Using a human-centered approach we develop solutions to improve the quality of life in cities and protect the environment. Through counseling and partnerships with local communities, public administrations and organizations PUSH uses service design methodologies in order to fosters innovative solutions in order for cities to work more efficiently, to be more just and more sustainable.

Their activity is centered on three fields: Applied Research, Design consulting, acceleration of ideas. PUSH also partners with World Urban Campaign, UN Global Compact and Code for Europe, and organized an Urban Thinkers Campus in Palermo to discuss the future of the city through the framework of the New Urban Agenda.

Right to the Future http://utc.wepush.org/

Contact : info@wepush.org

The Community Land Trust, a nonprofit where a group of people own and manage land, will help to empower residents of Mott Haven and Port Morris to have a say in the use of the neighborhoods’ underutilized space.

If the organization has already formed the Community Land Trust, it has yet to acquire any properties—however, it has its eyes on two city-owned vacant sites. Under the CLT, development on sites it owns would have to be led or approved by members of the trust.

Finally, the Mott Haven-Port Morris Community Land Trust has sought to put pressure on real-estate interests entering the neighborhood (including Somerset Partners, Carnegie Management, and Savanna) with their Statement of Principles for Private Development. The statement addresses eight points: jobs, housing, environmental justice, community art, community cohesiveness, local economic development, health equity, and public-private projects. It notably calls on private developers to support the Waterfront Plan, a community-designed plan to provide public green space and waterfront access to Bronx residents.

Raven Rakia, “Who Benefits from Public Land in the Bronx?” Dissent Magazine, 2016

Contact : info@southbronxunite.org

But the author draws an interesting conclusion: commoning as a way of bringing the multitudes together, as diverse as they may be.

“As with the ritual, cultural, and political commons, and the temporal commons that are the site for informal sector workers, symbolic public goods as commons bring together rich and poor, the powerful and those seeking empowerment, into shared strategies of commoning the city. “

Contact : dp@hss.iitb.ac.in

The Accorderie model is established on the principle of mutual cooperation and service exchange within neighborhood communities without using financial means. Concretely, this means that a member can dedicate an hour to the accorderie by completing a service (ie. english lessons, fixing computers, gardening), getting as a consequence an hour of credit that he can use by benefiting from a service done by another member.

Contact : montpellier@accorderie.fr

In order to bring together the community and involve it in the process of urban regeneration of the area owned by the Attilio and Teresa Cassoni Foundation, the inhabitants have been called to participate in the co-designing process. Thus, they have contributed to design the area that had been closed off for many years thanks to a series of meetings, public events and celebrations.

The Project envisaged initiatives of personal support (targeted to the elderly, children, disabled people, immigrants etc.), social housing (82 units with 4 levels of rent depending on need), commercial activities, a public park, and a social housing building for retirees, students, hostelers, and disadvantaged individuals.

Contact : segreteria@fondazionecassoni.org and gianluca.nardone@fondazionecassoni.org