Urban manufacture has recently entered city planning discourses, fostering an increasing number of urban policies that promote the return and/or the conservation of production activities in the city. Many research programs have studied the diffusion of coworking and makerspaces, concentrating mostly in global cities and regions. Nonetheless, recent inquires reveal that such activities shape a reticular geography, which includes also medium-sized cities, industrial districts and non-metropolitan territories. The paper investigates this territorial diffusion, assuming the central area of Emilia-Romagna region as a case-study for the co-existence of two processes of manufacture transformation. On the one hand, the transformation of traditional specialized, industrial districts, due to globalisation, the economic crisis and knowledge economy improvement. On the other hand, the diffusion of different makerspaces. Some of them are sustained by public policies, while others are linked to private initiatives. Some are located in middle-sized and capital cities, whereas others have flourished in dispersed urbanisations. By analysing three concrete experiences (fablab in Modena, Reggio Emilia and Fiorano M.), the paper addresses the following research questions: do they have relationships with local industrial ecosystems and education/research system? Do they shape peculiar spaces and/or transform existing urban spaces? Do they contribute to social innovation and/or local welfare system?

Nuovi spazi della produzione in territori non metropolitani. I makerspace dell’Emilia centrale.

Mattioli C.
2018-01-01

Abstract

Urban manufacture has recently entered city planning discourses, fostering an increasing number of urban policies that promote the return and/or the conservation of production activities in the city. Many research programs have studied the diffusion of coworking and makerspaces, concentrating mostly in global cities and regions. Nonetheless, recent inquires reveal that such activities shape a reticular geography, which includes also medium-sized cities, industrial districts and non-metropolitan territories. The paper investigates this territorial diffusion, assuming the central area of Emilia-Romagna region as a case-study for the co-existence of two processes of manufacture transformation. On the one hand, the transformation of traditional specialized, industrial districts, due to globalisation, the economic crisis and knowledge economy improvement. On the other hand, the diffusion of different makerspaces. Some of them are sustained by public policies, while others are linked to private initiatives. Some are located in middle-sized and capital cities, whereas others have flourished in dispersed urbanisations. By analysing three concrete experiences (fablab in Modena, Reggio Emilia and Fiorano M.), the paper addresses the following research questions: do they have relationships with local industrial ecosystems and education/research system? Do they shape peculiar spaces and/or transform existing urban spaces? Do they contribute to social innovation and/or local welfare system?
2018
Urban manufacture, makerspaces, non-metropolitan territories, middle-sized cities, industrial districts
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