PARTICIPATORY STRATEGIC PLANNING (Italy)
Pilot Concept and Approach
The Planning Pilot within the MedLab is hosted by the Department of Planning of the Sicilian Region and is based on the activities of the TLL-Sicily Living Lab. TLL Sicily is the first instance of a concept of a “Territorial Living Lab”, that integrally applies the LL approach to a territory and its citizens, its model of governance and its strategic plans for the future. As such, a TLL has not only a technical but also a social and political dimension.
The objective of a Territorial Living Lab (TLL) is thus to use ICT to develop innovative means of participatory strategic co-planning and territorial self-governance, under the assumption that citizen co-responsibility and ownership, awareness of context and implications of choices, and monitoring of the impacts of decisions taken can together finally generate models for sustainable spatial development.
Organisation of the Pilot Action
The starting partnership for the Planning Pilot thus includes some of the key actors of TLL-Sicily – in particular the regional Planning Department, the Department of History and Design in Architecture of the University of Palermo, and CRES, a regional research centre. Among the “seed” case instances for the pilot is the process for updating the Provincial Territorial Plan of Ragusa, the evaluation and implementation of the Strategic Plan of Favara and networking with a series of citizen-driven initiatives in Sicily that participate in the Italian Kublai project.
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