Assignment: Strategic consultancy for the enhancement of the “Centro Servizi Giovanni XXIII” complex, current headquarters of ASP Città di Bologna, with the aim of opening the spaces to the public, prototyping hybrid models of management and allocation of the spaces and improving property management performance, including from an economic and financial perspective.
Activities:
Economic and functional feasibility study
National and international benchmarking
Identification of 3 strategic scenarios for the reactivation of the spaces
Phasing of interventions
Business modeling
Proposals for governance and participatory management
Development and implementation of the data campaign “Climate Justice is Gender Justice”, promoted by Oxfam Italy, aimed at raising awareness of the intersectional link between the climate crisis and gender inequalities.
Development and implementation of the data campaign “Climate Justice is Gender Justice”, promoted by Oxfam Italy, aimed at raising awareness of the intersectional link between the climate crisis and gender inequalities.
Activities: -> Multimedia communication strategy -> Creative Concept of the Campaign -> Content creation in collaboration with climate reporter Ferdinando Cotugno -> Brand identity, visual system and coordinated image -> Social media strategy and management -> Online European webinar -> Public event with activists, public authorities and experts -> Organisation of buses for the national demonstration
Development and implementation of the data campaign “Climate Justice is Gender Justice”, promoted by Oxfam Italy, aimed at raising awareness of the intersectional link between the climate crisis and gender inequalities.
Development and implementation of the data campaign “Climate Justice is Gender Justice”, promoted by Oxfam Italy, aimed at raising awareness of the intersectional link between the climate crisis and gender inequalities.
Activities: -> Multimedia communication strategy -> Creative Concept of the Campaign -> Content creation in collaboration with climate reporter Ferdinando Cotugno -> Brand identity, visual system and coordinated image -> Social media strategy and management -> Online European webinar -> Public event with activists, public authorities and experts -> Organisation of buses for the national demonstration
Assignment: Specialist support to phase two of the “Fuori dal Comune” project: analysis, stakeholder engagement and co-design on 2–6 refurbished municipal properties; training on the job and guidelines to strengthen internal capacities of the Public Administration in the management and assignment of public assets.
ACTIVITIES
Analysis of territorial supply/demand and proximity needs
Stakeholder mapping and engagement (third-sector bodies, companies, civic networks, universities/schools, districts, municipal offices)
Open days / site visits and listening and co-design workshops
Facilitation of public meetings, transparent feedback and communication support
Training on the job for public officers
Application scenarios for the use/management of the properties and regulatory support
ASSIGNMENT: Design and coordination of a participatory listening, co-design and communication process – as part of and in support of the “Piazza dei Popoli 2025” festival – aimed at building a more cohesive and aware community and generating shared cultural initiatives.
Activities:
Design of participatory strategy and methodology
Preliminary mapping of local needs, actors and resources
Preliminary mapping of local needs, actors and resources
Brand identity and communication strategy aimed at engagement
ASSIGNMENT: Management and implementation of participation, consultation and co-design activities supporting the design of the “Community Hub of the former municipal bakery”, aimed at identifying partners, functional layout and contents of the future hub, as well as defining experimental scenarios for use, governance and sustainability, with the direct involvement of third-sector organisations and citizens.
Activities:
Stakeholder mapping and territorial listening; overview of the local ecosystem
Structured participation and co-design process and public moments aimed at integrating the physical project with community needs
Experimentation with temporary uses and prototypes to test operational scenarios and modes of use
Modelling of management and governance scenarios: definition of partnership and sustainability options for the future hub
Development of a first temporary narrative and visual identity for the Former Bread Bakery and communication tools for the process
Assignment: Strategic consultancy and methodological support for the analysis of potential intervention scenarios and for defining the role of the bank in civic and social regeneration processes – specifically in the “La Bella Piazza” project in Naples and in relation to the possible activation of the bank’s own spaces in Southern Italy.
Activities:
Qualitative research on the solidarity ecosystem and the dynamics of the “La Bella Piazza” project
Engagement and facilitation of local and institutional stakeholders through focus groups and targeted interviews
Context analysis of the Piazza Garibaldi area to support the strategic orientation of interventions
Design of potential uses for bank-owned spaces/assets for civic infrastructure and services
Benchmarking and comparative analysis of national and international good practices in social regeneration, including governance models and community-support tools
Final strategic document: “La Banca nei luoghi” (The Bank in Local Places)
Assignment: A real laboratory of urban experimentation that connects ideas, people, and unused spaces to generate new economic, social, and cultural opportunities. A social brokerage service, an engagement and involvement process, and a physical communication and information space where ideas seeking a home can be matched with opportunities. Developed in collaboration with Codesign Toscana.
Activities:
Set-up of a dedicated space in a vacant shop and production of narrative and graphic tools to communicate the project and enable participation
Design and facilitation of active listening activities
Participatory mapping of vacant premises and structured collection of needs, dreams, ideas and availability from the community
In a Europe increasingly exposed to extreme climate events, strengthening regional adaptation policies is not only an environmental priority but also a matter of social justice and territorial cohesion.
For this reason, the European EURADAPT project (Interreg Europe) involves eight European regions with the aim of improving the implementation of local and regional policies by increasing climate-change adaptation capacity through mutual learning and the exchange of good practices.
EURADAPT promotes local, inclusive and equitable strategies across four key areas: land use and food systems, sustainable water management, the protection of critical infrastructure, and participatory governance.
Through the shared experience of more advanced regions and those that are more vulnerable, EURADAPT supports the development of solutions tailored to the climatic and economic specificities of each territory.
LAMA supports the project by facilitating the exchange of knowledge among the partners and by coordinating communication, to make results and tools accessible, reusable and scalable. A role that reflects our vision: connecting social innovation, local development and adaptation strategies to address the climate crisis in a systemic way.
The EPIC project (Experience Prato Industrial Culture), funded at 80% by the European Urban Initiative through the European Regional Development Fund, aims to develop a new form of industrial tourism in the city of Prato—innovative, competitive, and sustainable—while enhancing the local industrial heritage as a means to foster fair and productive growth.
The aim is to integrate the local industrial heritage into the city’s current offer of cultural and natural attractions for visitors, by conveying and making accessible a previously unknown cultural richness rooted in Prato’s industrial history and in contemporary practices in design, fashion, and textile production.
In collaboration with stakeholders in the sector (hotels, restaurants, site managers, tour guides, etc.), economic actors (particularly SMEs in the local Textile & Clothing industry), and civil society, the project will co-design new products that will broaden the city’s tourism offer.
LAMA is responsible for managing and coordinating the engagement and co-design process in support of the Municipality of Prato. It also contributes to the development of the DMO (Destination Management Organisation) led by the Municipality, to the definition of the monitoring and evaluation system, and to the development and testing of new tourism products and services centred on the local textile industry, with the aim of promoting a sustainable and inclusive tourism strategy for Prato.
