeted communications activities and social learning processes. [[UrbanA Community Conversations]] are interactive webinars occurring every 2/3 weeks during the duration of the UrbanA project (2019 - 2021) focusing on urban justice and sustainability. These webinars as well as UrbanA tools, reports, podcasts and blogs, all to be collated on the UrbanA website, are developed together by the UrbanA consortium and the wider UrbanA CoP members, with the final aim of building a stronger community. An [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1etAbeDxHlh5MALod3p_rnarSqsI2vcDH/view UrbanA CoP PDF] was prepared for the [https://urban-arena.eu/barcelona-arena/ Barcelona Arena] in June 2020.

== How can you join the UrbanA Community of Practice? ==

'''Join the UrbanA discussion.''' Become a member of our [https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13794274/ UrbanA CoP LinkedIn group] and the [https://communitiesforfuture.org/collaborate/groups/urban-sustainability-and-justice/forum/ Urban Sustainability and Justice Forum] on the [[Communities for Future]] (CfF) action platform. There we share anything relevant to our community and we initiate discussions.

'''Join our [[UrbanA Community Conversations]] on Zoom.''' These are not classic “only-listen-webinars”, the participatory component is essential to us: we want to give as much space as possible to questions, comments and exchange. You can find the last updates on when the next webinar takes place on our [https://urban-arena.eu/event/ website] and [https://twitter.com/arena_urban Twitter account], or by checking the [https://twitter.com/hashtag/UrbanaCoCo?src=hashtag_click&f=live #UrbanACoCo] hashtag.

'''Participate in [[UrbanA side events]].''' Starting out as pre event before each of the 4 main arenas, they have developed to investigations of UrbanA findings with local communities in consortium member cities and include film nights, urban tours and participation in wider conferences and festivals.

'''Contribute to the [https://wiki.urban-arena.eu/index.php?title=Main_Page Wiki on Just and Sustainable cities].''' Together we have created the [https://wiki.urban-arena.eu/index.php?title=Main_Page Wiki on Just and Sustainable cities], an important part of UrbanA’s [[knowledge commons]]. Anytime you want, you can create a Wiki account, and contribute to this knowledge! Read this call for co-creation to know more.

'''Subscribe to our newsletter.''' We won’t spam you. We send a newsletter every couple of months as a recap to UrbanA’s most important updates. Subscribe here and see here the past newsletter.

'''Listen to our Podcasts.''' The [[UrbanA Podcasts]] are available on the main systems, like Spotify and from our [https://urban-arena.eu/resources/#podcast website]. If you're feeling really motivated, you can take the [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/the-urbana-challenge-216946158b2d UrbanA Challenge].

'''Follow our social & multimedia.''' You find us on [https://twitter.com/arena_urban Twitter], [https://www.linkedin.com/company/14840769/admin/ Linkedin], [https://www.instagram.com/arena_urbana/ Instagram], [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZCzSNtUty6Q4DOQr7u_CUg Youtube], [https://www.facebook.com/UrbanArena.project Facebook] and we have a lot of good content on our [https://urban-arena.eu/ website] too. You can also read our [https://urban-arena.eu/resources/#publications publications] and our [https://urban-arena.eu/news/ news blogs] - all about urban justice and sustainability.

UrbanA Community Conversations

2021-02-27T11:28:58Z

Duncan Crowley:

UrbanA Community Conversations are a series of regular (nearly biweekly) online events that bring together people with a passion for urban sustainability and justice to connect, learn, discuss and have fun. They are a core part of the [[UrbanA Community of Practice]]. Each Community Conversation, CoCo for short, involves one or more short presentations of the work of an UrbanA fellow, followed by a participation section for guests to explore the themes explored. All CoCos reports and videos can be found on our blog on [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities Medium] and by following the '''#UrbanACoCo''' on social media ([https://twitter.com/hashtag/UrbanaCoCo?src=hashtag_click&f=live twitter], [https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/UrbanaCoCo/ instagram], [https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/UrbanaCoCo/ facebook]).

==Designing a local climate adaptation plan==
[[File:Joao twitter copy 2.jpg|right|350px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/the-first-urbana-community-conversation-designing-a-local-climate-adaptation-plan-a9375cdd9318]]

João Dinis, from Cascais Municipality in the metropolitan area of Lisbon, Portugal, gave a rich and exciting presentation on Cascais’ local climate adaptation plan, the very first in Portugal. Although participants asked many questions during the webinar, time constraints did not allow us to answer them all. Fortunately, João kindly provided written answers following the webinar, which you can see in the blog post.

(April 7th, 30 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/the-first-urbana-community-conversation-designing-a-local-climate-adaptation-plan-a9375cdd9318 Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/UrbanA_JDinis_V4.pdf Slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6didug88czQ video])

==Everyone can Wiki — online meeting provides practical hands-on experience==
[[File:Twitter Community Conversations Wiki copy.jpg|right|350px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/everyone-can-wiki-online-meeting-provides-practical-hands-on-experience-95ec2c529d7d]]

Tom Henfrey of UrbanA partner ECOLISE, began with a short background piece on commons and their importance to the theme of sustainable and just cities. Karlijn Schipper of UrbanA partner DRIFT, then gave participants a tour of the wiki and facilitated practical exercises in creating a wiki user page and setting up a new wiki page.

The call helped us grow our community of wiki users and contributors. Around thirty people signed up for new wiki accounts following the call for co-creation launched in the run-up to the call, and during the call itself. Call participants created new wiki pages on several topics, including [[Open Food Network]], art as a pedagogical tool for urban resilience, the Crafting Future Urban Economies project, Socratic digital democracy, and the Social Innovation Strategies for Sustainability Transitions project.

(April 21st, 30+ participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/everyone-can-wiki-online-meeting-provides-practical-hands-on-experience-95ec2c529d7d Blog post] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64bK0v3CXRg Video])

==Transformative Cities: linking local and translocal perspectives on sustainable and just cities==
[[File:Twitter Community Conversations Transformative cities copy.jpg|right|350px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/transformative-cities-linking-local-and-translocal-perspectives-on-sustainable-and-just-cities-f164f36659ab]]

The third UrbanA Community Conversation was a dialogue between UrbanA Fellow Emma Erwin of Transition Stirling (Scotland) and Sol Trumbo Villa, Coordinator of the Transformative Cities project at the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam (in which UrbanA Fellow Erick Palomares is project researcher).

The call opened with a discussion between Emma and Sol about the relationship between Transformative Cities and Transition Stirling. Transition Cities identifies, showcases and connects exemplary urban transformation projects worldwide, while Transition Stirling facilitates positive local responses to climate change through community-scale projects

(April 28th, 40 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/transformative-cities-linking-local-and-translocal-perspectives-on-sustainable-and-just-cities-f164f36659ab Blog post] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4jS-1YxORM Video])

==Is Lisbon a Sustainable and Just City? Perspectives from Europe´s 2020 Green Capital==
[[File:Twitter Community Conversations Lisbon copy.jpg|right|350px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/is-lisbon-a-sustainable-and-just-city-perspectives-from-europe-s-2020-green-capital-c106d61b326f]]

Nearly 60 people attended the fourth UrbanA Community Conversation, on May 26th. It was also the first in our new “City Series” of community conversations, for which we visited the current European Green Capital, Lisbon. The event was facilitated by Constança Belchior from the UrbanA Portugal team and included perspectives from UrbanA Fellow Rafael Calado of Fablab Lisboa, Luís Matos of Rés do Chão and Patrícia Robalo of Morar em Lisboa and Lisbon’s Housing Movement about a range of issues including urban greening, evictions, gentrification, civic engagement and local community solutions in this [https://medium.com/@fuspey/lisbon-a-changing-city-a44472d2abbc fast-changing city].

(May 26, 60 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/is-lisbon-a-sustainable-and-just-city-perspectives-from-europe-s-2020-green-capital-c106d61b326f Blog post] - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/18R2TIIoNa4swRWaRrtFTmzflc52pWH3S/view Slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-8dpY1ISwE Video] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-lisbon/ Event Post] - [https://www.facebook.com/events/542806376597995/ Facebook Event Post] - [https://www.facebook.com/urbana.portugal/photos/?tab=album&album_id=272393960803346 Images])

==How governance arrangements foster both urban sustainability and justice==
[[File:Twitter Community Conversations Governance copy.jpg|right|350px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/how-governance-arrangements-foster-both-urban-sustainability-and-justice-be7ab3786b46]]

Building on the momentum and enthusiasm generated by UrbanA’s online ‘Barcelona’ Arena earlier in the month, 44 people joined the fifth UrbanA Community Conversation on June 23rd. This digital gathering marked the beginning of a new stage in the project — which has so far journeyed from approaches for just and sustainable cities at the Rotterdam Arena, to drivers of injustice in urban sustainability at the second, recent Arena, and now to questions of governance and how to learn between cities for just sustainability.

The Freiburg team has also begun crafting very brief scenarios designed to catch the attention of city-makers in order to lead them to further relevant information. If you are interested, check out the new (and evolving!) [[Database of governance scenarios]] on the UrbanA wiki. The Freiburg University team used examples to illustrate four broader governance ambitions that have potential to avoid injustice in a more durable, long-term way:
# Policy integration,
# Bridging institutional logics,
# Engaging inhabitants, and
# Alternative metrics.

(June 23rd, 44 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/how-governance-arrangements-foster-both-urban-sustainability-and-justice-be7ab3786b46 Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/UrbanA_CoCo-6-23-final.pdf Slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ1o7zGc300 Video] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-governance-tools/ Event Post])

==Addressing poverty via food solidarity in cities==
[[File:Twitter food poverty copy.jpg|right|350px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/addressing-poverty-via-food-solidarity-in-cities-6cb7acf1e959]]

People of varied backgrounds and from all over the world met to address the question of food poverty and solidarity. UrbanA Fellow Marcelline Bonneau, an expert in both the URBACT programme and the Urban Innovation Actions initiative, led the conversation. She began by sharing her experience and understanding of how European municipalities have approached food poverty during the COVID19 crisis. She focused on three questions:
* How have cities supported those in need of food during the crisis?
* How have cities reorganized traditional food aid systems, such as funded meals in canteens or regular food distributions?
* How can food more widely address (urban) poverty?

(June 30th, @ 20 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/addressing-poverty-via-food-solidarity-in-cities-6cb7acf1e959 Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/UrbanA_DD_Foodsolidarity_M-Bonneau.pdf Slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMjYiyQpGK0 Video] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-food-poverty/ Event Post] - [https://www.facebook.com/events/748124352683062/ Facebook Event Post] - Related URBACT article: [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-governance-tools/ Covid-19: a springboard for more food solidarity?])

==Feminist perspectives for sustainable just cities==
[[File:Twitter Feminist copy punt 6 copy 2.jpg|right|350px|link=https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-feminist-perspective-for-sustainable-just-cities/]]

Sara Ortiz Escalante will open this CoCo speaking about the relevance of gender perspectives to create sustainable and just cities. Sara works at [http://www.punt6.org/en/ Col·lectiu Punt 6] (Collective Point 6), a cooperative engaged on [[feminist urbanism]] to “make our cities more inclusive and make the people who inhabit them the experts of the spaces that surround us.”

The CoCo addressed the following questions:

* How have cities reorganised work and what have been the gender consequences of the Covid-19 crisis in the distribution of care?
* How have cities supported care of dependents in the Covid-19 crisis?
* How have cities responded to the diversity of needs, households and people?
* What can cities change to place care and people’s life at the center in the new scenario post-Covid?

The first part was videod. A listening room was set up for the second section, from which a half hour audio recording was made.

