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Designing democratic innovations: A methodological framework for participation ...
Rusconi, I.; Nogueira, F.; Paio, A.; Mota, J. C.Purpose Cities are strengthening their role as arenas for political action, crucial for addressing crises in a context of rampant uncertainty. This emphasises the need to centre public participation in decision-making to accelerate changes and ensure social responsiveness. However, a gap persists between rhetoric and implementation of participation mechanisms, highlighting the importance of democratic innovatio...
Street experiments during pandemic to transform urban mobility and public space...
Mota, J. C.; Moreira, G.; Rusconi, I.; Isidoro, C.Experimentation to transform public spaces emerged during the pandemic in response to the need to offer quick and cheap solutions to emerging problems, namely through promoting active urban mobility through pop-up cycle paths, developing citizen collaborative projects to promote the use of public space by children, offering new parklets and terraces to allow safe rest and implementing temporary programs using p...
Bringing participation closer to local governance expectations in Portugal: An ...
Nogueira, F.; Seixas, J.; Mota, J.; Rusconi, I.This article is motivated by the recognition of existing gaps between most common participatory practices and the hopes of participatory governance materialisation. Beyond normative mismatches, tangible gaps exist regarding the prospects and the effective results of participation, but also those resulting from the way citizens and civil society perceptions become misaligned with those of local public authoritie...
Participação e institucionalização: Uma reflexão sobre as práticas participativ...
Rusconi, I.Neste contexto de crise transversal, a crise democrática expressa pela apatia política e descrença no sistema eleitoral, associada à crise urbana anunciada pelos processos de financeirização das cidades e acirramento das desigualdades socioespaciais, expõe a urgência de trazer os cidadãos para o centro da disputa política pelas cidades enquanto estas sofrem intensas e rápidas transformações (Fainstein, 2014; Fu...
Participation and Institutionalization: Perspectives in urban policies
Rusconi, I.; Nogueira, F.The democratic crisis expressed by high electoral abstention, distrust in political system and rise of authoritarianism signals the importance of bringing citizens back to the political debate (Fung, 2015). Several authors argue that the renovation of democracy will take place around the political debate about cities, while undergoing intense transformations (Falanga, 2020). It is urgent to rethink participatio...
Institucionalizar a participação é preciso?
Rusconi, I.A crise democrática expressa pelos altos níveis de abstencionismo eleitoral, descrença no sistema político e ascensão de líderes autoritários ao poder, sinaliza a importância de recolocar os cidadãos no centro do debate político. Simultaneamente, por todo o mundo, surgem cada vez mais iniciativas de participação cidadã e propostas de inovações democráticas de proximidade às escalas locais: rua, bairro, cidade (...