convivial city - presentation

Mon Share BambooArch. Ferdinando AdornoArchitetti Senza Frontiere Toscana

Convivial City, 24th September 2016Palazzo Mora, Venezia (Italy)

Mon Share Bamboois a social design initiative launched by Architetti Senza Frontiere Toscana to promote a sustainable, soft, socially inclusive urban mobility and a responsible tourism.

Mon Share Bamboois an open source, collaborative platform which gathers, organises and shares a knowledge about traditional and innovative bamboo craftsmanship and its potential applications for bikes.

www.cyclehack.com

Mon Share Bambooaims to develop the production and dissemination of low-cost bamboo bikes and analogue vehicles for people with mobility impairments.

design-for-impact-bamboocycles.blogspot.it

Statuto Train Station


The leading proponent of this initiative is COSPE, a non-profit organization operating in Italy and abroad on sustainable and fair development issues, which aims to realize in Florence together with the Italian Association for Responsible Tourism (AITR) a city hub for responsible tourism where to encourage the positive interaction between the tourist industry, local community and travelers.


ASF Toscana support this project providing technical consultancy for the building renovation and, together with a grassroots network of associations, promoting initiatives towards a sustainable, inclusive urban transition, in order to increase quality of life and foster self-sufficiency and resilience at the neighborhood scale.

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Benur Projet

The Benur Projet is an open source French patented handbike for persons with disabilities which avoids any transfer from their own wheelchair.Started from Joseph Mingozzi’s travel sharing initiative Mon Share Velo, it’s currently under development in partnership with the French Living Lab CERMEH (Centre de Resources & d’Innovation Mobilitè Handicap).

Benur Projet

The Benur Projet is a French patented handbike for persons with disabilities which avoids any transfer from their own wheelchair.Started from Joseph Mingozzi’s travel sharing initiative Mon Share Velo.

Benur Projet vs Mon Share Bamboo

ASF Toscana has established a partnership with Benur Projet to share the patent deposit and support the distribution in Italy.The hub at Statuto will host Against this background further developments of a bamboo made version of Benur will be investigated: Mon Share Bamboo begins...

Bamboo is a composite material made of two materials: lignin and vascular bundles.

The lignin is a fleshy material that insulates and contains the vascular bundles, which carry water and nutrients.

These bundles also become extremely stiff and strong after curing.

Bamboo Bike

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Bamboo bike

As a result of its dense and fibrous vascular bundles, bamboo is incredibly stiff. It is also excellent at damping high-frequency vibration because of the fleshy lignin. An extremely stiff material which absorbs harshness… sounds brilliant material for a bike frame!

ghanabamboobikes.org

bamboobicycleclub.org

Design and manufacturingIt’s extremely unlikely that individual companies can construct perfect processes in complete isolation.

Source: Sam Muirhead,Pecha Kucha Berlin


Complexity of relations within an ecosystem



None has the whole understanding of a single product!


Design and manufacturing“We need to look further afield, for outsider perspectives. We need collaboration and open standards.

We need transparency in manufacturing processes and material production.

We need products that can be understood, taken apart and repaired. We need to share knowledge of how resources flow throughout our system. And when good solutions are developed, we need to be able to use them, to build upon them, and to improve them, for the benefit of our planet and our society”.

oscedays.org

Open source

Not just a software concept or just to do with online and wiki, but:

→ a method of collaboration on shared projects

→ a way to share knowledge

The only way to empower is through collaboration. Only through collaboration we can work on projects and have impacts!

Open sourceOpen source means publishing how things are made.

This often occurs through decentralized and distributed collaboration: diverse groups discussing project ideas, giving feedback, fixing bugs, prototyping solutions and building useful, customisable software, hardware, tools and culture.

Open sourceOpen source hardware is hardware whose design is made publicly available so that anyone can study, modify, distribute, make, and sell the design or hardware based on that design. (...) Ideally, open source hardware uses readily-available materials, standard processes, open infrastructure, unrestricted content, and open-source design tools to maximise the ability of individuals to make and used hardware.

publiclyavailable modifiable decentralised

collaborativeready available open standard

logically controlled

open sourcetools

open infrastructure

Towards a new city modelleading-edge technologies

competitive advantage

innovation

ICT

SmartCity

The Fab City network

creativity

Towards a new city model


leading-edge technologies

competitive advantage

innovation

ICT

SmartCity

SmartCity

creativity

Towards a new city model


SmartCity

The Smart City concept (Nijkamp, 2009)

economy

lifestyle

population

governance

environment

mobility

Smart Cityvs

Sustainable City

The Smart CityThe Smart City concept has a prevailing technological factor which is inscribed in the competitive pressure of globalisation and drive to an entrepreneurial approach to urban politics.

The Smart CityThe focus on technology and ICT highlights the role of technological advance, leaving appropriate solutions in the background.

Appropriate technology

How to go beyond the existing paradigm of increasingly technological devices chasing more and more refined needs?

The concept of appropriate technologies could be recalled and combined to edge technologies.

technological choice

small scaleapplication decentralised

labor-intensiveenergy-efficientenvironmentally sound


Open Source vs Appropriate

technological choice

small scaleapplication decentralised

labor-intensiveenergy-efficientenvironmentally sound


publiclyavailable modifiable decentralised

collaborativeready available open standard


open sourcetools

open infrastructure


We should support the return, also in an innovative shape thanks to ICT, to past practices, activities, technological solutions more recently considered marginal or outdated (i.e. building construction, mobility - isn’t bicycle??!!! - preventive medicine, food, waste recovery, energy savings…).


It’s not about degrowth, it’s more about a new balance between innovation, its technological potential, revenue, environmental and social sustainability.

A balance where immaterial innovation could take place not only as a technological device, but also as new organisational forms, new models of citizen participation and activation of local resources, in the diffusion of new life styles, exchange and consumption inspired by sustainability.

Future City Scenario

Reflecting on the type of innovation is not separated from reflecting on the city concept.

There’s a worrying evolutionary trends of contemporary cities which consists in the fragmentation, specialisation and control of spaces and practices.


This trend has been conceptualised as “capsularisation” (De Cauter, 2004), or through the metaphor of “bubbles” (Sloterdijk, 2004, 2007; Frichot, 2009).


The risk is the creation of specialised bubbles, even for a social scope.

To avoid this process of city compartmentalisation, solutions need to be integrated into an hybrid and complex system, open to citizens participation and able to combine technological, organisational and social elements.

Grazie

Arch. Ferdinando AdornoArchitetti Senza Frontiere Toscana

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