(July 21, 70 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/ Blog post (coming soon)] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/UrbanACoCo_FeministPerspectives_Punt6_21.7.2020.pdf Slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWv2gL7sOxY&feature=youtu.be Video] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-feminist-perspective-for-sustainable-just-cities/ Event Post] - [https://www.facebook.com/events/1136226070094541 Facebook Event Post] - Wiki entry: [[Feminist perspectives for sustainable just cities]])

==An Avantgardenist Approach, Creating Peace Gardens in the Urban Realm==
[[File:Copy of Twitter peace gardens.png|right|350px|link=https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-feminist-perspective-for-sustainable-just-cities/]]

The first event of our second [https://twitter.com/hashtag/UrbanACoCo?src=hashtag_click #UrbanACoCo] series was a very special and emotional event. Nearly 30 people turned up to listen to UrbanA fellow [https://www.linkedin.com/in/burcu-eke-schneider-227bab17/ Burcu Eke Schneider] and other team members from the Avantgardenist Peace activists from the [http://www.wuppertals-urbane-gaerten.de/ Wuppertal urban garden] at the Aleviten Culture Center, in the heart of Wuppertal city in Germany. With team members including native Germans and newer arrivals from Turkey, Syria and further afield, the talk looked at the power of community gardens to create peace and heal war trauma, while contributing to environmental sustainability such as a boost in biodiversity.

Peacebuilding is an invaluable method for promoting urban sustainability and justice that contributes to understanding the root causes of problems at the micro level and finding solutions. An important intervention for preventing violence, it works with inclusiveness to help enable emergence of a common understanding in three main ways:

* First, it can support inclusive processes of just urban transition that respect diversity of cultural backgrounds and ethnicity.
* Second, it can promote more environmentally friendly behaviour and attitudes among participants.
* Third, it can convey new meanings of "collective struggle for a common future" in different languages, cultures and sacred places.

The event included a "Listening Room", where Burcu talked in greater depth and answered specific questions, and the "Breakout Rooms" where guests broke into smaller groups to discuss what the following questions mean for their communities or cities:

* Do you know examples of cities working with peace initiatives,
* How can urban gardens contribute to peace and inclusivity.
* How can we transform community spaces to be more eco-friendly?

(September 15, 30 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/an-avantgardenist-approach-creating-peace-gardens-in-the-urban-realm-17f8aaddaa9f Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/UrbanACoCo_CreatingPeaceGardens.pdf Presentation slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bP4u3Ykri0 Video] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/creating-peace-gardens-in-the-urban-realm/ Event Post] - [https://www.facebook.com/events/1252985551705871/ Facebook Event Post] Wuppertal urban garden: [http://www.wuppertals-urbane-gaerten.de/ web] - [https://www.facebook.com/groups/491783505092197/ facebook group] - [https://www.instagram.com/urbangardening_friedensprojekt/ Instagram])

==Municipalities in Transition, how can citizens and municipalities work better together?==
[[File:Twitter MiT.png|right|350px|link=https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-feminist-perspective-for-sustainable-just-cities/]]

On the 29th of September, about 60 people connected for another inspiring Community Conversation. This time it was about [https://municipalitiesintransition.org/ Municipalities in Transition] (MiT), part of the larger [https://transitionnetwork.org/ Transition Network Movement]. Like every Community Conversation, it started with a 20 minutes presentation by Cristiano Bottone, who presented what Municipalities in Transition is all about.

This was also the last “[https://events.communitiesforfuture.org/event/webinar-case-studies-from-the-municipalities-in-transition-project/ European Day of Sustainable Communities]” event and it celebrated its part of the “[[Communities for Future]]” (CfF) launch by playing the CfF [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYBFLLm5Rpg video], made by the [https://www.ecolise.eu/communities-for-future-launches-across-europe-with-a-series-of-online-workshops/ ECOLISE] team.

There was a listening room where Cristiano Bottone explained MiT in greater detail and in the breakout rooms, our CoP explored the following questions:

* What really prevents us from making effective decisions in communities?
* How do you feel the Municipalities in Transition methodology could be received by local administrations?
* How polarization, fake news and social media are conditioning our decisions about the future?

(September 29, 60 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/municipalities-in-transition-how-can-citizens-and-municipalities-work-better-together-5b81d4021752 Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/UrbanACoCo_Municipalities-in-Transition.pdf Presentation slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha5E34XuAFM Video] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-municipalities-in-transition/ Event Post] - [https://www.facebook.com/events/307519283813498/ Facebook Event Post] Municipalities in Transition: [https://municipalitiesintransition.org/ web] - [https://www.facebook.com/municipalitiesintransition/ facebook] - [https://twitter.com/MunicipalitiesT twitter])

==Planning Eco-inclusive Districts==
[[File:Twitter eco-inclusive district copy.jpg|right|350px|link=https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-feminist-perspective-for-sustainable-just-cities/]]

On the 10th of November, about 35 people came together to learn, share and discuss what urban planners can do to plan eco-inclusive districts that fulfil both social and environmental sustainability goals. The CoCo was opened by UrbanA fellow [https://twitter.com/MaartenMarkus Maarten Markus] and his colleague Marije Ruigrok, both working for the Dutch urban development agency [https://www.am.nl/ AM]. AM initiated a consortium taking an interdisciplinary approach for sustainable and just neighbourhood development, involving universities, governments, private business and other consultancies.

Marije Ruigrok outlined an AM case study in greater detail in the listening room. In the breakout rooms, participants explored the following questions in smaller groups:

* How would you formulate smart targets for eco-inclusive districts?
* Pulling public/private resources for eco-inclusive districts is difficult due to institutional structures and the long term planning vs. short term politics. How could we mainstream this idea?
* Participation is key to be inclusive, yet paradoxically many people don’t want to participate. How can we solve this paradox and built local networks and ownership?
* What alternatives can you add? And what makes them them succesful?
* Can you make a top 5 of (potentially) most inclusive participation processes?

(November 10, 35 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/planning-eco-inclusive-districts-54c3318cc51c Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/UrbanA-CoCo_Nov-11th_Eco-Inclusive-Districts.pdf Presentation slides] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/UrbanA-CoCo_Nov-11th_Eco-inclusive-Districts_CASE-STUDY.pdf Listening Room Presentation slides] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Community-harvesting-slides_UrbanA-CoCo_Nov-11th_Eco-inclusive-districts.pdf Breakout Rooms Harvest Document] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inPnC0yuceA Video] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-planning-eco-sustainable-districts/ Event Post] - [https://www.facebook.com/events/663025367730050 Facebook Event Post] - [https://twitter.com/MaartenMarkus Maarten Markus (twitter)] - [https://www.am.nl/ AM website])

==Co-creating Just and Sustainable Cities With Children==
[[File:Twitter children(1) copy.jpg|right|350px|link=https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-feminist-perspective-for-sustainable-just-cities/]]

On the 24th of November, 65 people came together to discuss children’s involvement in urban issues and show examples of addressing urban conflicts together with them. This CoCo’s presenters were Kitti Baracsi and Tuline Gülgönen. Kitti is an educator, researcher, activist specialising in critical pedagogies and collaborative methods, her work involves children and young people on projects addressing urban conflicts, her work can be seen at [https://periferiasdibujadas.tumblr.com/ Periferias Dibujadas](drawn peripheries). Tuline Gülgönen is a researcher and filmmaker. She carries out multidisciplinary investigation on the perception and engagement of children in the city in various urban contexts. She recently created the documentary [https://ciudadgrande.com/ Ciudad Grande] (Big City) about Mexico city. The guests invited participants to co create an UrbanA wiki entry: [[Children and urbanism]].

The CoCo explored how can we create more just and sustainable cities from the children’s point of view? How can we produce knowledge on our cities in collaboration with children? How can we as scholars, urban planners or activists overcome our adultcentrism? What is the pandemic teaching us about justice and sustainability from the children’s point of view? The guests shared case studies in the Listening Room and the breakout rooms focused on the following single question:

* How could you, or how are you incorporating the children's point of view in your work, activism etc

(November 24, 65 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/co-creating-just-and-sustainable-cities-with-children-e9698cac5c4a?source=collection_home---6------3----------------------- Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/UrbanACoC_Nov_24th_Co-creating-just-and-sustainable-cities-with-children.pdf Presentation slides (both general and listening room] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CommunityHarvestingSlides_UrbanACoCo_Nov24th_Co-creatingJustSustWithChildren.pdf Breakout Rooms Harvest Document] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW-nebM2wbY Video] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-co-creating-just-and-sustainable-cities-with-children/ Event Post] - [https://www.facebook.com/events/787713051775674 Facebook Event Post] - [https://twitter.com/BaracsiKitti Kitti Baracsi] - [https://periferiasdibujadas.tumblr.com/ Periferias Dibujadas] - [https://ciudadgrande.com/ Ciudad Grande] - [https://independent.academia.edu/TulineG%C3%BClg%C3%B6nen Tuline Gülgönen on Academia] UrbanA wiki post: [[Children and urbanism]] (Still being edited)

==Participatory challenges – Committing local businesses to climate action==
[[File:Businesses to climate action.jpg|right|350px|link=https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-feminist-perspective-for-sustainable-just-cities/]]

On the 16th of February, about 30 people came together to explore current challenges the German city of Gelsenkirchen is facing under the current pandemic. Local authorities are finding it increasingly difficult to involve the economic bodies of the city in committing to more ambitious climate action and align with the city’s targets. Gelsenkichen is part of the [https://urbantransitions.org/ Urban Transition Alliance], a platform for cities with an industrial legacy. Stephan Rath from the [https://urbantransitions.org/ Gelsenkirchen Science Park] and [https://talkofthecities.iclei.org/putting-the-circular-economy-into-action/ Ying-Chih Deng] from ICLEI World Secretariat led the CoCo. Some of the initiatives that Gelsenkirchen is undertaking to include the private sector more strongly are the development of an inclusive Climate Action Plan (2030–2050), and the creation of a Climate Forum. CoCo participants shared key insights for the city to explore, in response to the breakout question:

* How to motivate local businesses to start taking climate action into their own hands?

(February 16 2021, 30 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/what-can-cities-do-to-commit-businesses-to-climate-action-the-case-of-gelsenkirchen-germany-c2fe38c6ee20 Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/UrbanA-CoCo-Gelsenkirchen-Feb-2021.pdf Presentation slides (both general and listening room] - [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1uw_RsUWhchGdADG3tM2jP6GZAwMe7QGyOLeOhf1M2aA/edit#slide=id.gacecb40cc3_0_124 Breakout Rooms Harvest Document] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF0OR3rlNO0 Video] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-participatory-challenges-committing-local-business-to-climate-action/ Event Post] - [https://www.facebook.com/events/1553184751736867/ Facebook Event Post] - [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1354412771656478720 Twitter post and discussion] - [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK8ubXksbIE/ Instagram]

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2021-02-27T11:27:21Z

Duncan Crowley: businesses to climate action

== Summary ==
businesses to climate action

UrbanA Community Conversations

2021-02-27T06:35:09Z

Duncan Crowley: /* Co-creating Just and Sustainable Cities With Children */

UrbanA Community Conversations are a series of regular (nearly biweekly) online events that bring together people with a passion for urban sustainability and justice to connect, learn, discuss and have fun. They are a core part of the [[UrbanA Community of Practice]]. Each Community Conversation, CoCo for short, involves one or more short presentations of the work of an UrbanA fellow, followed by a participation section for guests to explore the themes explored. All CoCos reports and videos can be found on our blog on [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities Medium] and by following the '''#UrbanACoCo''' on social media ([https://twitter.com/hashtag/UrbanaCoCo?src=hashtag_click&f=live twitter], [https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/UrbanaCoCo/ instagram], [https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/UrbanaCoCo/ facebook]).

==Designing a local climate adaptation plan==
[[File:Joao twitter copy 2.jpg|right|350px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/the-first-urbana-community-conversation-designing-a-local-climate-adaptation-plan-a9375cdd9318]]

João Dinis, from Cascais Municipality in the metropolitan area of Lisbon, Portugal, gave a rich and exciting presentation on Cascais’ local climate adaptation plan, the very first in Portugal. Although participants asked many questions during the webinar, time constraints did not allow us to answer them all. Fortunately, João kindly provided written answers following the webinar, which you can see in the blog post.

(April 7th, 30 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/the-first-urbana-community-conversation-designing-a-local-climate-adaptation-plan-a9375cdd9318 Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/UrbanA_JDinis_V4.pdf Slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6didug88czQ video])

==Everyone can Wiki — online meeting provides practical hands-on experience==
[[File:Twitter Community Conversations Wiki copy.jpg|right|350px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/everyone-can-wiki-online-meeting-provides-practical-hands-on-experience-95ec2c529d7d]]

Tom Henfrey of UrbanA partner ECOLISE, began with a short background piece on commons and their importance to the theme of sustainable and just cities. Karlijn Schipper of UrbanA partner DRIFT, then gave participants a tour of the wiki and facilitated practical exercises in creating a wiki user page and setting up a new wiki page.

