IV Conference of Regional and Urban Planning International Conference of the Project Community Participation in Planning Participation in planning and public policy 23th/24th of February, 2017 http://www.ua.pt/conferenciapru

1. COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN PLANNING – PILOT PROJECT IN AVEIRO
VIVÓ BAIRRO
José Carlos Mota, Fernando Nogueira, Catarina Isidoro, Universidade de Aveiro
(em colaboração com Marina Vieira, Ana Pedro, Alice Júlio, Janaina Teles, Anais Creoulo, Lívia Gonçalves)

2. Community Participation in Planning
The project aims to:
• Develop a shared understanding of participation operating in
different planning systems across the partnering European
countries.
• Explore how communities of interest, place, practice, and learning
can be more meaningfully involved in planning processes e.g. Local
area planning and community or integrated public service planning.
• Co-design and test novel ways of empowering stakeholders to
shape local services and place-making functions, through the
learning on the project, in order to deliver better outcomes.
• Share ideas and exchange good practice and learning amongst the
range of participants involved in the project – and to share this
learning with others.
• Enhance the quality and relevance of the learning offered in higher
education modules by informing curriculum development and
innovative approaches on engagement in planning processes.
Community Participation in Planning (CPiP) is a two
year collaborative project exploring the concept,
application and teaching of participation in planning
activities.

3. PARTICIPATION – THE CONCEPT

5. EXPECTATIONS FRAMEWORK – A synthesis of
the vision about the " desired city"
VISION
que precisa de acção | Visão agregadora
COLLABORATIVE GOVERNANCE
que coordene e articule | resposta política mais
rápida | com voluntariado mais eficaz, mais
organizado e estruturado | rentabilização de
equipamentos (autocarros a gaz, por ex.) |
coordenação de eventos | com energia positiva
(orgulho na cidade) | partilhada | que comunica
(bem) | que envolve os jovens na construção da
cidade | participativa/ envolve a comunidade na
defesa do ambiente | que conhece os seus
recursos
IDENTITY AND UNIVERSALITY (CITY REGION)
Cidade região | criar a identidade e marca
(coerente) | cidade com alma | regresso ao centro
| cidade interna e externa | cidade do bem comum
URBANITY AND ATTRACTIVENESS
centro histórico mais cuidado | parques com mais vida |
valorize o passado e a cultura | com memória |
precisa de vida/gente | melhor recepção de visitantes
(turistas, visitantes atletas, jovens,…) | amiga do turista |
da ria | mais limpa (barcos com motores de combustão na
ria, autocarros turísticos poluentes) | do comércio de
utilidades | de oportunidades (emprego) | com bandeiras
(económicas, sociais,…) – TICE, Inovação, Bicicleta e
mobilidade | que requalifica as pessoas alinhadas com as
bandeiras | do empreendedorismo social
HUMAN SCALE CITY
Escala da pessoa/ A pessoa no centro | com espaço livre |
segura | mais calma | mobilidade mais sustentável |
fruída sem carro, a pé, de transporte colectiva e bicicleta
| que possibilite andar a pé | para todos | acessível (para
todos e em particular para os idosos) | mais espaço
público e melhor apropriado (o caso do Vivacidade e a
emoção do processo) | cidade dos peões, passeios e
árvores | de proximidade | de bairros, de diferenças, de
vizinhanças e de equilíbrios | com espaços de encontro
(nos bairros e nas freguesias)

6. PILOT PROJECT – AVEIRO CITY CENTER
Community involvement for
the construction of an urban
regeneration strategy for the
city center of Aveiro

7. CORDA is an association of shopkeepers
and residents that aims to give life to the
historic neighborhood
2. CORDA, THE LOCAL ORGANIZATION
Activity centered on the promotion of events
with increasing impact in the community but
with few permanent results in the
revitalization of the neighborhood

8. 3. VIVÓ BAIRRO, REVITALIZATION AND ANIMATION OF THE HISTORIC
NEIGHBORHOOD
VIVÓ BAIRRO an opportunity for the collaboration
between CORDA and the European project
COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN PLANNING (DCSPT-
UA)

9. VIVÓ BAIRRO is a challenge to bring more
life to the historical area of the city of
Aveiro, through
• Valuing local resources (memory and
memories, knowledge and experiences,
interesting buildings and spaces, people)
• Understanding the needs and the
collective dreams of the community
• Collaboratively construct a set of actions
that respond to the dreams and
resources, taking advantage of the
scientific, technological, artistic and civic
potential existing in the city and in the
university
Experimental Event – 4 and 5 of June 2016
3. VIVÓ BAIRRO, REVITALIZATION AND ANIMATION OF THE HISTORIC
NEIGHBORHOOD

