Today I would like to use a quote from a report of network PARTECIPANDO which aim was to exchange so called "good practices" in the field of citizens participation in planning . This was one of networks of URBACT I programme, which second edition - URBACT II - has been called last year.
An icon at the left circulated in Rome and in the world of electronic communication in the end of 2004. It became a logo of social groups and independent media there.
"In the philosophy of basic social groups and independent mass media activists who have made it their own shared logo, it represents the contrast of arguments between the world of ‘concertation’ (where a few strong actors – sharks – swallow a host of small social, locally organized actors, but who are fragmented in their struggles) and a way of ‘participating’ which can ‘snare’ the nebula of so many basic battles in civil society and give them contractual strength in negotiating territorial choices.
In essence, it means ‘focussing’ on different forms of territorial action within the theme of ‘social dialogue’ intended as the new frontier of local politics. And then they must be compared, paying attention to plurality and creativity in the different ways that can be tried out in weighing up the different social, economical and institutional actors when taking decisions on urban government. (...)"
from www.urbact.eu
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