CREAConnect is a three-year initiative funded by the Creative Europe Programme, bringing together organisations from France, Belgium, Italy, Spain, and Serbia to address shared challenges in the artistic and creative sectors. The aim is to transform third places into incubators of ideas, contributing to the European innovation ecosystem and stimulating reflection on global social and environmental issues. Through a collaborative and transnational approach, CREAConnect seeks to strengthen cooperation, promote sustainability, and foster inclusion.
The project is structured around three main actions:
A training and skills development pathway designed to encourage collaboration and innovation among participants;
Hackathon tematici: five international events where multidisciplinary teams tackle urgent challenges with the support of European mentors and experts;
Promotion and capitalisation: a dissemination strategy designed to showcase the results and ensure their long-lasting impact.
LAMA brings to the project its experience in community engagement and social innovation, contributing to skills development and knowledge exchange among the partners. It will provide expertise on cooperative platforms and professional skills, as well as design, implement, and evaluate the mentorship programme. It will play a leading role in the inaugural hackathon in Florence, dedicated to the theme “Third Places Redefining Cities – Visualising Data-Driven Tourism Transformation”, exploring the role of data in rethinking urban tourism through third places. It will also play a key role in communication and in showcasing the results, and will host the final event in Florence, creating an opportunity for international exchange and future development for the project.
Intesa Sanpaolocommissioned a project to measure the social impact of several major Italian museum institutions: Fondazione Brescia Musei, Gallerie d’Italia, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea e Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte. The project, launched through a call promoted by the association Social Value Italia, aims to assess the benefits generated by museum activities, focusing on key themes such as social inclusion, well-being, and territorial development.
LAMA, together with ALTIS Advisory, is responsible for developing and implementing the evaluation. The work focuses on mapping social and economic impacts through an indicator-based framework, providing concrete data to support resource management, highlight achieved results, and improve museum strategies. The approach adopted actively involves stakeholders – including museum representatives, visitors, and local communities – to ensure a thorough and shared evaluation.
The aim of the project is, on the one hand, to provide cultural institutions with a structured and replicable measurement tool; and on the other, to highlight the positive changesgenerated by the museum experience.
Montagna Fiorentina is the cultural and social regeneration strategy for the municipalities of Londa and San Godenzo, coordinated by LAMA. It aims to transform these areas into examples of ecosystemic communities, enhancing their cultural and natural heritage to improve the quality of life and promote sustainable tourism. The core idea is to trigger a process that fosters social innovation, counters depopulation, and strengthens the economic and social fabric, using art, culture, and nature as drivers of change.
The main objectives include increasing residential and tourist attractiveness, improving the area’s cultural and physical accessibility, stimulating youth and female entrepreneurship, and strengthening residents’ well-being and social cohesion.
The strategy includes 12 interventions: three physical ones (such as the renovation of public buildings including the Chalet del Lago in Londa and the historic Palazzo Del Campana in San Godenzo) and nine intangible ones (including placemaking initiatives, cultural production, and community engagement). The synergy between material and immaterial interventions aims to create liveable, welcoming places and new services, strengthening the network between citizens, businesses, and institutions to ensure a lasting and sustainable impact.
The new 2021-2027 ESF+ calls for tenders by the Region of Tuscany in the cultural sphere aim to support projects for the acquisition of skills for the adult population, professional growth and accompaniment for young people living in Tuscany towards stable and quality jobs, with an unprecedented investment.
LAMA, for the two-year period 2023 – 2025, supports the ‘Beni, Istituzioni, Attività Culturali e Sport’ Directorate of the Region of Tuscany with animation, orientation and information actions on the new Fse+ 2021-2027 calls for tenders concerning museums, libraries, contemporary art and live performances.
Specifically, LAMA is in charge of supporting potential beneficiaries of the calls for proposals by working on strengthening the partnership levels and skills of those involved in the planning and implementation of project ideas, and it does so through a diversified programme of activities that includes online webinars to support and accompany beneficiaries, online and in-person information events, production of materials, targeted animation of institutional communication channels, and activation of additional support and interaction tools open to the public.
IMPETUS (IMproving local PoliciEs on Temporary UseS) is an Interreg Europe funded project with the objective of improving local policies by incorporating temporary uses for abandoned or underused spaces into sustainable urban development strategies. Its approach is based on the identification and exchange of knowledge and good practices between local and regional authorities and development agencies that are part of the partnership, in order to improve the policies identified by each of them.
LAMA brings to the project the experience developed in the field of urban policies concerning temporary uses in urban regeneration, advising the other partners, defining the methodology and supervising the analysis and transfer of good practices, with a particularly active role during the Interregional Policy Brokerage (IPB) workshops. It also leads and coordinates the project’s communication activities, taking care of the communication channels (website, social networks, newsletter) and disseminating results and good practices.
HEIsCITI (Higher Education Institutions as Innovative Triggers of Sustainable Development in European Cities in Post Covid-19 era) is an Erasmus+ project that focuses on the creation of universal curricula for all types of university courses in order to teach students the best ways to animate and coordinate communication between citizens and local authorities for inclusive and sustainable urban development.
LAMA participates in the project as an expert in citizen participation in urban regeneration processes. LAMA will develop tools and guidelines for participatory approaches, gathered in a methodology for collaboration between citizens and local authorities.
Budget: €400.000
Duration: 36 months
Role: Partner
Partners:
Applicant: Akademia WSB (WSB University – POLAND) Other partner organisations: 1) Stuttgart Media University (GERMANY) 2) MYKOLO ROMERIO UNIVERSITETAS (Lithuania) 3)The University of Danang (VIETNAM) 4)CEKOM – SMART RI d.o.o. (CROATIA) 5)Zamek Cieszyn (POLAND) 6)Stuttgart Region (Germany) 7)Joniskis District Municipality (LITHUANIA)
EUREKA (European Urban REgenerators Knowledge Alliance) is an Erasmus+ project which aims to train new professional figures (urban regenerators) for the urban regeneration of the future, based on investment in knowledge and culture with a strong social impact. Led by the Iuav University of Venice, it involves in partnership 4 European universities and 11 actors from 9 different countries, including LAMA.
LAMA is in charge of the on-going monitoring of results and impact assessment (at micro, meso and macro levels) of the project in its entirety.
With a budget of 8.5 M€, co-funded by the European Commission on the Horizon 2020 program, T-Factor includes 25 partners from 11 European countries plus two from China and the US. Focusing on the time between approval of an urban regeneration master plan and site completion, T-Factor demonstrates how temporary uses of spaces can be extraordinary opportunities for cultural, social and economic activation, making regeneration more effective, resilient and sustainable.
