gE.CO Living Lab, tools for generating commons
Sharing community resources. Horizon 2020.
gE.CO Living Lab is a project funded by the European Union that aims to create a platform to map and support both formal groups and informal communities that manage manufacturing laboratories, incubators, co-creation spaces, and social centres located in regenerated urban spaces. These innovative practices are considered generative commons, as they are based on exchange and collaboration between citizens and establish a new partnership between public institutions and local communities, creating new models of governance of the urban space based on solidarity, inclusion, participation, economy, and environmental sustainability.
This project aims to connect generative commons with the Public Administration in a network capable of promoting the exchange of good practices and legal solutions. The project will produce a series of guidelines and tools to support the authorities and generative commons and to achieve sustainable development through tools for citizen participation and community building.
The consortium is led by the University of Turin, together with the University of Barcelona, the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Open Lab Athens, Coom Community Land Trust Bruxelles, Spazi Indecisi, Patrizia Di Monte, and Eutropian, as well as several other organizations and institutions.