The call helped us grow our community of wiki users and contributors. Around thirty people signed up for new wiki accounts following the call for co-creation launched in the run-up to the call, and during the call itself. Call participants created new wiki pages on several topics, including [[Open Food Network]], art as a pedagogical tool for urban resilience, the Crafting Future Urban Economies project, Socratic digital democracy, and the Social Innovation Strategies for Sustainability Transitions project.

(April 21st, 30+ participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/everyone-can-wiki-online-meeting-provides-practical-hands-on-experience-95ec2c529d7d Blog post] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64bK0v3CXRg Video])

==Transformative Cities: linking local and translocal perspectives on sustainable and just cities==
[[File:Twitter Community Conversations Transformative cities copy.jpg|right|350px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/transformative-cities-linking-local-and-translocal-perspectives-on-sustainable-and-just-cities-f164f36659ab]]

The third UrbanA Community Conversation was a dialogue between UrbanA Fellow Emma Erwin of Transition Stirling (Scotland) and Sol Trumbo Villa, Coordinator of the Transformative Cities project at the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam (in which UrbanA Fellow Erick Palomares is project researcher).

The call opened with a discussion between Emma and Sol about the relationship between Transformative Cities and Transition Stirling. Transition Cities identifies, showcases and connects exemplary urban transformation projects worldwide, while Transition Stirling facilitates positive local responses to climate change through community-scale projects

(April 28th, 40 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/transformative-cities-linking-local-and-translocal-perspectives-on-sustainable-and-just-cities-f164f36659ab Blog post] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4jS-1YxORM Video])

==Is Lisbon a Sustainable and Just City? Perspectives from Europe´s 2020 Green Capital==
[[File:Twitter Community Conversations Lisbon copy.jpg|right|350px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/is-lisbon-a-sustainable-and-just-city-perspectives-from-europe-s-2020-green-capital-c106d61b326f]]

Nearly 60 people attended the fourth UrbanA Community Conversation, on May 26th. It was also the first in our new “City Series” of community conversations, for which we visited the current European Green Capital, Lisbon. The event was facilitated by Constança Belchior from the UrbanA Portugal team and included perspectives from UrbanA Fellow Rafael Calado of Fablab Lisboa, Luís Matos of Rés do Chão and Patrícia Robalo of Morar em Lisboa and Lisbon’s Housing Movement about a range of issues including urban greening, evictions, gentrification, civic engagement and local community solutions in this [https://medium.com/@fuspey/lisbon-a-changing-city-a44472d2abbc fast-changing city].

(May 26, 60 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/is-lisbon-a-sustainable-and-just-city-perspectives-from-europe-s-2020-green-capital-c106d61b326f Blog post] - [https://drive.google.com/file/d/18R2TIIoNa4swRWaRrtFTmzflc52pWH3S/view Slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-8dpY1ISwE Video] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-lisbon/ Event Post] - [https://www.facebook.com/events/542806376597995/ Facebook Event Post] - [https://www.facebook.com/urbana.portugal/photos/?tab=album&album_id=272393960803346 Images])

==How governance arrangements foster both urban sustainability and justice==
[[File:Twitter Community Conversations Governance copy.jpg|right|350px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/how-governance-arrangements-foster-both-urban-sustainability-and-justice-be7ab3786b46]]

Building on the momentum and enthusiasm generated by UrbanA’s online ‘Barcelona’ Arena earlier in the month, 44 people joined the fifth UrbanA Community Conversation on June 23rd. This digital gathering marked the beginning of a new stage in the project — which has so far journeyed from approaches for just and sustainable cities at the Rotterdam Arena, to drivers of injustice in urban sustainability at the second, recent Arena, and now to questions of governance and how to learn between cities for just sustainability.

The Freiburg team has also begun crafting very brief scenarios designed to catch the attention of city-makers in order to lead them to further relevant information. If you are interested, check out the new (and evolving!) [[Database of governance scenarios]] on the UrbanA wiki. The Freiburg University team used examples to illustrate four broader governance ambitions that have potential to avoid injustice in a more durable, long-term way:
# Policy integration,
# Bridging institutional logics,
# Engaging inhabitants, and
# Alternative metrics.

(June 23rd, 44 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/how-governance-arrangements-foster-both-urban-sustainability-and-justice-be7ab3786b46 Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/UrbanA_CoCo-6-23-final.pdf Slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ1o7zGc300 Video] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-governance-tools/ Event Post])

==Addressing poverty via food solidarity in cities==
[[File:Twitter food poverty copy.jpg|right|350px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/addressing-poverty-via-food-solidarity-in-cities-6cb7acf1e959]]

People of varied backgrounds and from all over the world met to address the question of food poverty and solidarity. UrbanA Fellow Marcelline Bonneau, an expert in both the URBACT programme and the Urban Innovation Actions initiative, led the conversation. She began by sharing her experience and understanding of how European municipalities have approached food poverty during the COVID19 crisis. She focused on three questions:
* How have cities supported those in need of food during the crisis?
* How have cities reorganized traditional food aid systems, such as funded meals in canteens or regular food distributions?
* How can food more widely address (urban) poverty?

(June 30th, @ 20 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/addressing-poverty-via-food-solidarity-in-cities-6cb7acf1e959 Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/UrbanA_DD_Foodsolidarity_M-Bonneau.pdf Slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMjYiyQpGK0 Video] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-food-poverty/ Event Post] - [https://www.facebook.com/events/748124352683062/ Facebook Event Post] - Related URBACT article: [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-governance-tools/ Covid-19: a springboard for more food solidarity?])

==Feminist perspectives for sustainable just cities==
[[File:Twitter Feminist copy punt 6 copy 2.jpg|right|350px|link=https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-feminist-perspective-for-sustainable-just-cities/]]

Sara Ortiz Escalante will open this CoCo speaking about the relevance of gender perspectives to create sustainable and just cities. Sara works at [http://www.punt6.org/en/ Col·lectiu Punt 6] (Collective Point 6), a cooperative engaged on [[feminist urbanism]] to “make our cities more inclusive and make the people who inhabit them the experts of the spaces that surround us.”

The CoCo addressed the following questions:

* How have cities reorganised work and what have been the gender consequences of the Covid-19 crisis in the distribution of care?
* How have cities supported care of dependents in the Covid-19 crisis?
* How have cities responded to the diversity of needs, households and people?
* What can cities change to place care and people’s life at the center in the new scenario post-Covid?

The first part was videod. A listening room was set up for the second section, from which a half hour audio recording was made.

(July 21, 70 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/ Blog post (coming soon)] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/UrbanACoCo_FeministPerspectives_Punt6_21.7.2020.pdf Slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWv2gL7sOxY&feature=youtu.be Video] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-feminist-perspective-for-sustainable-just-cities/ Event Post] - [https://www.facebook.com/events/1136226070094541 Facebook Event Post] - Wiki entry: [[Feminist perspectives for sustainable just cities]])

==An Avantgardenist Approach, Creating Peace Gardens in the Urban Realm==
[[File:Copy of Twitter peace gardens.png|right|350px|link=https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-feminist-perspective-for-sustainable-just-cities/]]

The first event of our second [https://twitter.com/hashtag/UrbanACoCo?src=hashtag_click #UrbanACoCo] series was a very special and emotional event. Nearly 30 people turned up to listen to UrbanA fellow [https://www.linkedin.com/in/burcu-eke-schneider-227bab17/ Burcu Eke Schneider] and other team members from the Avantgardenist Peace activists from the [http://www.wuppertals-urbane-gaerten.de/ Wuppertal urban garden] at the Aleviten Culture Center, in the heart of Wuppertal city in Germany. With team members including native Germans and newer arrivals from Turkey, Syria and further afield, the talk looked at the power of community gardens to create peace and heal war trauma, while contributing to environmental sustainability such as a boost in biodiversity.

Peacebuilding is an invaluable method for promoting urban sustainability and justice that contributes to understanding the root causes of problems at the micro level and finding solutions. An important intervention for preventing violence, it works with inclusiveness to help enable emergence of a common understanding in three main ways:

* First, it can support inclusive processes of just urban transition that respect diversity of cultural backgrounds and ethnicity.
* Second, it can promote more environmentally friendly behaviour and attitudes among participants.
* Third, it can convey new meanings of "collective struggle for a common future" in different languages, cultures and sacred places.

The event included a "Listening Room", where Burcu talked in greater depth and answered specific questions, and the "Breakout Rooms" where guests broke into smaller groups to discuss what the following questions mean for their communities or cities:

* Do you know examples of cities working with peace initiatives,
* How can urban gardens contribute to peace and inclusivity.
* How can we transform community spaces to be more eco-friendly?

(September 15, 30 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/an-avantgardenist-approach-creating-peace-gardens-in-the-urban-realm-17f8aaddaa9f Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/UrbanACoCo_CreatingPeaceGardens.pdf Presentation slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bP4u3Ykri0 Video] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/creating-peace-gardens-in-the-urban-realm/ Event Post] - [https://www.facebook.com/events/1252985551705871/ Facebook Event Post] Wuppertal urban garden: [http://www.wuppertals-urbane-gaerten.de/ web] - [https://www.facebook.com/groups/491783505092197/ facebook group] - [https://www.instagram.com/urbangardening_friedensprojekt/ Instagram])

==Municipalities in Transition, how can citizens and municipalities work better together?==
[[File:Twitter MiT.png|right|350px|link=https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-feminist-perspective-for-sustainable-just-cities/]]

On the 29th of September, about 60 people connected for another inspiring Community Conversation. This time it was about [https://municipalitiesintransition.org/ Municipalities in Transition] (MiT), part of the larger [https://transitionnetwork.org/ Transition Network Movement]. Like every Community Conversation, it started with a 20 minutes presentation by Cristiano Bottone, who presented what Municipalities in Transition is all about.

This was also the last “[https://events.communitiesforfuture.org/event/webinar-case-studies-from-the-municipalities-in-transition-project/ European Day of Sustainable Communities]” event and it celebrated its part of the “[[Communities for Future]]” (CfF) launch by playing the CfF [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYBFLLm5Rpg video], made by the [https://www.ecolise.eu/communities-for-future-launches-across-europe-with-a-series-of-online-workshops/ ECOLISE] team.

There was a listening room where Cristiano Bottone explained MiT in greater detail and in the breakout rooms, our CoP explored the following questions:

* What really prevents us from making effective decisions in communities?
* How do you feel the Municipalities in Transition methodology could be received by local administrations?
* How polarization, fake news and social media are conditioning our decisions about the future?

(September 29, 60 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/municipalities-in-transition-how-can-citizens-and-municipalities-work-better-together-5b81d4021752 Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/UrbanACoCo_Municipalities-in-Transition.pdf Presentation slides] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha5E34XuAFM Video] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-municipalities-in-transition/ Event Post] - [https://www.facebook.com/events/307519283813498/ Facebook Event Post] Municipalities in Transition: [https://municipalitiesintransition.org/ web] - [https://www.facebook.com/municipalitiesintransition/ facebook] - [https://twitter.com/MunicipalitiesT twitter])

==Planning Eco-inclusive Districts==
[[File:Twitter eco-inclusive district copy.jpg|right|350px|link=https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-feminist-perspective-for-sustainable-just-cities/]]

On the 10th of November, about 35 people came together to learn, share and discuss what urban planners can do to plan eco-inclusive districts that fulfil both social and environmental sustainability goals. The CoCo was opened by UrbanA fellow [https://twitter.com/MaartenMarkus Maarten Markus] and his colleague Marije Ruigrok, both working for the Dutch urban development agency [https://www.am.nl/ AM]. AM initiated a consortium taking an interdisciplinary approach for sustainable and just neighbourhood development, involving universities, governments, private business and other consultancies.