10. RESOURCES DREAMS ACTIONS
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE METHOD - THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE SURVEY RESPONDENTS
3. VIVÓ BAIRRO, REVITALIZATION AND ANIMATION OF THE HISTORIC
NEIGHBORHOOD

11. COLLECTIVE DREAMS
IDENTITY / FEELING OF BELONGING
• Fortalecer o espírito de Bairro; Trazer vida permanente; Valorizar a
história e a identidade do Bairro; Fortalecer o espírito intergeracional;
NEW LIFE AND FUNCTIONS
• Trazer as novas gerações para morar no Bairro; Atrair crianças e jovens;
Regresso de funções públicas; Reposicionar o bairro como um local
atrativo para empreender e comprar; O bairro como laboratório e montra
de produtos e serviços inovadores (ciência, tecnologia, design,…);
Valorizar as tecnologias da cidade na promoção de atividades pelo
bairro;Um bairro que cultiva a música
COMFORT AND ATTRACTIVITY
• Tornar o bairro mais confortável (bancos e mobiliário urbano); As ruas
enfeitadas (flores, cobertura); Ligar o bairro histórico à cidade; Bairro
mais acessível (para todos e com mais TP); Bairro seguro (iluminado e
seguro); Um bairro mais sustentável (mais ecopontos);

12. RESOURCES
MEMORY AND MEMORIES
• Fotografias antigas
KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE
• Artes e ofícios tradicionais (retrosarias, alfaiates, costureiras,…); Artes
contemporâneas (Design, Ilustração, Livro,…); Doçaria conventual; Eventos
CORDA
INTERESTING BUILDINGS AND SPACES
• Teatro Aveirense, Museu de Aveiro, Igreja das Carmelitas, Misericórdia,
Bancos, Praças, Jardim do Museu, Edifícios desocupados, Azulejo, Cerâmica
artística, Montras e varandas
PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS
• Comunidades académicas (ESHC, Escola Glória), PSP, Recreio Artístico,
Atendimento dos comerciantes, Loja JLP (vídeo), Cantor de fado (…)
CITY PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS / LOCAL KNOWLEDGE
CMA, Universidade, Artistas e Escolas de música da cidade, Empresas TICE da
cidade, Associações culturais da cidade, Ilustradores de Aveiro, Conservatório de
Música, Banda Amizade, Grupos de Teatro

13. CALL FOR PROPOSALS
The reflection on RESOURCES / DREAMS
/ PROPOSALS OF ACTION constitutes
the specifications of the community for
the neighborhood
A call was launched to the presentation
of projects that respond to the wishes
and dreams / resources of the
community, to be developed in the
- public spaces
- built spaces whose shop owners or
want to mobilize for this event.
Responding to the following characteristics:
• Aligned with the specifications;
• Be made in articulation with the owners and
with the VIVO BAIRRO organization;
• Running Until 4/5 June
• Self-financing;
• Innovative
3. VIVÓ BAIRRO, REVITALIZATION AND ANIMATION OF THE HISTORIC
NEIGHBORHOOD

14. 3. VIVÓ BAIRRO, REVITALIZATION AND ANIMATION OF THE HISTORIC
NEIGHBORHOOD

15. 60 events,
150 animators
100 institutions
and companies
800 children
No budget,
only with good will!
3. VIVÓ BAIRRO, REVITALIZATION AND ANIMATION OF THE HISTORIC
NEIGHBORHOOD

16. The combination
of events took a
few thousand
people to the
historic
neighborhood
("it did not look
like Aveiro"),
4. VIVÓ BAIRRO - RESULTS

21. The community involvement
in the construction of the
project has increased the
sense of belonging in the
area and showed that it is
possible to "give life to the
neighborhood" even in a
framework of scarce
resources;
4. VIVÓ BAIRRO - RESULTS

27. Cooperative work between the
associations created the desire
to carry out new projects
(Bairro à Letra). However, there
was no evolution towards an
inter-associative organization
framework;
4. VIVÓ BAIRRO - RESULTS

30. The public
organizations felt
challenged (the
institutional
framework
evolved);
4. VIVÓ BAIRRO - RESULTS

31. There is a
willingness to
replicate the event
but there is some
civic and
associative wear;
4. VIVÓ BAIRRO - RESULTS

32. The benefits of the
project weren't felt
equally by everyone
4. VIVÓ BAIRRO - RESULTS

33. 1. People participate when they
are involved and when there is
a common goal;
2. Tactical interventions (urban
acupuncture) have the capacity
of transforming the urban
landscape;
3. Aveiro (and cities in general)
have (invisible) resources that
aren’t always valued;
4. The role of the local
administration is crucial to
support the change;
5. It is possible to give (more) life
to the neighborhood.
5. VIVÓ BAIRRO - LEARNINGS
Aveiro has an unlimited civic
energy. We need to know how to
take advantage of it!