LAMA, in collaboration with I-Propeller/KPMG, is in charge of the impact evaluation of the project, taking care of both the measurement of outcomes at the local level in the 6 pilot cities and the evaluation of the effectiveness and impact of theT-Factor’s “city mentoring” model, in terms of enhancing the pilots and local alliancesactivated. Finally, LAMA assesses the transnational impact of the project, in terms of the knowledge and exchange networks generated around sustainable regeneration issues.
LAMA carried out the context analysis for the urban regeneration initiative led by Kervis SGR in the Bicocca district of Milan.
The study was carried out through desk research and included a socio-economic analysis, identification of key stakeholders, and an assessment of the local property market (prices, benchmarks, and trends) in order to identify the key elements for the most effective territorial integration of the initiative, as well as the potential ESG practices to be activated before, during, and after the property development. The study served as a preliminary action aimed at optimising the positioning and refinement of the intervention concept.
+ CASCINE is a choral contribution of civic imagination on Florence’s Cascine Park, created to promote its identity as a cultural institution and common good.
It was a path of research, stakeholder engagement and communication, promoted by Manifattura Tabacchi and LAMA, with the aim of bring the issue of governance, protection, enhancement and livability of Florence’s largest green lung back to the city’s attention. Beginning with desk research on key features of the Park’s history and heritage, LAMA conducted in-depth interviews with experts, park business operators, cultural institutions and public administration referents, which produced a collective imagination document, an augmented map of the Park and a call for projects intended to create a public digital archive of the many studies and projects insisting on the Park from various disciplinary perspectives.
LAMA was commissioned by the social enterprise Con i Bambini to carry out a meta-analysis of programmes aimed at tackling educational poverty in Italy (2016–2018).
The analysis focused on approximately 214 million euros in grants awarded through three national calls. LAMA examined the related Theory of Change and mapped the funded projects, analysing their partnerships, objectives, and the innovative practices implemented.
LAMA also conducted a participatory evaluation of the results achieved by the projects, using questionnaires addressed to lead organisations, partner schools, and internal evaluators. The final outcome of the meta-analysis consists of a set of policy recommendations addressed to policymakers and stakeholders working on child educational poverty in Italy, who were also involved throughout the process through dedicated interviews and workshops.
The Florence Osservatorio dei Mestieri d’Arte (OMA), together with the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze, commissioned LAMA to carry out a feasibility study to check the condition of the artistic craftsmanship enterprises in the Florentine area, useful for the definition of a model to support the (re)establishment of these enterprises in the Historic Centre of Florence, with the dual objective of supporting the sector and providing an opportunity to relaunch the city.
The study was carried out through the analysis of regulations and context data concerning the Florentine artistic handcraft sector, a questionnaire to the companies of the OMA network, interviews to local stakeholders, a desk research of European best practices on resettlement projects. Possible scenarios were then drawn up, with relative risks and opportunities, for models to support artistic craftwork, favouring its settlement in the historic centre.
Firenze dall’Alto is a three-year strategic project financed by the City of Florence’s Estate Fiorentina, conceived by LAMA and realised in collaboration with the Coop. Archeologia and the association La Scena Muta. The Festival, held in the summer evenings at sunset, intends to promote cultural enjoyment from unseen and normally inaccessible places in the city: roofs and terraces, public or private, from which to assume a different and elevated point of view. The innovative character of the project consists in exploiting the full transformative potential of places to increase the scope of artistic performances and the spectator’s experience, inviting them to a wider enjoyment and reflection on the urban environment that surrounds them, enriched also by the stratigraphic reading of the city.
Many Possible Cities is the Festival on urban regeneration born from the collaboration between Manifattura Tabacchi and LAMA that aims to create a temporal and physical space for multidisciplinary confrontation on urban regeneration. Based on the contamination between short and long networks, the festival focuses on the studies, experiences, opportunities and contradictions that characterise urban development, with a multi-voice and multi-point of view discussion, for an audience of public administrators, professionals, academics, third sector, practitioners and citizens.
+CASCINE is a collective contribution of civic imagination on Parco delle Cascine in Florence, born to promote its identity as a cultural institution and common good
It was a path of research, stakeholder engagement and communication, promoted by Manifattura Tabacchi and LAMA, with the aim of bringing to the city’s attention the issue of governance, protection, enhancement and liveability of Florence’s largest green lung.
The process has produced a document of collective imagination, an augmented map of the park and a call for projects intended to create a public digital archive of the numerous studies and projects on the park from various disciplinary points of view.
manifatturatabacchi.com/piu-cascine/
InCUBE is a Horizon Europe project that involves a wide network of partners from the construction, energy efficiency, and urban regeneration sectors.
In line with the sustainability goals promoted by the Green Deal and the New European Bauhaus, it supports the implementation of refurbishment interventions on 3 European city buildings (Zaragoza, Groningen, and Trento) with different end-uses, introducing and testing the integration of new technologies and processes in an innovative way for the sector. LAMA participates in the project as a social impact expert. Its role is to foster inclusive processes that involve the involved workers and the final users of the buildings. hrough a continuous cycle of pre-assessment, support, and evaluation of the three pilots, LAMA helps the different sites and their stakeholders to implement inclusive approaches and to assess the results achieved.
Applicant: ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS [CERTH] GR Other partner organisations: 1) Intelligent Solutions for Zero and Positive Energy Buildings [IsZEB] GR 2) KENTYOU [KENT] FR 3) Institut de Tecnologia de la Construccion de Catalunya [ITeC] ES 4) Federatie van Verenigingen voor Verwarming en Luchtbehandeling in Europa [REHVA] BE 5) COMUNE DI TRENTO [TRE] IT 6) Fondazione Bruno Kessler [FBK] IT 7) RINA Consulting S.p.A. [RINA-C] IT 8) K-Flex Polska sp. z o.o. [K-FLEX] PO 9) TEGOLA CANADESE SRL [TEGOLA] IT 10) Tera Società a Responsabilità Limitata [TERA] IT 11) Evolvere SpA Società Benefit [EVOLVERE] IT 12) Eneren S.r.l. [ENEREN] IT 13) Sociedad Municipal Zaragoza Vivienda S.L.U [ZAVI] ES 14) FUNDACION CIRCE CENTRO DE INVESTIGACION DE RECURSOS Y CONSUMOS ENERGETICOS [CIRCE] ES 15) METRO7 EDIFICACION SINGULAR Y CONSTRUCCION SOSTENIBLE, S.L. [METRO7] ES 16) ABORA ENERGY, S.L. [ABORA] ES 17) Kover Siglo XXI, S.L. [KOVER] ES 18) EDP SOLAR ESPAÑA SA [EDPS] ES 19) Van Wijnen Groningen B.V. [VW] NL 20) Stichting Lefier [LEFIER] NL 21) STICHTING NEW ENERGY COALITION [NEC] NL 22) WEBO B.V. [WEBO] NL
Future DiverCities is a European project funded by the Creative Europe programme, designed according to a model of slow prototyping in ‘urban voids’, which aims to develop new cultural and ecological interventions. Pilot projects will take place simultaneously in 9 European cities: Berlin, Zagreb, Split, Liepaja, Kuopio, Marseille, Florence, Timișoara and Athens. The expected impact of Future DiverCities is to change the approach to cultural regeneration by emphasising the need to create value in urban voids through cultural practices and long and continuous processes of presence and animation, using relational devices and the role of the artist as a key actor for social and civic change.