Marije Ruigrok outlined an AM case study in greater detail in the listening room. In the breakout rooms, participants explored the following questions in smaller groups:

* How would you formulate smart targets for eco-inclusive districts?
* Pulling public/private resources for eco-inclusive districts is difficult due to institutional structures and the long term planning vs. short term politics. How could we mainstream this idea?
* Participation is key to be inclusive, yet paradoxically many people don’t want to participate. How can we solve this paradox and built local networks and ownership?
* What alternatives can you add? And what makes them them succesful?
* Can you make a top 5 of (potentially) most inclusive participation processes?

(November 10, 35 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/planning-eco-inclusive-districts-54c3318cc51c Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/UrbanA-CoCo_Nov-11th_Eco-Inclusive-Districts.pdf Presentation slides] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/UrbanA-CoCo_Nov-11th_Eco-inclusive-Districts_CASE-STUDY.pdf Listening Room Presentation slides] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Community-harvesting-slides_UrbanA-CoCo_Nov-11th_Eco-inclusive-districts.pdf Breakout Rooms Harvest Document] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inPnC0yuceA Video] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-planning-eco-sustainable-districts/ Event Post] - [https://www.facebook.com/events/663025367730050 Facebook Event Post] - [https://twitter.com/MaartenMarkus Maarten Markus (twitter)] - [https://www.am.nl/ AM website])

==Co-creating Just and Sustainable Cities With Children==
[[File:Twitter children(1) copy.jpg|right|350px|link=https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-feminist-perspective-for-sustainable-just-cities/]]

On the 24th of November, 65 people came together to discuss children’s involvement in urban issues and show examples of addressing urban conflicts together with them. This CoCo’s presenters were Kitti Baracsi and Tuline Gülgönen. Kitti is an educator, researcher, activist specialising in critical pedagogies and collaborative methods, her work involves children and young people on projects addressing urban conflicts, her work can be seen at [https://periferiasdibujadas.tumblr.com/ Periferias Dibujadas](drawn peripheries). Tuline Gülgönen is a researcher and filmmaker. She carries out multidisciplinary investigation on the perception and engagement of children in the city in various urban contexts. She recently created the documentary [https://ciudadgrande.com/ Ciudad Grande] (Big City) about Mexico city. The guests invited participants to co create an UrbanA wiki entry: [[Children and urbanism]].

The CoCo explored how can we create more just and sustainable cities from the children’s point of view? How can we produce knowledge on our cities in collaboration with children? How can we as scholars, urban planners or activists overcome our adultcentrism? What is the pandemic teaching us about justice and sustainability from the children’s point of view? The guests shared case studies in the Listening Room and the breakout rooms focused on the following single question:

* How could you, or how are you incorporating the children's point of view in your work, activism etc

(November 24, 65 participants - [https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/co-creating-just-and-sustainable-cities-with-children-e9698cac5c4a?source=collection_home---6------3----------------------- Blog post] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/UrbanACoC_Nov_24th_Co-creating-just-and-sustainable-cities-with-children.pdf Presentation slides (both general and listening room] - [https://urban-arena.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CommunityHarvestingSlides_UrbanACoCo_Nov24th_Co-creatingJustSustWithChildren.pdf Breakout Rooms Harvest Document] - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW-nebM2wbY Video] - [https://urban-arena.eu/event/urbana-community-conversation-co-creating-just-and-sustainable-cities-with-children/ Event Post] - [https://www.facebook.com/events/787713051775674 Facebook Event Post] - [https://twitter.com/BaracsiKitti Kitti Baracsi] - [https://periferiasdibujadas.tumblr.com/ Periferias Dibujadas] - [https://ciudadgrande.com/ Ciudad Grande] - [https://independent.academia.edu/TulineG%C3%BClg%C3%B6nen Tuline Gülgönen on Academia] UrbanA wiki post: [[Children and urbanism]] (Still being edited)

UrbanA Podcasts

2021-02-20T16:29:14Z

Duncan Crowley:

[[File:Podcasts.jpg|right|450px|link=https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q]]
* '''Urban Arena – a podcast about sustainable and just cities '''
(NOTE - work in progress)
Subscribe to the UrbanA podcast series [https://podcasts.ceu.edu/series/urban-arena here]. Podcasts available from [https://urban-arena.eu/resources/#podcast UrbanA], [https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q Spotify], [https://podcasts.apple.com/hu/podcast/urban-arena/id1489032077 Apple], [https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/3134646 Podcast Addict]..

Cities can play a crucial role in creating just and sustainable futures. Urban Arena is a series of critical conversations with activists, entrepreneurs, intellectuals and policy-makers in different European cities who are working, in complimentary and conflicting ways, to create cities that respond to the twin challenges of justice and sustainability.This podcast is part of three year project: UrbanA

* '''Urban arenas for sustainable and just cities '''

The project aims, through a series of 4 Arena events: synthesize and broker knowledge generated by prior research and innovation projects; translate this knowledge into action; empower participants to apply this knowledge locally; facilitate interaction among diverse people; and influence policies in favour of sustainable and just cities. It was funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.

Urban Arena Podcasts form a series of critical conversations with activists, entrepreneurs, intellectuals and policy-makers in different European cities who are working, in complimentary and conflicting ways, to create cities that respond to the twin challenges of justice and sustainability.

* '''Take the UrbanA Challenge'''

We want your voice on the pod. If you’d like to be an Urban Arena’s podcast correspondent then please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. We encourage you to think about urban sustainability and justice together.

Things to keep in mind when recording – choose a quiet place (get in a cupboard, climb under your blanket!); turn off fans, TVs and phones; listen to your recording possibilities (is it better via phone or with mic?).

Send your recording via email to [mailto:CookI@ceu.edu CookI@ceu.edu], contact Ian on [https://twitter.com/ianmickcook Twitter], or send just send us an audio message ([tel:36306586410 36306586410] signal). You can ask your friends to take the [https://twitter.com/hashtag/UrbanAChallenge?src=hashtag_click #UrbanAChallenge] by sharing our call-outs on social media ([https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1359943565296689153/ Twitter], [https://www.instagram.com/p/CLKi77FsSCE/ Instagram], [https://www.facebook.com/UrbanArena.project/posts/244887403896832 Facebook]) and our [https://duncan-crowley.medium.com/the-urbana-challenge-216946158b2d blog].

==Sustainable Food and Transport==
[[File:Sustainable Food and Transport logo.jpg|right|200px|link=https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q]]

In this first episode, we discuss sustainability and justice in food and transport. To help us do so, we are speaking (and cycling around Budapest) with [https://urban-arena.eu/urban-people/#fellows UrbanA fellow] [https://www.uni-corvinus.hu/contact/lazanyi-orsolya/?lang=en Orsolya Lazányi]. She is a co-founder of Cargonomia, a Budapest-based community space for locally-produced food and cargo bike rentals. Listen in as we talk about Orsolya's work, her views on the [https://www.degrowth.info/en/ degrowth] movement, and the cultural intricacies of building an organization like [http://cargonomia.hu/ Cargonomia] in Hungary.

(Details: Published on Nov 22, 2019, 36 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1357955536906559488 Tweet], [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK8q9DXMtzz/ Insta], [https://www.facebook.com/UrbanArena.project/posts/241436370908602 FB])

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

==Transition Governance==
[[File:Transition Governance logo.jpg|left|200px|link=https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q]]

In this second episode, we discuss transition management as a governance approach. We travel to a real live urban arena in Rotterdam and meet [https://drift.eur.nl/people/derk-loorbach/ Derk Loorbach] director of UrbanA partner, DRIFT, and Professor of Socio-economic Transitions at the Faculty of Social Science, both at Erasmus University Rotterdam. (Twitter: [https://twitter.com/drk75 Derk] / [https://twitter.com/drifteur DRIFT])

(Details: Published on Dec 18, 2019, 36 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1358070808653017090 Tweet], [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK9L5-Ysat3/ Insta], [ FB])

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Culture for empowerment]] / [[Governance and participation processes]] / [[Multi-stakeholder partnership - policy]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Policies and practices for inclusion of disadvantaged groups]] / [[Right to the city]] / [[Municipalities in Transition]]

==Textile Recycling==
[[File:Textile Recycling logo.jpg|right|200px|link=https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q]]

In this third episode, we discuss the potential of textile recycling as part of a circular economy. We’re lucky to get to speak to [https://www.linkedin.com/in/hilde-van-duijn/?originalSubdomain=nl Hilde van Duijn] from [https://eigendraads.com/ EigenDraads], a Rotterdam based initiative that wants to take our non-reusable clothes and transform them into something new.

[https://eigendraads.com/ EigenDraads]

(Details: Published on Nov 22, 2019, 33 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1357955536906559488 Tweet], [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK8q9DXMtzz/ Insta], [https://www.facebook.com/UrbanArena.project/posts/241436370908602 FB])

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

==Shipping==
[[File:Shipping logo.jpg|left|200px|link=https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q]]

In this fourth episode, we are lucky to speak with [https://www.sv.uio.no/sai/english/people/aca/schober/index.html Elisabeth Schober], Associate Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. She is the Principle Investigator within the upcoming ‘Ports’ project, which will be funded by the European Research Council under the EU’s Horizon 2020 program.

(Details: Published on Feb 29, 2020, 36 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: Coming)

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

==FabLabs==
[[File:FabLabs logo.jpg|right|200px|link=https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q]]

In this fifth episode, we’re talking with [https://pt.linkedin.com/in/rafael-calado-882b5310 Rafael Calado] about FabLabs. Rafael is Programme and Operations Manager at FabLab Lisboa. An architect by trade, he also co-founded Repair Café Lisboa and BioHacking Group Lisboa 2017. Behind the mic our resident podcasters are joined by special guest [https://www.linkedin.com/in/luciadipaola/ Lucia Di Paola]. (Insta: [https://www.instagram.com/fablab_lisboa/ FabLab Lisboa] FB: [https://www.facebook.com/RepairCafeLisboa Repair Café Lisboa])

(Details: Published on Mar 27, 2020, 32 min, Ian M. Cook, Kate McGinn and Lucia Di Paola. Social Media: coming)

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

==Nature Based Solutions==
[[File:Nature Based Solutions logo.jpg|left|200px|link=https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q]]

This month we’re talking with [https://ictaweb.uab.cat/personal_detail.php?id=456%20 Panagiota Kotsila], a political ecologist with the [https://www.bcnuej.org/ Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability] (BCN.UEJ) and part of [https://undisciplinedenvironments.org/ Undisciplined Environments]. She talks about ‘Nature-based solutions as discursive tools and contested practices in urban nature’s neoliberalisation processes’. (Twitter: [https://twitter.com/PKotsila Panagiota Kotsila] / [https://twitter.com/bcnuej BCN.UEJ] / [https://twitter.com/UndiEnvi Undisciplined Environments])

(Details: Published on Nov 22, 2019, 36 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1357955536906559488 Tweet], [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK8q9DXMtzz/ Insta], [https://www.facebook.com/UrbanArena.project/posts/241436370908602 FB])

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

==Integral Cities==
[[File:Integral Cities logo.jpg|right|200px|link=https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q]]

This month we’re speaking with Marilyn Hamilton, the founder of Integral City and author of the Integral City book series. This month we also launch a new feature – the Urban Arena podcast correspondent! We want your voice on the pod. If you’d like to featured then please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. It’s up to you what you put in your message, but we encourage you to think about urban sustainability and justice together. Our first correspondent is Marcelline Bonneau CEO & founder at Resilia Solutions.

(Details: Published on Nov 22, 2019, 36 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1357955536906559488 Tweet], [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK8q9DXMtzz/ Insta], [https://www.facebook.com/UrbanArena.project/posts/241436370908602 FB])

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

==Social Entrepreneurship==
[[File:Social Entrepreneurship logo.jpg|left|200px|link=https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q]]

This month our podcaster Kate McGinn is on interview duty while Ian Cook takes a well earned break! Here Kate catches up with UrbanA Fellow Kemo Camara, founder and CEO of Omek, a new digital and physical platform dedicated to the social and professional advancement of the African diaspora community.

