Participatory approach for a sharing city: understanding citizens’ perceptions in a neighbourhood of Milan

Journal title TERRITORIO
Author/s Giuseppe Salvia, Marco Boffi, Barbara Ester Adele Piga, Nicola Rainisio, Andrea Arcidiacono, Eugenio Morello
Publishing Year 2022 Issue 2021/99
Language English Pages 15 P. 164-178 File size 2044 KB
DOI 10.3280/TR2021-099021
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Sharing cities may limit negative impacts of global urbanisation by connecting more users with distributed assets. Nevertheless, several scholars raised concerns of unintended consequences. With technology at the core of such strategies, marginal is the attention to citizen engagement and perceptions by people in their context. The authors aim to contribute with participatory methods and tools for capturing people’s feelings and habits about sharing. This paper presents the insights of a workshop held in 2017 with 18 residents of the Milan’s neighbourhood of Porta Romana-Vettabbia to identify how sharing is or may be embedded in practice. Negotiation of trust, logistical convenience and monetary saving dramatically resulted to intervene in the integration or consideration of sharing.

Keywords: sharing economy; participatory design; citizen engagement

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Giuseppe Salvia, Marco Boffi, Barbara Ester Adele Piga, Nicola Rainisio, Andrea Arcidiacono, Eugenio Morello, Participatory approach for a sharing city: understanding citizens’ perceptions in a neighbourhood of Milan in "TERRITORIO" 99/2021, pp 164-178, DOI: 10.3280/TR2021-099021