Budget: €3.323.720,0
Duration: 48 months
Role: Partner
Partners:
Applicant: La Friche La Belle de Mai (FR)
Other partner organisations:
1) ANTI (FI)
2) Public Art Lab (DE)
3) KONTJENER, bureau of contemporary art praxis (HR)
4) Seconde Nature (FR) 5) PLAI (RO)
6) Bios Exploring Urban Culture (GR)
7) Liepaja Culture Department (LV)
8) ECHN (GR)
9) Ashoka (PL)
10) Waag (NL)
11) Savonia University (FI)
E-Lab (Empowerment Lab) is a corporate volunteering programme that combines the organisation of a structured process typical of acceleration and incubation paths with the customised quality of temporary management and sparring partnership processes. Co-designed with Fondazione Snam, it was created with the aim of pursuing objectives concerning both the corporate context and the network of Third Sector organisations involved, strengthening their managerial and organisational capacity.
“Borgo Prossima | Spazi ai giovani” is a path of co-design of new spaces and services led and managed by young people under 35 in the municipality of Borgo San Lorenzo. Starting from a mapping of disused spaces on the municipal territory, the pathway provided intensive training and co-design sessions to activate young people on new projects, with the aim of revitalising abandoned spaces, improving the design skills of the young people involved for the realisation of collaborative economy services and social and cultural promotion activities.
The entire process was designed and managed by LAMA, in the aspects of mapping, process design, training, mentoring and engagement and communication strategy.
“BORGO PROSSIMA | Partecipa al Piano” is the participation path of the Municipality of Borgo San Lorenzo to involve the citizenship in the writing of the new Municipal Operational Plan (POC). The entire path was articulated in various sharing actions, internal and external to the Administration, and in listening and comparison activities, digital and in presence, representing an opportunity to redefine the territory and its vocations. An extensive online survey was also carried out through a CAWI modality, with the objective of identifying new needs, collecting proposals and thus realigning the priorities of the public administration with those of the community, for effective participatory urban planning.
The entire process was designed and managed by LAMA, in the aspects of research, method, facilitation and engagement and communication strategy.
Communication is an increasingly pressing need for the cooperative system. LAMA has supported one of Tuscany’s largest cooperatives in defining and implementing a corporate communication strategy and strengthening internal communication tools for greater involvement of the social base.
Communication is an increasingly pressing need for the cooperative system. LAMA has supported one of Tuscany’s largest cooperatives in defining and implementing a corporate communication strategy and strengthening internal communication tools for greater involvement of the social base.
Many Possible Cities is the Festival on urban regeneration born from the collaboration between Manifattura Tabacchi and LAMA, which aims to create a temporal and physical space for multidisciplinary discussion on urban regeneration.
Many Possible Cities is the Festival on urban regeneration born from the collaboration between Manifattura Tabacchi and LAMA, which aims to create a temporal and physical space for multidisciplinary discussion on urban regeneration.
Based on the contamination between short and long networks, the festival focuses on the studies, experiences, opportunities and contradictions that define urban development, with a multi-voice and multi-viewpoint discussion for an audience of public administrators, professionals, academics, the third sector, practitioners and citizens.
LAMA takes care of the content and guest schedule, brand identity and web communication.
Many Possible Cities is the Festival on urban regeneration born from the collaboration between Manifattura Tabacchi and LAMA, which aims to create a temporal and physical space for multidisciplinary discussion on urban regeneration.
Many Possible Cities is the Festival on urban regeneration born from the collaboration between Manifattura Tabacchi and LAMA, which aims to create a temporal and physical space for multidisciplinary discussion on urban regeneration.
Based on the contamination between short and long networks, the festival focuses on the studies, experiences, opportunities and contradictions that define urban development, with a multi-voice and multi-viewpoint discussion for an audience of public administrators, professionals, academics, the third sector, practitioners and citizens.
LAMA takes care of the content and guest schedule, brand identity and web communication.
How to use a publishing product to better position your organisation? In 2020, LAMA, at the dawn of the first pandemic lockdown, put together its cross-disciplinary expertise in an instant book ‘Before Tomorrow’, which gathers insights, conversations and proposals on the resilience of organisations and systems in the time of Covid-19, dealing with the entire production chain, from conception to content to print.
How to use a publishing product to better position your organisation? In 2020, LAMA, at the dawn of the first pandemic lockdown, put together its cross-disciplinary expertise in an instant book ‘Before Tomorrow’, which gathers insights, conversations and proposals on the resilience of organisations and systems in the time of Covid-19, dealing with the entire production chain, from conception to content to print.
“La città delle donne” (The city of women) is the title of an event organised by LAMA and the Florence City Council’s urban planning department, as an initiative to disseminate the principles of gender applied to urban planning.
LAMA took care of the naming, the brand identity, and a cross-media online and offline mini-campaign, with the physical and symbolic use of stickers that ‘applied’ the gender perspective to the places in the city.
“La città delle donne” (The city of women) is the title of an event organised by LAMA and the Florence City Council’s urban planning department, as an initiative to disseminate the principles of gender applied to urban planning.
LAMA took care of the naming, the brand identity, and a cross-media online and offline mini-campaign, with the physical and symbolic use of stickers that ‘applied’ the gender perspective to the places in the city.
Since 2017, LAMA has been in charge of the temporary activities, cultural programming and communication of Manifattura Tabacchi Firenze, supporting the urban regeneration process.
Since 2017, LAMA has been in charge of the temporary activities, cultural programming and communication of Manifattura Tabacchi Firenze, supporting the urban regeneration process.
Since 2017, LAMA has been in charge of the temporary activities, cultural programming and communication of Manifattura Tabacchi Firenze, supporting the urban regeneration process.
Since 2017, LAMA has been in charge of the temporary activities, cultural programming and communication of Manifattura Tabacchi Firenze, supporting the urban regeneration process.
The project, selected as one of the winners of the SubMeasure 19.2 “Community Regeneration Projects” of the GAL Start call, intends to valorise the eco-systemic services of the forest in order to relaunch local economies, generate sustainable development and improve community living conditions, promoting a new service that integrates Forest Therapy with other experiences of mountain wellness, slow tourism and food and wine, in the municipalities of Londa, San Godenzo and Reggello. The project leader is the Associazione Foresta Modello delle Montagne Fiorentine. In addition to LAMA, which takes care of service design and communication, the following are direct partners: Unione dei Comuni Valdisieve e Valdarno, CNR – Institute for Bioeconomics, Marchesi Frescobaldi Az. Agr., C.A.T. Cooperativa Sociale, Geco Impresa Sociale, Associazione Ecotondo, A. Agr. Lorenzo Gori.