(Details: Published on Nov 22, 2019, 36 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1357955536906559488 Tweet], [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK8q9DXMtzz/ Insta], [https://www.facebook.com/UrbanArena.project/posts/241436370908602 FB])

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

==Networks for Sustainable and Just Cities==
[[File:Networks for Sustainable and Just Cities logo.jpg|right|200px|link=https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q]]

This month our podcasters Kate McGinn and Ian Cook get lost in the voices of people who have helped sustain, build and critically assess networks that aim to create just and sustainable cities: Matthew Bach, Flor Avelino and Tom Henfrey all three of whom are part of the UrbanA team.

(Details: Published on Nov 22, 2019, 36 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1357955536906559488 Tweet], [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK8q9DXMtzz/ Insta], [https://www.facebook.com/UrbanArena.project/posts/241436370908602 FB])

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

==Urban Design Processes==
[[File:Urban Design Processes logo.jpg|left|200px|link=https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q]]

This month our podcaster Kate McGinn talks with Florian Strenge – an urbanist and UrbanA Fellow fascinated by spaces, people and processes.

Our urban arena podcast correspondent this month is Sophia Silverton, an enviromental governance researcher working with UrbanA.

(Details: Published on Nov 22, 2019, 36 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1357955536906559488 Tweet], [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK8q9DXMtzz/ Insta], [https://www.facebook.com/UrbanArena.project/posts/241436370908602 FB])

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

==Racial and Environmental Justice==
[[File:Racial and Environmental Justice logo.jpg|right|200px|link=https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q]]

This month we’re joined by Meera Ghani, ECOLISE Policy Coordinator, and Tamara Steger, Associate Professor at the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy at Central European University. The topic? Environmental and racial justice.

(Details: Published on Nov 22, 2019, 36 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1357955536906559488 Tweet], [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK8q9DXMtzz/ Insta], [https://www.facebook.com/UrbanArena.project/posts/241436370908602 FB])

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

==Drivers of Urban Injustice==
[[File:Drivers of Urban Injustice logo.jpg|left|200px|link=https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q]]

Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month we're joined by Panagiota Kotsila, Isabelle Anguelovski, and Jonathan Luger from the Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability.

We're talking about drivers of urban injustice: https://wiki.urban-arena.eu/index.php?title=Database_of_drivers_of_injus...

Ian was searching the following stat whilst rambling: the richest 10 percent of the world produces more than half its carbon. Thanks Oxfam.

(Details: Published on Nov 22, 2019, 36 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1357955536906559488 Tweet], [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK8q9DXMtzz/ Insta], [https://www.facebook.com/UrbanArena.project/posts/241436370908602 FB])

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

UrbanA Podcasts

2021-02-20T16:21:16Z

Duncan Crowley:

[[File:Podcasts.jpg|right|450px|link=https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q]]
* '''Urban Arena – a podcast about sustainable and just cities '''
(NOTE - work in progress)
Subscribe to the UrbanA podcast series [https://podcasts.ceu.edu/series/urban-arena here]. Podcasts available from [https://urban-arena.eu/resources/#podcast UrbanA], [https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q Spotify], [https://podcasts.apple.com/hu/podcast/urban-arena/id1489032077 Apple], [https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/3134646 Podcast Addict]..

Cities can play a crucial role in creating just and sustainable futures. Urban Arena is a series of critical conversations with activists, entrepreneurs, intellectuals and policy-makers in different European cities who are working, in complimentary and conflicting ways, to create cities that respond to the twin challenges of justice and sustainability.This podcast is part of three year project: UrbanA

* '''Urban arenas for sustainable and just cities '''

The project aims, through a series of 4 Arena events: synthesize and broker knowledge generated by prior research and innovation projects; translate this knowledge into action; empower participants to apply this knowledge locally; facilitate interaction among diverse people; and influence policies in favour of sustainable and just cities. It was funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.

Urban Arena Podcasts form a series of critical conversations with activists, entrepreneurs, intellectuals and policy-makers in different European cities who are working, in complimentary and conflicting ways, to create cities that respond to the twin challenges of justice and sustainability.

* '''Take the UrbanA Challenge'''

We want your voice on the pod. If you’d like to be an Urban Arena’s podcast correspondent then please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. We encourage you to think about urban sustainability and justice together.

Things to keep in mind when recording – choose a quiet place (get in a cupboard, climb under your blanket!); turn off fans, TVs and phones; listen to your recording possibilities (is it better via phone or with mic?).

Send your recording via email to [mailto:CookI@ceu.edu CookI@ceu.edu], contact Ian on [https://twitter.com/ianmickcook Twitter], or send just send us an audio message ([tel:36306586410 36306586410] signal).

==Sustainable Food and Transport==
[[File:Sustainable Food and Transport logo.jpg|right|200px|link=https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q]]

In this first episode, we discuss sustainability and justice in food and transport. To help us do so, we are speaking (and cycling around Budapest) with [https://urban-arena.eu/urban-people/#fellows UrbanA fellow] [https://www.uni-corvinus.hu/contact/lazanyi-orsolya/?lang=en Orsolya Lazányi]. She is a co-founder of Cargonomia, a Budapest-based community space for locally-produced food and cargo bike rentals. Listen in as we talk about Orsolya's work, her views on the [https://www.degrowth.info/en/ degrowth] movement, and the cultural intricacies of building an organization like [http://cargonomia.hu/ Cargonomia] in Hungary.

(Details: Published on Nov 22, 2019, 36 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1357955536906559488 Tweet], [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK8q9DXMtzz/ Insta], [https://www.facebook.com/UrbanArena.project/posts/241436370908602 FB])

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

==Transition Governance==
[[File:Transition Governance logo.jpg|left|200px|link=https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q]]

In this second episode, we discuss transition management as a governance approach. We travel to a real live urban arena in Rotterdam and meet [https://drift.eur.nl/people/derk-loorbach/ Derk Loorbach] director of UrbanA partner, DRIFT, and Professor of Socio-economic Transitions at the Faculty of Social Science, both at Erasmus University Rotterdam. (Twitter: [https://twitter.com/drk75 Derk] / [https://twitter.com/drifteur DRIFT])

(Details: Published on Dec 18, 2019, 36 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1358070808653017090 Tweet], [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK9L5-Ysat3/ Insta], [ FB])

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Culture for empowerment]] / [[Governance and participation processes]] / [[Multi-stakeholder partnership - policy]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Policies and practices for inclusion of disadvantaged groups]] / [[Right to the city]] / [[Municipalities in Transition]]

==Textile Recycling==
[[File:Textile Recycling logo.jpg|right|200px|link=https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q]]

In this third episode, we discuss the potential of textile recycling as part of a circular economy. We’re lucky to get to speak to [https://www.linkedin.com/in/hilde-van-duijn/?originalSubdomain=nl Hilde van Duijn] from [https://eigendraads.com/ EigenDraads], a Rotterdam based initiative that wants to take our non-reusable clothes and transform them into something new.

[https://eigendraads.com/ EigenDraads]

(Details: Published on Nov 22, 2019, 33 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1357955536906559488 Tweet], [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK8q9DXMtzz/ Insta], [https://www.facebook.com/UrbanArena.project/posts/241436370908602 FB])

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

==Shipping==
[[File:Shipping logo.jpg|left|200px|link=https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q]]

In this fourth episode, we are lucky to speak with [https://www.sv.uio.no/sai/english/people/aca/schober/index.html Elisabeth Schober], Associate Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. She is the Principle Investigator within the upcoming ‘Ports’ project, which will be funded by the European Research Council under the EU’s Horizon 2020 program.

(Details: Published on Feb 29, 2020, 36 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: Coming)

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

==FabLabs==
[[File:FabLabs logo.jpg|right|200px|link=https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q]]

In this fifth episode, we’re talking with [https://pt.linkedin.com/in/rafael-calado-882b5310 Rafael Calado] about FabLabs. Rafael is Programme and Operations Manager at FabLab Lisboa. An architect by trade, he also co-founded Repair Café Lisboa and BioHacking Group Lisboa 2017. Behind the mic our resident podcasters are joined by special guest [https://www.linkedin.com/in/luciadipaola/ Lucia Di Paola]. (Insta: [https://www.instagram.com/fablab_lisboa/ FabLab Lisboa] FB: [https://www.facebook.com/RepairCafeLisboa Repair Café Lisboa])

(Details: Published on Mar 27, 2020, 32 min, Ian M. Cook, Kate McGinn and Lucia Di Paola. Social Media: coming)

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

==Nature Based Solutions==
[[File:Nature Based Solutions logo.jpg|left|200px|link=https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q]]

This month we’re talking with [https://ictaweb.uab.cat/personal_detail.php?id=456%20 Panagiota Kotsila], a political ecologist with the [https://www.bcnuej.org/ Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability] (BCN.UEJ) and part of [https://undisciplinedenvironments.org/ Undisciplined Environments]. She talks about ‘Nature-based solutions as discursive tools and contested practices in urban nature’s neoliberalisation processes’. (Twitter: [https://twitter.com/PKotsila Panagiota Kotsila] / [https://twitter.com/bcnuej BCN.UEJ] / [https://twitter.com/UndiEnvi Undisciplined Environments])

(Details: Published on Nov 22, 2019, 36 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1357955536906559488 Tweet], [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK8q9DXMtzz/ Insta], [https://www.facebook.com/UrbanArena.project/posts/241436370908602 FB])

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

==Integral Cities==
[[File:Integral Cities logo.jpg|right|200px|link=https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q]]

This month we’re speaking with Marilyn Hamilton, the founder of Integral City and author of the Integral City book series. This month we also launch a new feature – the Urban Arena podcast correspondent! We want your voice on the pod. If you’d like to featured then please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. It’s up to you what you put in your message, but we encourage you to think about urban sustainability and justice together. Our first correspondent is Marcelline Bonneau CEO & founder at Resilia Solutions.

(Details: Published on Nov 22, 2019, 36 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1357955536906559488 Tweet], [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK8q9DXMtzz/ Insta], [https://www.facebook.com/UrbanArena.project/posts/241436370908602 FB])

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

==Social Entrepreneurship==
[[File:Social Entrepreneurship logo.jpg|left|200px|link=https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q]]

This month our podcaster Kate McGinn is on interview duty while Ian Cook takes a well earned break! Here Kate catches up with UrbanA Fellow Kemo Camara, founder and CEO of Omek, a new digital and physical platform dedicated to the social and professional advancement of the African diaspora community.

(Details: Published on Nov 22, 2019, 36 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1357955536906559488 Tweet], [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK8q9DXMtzz/ Insta], [https://www.facebook.com/UrbanArena.project/posts/241436370908602 FB])

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

==Networks for Sustainable and Just Cities==
[[File:Networks for Sustainable and Just Cities logo.jpg|right|200px|link=https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q]]

This month our podcasters Kate McGinn and Ian Cook get lost in the voices of people who have helped sustain, build and critically assess networks that aim to create just and sustainable cities: Matthew Bach, Flor Avelino and Tom Henfrey all three of whom are part of the UrbanA team.

(Details: Published on Nov 22, 2019, 36 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1357955536906559488 Tweet], [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK8q9DXMtzz/ Insta], [https://www.facebook.com/UrbanArena.project/posts/241436370908602 FB])

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

==Urban Design Processes==
[[File:Urban Design Processes logo.jpg|left|200px|link=https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q]]

This month our podcaster Kate McGinn talks with Florian Strenge – an urbanist and UrbanA Fellow fascinated by spaces, people and processes.

Our urban arena podcast correspondent this month is Sophia Silverton, an enviromental governance researcher working with UrbanA.

(Details: Published on Nov 22, 2019, 36 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1357955536906559488 Tweet], [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK8q9DXMtzz/ Insta], [https://www.facebook.com/UrbanArena.project/posts/241436370908602 FB])

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

==Racial and Environmental Justice==
[[File:Racial and Environmental Justice logo.jpg|right|200px|link=https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q]]

This month we’re joined by Meera Ghani, ECOLISE Policy Coordinator, and Tamara Steger, Associate Professor at the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy at Central European University. The topic? Environmental and racial justice.

(Details: Published on Nov 22, 2019, 36 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1357955536906559488 Tweet], [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK8q9DXMtzz/ Insta], [https://www.facebook.com/UrbanArena.project/posts/241436370908602 FB])

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

==Drivers of Urban Injustice==
[[File:Drivers of Urban Injustice logo.jpg|left|200px|link=https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q]]

Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month we're joined by Panagiota Kotsila, Isabelle Anguelovski, and Jonathan Luger from the Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability.

