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The Agenda Digitale magazine on the Digital Citizenship Channel hosts a new contribution by FMD Director General Mirta Michilli, who suggests we should consider cities as antifragile urban systems, capable of improving during instability and becoming stronger during emergencies. The article also briefly refers to the new Vagone FMD. From 01 to 100 Programme at Facebook’s “Binario F” that involves local actors in co-designing challenges to place communities at the centre and propose new models for digital transformation and ground-up sustainable growth. It’s an attempt to “compose fragments of good government and best practices in a new local and choral governance design to drive the growth of community projects that can aggregate strength and intelligence.”

 

We can really kick off again if we start to think about the future through new paradigms. When did we begin thinking about inequalities as unavoidable? They are the result of bad choices that can and must be corrected. We live in cities that are a together of divides, starting from the contraposition between centre and periphery. [...] We need to start again from relations, ties of solidarity between citizens, just as the pandemic has taught us.

 

We need to invest more in the cognizant participation of citizens, help individuals to imagine new scenarios. We can make everyone feel like a builder of the common good by inventing new forms of urban citizenship.

 

 

Antifragile Urban Systems

The Challenge of Smart Communities: Plurality and Investing in Participation

Our cities – and those of the future – can no longer be only considered “smart.” They must also be antifragile systems. And they can be so if we immediately begin to take into consideration all points of view, valuing a “plural” approach, and rethink the future with new paradigms. A challenge, but not an impossible one.

by Mirta Michilli

Agenda Digitale, Sept. 6, 2021

 

 

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