PLACE OUT! European Dialogue-Building for increasing youth protagonism in non-urban areas, is an Erasmus+ project which aims to activate the dialogue between young people and institutions through capacity building, in order to increase the implementation of youth policies for the sustainable regeneration of non-urban areas in the EU. It acts in parallel in four areas: the province of Badajoz, in Extremadura (ESP), the area of Chalkidiki, in the province of Thessaloniki (GR), the Mugello valley, in the Tuscany Region (IT) and the province of Gabrovo, in the Gabrovo Region (BU). LAMA manages the coordination of the partnership – composed of youth organisations, local institutions and transnational organisations – guaranteeing the quality of the implementation of the activities on the territories and the dialogue at transnational level. It is also responsible for monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of project activities.
Budget: €499.593,0
Duration: 24 months
Role: Coordinator
Partners:
Applicant: LAMA SOCIETA COOPERATIVA – IMPRESA SOCIALE (IT)
Other partner organisations:
1) Wazo Sociedad Cooperativa (ES)
2) ACTIONAID HELLAS ASTIKI MI KERDOSKOPIKI ETAIRIA (EL)
3) Ecosystem Europe Association (BG)
4) ASSOCIAZIONE DI PROMOZIONE SOCIALE BEE.COM (IT)
5) CONSEJERÍA DE IGUALDAD Y COOPERACIÓN PARA EL DESARROLLO. JUNTA DE EXTREMADURA (ES)
6) MUNICIPALITY OF GABROVO (BG)
7) Unione Montana Comuni del Mugello (IT)
8) THE DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY AISBL (BE)
9) IMPACT HUB GMBH (AT)
Within the framework of the National Strategy for Inland Areas (SNAI), LAMA supports ANCI Toscana, entrusted by the Region of Tuscany, in the process of accompanying the 3 newly recognised inland areas of Tuscany, for the drafting of the Preliminary Territorial Strategies for the seven-year period 2021-2027. The process includes actions of consultation and structured listening to stakeholders, with a participatory and inclusive approach, capable of acknowledging the needs of communities and the economic and social fabric, facilitating collaboration between the various administrations involved and triggering shared innovation dynamics, in order to build solid and generative strategies.
inland areas, institutional innovation, social infrastructure, territorial regeneration
For the Municipalities of Londa and San Godenzo, LAMA carried out a period of coaching and technical assistance for the definition of territorial development strategies. The two municipalities – gateways to the Park of the Casentinesi Forests and part of the National Strategy for Inner Areas (SNAI) – share many of the typical characteristics of marginal Apennine territories, including the lack of services, depopulation and an ageing population.
LAMA supported the administrations of the two municipalities in a study and analysis of territorial levers for economic and social development, in order to guide their participation in calls for tenders and investment opportunities from the Next Generation EU Programme.
As part of the assignment, LAMA was in charge of drafting the project proposal for the public notice ‘Projects for the cultural and social regeneration of small historical villages PNRR M1C3 – Investment 2.1 – Village attractiveness – Line B’, which was one of the 207 selected out of more than 1,800 proposals received by the MiC at national level.
inland areas, institutional innovation, social infrastructure, territorial regeneration
+ CASCINE is a collective contribution of civic imagination on the Parco delle Cascine in Florence, created to promote its identity as a cultural institution and common good.
It was a path of research, stakeholder engagement and communication, promoted by Manifattura Tabacchi and LAMA, with the aim of bringing to the city’s attention the issue of governance, protection, enhancement and liveability of Florence’s largest green lung.
As part of the project, LAMA also took care of brand identity with a study aimed at enhancing the park’s prominence as a living being, with which to learn to relate in a more empathetic manner. The process produced a collective imagination document, an augmented map of the park and a call for projects intended to create a public digital archive of the numerous studies and projects on the park from various disciplinary perspectives.
+ CASCINE is a collective contribution of civic imagination on the Parco delle Cascine in Florence, created to promote its identity as a cultural institution and common good.
It was a path of research, stakeholder engagement and communication, promoted by Manifattura Tabacchi and LAMA, with the aim of bringing to the city’s attention the issue of governance, protection, enhancement and liveability of Florence’s largest green lung.
As part of the project, LAMA also took care of brand identity with a study aimed at enhancing the park’s prominence as a living being, with which to learn to relate in a more empathetic manner. The process produced a collective imagination document, an augmented map of the park and a call for projects intended to create a public digital archive of the numerous studies and projects on the park from various disciplinary perspectives.
In 2017, LAMA was commissioned by one of Italy’s largest building cooperatives to design and develop a branding and promotion strategy for the sale of the Univillage housing complex in Sesto San Giovanni (MI).
In 2017, LAMA was commissioned by one of Italy’s largest building cooperatives to design and develop a branding and promotion strategy for the sale of the Univillage housing complex in Sesto San Giovanni (MI).
Between 2017 and 2019, as part of the strategic consultancy for the relaunch of the sales of 400 flats in Città Contemporanea in Milan, LAMA was responsible for the new online and offline communication strategy and the creative direction of related campaigns.
Between 2017 and 2019, as part of the strategic consultancy for the relaunch of the sales of 400 flats in Città Contemporanea in Milan, LAMA was responsible for the new online and offline communication strategy and the creative direction of related campaigns.
In 2019, LAMA organised the online and offline communication campaign of the Nardella council’s 5-year end-of-term budget, which also included an accountability website for the results and a public event to present it to stakeholders and citizens.
In 2019, LAMA organised the online and offline communication campaign of the Nardella council’s 5-year end-of-term budget, which also included an accountability website for the results and a public event to present it to stakeholders and citizens.
Firenze Prossima was an online citizen listening campaign and a participatory pathway supporting the new Municipal Operational Plan of the Municipality of Florence.
LAMA took care of the communication actions to support both projects, with an online and offline citizen campaign, project channels and communication, and institutional communication support.
Firenze Prossima was an online citizen listening campaign and a participatory pathway supporting the new Municipal Operational Plan of the Municipality of Florence.
LAMA took care of the communication actions to support both projects, with an online and offline citizen campaign, project channels and communication, and institutional communication support.
Firenze Prossima was an online citizen listening campaign and a participatory pathway supporting the new Municipal Operational Plan of the Municipality of Florence.
LAMA took care of the communication actions to support both projects, with an online and offline citizen campaign, project channels and communication, and institutional communication support.
Firenze Prossima was an online citizen listening campaign and a participatory pathway supporting the new Municipal Operational Plan of the Municipality of Florence.
LAMA took care of the communication actions to support both projects, with an online and offline citizen campaign, project channels and communication, and institutional communication support.
