Underused buildings - Envisioning

The Wellington Rooms, a grade II listed building – originally used for high society dance balls and latterly as the city’s Irish Centre – was closed in 1997 and subsequent regeneration proposals have failed to get off (...)

To define the uses for the derelict Tabacalera several activities like neighbourhood workshops, citizens’ survey and Sectorial and transversal working tables were combined and implemented.

Envisioning

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The city of Naples, based on the urban commons regulation, initiated a participative process with citizens and neighbourhood organisations to reactive the abandoned military hospital to the “Community Hub Trinità – Active (...)

To develop, visualise and discuss possible solutions and new ideas for the re-use of the former prison ‘KPD’ in Maribor the municipality in cooperation with the local university organised a student workshop and idea (...)

In 2014, the City of Poznan established a particular municipal scheme to facilitate and encourage initiatives to occupy vacant spaces at the same time as refurbishing them: a preferential rate scheme. The scheme aims to support the (...)