🏭Milano Circolare
An event format co-designed with your community by Milan FCH team
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Co-design a 2 days event with your FCH community's input is a powerful tool that may serve to showcase and promote your FCH community but also fosters its growth. These kind of events are also fruitful moments to foster future collaborations among participants.
Furthermore, by engaging your community and their ideas you will strengthen your role as a facilitator (as a FCH representant) of circular productive ecosystems. In doing so you will be able to better map your local ecosystem and gaining relevant knowledge about them.
What is this tool about ?
Milano Circolare is here presented as a replicable example for co-design a city scale event on circularity and production.
It is literally and practically co-designed because it's preparation started, few months earlier the event, with a call for proposals inviting suggestions for a diversified set of activities : exhibitions, demonstrations, talks, and workshops.
The submissions are then carefully assessed by a core team, and the events program is crafted around these contributions.
The organisation of the Milano Circolare event, following two years of community development efforts, was a strategic point both for NEMA and the Municipality representants involved in the CENTRINNO Pilot Team for the following objectives :
Become the starting point for developing an Action Plan on circular economy. This plan aims to help public and private entities in Milan to turn urban waste into a resource, reducing material and energy consumption, and fostering new employment and business opportunities.
Effectively communicate and frame the topic of Circular Economy by visualizing existing experiences and organizational efforts.
Securing political support for sustain a political agenda focusing on Circularity. This led to the invitation of representatives from other European cities to exchange experiences and strategies. The great succes of the event was a source of pride for the political representatives involved.
To seize the opportunity within the community to unite efforts and centralize activities under a common identity and physical location.
Why this tool could be relevant (also) for your FCH ?
CIRCULAR ECONOMY
The tool itself enhances circular economy on a local level and provide the possibility to develop future strategic plans to become a more circular city.
SOCIAL INCLUSION
Smaller companies are usually excluded from bigger events and fail to be under the political attention.
Being an open and free event it attracted a general public that had access to the information and experiences
Social inclusion was also a central topic promoted by the companies themself. Among participants there were social sawing places, vocational schools, solidarity production companies.
→ Enhanced comprehension of the concepts underlying circular design and fashion:
Municipality: Development of a more informed plan grounded in practical experience.
Citizens: Heightened interest and awareness regarding the subject.
Community of makers: Recognition and the establishment of new connections. The potential to leverage the community for mutual promotion of shared interests.
→ Impacts :
Municipality: Creation of support mechanisms for local stakeholders to facilitate improved and more circular production practices.
Citizens: Heightened sensitivity in making market choices with sustainability in mind.
Local circular makers: Formation of one or more formal groups to sustain ongoing activities and serve as a reference point for the municipality.
→ Vision and Community:
Enhancing the visibility and tangibility of the vision for all stakeholders.
Clarifying and actively defining the roles of various organisations within the Fab City Hub.
Strengthening and expanding community engagement.
→ Opportunities:
Harnessing the pre-existing interest and practices within the city.
Embracing the diversity and multifaceted nature of local circular production in fashion and design.
The tool has shed light on the various capabilities that can be harnessed within the collaborative action plan.
Organisational Practices
The use of this tool within the Milan team and their journey toward FCH contributed to the following changes in organisational practices each of them related to some of the three foundational aspects of a FCH: Vision , Community and Infrastructure.
OP N. 1- Activating interactions and facilitating connections and collaborations among the different actors active in urban environments
OP N. 3- Embracing emergence of new needs, projects, and organisations through open and resilient structures amidst rapidly changing and hazardous environments
OP N. 7 - Facilitating community action, while orchestrating a common vision
OP N. 9 - Create awareness around convivial forms of innovation, manufacturing capabilities, creative citizenship and social connections
OP N. 10 - Multi-layered coordination combining physical spaces and facilities, with digital communication for diverse communities
Key Steps
Find here a list of suggested steps shared by the Milano Team for you to follow if you want to set up an event similar to Milano Circolare.
Summary Table
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