COMUNITA' IN FORMAZIONE E SVILUPPO SOCIOECONOMICO
SOSTENIBILE DELLE CITTA'
Proceedings of the 5th European Conference for
Community Psychology Berlin, Sept. 16 - 19, 2004;
Arcidiacono, C. & Legewie, H. (Eds.)
(en.)
The idea of this publication is the session "Learning
Communities and Sustainable Social-Economic City Quarter
Development" of the 5th European conference for Community
Psychology (ENCP, Berlin 2004). The symposium focused on
community psychological approaches to sustainable
social-economic neighbourhood and city quarter development
consider psychologists and experts active in the field as social
Catalyst.
Studying the identity of place, sense of
community is only the first step to understand the interaction
between citizens and community. The aim is to further develop
the tools of intervention, participation, mediation and
negotiation between the various social actors, and set up
interaction with the local authorities in such a way that the
various social groups are represented in the communal
decision-making processes.
The question is: how can we act to improve
living conditions; what are the priorities and the problems? And
first of all, what are the strategies and the actors?
The volume is the result of this research
project involving experiences, communities and experts, to
identify guide lines for the use of psychological sciences in a
broad social context.
The symposium brought together different
people in a collective think tank, arising from local experience
as well as from methodologies and tools of community psychology.
Participatory democracy should be pursued both by promoting
methodologies of mediation and social dialogue and by detecting
tools going beyond the mere social ritualism, able to use the
inhabitants themselves as active resources. To achieve these
objectives, as well as monitoring what is changing in societies,
implies relying on suitable resources based on socio-relational
competence.
The authors state that the community psychology approach can
improve the quality of life within living contexts. The aim is
to develop human capital and participation so as to find shared
development objectives and implement synergic and integrated
policies.
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