LAMA is the provider of communication services for the management and promotion of the public and private welfare platform of the Municipality of Milan.
LAMA is the provider of communication services for the management and promotion of the public and private welfare platform of the Municipality of Milan.
LAMA is the provider of communication services for the management and promotion of the public and private welfare platform of the Municipality of Milan.
LAMA is the provider of communication services for the management and promotion of the public and private welfare platform of the Municipality of Milan.
In the Borgo Prossima participation pathway – for the new Municipal Operational Plan of the municipality of Borgo San Lorenzo and for the youth and territorial regeneration pathway ‘Spazi ai giovani’ of the municipality of Borgo San Lorenzo – LAMA was in charge of the communication strategy and engagement of citizenship, project communication and support to institutional communication.
In the Borgo Prossima participation pathway – for the new Municipal Operational Plan of the municipality of Borgo San Lorenzo and for the youth and territorial regeneration pathway ‘Spazi ai giovani’ of the municipality of Borgo San Lorenzo – LAMA was in charge of the communication strategy and engagement of citizenship, project communication and support to institutional communication.
LAMA is the provider of communication services to the consortium led by SAS (Spazio Aperto Servizi) and Cesvi Onlus for the management and promotion of the first public and private welfare platform of the City of Milan. WeMi is a web platform and a network of spaces on the territory, created to intermediate the demand and supply of welfare services available in the city provided directly by the City of Milan and the network of qualified third sector actors in the territory. LAMA is in charge of the platform’s external communication, management of social channels, web marketing and offline campaigns, internal communication tools, and training of WeMi entities on communication aspects.
The BET! – project, in which LAMA is a partner together with ActionAid, AIDGLOBAL, Oxfam and APDD Agenda 21 – is funded by the European Erasmus+ programme and aims to innovate the professional practices, skills and knowledge of 400 European teachers in order to adequately respond to the challenges of a global and digital society.
LAMA supported the needs analysis on educational innovation and digital competence development in the Covid 19 and post-Covid 19 era; this analysis served to support the design of a European Digital Curriculum useful to identify the best learning strategies and the implementation of the BET! Academy – a set of training courses and webinars for teachers.
Budget: €293.262,0
Duration: 24 months
Role: Partner
Partners:
Applicant: Oxfam Italia Onlus (IT)
Other partner organisations:
1) ASOCIATIA ASISTENTA SI PROGRAME PENTRU DEZVOLTARE DURABILA – AGENDA 21 (RO)
2) AIDGLOBAL – Acção e Integração para o Desenvolvimento Global (PT)
3) ACTION AID HELLAS ASTIKI MI KERDOSKOPIKI ETAIRIA (EL)
Firenze Prossima – Participatory Pathway 2021 is the City of Florence’s participatory pathway on the Municipality’s new Structural Plan and Operational Plan. LAMA won the Administration’s tender in a joint venture with Sociolab Impresa Sociale as lead partner. A hybrid, next-generation citizen engagement pathway, that held together the physical and digital dimensions, mixing live assemblies, mobile stations around the city, and online webinars, with specific tools to target different citizen audiences. Specifically, LAMA handled the project’s institutional communication, online and offline, and the Urban Innovation Lab call for university students.
Firenze Prossima is a large-scale citizen survey that was based on the dissemination of online questionnaires and the use of digital engagement tools to collect responses and proposals from citizens on various issues that concern them.
How have people’s habits changed as a result of the pandemic? What factors contribute to improving the quality of life in the districts and neighbourhoods? What are citizens’ priorities for making Florence greener and more sustainable?
The survey, supported by a communication and data visualisation campaign, ran for a month through five online questionnaires(one for each district), and collected a total of 7485 valid response. Four reports were produced on the changes in Florence, the strategic themes, the focus on young people, women and city users, and districts. The reports can be downloaded here:
The overall objective of the evaluation work of the program “TorinoProxima – From Civic Imagination to Social Enterprise,” assigned by Compagnia di San Paolo to LAMA, is toguide the Foundation in the general understanding of the effectiveness of the initiative promoted, the purpose of which is to stimulate civic and cultural imagination projects on the future of the City of Turin towards the creation of a new social impact entrepreneurship. From the evidence emerging from the analysis of implementation of the pre-acceleration pathways, LAMA produced a series of reflections on the possible replicability/scalability of the intervention model.
LAMA is among the partners of ARIA, the project led by REDO Sgr (a benefit company managing real estate investments with social impact, created by Fondazione Cariplo with Cdp, Investire Sgr and Intesa SanPaolo), winner of the Reinventing Cities call for bids to regenerate the more than 15-hectare area of the Ex Slaughterhouse in Milan. ARIAwill be a new district of Milan, a project for urban, social and environmental biodiversity, including: Europe’s largest social housing development (more than 1,200 affordable apartments); IED’s International Campus and Milan’s first larger Carbon Negative area. Within the ARIA team of more than 40 international partners, LAMA has the role of advisor for temporary space activation and stakeholder engagement activities, with the goal of making the Former Slaughterhouse area usable right away, while fostering the germination of the first communities until they fully mature.
The partnership consisting of Ambiente Spa (lead partner), LAMA, OIKUMENA (Moldovan NGO) and RACSE (Ukrainian think tank) was awarded the contract for the Black Sea pollution diagnostic service, funded by the World Bank’s Blueing the Black Sea Program. The overall objective of the program is to foster investment in the blue economy for the Black Sea and strengthen regional dialogue and institutions. LAMA was responsible for stakeholder analysis and stakeholder mapping, engagement processes and consultation with communities in the most polluted areas through interviews and online questionnaires. The objective of the activity being carried out by LAMA is to increase collaboration, knowledge transfer, and synergies among institutions to address the problem of pollution in the Black Sea and to raise awareness of these problems at both institutional and non-institutional levels. Together with the World Bank, LAMA was also responsible for the dissemination of the final results of the assignment.
Labirinto is a social cooperative that has been running personal services in the territory of the province of Pesaro and Urbino and neighboring provinces since 1979. For the entire social cooperation sector, the impact of covid has accelerated the need to adjust internal organization and development strategies in order to improve effectiveness, efficiency, performance, and more generally the very sense of the role that the private social sector, especially cooperatives, plays in the resilience of welfare and social protection systems. Labirinto has therefore commissioned LAMA to support the cooperative’s management in a consultancy process aimed at addressing both aspects of internal organization and elements of development strategy.
LAMA was the entity responsible for the acceleration activities of COOP2030-the national call for proposals promoted by Coopfond and Legacoop created with the aim of supporting the transition and strategic repositioning of small and medium-sized cooperatives toward development models consistent with the Sustainable Development Goals of Agenda 2030. LAMA designed the acceleration model and supported the 10 winning cooperatives for 8 weeks, with a specialized team of mentors and experts built around the needs of each business case.
