| Criteria | Material (interview & research) | Coding reference | Strength |
| Co- governance | > workshop to brainstorm with all actors (similar to the cheap talking phase in Co-City protocol ?)
> They can work with Community Fundations, high school. > Temporary events they would organize foster collaboration between private, public, and civic groups. Their goal is Co-Governance > they managed to make families participating > MKBT is a company/NGO >They do training |
Collaborative governance: at least four actors of the quintuple helix are involved, but there is no relation of interdependence. Also, actions are at small scale. => Shift to Shared governance.
A3_1 Small scale and Shared governance (moderate)
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| Enabling State | > Actions they lead are impulsed by themselves : they observe a deprived space, think of different processes, then partner with local municipalities.
Local municipalities as Fagaras sometimes have a limited interest in these processes, they don’t want to give much time for engagement. > they do advocay a lot concerning informal housing (they definitely tackle urban poverty) > In Fagaras, MKBT convinced the municipality to form local action group against poverty, which would help for strategies of urban regeneration, help with finding funds… > get regional grants |
They definitely try to collaborate with State. However officials are not always willing to collaborate, MKBT manage to build partnership, influence policies.
B1 Co-design (weak). The enabling state is a state that uses co-design as a tool for decision making and planning and hires service designers or design thinkers; |
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| Poolism | > Participatory mapping
> collective use of underused spaces |
The project does not develop a SE, but corresponds to “4) involves a transfer of resources from the private or public actor to the collective group; 5) aimed at realizing the goals of the right to the city”
C2b “commoning economy” (strong) |
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| Experimentalism | > Participatory mapping of space that are underused. See : Blog – Încredere în Făgăraș (incredereinfagaras.ro) and http://mkbt.ro/en/portfolio/incredere-in-fagaras/
> They organized temporary events to get the community involved > they try to be recognised and fostered in the long term with protocol. + get inspiration from other protocols, especially the LabGov one. However, they are not that connected with other similar projects in Romania bc they are rare. > Their actions depend of each context, of each public actors’ dynamic > train people to different type of jobs linked to climate justice. |
The project would fit with : “D1. (moderate) The project adopts an innovative methodology for the provision of the service of public utility ; D2 adaptive (moderate) The project relies on a methodology or on a structure/process that is exportable and adaptable to different contexts”
It seems that connection at a regional/national/international level with similar projects is undergoing, so this features might, more than others, change in the future.
D1 [experimentalist] methodology & D2 adaptive (moderate) |
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| Tech Justice | > The mapping project is an advanced project concerning the use of technology.
> virtual museum > The interviewed hasn’t told about the website, really well developed.
> however, communities they are working with do not use technology that much, so it’s not the most relevant tool. > they do not use technology as a tool against urban poverty and do not form people about it, that’s why the interviewed seems mitigated. |
Eventhough MKBT fits with “E2c Self-organization of communities around those projects/initiatives” with the map, they do not work on Tech Justice.
E1 Tech Equality (weak).
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