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This paper considers space and architecture as a mirror of the life of the Church and as an area of evidential value for its historical profile. Therefore, it will try to observe, in space and in its organization, the development of participation, recognized by both precursors and more recent documents as the constitutive dimension of the Church. Among the precursors, the Bolognese Laboratory will be particularly considered to illustrate the reasons that made the archdiocese led by Giacomo Lercaro become a point of international reference on the path of the liturgical reform. Then, considering the Bologna experience, useful criteria can be drawn for an assessment of the current situation, and to measure how, how much and whether participation to the altars has matured into a wider participation of all the people of God in the life of the Church and in the management of its spaces (liturgical, pastoral and educational). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper aims to investigate the instruments of popular participation, specifically the deliberative ones, provided in the Chilean constituent processes, with particular reference to the one that ended on 4 September 2022, with the failure to approve the constitutional text drafted by the Constitutional Convention, and to the current constituent process started with the "Acuerdo por Chile" of the following December 12. The purpose is to highlight not only the centrality of these instruments in the writing of a new constitutional text, but also the benefits and problems arising from their use. The analysis of popular participation in Chilean constituent processes also allows to point out their similarities and differences and to reflect, if only partially, on the future of the Chilean constituent moment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the last decade the European residential market has seen radical social and economic changes. The economic situation and heterogeneous housing demand has created the necessary conditions for the development of new housing models. This paper introduces the methods, procedures and tools of a process model for new construction or retrofitting of residential buildings called Collective Self-Organised (CSO) housing. The CSO process model is characterized by service sharing, reduction of construction costs and use of high energy performance technologies developed through the PROFICIENT research project financed by the European community's 7th framework programme (GA N°312219). The paper also presents an example of a Dutch CSO housing project named 'De Hallen'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper aims at presenting some reflections drawn from the analysis of the data extracted from two crowdfunding projects. The latter were started to financially support the publication of two catalogues: Incunaboli a Catania I: Biblioteche riunite “Civica e A. Ursino Recupero” (2018) and Incunaboli a Catania II: Biblioteca regionale universitaria (2021). Close attention is given to the strategies enacted to foster the valorization of two libraries and a portion of their bibliographic heritage within the framework of an ongoing research project; among its goals is serving as tool to promote participation in and sharing of libraries as common goods. Data analysis is conducted through the lens of cultural sociology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The renewed interest for under used sites of historical city centres is addressing a change in design paradigms on existing buildings involving local communities in the process from the very beginning. The paper reports a recent cooperation, named "Anteprima Lab", between the Department of Architecture (DA) of University of Bologna, the City of Bologna and Urban Center. The action is intended as an enabler of initiatives aimed at enhancing those places assumed as common goods by local communities. The pilot defined the functional and spatial features of an innovative participated environment that follows the socio-political trends characterizing the modern age of Bologna. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Environmental, social and economic challenges appear even more severe in cities, which are places with the highest population density where disparities and inequalities sharpen above all in peripheral areas characterized by the lack of services and connections, precarious infrastructures and environmental conditions, and fragile social relationships. Therefore, urban peripheries are privileged laboratories to test integrated strategies of regeneration with a place-based and people-centred approach that includes actions in crosscutting sectors. The capacity to face these phenomena requires welfare models based on ideas of social innovation, participation, and central role of the public space for the new scenarios of hope proposed by the paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper reports the results of a research Project intended to promote socio-ecological effect in the urban renewal projects of deteriorated Mediterranean metropolitan suburbs. The thesis is that the direct participation of the citizens in the urban metabolism meets the contingent needs of inclusion and social cohesion typically involving the complexity of urban life today. It also overcomes the oppositions aimed to the defense of established status quo or due to irrational fears. We focus on process aspects. In fact, the roster of best practices for urban renewal shows an increased growth in product offering. The experimentation conducted allowed us to verify the thesis demonstrating the social efficiency of processes in which the collaborative component is not limited to a teamwork design but features continuous participation in the operation of the city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We present in this paper a discussion about the main approaches to interactivity in arts, focusing on music and sound art. This study aims to analyze the interactive process from approaches about the instrumental gesture and processes related to the interaction between a performer and his instrument; about the participation of the public and the modification of the work as part of its active aesthetic appreciation; and about the creative process of the work with the set of relations that structures its development in time and keeps the unity of an artistic project. We intend to broach a sample among the diversity of perspectives that comprehends the study of interaction in arts and the main proposed bounds about what should characterize an artwork as interactive. We propose, in our conclusions, a conscious application of interaction concerning different contexts, favoring a wider approach on the subject and focused on the spectators' point of view. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]