As an association, its objective is to foster good practices in the field of participatory and cooperative housing. To do so, HousingLab promtes and organizes cultural activities like festivals, exhibitions, seminars, etc on the theme of cooperative and social housing; it promotes and contributes in setting up training programs for privates but also for schools and universities; create a network of national and international experts in order to share and exchange ideas; and publish articles, books, and video on cooperative and social housing.

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/pg/HousingLab-124189447690336/about/?ref=page_internal

Contact : info@housinglab.it

Fundamental to their project is their autonomy. Base Gaia did not make use of any intermediaries and looked for the land, as well as designed the project by themselves.

On the 6th of February 2015 they founded the Base Gaia Società Cooperativa Edilizia in order to purchase the land and start building. The co-designed project has been approved by the City of Milan in December 2016.

The house will develop on 5 floors. Every family will have 100 sq m for their apartment and 200 sq m of shared spaces like an auditorium, a polyfunctional space (cinema-theatre), a game room, a library with a co-working space, a garden and a solarium terrace.

“La casa comune di 10 famiglie «Il nostro sogno diventa realtà»” Corriere della Sera http://milano.corriere.it/notizie/cronaca/17_gennaio_06/casa-comune-10-famiglie-7bcccee6-d3b9-11e6-9dc7-b8de3918521a.shtml?refresh_ce-cp

Contact : cohousing.basegaia@gmail.com

The restaurant provides you with a dining room with more than 40 seats and everything you need to set the table; a small bar area for the happy hour and a professional kitchen. QKing is not only a location but it can help you organize your dinner by pairing you with a professional chef or doing groceries for you.

Contact : qking@corestaurant.it

Macao also works with a completely horizontal governance model, refusing to adopt any hierarchic structure and fostering participatory organizational principles.

Contact : organizzazione.macao@gmail.com

The core approach adopted was the Sustainable Operation and Maintenance Project (SOMAP) O&M mechanism and model which were developed and tested in two phases of the Rural Water Supply (SOMAP1 and SOMAP2) implemented by the Ministry of Local Government and Housing with the technical cooperation by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) (GRZ and JICA, 2013). Amongst the many objectives that guided the reform process in Zambia, two of these were of direct bearing on strengthening community-based management, namely: promoting community management and integration of hygiene education in rural WSS; development of human resource capacity by promoting training in all institutions and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Education (WASHE) training in rural areas (NWASCO, 2004). D

In line with the goal of the National Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Programme of providing sustainable access to water supply and sanitation in rural areas so as to contribute towards poverty alleviation of Zambia’s rural population (GRZ, 2007), interventions in WSS were supported in 15 district of Luapula, Muchinga and Northern provinces as well as Central Province.

Contact : Info@MWDSEP.gov.zm