A Decision Aid and Social Impact Co-Assessment Approach for Urban Regeneration Processes

The consolidation of community urban regeneration processes makes it particularly necessary to investigate a collaborative dimension of social impact measurement in the perspective of greater social sustainability. Social impact assessment is increasingly configured as an enabling process both in the communities and in the institutions involved, capable of orienting the strategies of public institutions in support of urban regeneration culture and community-based. In this context, within the research agreement between the General Directorate for Contemporary Creativity (DGCC) of the Ministry of Culture (MiC) and the IUAV University, a methodological approach has been structured to co-evaluate the transformative impacts produced by culture-based urban regeneration projects supported by MiC. The co-evaluation process provided opportunities for reflection on how institutions could innovate and improve their strategies toward greater economic and social sustainability.