We're talking about drivers of urban injustice: https://wiki.urban-arena.eu/index.php?title=Database_of_drivers_of_injus...

Ian was searching the following stat whilst rambling: the richest 10 percent of the world produces more than half its carbon. Thanks Oxfam.

(Details: Published on Nov 22, 2019, 36 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1357955536906559488 Tweet], [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK8q9DXMtzz/ Insta], [https://www.facebook.com/UrbanArena.project/posts/241436370908602 FB])

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

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2021-02-10T17:53:32Z

Duncan Crowley: WheatleyF's Life-Cycle of Emergence - the power of CoPs Via - https://margaretwheatley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/KosmosJournal-WheatleyFrieze-SS15.pdf

== Summary ==
WheatleyF's Life-Cycle of Emergence - the power of CoPs
Via - https://margaretwheatley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/KosmosJournal-WheatleyFrieze-SS15.pdf

UrbanA Podcasts

2021-02-06T22:15:00Z

Duncan Crowley:

[[File:Podcasts.jpg|right|450px|link=https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q]]
* '''Urban Arena – a podcast about sustainable and just cities '''
(NOTE - work in progress)
Subscribe to the UrbanA podcast series [https://podcasts.ceu.edu/series/urban-arena here]. Podcasts available from [https://urban-arena.eu/resources/#podcast UrbanA], [https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q Spotify], [https://podcasts.apple.com/hu/podcast/urban-arena/id1489032077 Apple], [https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/3134646 Podcast Addict]..

Cities can play a crucial role in creating just and sustainable futures. Urban Arena is a series of critical conversations with activists, entrepreneurs, intellectuals and policy-makers in different European cities who are working, in complimentary and conflicting ways, to create cities that respond to the twin challenges of justice and sustainability.This podcast is part of three year project: UrbanA

* '''Urban arenas for sustainable and just cities '''

The project aims, through a series of 4 Arena events: synthesize and broker knowledge generated by prior research and innovation projects; translate this knowledge into action; empower participants to apply this knowledge locally; facilitate interaction among diverse people; and influence policies in favour of sustainable and just cities. It was funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.

Urban Arena Podcasts form a series of critical conversations with activists, entrepreneurs, intellectuals and policy-makers in different European cities who are working, in complimentary and conflicting ways, to create cities that respond to the twin challenges of justice and sustainability.

* '''Take the UrbanA Challenge'''

We want your voice on the pod. If you’d like to be an Urban Arena’s podcast correspondent then please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. We encourage you to think about urban sustainability and justice together.

Things to keep in mind when recording – choose a quiet place (get in a cupboard, climb under your blanket!); turn off fans, TVs and phones; listen to your recording possibilities (is it better via phone or with mic?).

Send your recording via email to [mailto:CookI@ceu.edu CookI@ceu.edu] or contact Ian on [https://twitter.com/ianmickcook Twitter].

==Sustainable Food and Transport==
[[File:Sustainable Food and Transport logo.jpg|right|200px|link=https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q]]

In this first episode, we discuss sustainability and justice in food and transport. To help us do so, we are speaking (and cycling around Budapest) with [https://urban-arena.eu/urban-people/#fellows UrbanA fellow] [https://www.uni-corvinus.hu/contact/lazanyi-orsolya/?lang=en Orsolya Lazányi]. She is a co-founder of Cargonomia, a Budapest-based community space for locally-produced food and cargo bike rentals. Listen in as we talk about Orsolya's work, her views on the [https://www.degrowth.info/en/ degrowth] movement, and the cultural intricacies of building an organization like [http://cargonomia.hu/ Cargonomia] in Hungary.

(Details: Published on Nov 22, 2019, 36 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1357955536906559488 Tweet], [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK8q9DXMtzz/ Insta], [https://www.facebook.com/UrbanArena.project/posts/241436370908602 FB])

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

==Transition Governance==
[[File:Transition Governance logo.jpg|left|200px|link=https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q]]

In this second episode, we discuss transition management as a governance approach. We travel to a real live urban arena in Rotterdam and meet [https://drift.eur.nl/people/derk-loorbach/ Derk Loorbach] director of UrbanA partner, DRIFT, and Professor of Socio-economic Transitions at the Faculty of Social Science, both at Erasmus University Rotterdam. (Twitter: [https://twitter.com/drk75 Derk] / [https://twitter.com/drifteur DRIFT])

(Details: Published on Dec 18, 2019, 36 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1358070808653017090 Tweet], [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK9L5-Ysat3/ Insta], [ FB])

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Culture for empowerment]] / [[Governance and participation processes]] / [[Multi-stakeholder partnership - policy]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Policies and practices for inclusion of disadvantaged groups]] / [[Right to the city]] / [[Municipalities in Transition]]

==Textile Recycling==
[[File:Textile Recycling logo.jpg|right|200px|link=https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q]]

In this third episode, we discuss the potential of textile recycling as part of a circular economy. We’re lucky to get to speak to [https://www.linkedin.com/in/hilde-van-duijn/?originalSubdomain=nl Hilde van Duijn] from [https://eigendraads.com/ EigenDraads], a Rotterdam based initiative that wants to take our non-reusable clothes and transform them into something new.

[https://eigendraads.com/ EigenDraads]

(Details: Published on Nov 22, 2019, 33 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1357955536906559488 Tweet], [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK8q9DXMtzz/ Insta], [https://www.facebook.com/UrbanArena.project/posts/241436370908602 FB])

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

==Shipping==
[[File:Shipping logo.jpg|left|200px|link=https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q]]

In this fourth episode, we are lucky to speak with [https://www.sv.uio.no/sai/english/people/aca/schober/index.html Elisabeth Schober], Associate Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. She is the Principle Investigator within the upcoming ‘Ports’ project, which will be funded by the European Research Council under the EU’s Horizon 2020 program.

(Details: Published on Feb 29, 2020, 36 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: Coming)

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

==FabLabs==
[[File:FabLabs logo.jpg|right|200px|link=https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q]]

In this fifth episode, we’re talking with [https://pt.linkedin.com/in/rafael-calado-882b5310 Rafael Calado] about FabLabs. Rafael is Programme and Operations Manager at FabLab Lisboa. An architect by trade, he also co-founded Repair Café Lisboa and BioHacking Group Lisboa 2017. Behind the mic our resident podcasters are joined by special guest [https://www.linkedin.com/in/luciadipaola/ Lucia Di Paola]. (Insta: [https://www.instagram.com/fablab_lisboa/ FabLab Lisboa] FB: [https://www.facebook.com/RepairCafeLisboa Repair Café Lisboa])

(Details: Published on Mar 27, 2020, 32 min, Ian M. Cook, Kate McGinn and Lucia Di Paola. Social Media: coming)

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

==Nature Based Solutions==
[[File:Nature Based Solutions logo.jpg|left|200px|link=https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q]]

This month we’re talking with [https://ictaweb.uab.cat/personal_detail.php?id=456%20 Panagiota Kotsila], a political ecologist with the [https://www.bcnuej.org/ Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability] (BCN.UEJ) and part of [https://undisciplinedenvironments.org/ Undisciplined Environments]. She talks about ‘Nature-based solutions as discursive tools and contested practices in urban nature’s neoliberalisation processes’. (Twitter: [https://twitter.com/PKotsila Panagiota Kotsila] / [https://twitter.com/bcnuej BCN.UEJ] / [https://twitter.com/UndiEnvi Undisciplined Environments])

(Details: Published on Nov 22, 2019, 36 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1357955536906559488 Tweet], [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK8q9DXMtzz/ Insta], [https://www.facebook.com/UrbanArena.project/posts/241436370908602 FB])

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

==Integral Cities==
[[File:Integral Cities logo.jpg|right|200px|link=https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q]]

This month we’re speaking with Marilyn Hamilton, the founder of Integral City and author of the Integral City book series. This month we also launch a new feature – the Urban Arena podcast correspondent! We want your voice on the pod. If you’d like to featured then please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. It’s up to you what you put in your message, but we encourage you to think about urban sustainability and justice together. Our first correspondent is Marcelline Bonneau CEO & founder at Resilia Solutions.

(Details: Published on Nov 22, 2019, 36 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1357955536906559488 Tweet], [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK8q9DXMtzz/ Insta], [https://www.facebook.com/UrbanArena.project/posts/241436370908602 FB])

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

==Social Entrepreneurship==
[[File:Social Entrepreneurship logo.jpg|left|200px|link=https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q]]

This month our podcaster Kate McGinn is on interview duty while Ian Cook takes a well earned break! Here Kate catches up with UrbanA Fellow Kemo Camara, founder and CEO of Omek, a new digital and physical platform dedicated to the social and professional advancement of the African diaspora community.

(Details: Published on Nov 22, 2019, 36 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1357955536906559488 Tweet], [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK8q9DXMtzz/ Insta], [https://www.facebook.com/UrbanArena.project/posts/241436370908602 FB])

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

==Networks for Sustainable and Just Cities==
[[File:Networks for Sustainable and Just Cities logo.jpg|right|200px|link=https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q]]

This month our podcasters Kate McGinn and Ian Cook get lost in the voices of people who have helped sustain, build and critically assess networks that aim to create just and sustainable cities: Matthew Bach, Flor Avelino and Tom Henfrey all three of whom are part of the UrbanA team.

(Details: Published on Nov 22, 2019, 36 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1357955536906559488 Tweet], [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK8q9DXMtzz/ Insta], [https://www.facebook.com/UrbanArena.project/posts/241436370908602 FB])

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

==Urban Design Processes==
[[File:Urban Design Processes logo.jpg|left|200px|link=https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q]]

This month our podcaster Kate McGinn talks with Florian Strenge – an urbanist and UrbanA Fellow fascinated by spaces, people and processes.

Our urban arena podcast correspondent this month is Sophia Silverton, an enviromental governance researcher working with UrbanA.

(Details: Published on Nov 22, 2019, 36 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1357955536906559488 Tweet], [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK8q9DXMtzz/ Insta], [https://www.facebook.com/UrbanArena.project/posts/241436370908602 FB])

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

==Racial and Environmental Justice==
[[File:Racial and Environmental Justice logo.jpg|right|200px|link=https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q]]

This month we’re joined by Meera Ghani, ECOLISE Policy Coordinator, and Tamara Steger, Associate Professor at the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy at Central European University. The topic? Environmental and racial justice.

(Details: Published on Nov 22, 2019, 36 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1357955536906559488 Tweet], [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK8q9DXMtzz/ Insta], [https://www.facebook.com/UrbanArena.project/posts/241436370908602 FB])

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

==Drivers of Urban Injustice==
[[File:Drivers of Urban Injustice logo.jpg|left|200px|link=https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q]]

Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month we're joined by Panagiota Kotsila, Isabelle Anguelovski, and Jonathan Luger from the Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability.

We're talking about drivers of urban injustice: https://wiki.urban-arena.eu/index.php?title=Database_of_drivers_of_injus...

Ian was searching the following stat whilst rambling: the richest 10 percent of the world produces more than half its carbon. Thanks Oxfam.

(Details: Published on Nov 22, 2019, 36 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1357955536906559488 Tweet], [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK8q9DXMtzz/ Insta], [https://www.facebook.com/UrbanArena.project/posts/241436370908602 FB])

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

UrbanA Podcasts

2021-02-06T22:09:06Z

Duncan Crowley:

[[File:Podcasts.jpg|right|450px|link=https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q]]
* '''Urban Arena – a podcast about sustainable and just cities '''
(NOTE - work in progress)
Subscribe to the UrbanA podcast series [https://podcasts.ceu.edu/series/urban-arena here]. Podcasts available from [https://urban-arena.eu/resources/#podcast UrbanA], [https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q Spotify], [https://podcasts.apple.com/hu/podcast/urban-arena/id1489032077 Apple], [https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/3134646 Podcast Addict]..