From 2013 to 2017, LAMA was a grantee of the European Commission’s DG SANTE Multi-Year Framework Contract to conduct evaluations, impact assessments, and related services in Public Health, in partnership with ICF International (lead), European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, University of Birmingham, and TNS Opinion. Among the studies, LAMA contributed to the evaluation analysis of chronic disease prevention campaigns in Europe.
In 2019, LAMA won the municipal tender for the award of the end-of-term budget communication service of the Nardella council’s five-year administration. Together with strategic partner OpenPolis, LAMA collaborated on the analysis of the administration’s achievements; organized an online and offline communication campaign, a results accountability website, and a public presentation event to stakeholders and citizens.
In 2018, LAMA wanted to ground its experience on implemented urban regeneration interventions (Impact HUB and Manifattura Tabacchi Florence), with the writing of a white paper entitled “Designing Multistakeholder Urban Regeneration”. A contribution of knowledge and case histories that aims to be a useful tool for Public Administrations, Professionals, Operators and Real Estate Development Funds to initiate processes and policies of urban regeneration that see the co-presence of elements essential to the success and sustainability of these interventions: the involvement of communities, the quality of real estate supply, the mobilization of public-private finance, and the protection of the collective interest for the development of polycentric and biodiverse cities. The White Paper is the result of a research and engagement process that involved interviews, meetings, and desk research activities, combining a reading of current trends and policies with a collective and choral vision that feeds on the views and expertise of all stakeholders.
In 2015, LAMA, in partnership with Social Seed, was commissioned by Fondazione Unipolis to conduct research aimed at analyzing emerging forms of the collaborative economy, to identify possible points of contact or interaction with the world of cooperative enterprises and highlight areas of innovation and “mutual contamination” that may emerge for these two worlds.
In 2016, LAMA, in a joint venture with Irecoop Emilia Romagna, was awarded the contract, through a tender by the National Agency for Investment Attraction and Enterprise Development INVITALIA – MISE, to carry out a feasibility study aimed at investigating the phenomenon of community cooperation and the presidium/care/development impacts on the territory that it is able to generate. The study conducted in collaboration with Italia Consulting Network SpA, A.I.C.CO.N., Atlante, Euricse, Barberini Foundation, Tor Vergata University, defined community cooperation as a manifestation, tool and outcome of a broad phenomenon of community resilience in the most impoverished and least accessible areas across the country and is ultimately considered a policy tool.
In 2018, Nesta Italia – with the support of Unicredit – launched a national survey to map innovative practices in Italian health and welfare, focusing specifically on “collaborative health” models, that is, those that leverage individual and collective empowerment and the enabling role of technologies to promote greater system inclusiveness and sustainability.
LAMA participated in the research by curating the analysis of the Italian context, interviewing stakeholders, and developing the conceptual framework for collaborative health in Italy. LAMA also contributed to the mapping of case studies and the production of final recommendations addressed to health systems, businesses, and nonprofit stakeholders.
Applied Research, benchmarking innovative models, Trend and scenario analysis
EUREKA (European Urban REgenerators Knowledge Alliance) is an Erasmus+ project for the regeneration of urban spaces led by the Iuav University of Venice, involving 4 European universities and 11 entities from 9 countries, including LAMA.
It was awarded a €997,805 grant in 2020 for 3 years of activity, with the aim of training tomorrow’s Urban Innovators: a new interdisciplinary professional profile capable of supporting and managing urban transformations with participatory and inclusive approaches and a strong social impact.
(Ph: Eureka – Amsterdam International School, by Bert Wisse)
Budget: €997.805,0
Duration: 36 months
Role: Partner
Partners:
Applicant: IUAV University of Venice (IT)
Other partner organisations:
1) Melting Pro Learning (IT)
2) Universidad de la Iglesia de Deusto (ES)
3) Espacio Open (ES)
4) Trans Europe Halles (SE)
5) Municipality of Timisoara (RO)
6) West University of Timisoara (RO)
7) Casa PLAI Association (RO)
8) Hogeschool van Amsterdam (NL)
9) Stichting P60 (NL)
The European SCC sharing, collaboration, cooperation project is funded by the Erasmus+ program and implemented in collaboration with Cooperatives Europe, Ouishare, Mondragon Unibertsitatea, Febecoop, Condiviso, Tzbz Coop, and Esspace (the largest cooperative entities in Europe).
LAMA designed and created a new toolkit to support educational institutions, schools, and universities to innovate their methodologies with horizontal and hybrid approaches typical of coworking, with tools for building experiential learning pathways and best practices in coworking space education and innovative communities. The Toolkit can be downloaded from the project website.
In partnership with AUDIS, Nomisma, Euregio+ and Dentons, LAMA conducted a study aimed at analyzing the technical, legal and economic opportunities of urban regeneration interventions on public buildings.
The report points to some possible solutions that enable public administrations to
to use energy efficiency incentives for public buildings as a driver for the redevelopment and regeneration of entire areas and neighborhoods.
LAMA, on behalf of CGIL, conceived, designed and developed the digital platformwww.ideadiffusa.it with the aim of providing members of the CGIL Industrial Council and Scientific Committee with a working, updating and communication tool.
In fact, the platform not only offers a range of information content (collected and selected from the web via rss feeds) but also a system for sharing documents (repository) and for debate on issues proposed directly by the CGIL Coordination (via call to action to which each member can respond by publishing posts).
UnipolSai and CRU Tuscany commissioned LAMA to design and conduct an action-research and storytelling project to address the issue of changing work.
LAMA conducted desk research, organized workshops among stakeholders (trade associations, unions, workers, entrepreneurs, and professionals) in collaborative ways, designed and managed a social communication campaign, created a website, and defined the editorial design for the creation of 10 authorial video interviews shot by a young director.
The social cooperatives CIDAS of Ferrara and Cadiai of Bologna are important third sector entities in Emilia Romagna on which many essential social services depend, including the Residences for the Elderly.
As the population ages, new needs emerge other than those related to acute non-self-sufficiency, but increasingly related to progressive near-non-self-sufficiency and social isolation. LAMA was commissioned to conduct a feasibility study on possible new models of light residential service: we carried out the design of the new service and the economic-financial sustainability plan (business planning) for it.
In 2018, LAMA was awarded, through a tender by the National Agency for the Attraction of Investments and Enterprise Development INVITALIA – MISE, the assignment for the feasibility study of a user- and worker-owned cooperative platform in urban mobility. Conducted in partnership with Aiccon, CO.TA.BO, Unipol Gruppo, CGIL, CNS, Cooperatives Europe, and the Platform Cooperativism Consortium, the study carried out a feasibility plan for the realisation of a cooperative platform, as well as a national and international benchmarking analysis on shared mobility models and a sample survey on the mobility habits of the citizens of Bologna, the tester city identified in the study.
In 2013 LAMA founded the company The HUB s.r.l. with which it creates and manages the coworking space Impact HUB Firenze, belonging to the international coworking network for social innovation Impact HUB.
