Living together new horizon for collective action

The socio-political consequences of the current multi-faceted crisis we are experiencing place under tension the emerging forms of collective and bottom-up actions claiming for commons-based spaces. Urban participatory initiatives in relation with the collective/individual spheres of vulnerable communities highlight that self-organized and co-produced actions for a sustainable and equitable regeneration of collective spaces can trigger effective processes of empowerment and self-sufficiency, challenging power and economical relationships at the ground and conceptual level. Questioning this micro-political dimension, the round table aims to discuss the experiences of researchers, practitioners and activists engaged in forms of collective actions to reflect about how future processes can be oriented to cope with a crisis scenario that threatens the ideas of “collaborative”, “shared”, “living together”, “cooperation”. The objective is to outline how bottom-up processes structure and organize themselves, how they interface with institutions and urban policy tools and how nowadays they can deal with social proximity issues and the exacerbation of inequalities.