Cities can play a crucial role in creating just and sustainable futures. Urban Arena is a series of critical conversations with activists, entrepreneurs, intellectuals and policy-makers in different European cities who are working, in complimentary and conflicting ways, to create cities that respond to the twin challenges of justice and sustainability.This podcast is part of three year project: UrbanA

* '''Urban arenas for sustainable and just cities '''

The project aims, through a series of 4 Arena events: synthesize and broker knowledge generated by prior research and innovation projects; translate this knowledge into action; empower participants to apply this knowledge locally; facilitate interaction among diverse people; and influence policies in favour of sustainable and just cities. It was funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.

Urban Arena Podcasts form a series of critical conversations with activists, entrepreneurs, intellectuals and policy-makers in different European cities who are working, in complimentary and conflicting ways, to create cities that respond to the twin challenges of justice and sustainability.

* '''Take the UrbanA Challenge'''

We want your voice on the pod. If you’d like to be an Urban Arena’s podcast correspondent then please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. We encourage you to think about urban sustainability and justice together.

Things to keep in mind when recording – choose a quiet place (get in a cupboard, climb under your blanket!); turn off fans, TVs and phones; listen to your recording possibilities (is it better via phone or with mic?).

Send your recording via email to [mailto:CookI@ceu.edu CookI@ceu.edu] or contact Ian on [https://twitter.com/ianmickcook Twitter].

==Sustainable Food and Transport==
[[File:Sustainable Food and Transport logo.jpg|right|200px|link=https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q]]

In this first episode, we discuss sustainability and justice in food and transport. To help us do so, we are speaking (and cycling around Budapest) with [https://urban-arena.eu/urban-people/#fellows UrbanA fellow] [https://www.uni-corvinus.hu/contact/lazanyi-orsolya/?lang=en Orsolya Lazányi]. She is a co-founder of Cargonomia, a Budapest-based community space for locally-produced food and cargo bike rentals. Listen in as we talk about Orsolya's work, her views on the [https://www.degrowth.info/en/ degrowth] movement, and the cultural intricacies of building an organization like [http://cargonomia.hu/ Cargonomia] in Hungary.

(Details: Published on Nov 22, 2019, 36 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1357955536906559488 Tweet], [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK8q9DXMtzz/ Insta], [https://www.facebook.com/UrbanArena.project/posts/241436370908602 FB])

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

==Transition Governance==
[[File:Transition Governance logo.jpg|left|200px|link=https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q]]

In this second episode, we discuss transition management as a governance approach. We travel to a real live urban arena in Rotterdam and meet [https://drift.eur.nl/people/derk-loorbach/ Derk Loorbach] director of UrbanA partner, DRIFT, and Professor of Socio-economic Transitions at the Faculty of Social Science, both at Erasmus University Rotterdam. (Twitter: [https://twitter.com/drk75 Derk] / [https://twitter.com/drifteur DRIFT])

(Details: Published on Dec 18, 2019, 36 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1358070808653017090 Tweet], [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK9L5-Ysat3/ Insta], [ FB])

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Culture for empowerment]] / [[Governance and participation processes]] / [[Multi-stakeholder partnership - policy]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Policies and practices for inclusion of disadvantaged groups]] / [[Right to the city]] / [[Municipalities in Transition]]

==Textile Recycling==
[[File:Textile Recycling logo.jpg|right|200px|link=https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q]]

In this third episode, we discuss the potential of textile recycling as part of a circular economy. We’re lucky to get to speak to [https://www.linkedin.com/in/hilde-van-duijn/?originalSubdomain=nl Hilde van Duijn] from [https://eigendraads.com/ EigenDraads], a Rotterdam based initiative that wants to take our non-reusable clothes and transform them into something new.

[https://eigendraads.com/ EigenDraads]

(Details: Published on Nov 22, 2019, 33 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1357955536906559488 Tweet], [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK8q9DXMtzz/ Insta], [https://www.facebook.com/UrbanArena.project/posts/241436370908602 FB])

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

==Shipping==
[[File:Shipping logo.jpg|left|200px|link=https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q]]

In this fourth episode, we are lucky to speak with [https://www.sv.uio.no/sai/english/people/aca/schober/index.html Elisabeth Schober], Associate Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. She is the Principle Investigator within the upcoming ‘Ports’ project, which will be funded by the European Research Council under the EU’s Horizon 2020 program.

(Details: Published on Feb 29, 2020, 36 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: Coming)

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

==FabLabs==
[[File:FabLabs logo.jpg|right|200px|link=https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q]]

In this fifth episode, we’re talking with [https://pt.linkedin.com/in/rafael-calado-882b5310 Rafael Calado] about FabLabs. Rafael is Programme and Operations Manager at FabLab Lisboa. An architect by trade, he also co-founded Repair Café Lisboa and BioHacking Group Lisboa 2017. Behind the mic our resident podcasters are joined by special guest [https://www.linkedin.com/in/luciadipaola/ Lucia Di Paola]. (Insta: [https://www.instagram.com/fablab_lisboa/ FabLab Lisboa] FB: [https://www.facebook.com/RepairCafeLisboa Repair Café Lisboa])

(Details: Published on Mar 27, 2020, 32 min, Ian M. Cook, Kate McGinn and Lucia Di Paola. Social Media: coming)

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

==Nature Based Solutions==
[[File:Nature Based Solutions logo.jpg|left|200px|link=https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q]]

This month we’re talking with [https://ictaweb.uab.cat/personal_detail.php?id=456%20 Panagiota Kotsila], a political ecologist with the [https://www.bcnuej.org/ Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability] (BCN.UEJ) and part of [https://undisciplinedenvironments.org/ Undisciplined Environments]. She talks about ‘Nature-based solutions as discursive tools and contested practices in urban nature’s neoliberalisation processes’. (Twitter: [https://twitter.com/PKotsila Panagiota Kotsila] / [https://twitter.com/bcnuej BCN.UEJ] / [https://twitter.com/UndiEnvi Undisciplined Environments])

(Details: Published on Nov 22, 2019, 36 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1357955536906559488 Tweet], [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK8q9DXMtzz/ Insta], [https://www.facebook.com/UrbanArena.project/posts/241436370908602 FB])

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

==Integral Cities==
[[File:Integral Cities logo.jpg|right|200px|link=https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q]]

In this first episode, we discuss sustainability and justice in food and transport. To help us do so, we are speaking (and cycling around Budapest) with UrbanA fellow Orsolya Lazányi. She is a co-founder of Cargonomia, a Budapest-based community space for locally-produced food and cargo bike rentals. Listen in as we talk about Orsolya's work, her views on the degrowth movement, and the cultural intricacies of building an organization like Cargonomia in Hungary.

(Details: Published on Nov 22, 2019, 36 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1357955536906559488 Tweet], [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK8q9DXMtzz/ Insta], [https://www.facebook.com/UrbanArena.project/posts/241436370908602 FB])

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

==Social Entrepreneurship==
[[File:Social Entrepreneurship logo.jpg|left|200px|link=https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q]]

In this first episode, we discuss sustainability and justice in food and transport. To help us do so, we are speaking (and cycling around Budapest) with UrbanA fellow Orsolya Lazányi. She is a co-founder of Cargonomia, a Budapest-based community space for locally-produced food and cargo bike rentals. Listen in as we talk about Orsolya's work, her views on the degrowth movement, and the cultural intricacies of building an organization like Cargonomia in Hungary.

(Details: Published on Nov 22, 2019, 36 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1357955536906559488 Tweet], [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK8q9DXMtzz/ Insta], [https://www.facebook.com/UrbanArena.project/posts/241436370908602 FB])

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

==Networks for Sustainable and Just Cities==
[[File:Networks for Sustainable and Just Cities logo.jpg|right|200px|link=https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q]]

In this first episode, we discuss sustainability and justice in food and transport. To help us do so, we are speaking (and cycling around Budapest) with UrbanA fellow Orsolya Lazányi. She is a co-founder of Cargonomia, a Budapest-based community space for locally-produced food and cargo bike rentals. Listen in as we talk about Orsolya's work, her views on the degrowth movement, and the cultural intricacies of building an organization like Cargonomia in Hungary.

(Details: Published on Nov 22, 2019, 36 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1357955536906559488 Tweet], [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK8q9DXMtzz/ Insta], [https://www.facebook.com/UrbanArena.project/posts/241436370908602 FB])

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

==Urban Design Processes==
[[File:Urban Design Processes logo.jpg|left|200px|link=https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q]]

In this first episode, we discuss sustainability and justice in food and transport. To help us do so, we are speaking (and cycling around Budapest) with UrbanA fellow Orsolya Lazányi. She is a co-founder of Cargonomia, a Budapest-based community space for locally-produced food and cargo bike rentals. Listen in as we talk about Orsolya's work, her views on the degrowth movement, and the cultural intricacies of building an organization like Cargonomia in Hungary.

(Details: Published on Nov 22, 2019, 36 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1357955536906559488 Tweet], [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK8q9DXMtzz/ Insta], [https://www.facebook.com/UrbanArena.project/posts/241436370908602 FB])

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

==Racial and Environmental Justice==
[[File:Racial and Environmental Justice logo.jpg|right|200px|link=https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q]]

In this first episode, we discuss sustainability and justice in food and transport. To help us do so, we are speaking (and cycling around Budapest) with UrbanA fellow Orsolya Lazányi. She is a co-founder of Cargonomia, a Budapest-based community space for locally-produced food and cargo bike rentals. Listen in as we talk about Orsolya's work, her views on the degrowth movement, and the cultural intricacies of building an organization like Cargonomia in Hungary.

(Details: Published on Nov 22, 2019, 36 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1357955536906559488 Tweet], [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK8q9DXMtzz/ Insta], [https://www.facebook.com/UrbanArena.project/posts/241436370908602 FB])

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

==Drivers of Urban Injustice==
[[File:Drivers of Urban Injustice logo.jpg|left|200px|link=https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q]]

In this first episode, we discuss sustainability and justice in food and transport. To help us do so, we are speaking (and cycling around Budapest) with UrbanA fellow Orsolya Lazányi. She is a co-founder of Cargonomia, a Budapest-based community space for locally-produced food and cargo bike rentals. Listen in as we talk about Orsolya's work, her views on the degrowth movement, and the cultural intricacies of building an organization like Cargonomia in Hungary.

(Details: Published on Nov 22, 2019, 36 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1357955536906559488 Tweet], [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK8q9DXMtzz/ Insta], [https://www.facebook.com/UrbanArena.project/posts/241436370908602 FB])

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

UrbanA Podcasts

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* '''Urban Arena – a podcast about sustainable and just cities '''
(NOTE - work in progress)
Subscribe to the UrbanA podcast series [https://podcasts.ceu.edu/series/urban-arena here]. Podcasts available from [https://urban-arena.eu/resources/#podcast UrbanA], [https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5ll3Tqv65HLSl3Ml6Grz?si=k7iflv3JRd2dBzyJQjd61Q Spotify], [https://podcasts.apple.com/hu/podcast/urban-arena/id1489032077 Apple], [https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/3134646 Podcast Addict]..

Cities can play a crucial role in creating just and sustainable futures. Urban Arena is a series of critical conversations with activists, entrepreneurs, intellectuals and policy-makers in different European cities who are working, in complimentary and conflicting ways, to create cities that respond to the twin challenges of justice and sustainability.This podcast is part of three year project: UrbanA

* '''Urban arenas for sustainable and just cities '''

The project aims, through a series of 4 Arena events: synthesize and broker knowledge generated by prior research and innovation projects; translate this knowledge into action; empower participants to apply this knowledge locally; facilitate interaction among diverse people; and influence policies in favour of sustainable and just cities. It was funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.

Urban Arena Podcasts form a series of critical conversations with activists, entrepreneurs, intellectuals and policy-makers in different European cities who are working, in complimentary and conflicting ways, to create cities that respond to the twin challenges of justice and sustainability.

* '''Take the UrbanA Challenge'''

We want your voice on the pod. If you’d like to be an Urban Arena’s podcast correspondent then please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. We encourage you to think about urban sustainability and justice together.

Things to keep in mind when recording – choose a quiet place (get in a cupboard, climb under your blanket!); turn off fans, TVs and phones; listen to your recording possibilities (is it better via phone or with mic?).

Send your recording via email to [mailto:CookI@ceu.edu CookI@ceu.edu] or contact Ian on [https://twitter.com/ianmickcook Twitter].