2000sq.m. inside the Ex-Dogana in Florence Rifredi transformed from a space for the movement of goods to a place for working, meeting and socializing for professionals and companies, which now has a community of about 200 coworkers. This is also where LAMA has its headquarters.
With a budget of 8.5 M€, co-funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 programme, T-Factor involves 25 partners from 11 European countries plus two from China and the USA. Focusing on the time between masterplan approval and site completion, T-Factor demonstrates how temporary uses can be extraordinary opportunities for cultural, social and economic activation, making regeneration more effective, resilient and sustainable.
LAMA leads the Transformation Agency that coordinates the city-making methodologies in the 6 pilot interventions in the cities of London, Bilbao, Amsterdam, Kaunas, Milan and Lisbon.
(Ph: Cortile della Ciminiera di Manifattura Tabacchi, by Niccolò Vonci)
Budget: €7.998.425,0
Duration: 48 months
Role: Partner
Partners:
Applicant: ANCI TOSCANA ASSOCIAZIONE (IT)
Other partner organisations:
1) PLUSVALUE (UK)
2) THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS LONDON (UK)
3) POLITECNICO DI MILANO (IT)
4) Asociación Cultural Open Your Kolektiboa (ES)
5) LAND ITALIA SRL (IT)
6) FUNDACION TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION (ES)
7) AALBORG UNIVERSITET (DK)
8) Marta Arniani (FR)
9) Friche la Belle de Mai (FR)
10) STICHTING WAAG SOCIETY (NL)
11) KAUNO TECHNOLOGIJOS UNIVERSITETAS (LT)
12) UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA (PT)
13) FUNDACIO PER A LA UNIVERSITAT OBERTA DE CATALUNYA (ES)
14) ENTIDAD PUBLICA EMPRESARIAL LOCAL BILBAO EKINTZA (ES)
15) KAUNO MIESTO SAVIVALDYBES ADMINISTRACIJA (LT)
16) TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT DORTMUND (DE)
17) STADT DORTMUND (DE)
18) I-PROPELLER NV (BE)
19) LODZ-MIASTO NA PRAWACH POWIATU (PL)
20) LONDON BOROUGH OF CAMDEN (UK)
21) KAUNAS 2022 (LT)
22) UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO (IT)
23) TONGJI UNIVERSITY (CN)
OD&M (Open Design & Manufacturing) is an international community that experiments with processes of experiential, distributed and collaborative learning on the themes of open design and manufacturing.
The aim of the platform is to innovate with traditional training systems so that they can produce professionals and knowledge that is able to face up to global economic challenges. Thanks to this three-year project, makers, university professors, researchers, students, and entrepreneurs from Europe and China, have experienced training courses, thematic events and international mobility that have allowed them to structure themselves as a learning community.
For the Italian node, LAMA worked in collaboration with the University of Florence – DIDA.
Applicant: UNIFI – DIDA
Other partner organisations:
1) LAMA
2) Centro Sperimentale del mobile
3) Uni Deusto
4) UAL
5) Tecnalia
6) Greenlab
7) WSB University
8) Fablab Lodz
9) Tongji University
10) P2P Foundation
Business and social economy are often treated as independent sectors. Most often, however, they are united by an interest in social impact, which leads to forms of collaboration that have significant potential for innovation and community benefit.
Together with the lead partner Technopolis, and five other international research centres, LAMA contributed to a European study commissioned by EASME (EU Commission) as a follow-up to the Social Business Initiative, a European initiative to support social enterprise.
The study assessed existing collaborations between businesses and the third sector, through questionnaires, interviews and the realisation of case studies in different sectors and subject areas. LAMA was also responsible for the development of an evaluation model for profit/non-profit collaborations, co-created with experts, companies and stakeholders from the sector.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing the way we produce, consume, care, and participate. Today, it is crucial to ask how best to harness these technologies to make them a tool for well-being, serving the priorities and needs of the community. In 2019, LAMA won the tender issued by NESTA UK, the UK’s innovation agency, to carry out a study aimed at mapping the state of the art of how AI is being used today in collective projects, to enable new forms of exchange, collaboration, and shared problem solving at a local or global level.
The housing cooperative Uniabita was facing a stagnation in sales of the new complex developed in Sesto San Giovanni (Milan, 250 accommodations) called «Univillage».
In 2018, LAMA carried out a CAWI survey on the contacts collected by Uniabita. Based on the results of the survey LAMA designed the marketing strategy diversifying contents for specific targets. The strategy led to the completion of sales in two years.
Since 2016, LAMA has been an accredited subject for the Impact Assessment of projects aimed at addressing educational poverty, financed by the social enterprise Con i Bambini (managing entity of the National Fund for the fight against child educational poverty). In these projects, LAMA is responsible for impact assessment, which is carried out through participatory and statistical approaches, employing qualitative-quantitative methods with the use of questionnaires to children, families and teachers, focus groups with teachers and parents, semi-structured interviews with stakeholders, data collection from stakeholders and from official statistical sources.
Manifattura Tabacchi in Florence is a former industrial complex of over 100,000 square metres where the investment fund PW Real Estate III LP (Aermont Capital LLP) and Cdp Immobiliare (Cdp Group) have decided to promote a major urban regeneration project.
LAMA was commissioned by the MTDM development project management company to accompany the redevelopment of the buildings – in the management of the waiting time necessary for the completion of the large construction site – with citizen engagement activities; artistic and cultural programming that looks at contemporary and sustainability issues; facility management of the available areas; and all web and visual communication.
OpenMaker is a European project financed by the Horizon 2020 programme that aims to support the European manufacturing ecosystem by networking innovators, makers, manufacturing entrepreneurs, researchers and technology enthusiasts, fostering widespread collaboration.
The project involved 10 operational partners in four European countries: the United Kingdom, Spain, Slovakia and Italy – node represented by LAMA and the Topix Consortium in Turin. LAMA built and managed an Italian community of makers and traditional manufacturing companies that produced 10 innovative prototypes selected in an international call.
https://openmaker.eu/
Budget: €3.289.406,25
Duration: 24 months
Role: Partner
Partners:
Applicant: THE YOUNG FOUNDATION (UK)
Other partner organisations:
1) BOGAZICI UNIVERSITESI Turkey
2) Centire s.r.o. (SK)
3) SCUOLA IMT (ISTITUZIONI, MERCATI, TECNOLOGIE) ALTI STUDI DI LUCCA (IT)
4) SIGMA ORIONIS SA (FR)
5) FUNDACION TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION (ES)
6) CONSORZIO TOP-IX – TORINO E PIEMONTE EXCHANGE POINT (IT)
7) UNIVERSITAET ZUERICH (CH)
8) ACCORD HOUSING ASSOCIATION LIMITEDIPS* (UK)
