Resource consumption and related waste production are rapidly increasing all over the world, leading to social and environmental challenges and to the production of the so-called ‘wastescapes’. Peri-urban areas are particularly vulnerable and prone to develop into wastescapes because they are generally characterised by mixed functions and/or monofunctional settlements, as well as by fragmentation in a low-density territory that is often crossed by large infrastructure networks. Moreover, peri-urban areas are generally the selected locations for the development of plants for waste management. Implementing Circular Economy (CE) principles, interpreting waste and wastescapes as resources, is a way to significantly reduce raw material and (soil) resource consumption, improving cities’ metabolism. A circular approach can positively affect the spatial, social and environmental performances of peri-urban areas. This article outlines an approach to address these challenges, presenting a co-creation process within Living Labs (LLs). LLs are physical and virtual spaces, aiming at the co-creation of site-specific eco-innovative solutions (EIS) and strategies. In the LLs, public–private–people partnerships are developed by applying an iterative methodology consisting of five phases. This article presents two peri-urban living labs, located in the Metropolitan Areas of Naples (Italy) and Amsterdam (The Netherlands), within Horizon2020 REPAiR project.

Managing the Transition towards Circular Metabolism: Living Labs as a Co-Creation Approach / Amenta, Libera; Attademo, Anna; Hilde, Remøy; Berruti, Gilda; Cerreta, Maria; Formato, Enrico; Palestino, MARIA FEDERICA; Russo, Michelangelo. - In: URBAN PLANNING. - ISSN 2183-7635. - 4:3(2019), pp. 5-18. [10.17645/up.v4i3.2170]

Managing the Transition towards Circular Metabolism: Living Labs as a Co-Creation Approach

Libera Amenta
Primo
;
Anna Attademo
Secondo
;
Hilde Remøy
;
Gilda Berruti
;
Maria Cerreta
;
Enrico Formato
;
Maria Federica Palestino
;
Michelangelo Russo
2019

Abstract

Resource consumption and related waste production are rapidly increasing all over the world, leading to social and environmental challenges and to the production of the so-called ‘wastescapes’. Peri-urban areas are particularly vulnerable and prone to develop into wastescapes because they are generally characterised by mixed functions and/or monofunctional settlements, as well as by fragmentation in a low-density territory that is often crossed by large infrastructure networks. Moreover, peri-urban areas are generally the selected locations for the development of plants for waste management. Implementing Circular Economy (CE) principles, interpreting waste and wastescapes as resources, is a way to significantly reduce raw material and (soil) resource consumption, improving cities’ metabolism. A circular approach can positively affect the spatial, social and environmental performances of peri-urban areas. This article outlines an approach to address these challenges, presenting a co-creation process within Living Labs (LLs). LLs are physical and virtual spaces, aiming at the co-creation of site-specific eco-innovative solutions (EIS) and strategies. In the LLs, public–private–people partnerships are developed by applying an iterative methodology consisting of five phases. This article presents two peri-urban living labs, located in the Metropolitan Areas of Naples (Italy) and Amsterdam (The Netherlands), within Horizon2020 REPAiR project.
2019
Managing the Transition towards Circular Metabolism: Living Labs as a Co-Creation Approach / Amenta, Libera; Attademo, Anna; Hilde, Remøy; Berruti, Gilda; Cerreta, Maria; Formato, Enrico; Palestino, MARIA FEDERICA; Russo, Michelangelo. - In: URBAN PLANNING. - ISSN 2183-7635. - 4:3(2019), pp. 5-18. [10.17645/up.v4i3.2170]
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