==Sustainable Food and Transport==
[[File:Sustainable Food and Transport logo.jpg|right|200px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/the-first-urbana-community-conversation-designing-a-local-climate-adaptation-plan-a9375cdd9318]]

In this first episode, we discuss sustainability and justice in food and transport. To help us do so, we are speaking (and cycling around Budapest) with [https://urban-arena.eu/urban-people/#fellows UrbanA fellow] [https://www.uni-corvinus.hu/contact/lazanyi-orsolya/?lang=en Orsolya Lazányi]. She is a co-founder of Cargonomia, a Budapest-based community space for locally-produced food and cargo bike rentals. Listen in as we talk about Orsolya's work, her views on the [https://www.degrowth.info/en/ degrowth] movement, and the cultural intricacies of building an organization like [http://cargonomia.hu/ Cargonomia] in Hungary.

(Details: Published on Nov 22, 2019, 36 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1357955536906559488 Tweet], [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK8q9DXMtzz/ Insta], [https://www.facebook.com/UrbanArena.project/posts/241436370908602 FB])

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

==Transition Governance==
[[File:Transition Governance logo.jpg|left|200px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/the-first-urbana-community-conversation-designing-a-local-climate-adaptation-plan-a9375cdd9318]]

In this second episode, we discuss transition management as a governance approach. We travel to a real live urban arena in Rotterdam and meet [https://drift.eur.nl/people/derk-loorbach/ Derk Loorbach] director of UrbanA partner, DRIFT, and Professor of Socio-economic Transitions at the Faculty of Social Science, both at Erasmus University Rotterdam. (Twitter: [https://twitter.com/drk75 Derk] / [https://twitter.com/drifteur DRIFT])

(Details: Published on Dec 18, 2019, 36 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1358070808653017090 Tweet], [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK9L5-Ysat3/ Insta], [ FB])

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Culture for empowerment]] / [[Governance and participation processes]] / [[Multi-stakeholder partnership - policy]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Policies and practices for inclusion of disadvantaged groups]] / [[Right to the city]] / [[Municipalities in Transition]]

==Textile Recycling==
[[File:Textile Recycling logo.jpg|right|200px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/the-first-urbana-community-conversation-designing-a-local-climate-adaptation-plan-a9375cdd9318]]

In this third episode, we discuss the potential of textile recycling as part of a circular economy. We’re lucky to get to speak to [https://www.linkedin.com/in/hilde-van-duijn/?originalSubdomain=nl Hilde van Duijn] from [https://eigendraads.com/ EigenDraads], a Rotterdam based initiative that wants to take our non-reusable clothes and transform them into something new.

[https://eigendraads.com/ EigenDraads]

(Details: Published on Nov 22, 2019, 33 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1357955536906559488 Tweet], [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK8q9DXMtzz/ Insta], [https://www.facebook.com/UrbanArena.project/posts/241436370908602 FB])

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

==Shipping==
[[File:Shipping logo.jpg|left|200px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/the-first-urbana-community-conversation-designing-a-local-climate-adaptation-plan-a9375cdd9318]]

In this fourth episode, we are lucky to speak with [https://www.sv.uio.no/sai/english/people/aca/schober/index.html Elisabeth Schober], Associate Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. She is the Principle Investigator within the upcoming ‘Ports’ project, which will be funded by the European Research Council under the EU’s Horizon 2020 program.

(Details: Published on Feb 29, 2020, 36 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: Coming)

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

==FabLabs==
[[File:FabLabs logo.jpg|right|200px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/the-first-urbana-community-conversation-designing-a-local-climate-adaptation-plan-a9375cdd9318]]

In this fifth episode, we’re talking with [https://pt.linkedin.com/in/rafael-calado-882b5310 Rafael Calado] about FabLabs. Rafael is Programme and Operations Manager at FabLab Lisboa. An architect by trade, he also co-founded Repair Café Lisboa and BioHacking Group Lisboa 2017. Behind the mic our resident podcasters are joined by special guest [https://www.linkedin.com/in/luciadipaola/ Lucia Di Paola]. (Insta: [https://www.instagram.com/fablab_lisboa/ FabLab Lisboa] FB: [https://www.facebook.com/RepairCafeLisboa Repair Café Lisboa])

(Details: Published on Mar 27, 2020, 32 min, Ian M. Cook, Kate McGinn and Lucia Di Paola. Social Media: coming)

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

==Nature Based Solutions==
[[File:Nature Based Solutions logo.jpg|left|200px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/the-first-urbana-community-conversation-designing-a-local-climate-adaptation-plan-a9375cdd9318]]

This month we’re talking with [https://ictaweb.uab.cat/personal_detail.php?id=456%20 Panagiota Kotsila], a political ecologist with the [https://www.bcnuej.org/ Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability] (BCN.UEJ) and part of [https://undisciplinedenvironments.org/ Undisciplined Environments]. She talks about ‘Nature-based solutions as discursive tools and contested practices in urban nature’s neoliberalisation processes’. (Twitter: [https://twitter.com/PKotsila Panagiota Kotsila] / [https://twitter.com/bcnuej BCN.UEJ] / [https://twitter.com/UndiEnvi Undisciplined Environments])

(Details: Published on Nov 22, 2019, 36 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1357955536906559488 Tweet], [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK8q9DXMtzz/ Insta], [https://www.facebook.com/UrbanArena.project/posts/241436370908602 FB])

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

==Integral Cities==
[[File:Integral Cities logo.jpg|right|200px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/the-first-urbana-community-conversation-designing-a-local-climate-adaptation-plan-a9375cdd9318]]

In this first episode, we discuss sustainability and justice in food and transport. To help us do so, we are speaking (and cycling around Budapest) with UrbanA fellow Orsolya Lazányi. She is a co-founder of Cargonomia, a Budapest-based community space for locally-produced food and cargo bike rentals. Listen in as we talk about Orsolya's work, her views on the degrowth movement, and the cultural intricacies of building an organization like Cargonomia in Hungary.

(Details: Published on Nov 22, 2019, 36 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1357955536906559488 Tweet], [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK8q9DXMtzz/ Insta], [https://www.facebook.com/UrbanArena.project/posts/241436370908602 FB])

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

==Social Entrepreneurship==
[[File:Social Entrepreneurship logo.jpg|left|200px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/the-first-urbana-community-conversation-designing-a-local-climate-adaptation-plan-a9375cdd9318]]

In this first episode, we discuss sustainability and justice in food and transport. To help us do so, we are speaking (and cycling around Budapest) with UrbanA fellow Orsolya Lazányi. She is a co-founder of Cargonomia, a Budapest-based community space for locally-produced food and cargo bike rentals. Listen in as we talk about Orsolya's work, her views on the degrowth movement, and the cultural intricacies of building an organization like Cargonomia in Hungary.

(Details: Published on Nov 22, 2019, 36 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1357955536906559488 Tweet], [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK8q9DXMtzz/ Insta], [https://www.facebook.com/UrbanArena.project/posts/241436370908602 FB])

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

==Networks for Sustainable and Just Cities==
[[File:Networks for Sustainable and Just Cities logo.jpg|right|200px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/the-first-urbana-community-conversation-designing-a-local-climate-adaptation-plan-a9375cdd9318]]

In this first episode, we discuss sustainability and justice in food and transport. To help us do so, we are speaking (and cycling around Budapest) with UrbanA fellow Orsolya Lazányi. She is a co-founder of Cargonomia, a Budapest-based community space for locally-produced food and cargo bike rentals. Listen in as we talk about Orsolya's work, her views on the degrowth movement, and the cultural intricacies of building an organization like Cargonomia in Hungary.

(Details: Published on Nov 22, 2019, 36 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1357955536906559488 Tweet], [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK8q9DXMtzz/ Insta], [https://www.facebook.com/UrbanArena.project/posts/241436370908602 FB])

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

==Urban Design Processes==
[[File:Urban Design Processes logo.jpg|left|200px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/the-first-urbana-community-conversation-designing-a-local-climate-adaptation-plan-a9375cdd9318]]

In this first episode, we discuss sustainability and justice in food and transport. To help us do so, we are speaking (and cycling around Budapest) with UrbanA fellow Orsolya Lazányi. She is a co-founder of Cargonomia, a Budapest-based community space for locally-produced food and cargo bike rentals. Listen in as we talk about Orsolya's work, her views on the degrowth movement, and the cultural intricacies of building an organization like Cargonomia in Hungary.

(Details: Published on Nov 22, 2019, 36 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1357955536906559488 Tweet], [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK8q9DXMtzz/ Insta], [https://www.facebook.com/UrbanArena.project/posts/241436370908602 FB])

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

==Racial and Environmental Justice==
[[File:Racial and Environmental Justice logo.jpg|right|200px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/the-first-urbana-community-conversation-designing-a-local-climate-adaptation-plan-a9375cdd9318]]

In this first episode, we discuss sustainability and justice in food and transport. To help us do so, we are speaking (and cycling around Budapest) with UrbanA fellow Orsolya Lazányi. She is a co-founder of Cargonomia, a Budapest-based community space for locally-produced food and cargo bike rentals. Listen in as we talk about Orsolya's work, her views on the degrowth movement, and the cultural intricacies of building an organization like Cargonomia in Hungary.

(Details: Published on Nov 22, 2019, 36 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1357955536906559488 Tweet], [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK8q9DXMtzz/ Insta], [https://www.facebook.com/UrbanArena.project/posts/241436370908602 FB])

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

==Drivers of Urban Injustice==
[[File:Drivers of Urban Injustice logo.jpg|left|200px|link=https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/the-first-urbana-community-conversation-designing-a-local-climate-adaptation-plan-a9375cdd9318]]

In this first episode, we discuss sustainability and justice in food and transport. To help us do so, we are speaking (and cycling around Budapest) with UrbanA fellow Orsolya Lazányi. She is a co-founder of Cargonomia, a Budapest-based community space for locally-produced food and cargo bike rentals. Listen in as we talk about Orsolya's work, her views on the degrowth movement, and the cultural intricacies of building an organization like Cargonomia in Hungary.

(Details: Published on Nov 22, 2019, 36 min, Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn. Social Media: [https://twitter.com/arena_urban/status/1357955536906559488 Tweet], [https://www.instagram.com/p/CK8q9DXMtzz/ Insta], [https://www.facebook.com/UrbanArena.project/posts/241436370908602 FB])

Related UrbanA approaches: [[Community gardens and food]] / [[Degrowth]] / [[Pathways and scenarios for post-carbon societies]] / [[Regeneration of disused urban land]] / [[Social food movements]] / [[Sustainable food supply chains]]

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2021-02-06T20:37:03Z

Duncan Crowley: Drivers of Urban Injustice - UrbanA Podcast

== Summary ==
Drivers of Urban Injustice - UrbanA Podcast

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2021-02-06T20:36:04Z

Duncan Crowley: Racial and Environmental Justice - UrbanA Podcast

== Summary ==
Racial and Environmental Justice - UrbanA Podcast

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2021-02-06T20:34:47Z

Duncan Crowley: Urban Design Processes - UrbanA Podcast

== Summary ==
Urban Design Processes - UrbanA Podcast

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2021-02-06T20:33:53Z

Duncan Crowley: Networks for Sustainable and Just Cities - UrbanA Podcast

== Summary ==
Networks for Sustainable and Just Cities - UrbanA Podcast

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2021-02-06T20:33:03Z

Duncan Crowley: Social Entrepreneurship - UrbanA Podcast

== Summary ==
Social Entrepreneurship - UrbanA Podcast

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2021-02-06T20:32:09Z

Duncan Crowley: Integral Cities - UrbanA Podcast

== Summary ==
Integral Cities - UrbanA Podcast

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2021-02-06T20:30:42Z

Duncan Crowley: Nature Based Solutions - UrbanA Podcast

== Summary ==
Nature Based Solutions - UrbanA Podcast

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2021-02-06T20:29:43Z

Duncan Crowley: FabLabs - UrbanA Podcast

== Summary ==
FabLabs - UrbanA Podcast

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2021-02-06T20:27:44Z

Duncan Crowley: Shipping - UrbanA Podcast

== Summary ==
Shipping - UrbanA Podcast