VIC: Transfers of social innovation to public space

Abstract

VIC is an open platform that aims to reconsider and work on urban space as shared space for citizens in the city. It aims to serve as an incentive for the transfer of social innovation processes, generated by practices related to citizen initiatives, to the public space. The work process will be applied to possibilities for carrying out these initiatives along a specific study case. The goal is to foster consultation and participation processes that listen to and assist physician forms of organization and self organization, highlighting knowledge production and community experience in decision-making processes that configure the public sphere. A collaborative, open-source project orientated to promote, spread, analyze and support initiatives and critic processes in a proactive way throughout all the civic society layers, with special incidence in the transferences to the territory, the city and the public space.