This contribution reflects on the role of districts (municipi) in relation to forms of mutual learning between institutions, citizens, and associations. The considerations are primarily based on the writer’s direct experience as an elected councilor, assessor, and vice-president of a Milanese district. What forms of learning are in the administrative activity of a city hall? How are they articulated, and in what directions do they move? What role does the city hall play? What are the limits of this learning, and how can it be facilitated and made effective? Starting from projects and processes on which the writer has had responsibility and practiced participant observation, the paper reflects on three roles of the municipality in the relationship between citizens and administration in the governance of the territory at the ‘hyperlocal’ scale. Three roles – intermediary, knowledge keeper, and activator of forms of care – contextually illuminate potentials and limits of public action and the learning process.
Il contributo riflette sul ruolo dei municipi in relazione alle forme di apprendimento tra istituzioni, cittadini, associazioni. Le considerazioni si basano in primo luogo sull’esperienza diretta di chi scrive, maturata come consigliera eletta, assessore e vicepresidente di un municipio milanese. Quali forme di apprendimento nella attività amministrativa di un municipio? Come si articolano e in che direzioni si muovono? Che ruolo ha il municipio? Quali i limiti di tale apprendimento e come facilitarlo e renderlo efficace? A partire da progetti e processi su cui chi scrive ha avuto responsabilità e praticato una osservazione partecipante, il paper riflette intorno a tre ruoli del municipio nella relazione tra cittadini e amministrazione nel governo del territorio alla scala ‘iperlocale’. Tre ruoli – tramite, portatore di conoscenza, attivatore di forme di cura – che illuminano contestualmente potenzialità e limiti dell’azione pubblica e del processo di apprendimento.
Municipi a Milano. Ruoli, opportunità e limiti nello scambio tra istituzioni ‘iperlocali’ e cittadinanza
A. Bruzzese
2024-01-01
Abstract
This contribution reflects on the role of districts (municipi) in relation to forms of mutual learning between institutions, citizens, and associations. The considerations are primarily based on the writer’s direct experience as an elected councilor, assessor, and vice-president of a Milanese district. What forms of learning are in the administrative activity of a city hall? How are they articulated, and in what directions do they move? What role does the city hall play? What are the limits of this learning, and how can it be facilitated and made effective? Starting from projects and processes on which the writer has had responsibility and practiced participant observation, the paper reflects on three roles of the municipality in the relationship between citizens and administration in the governance of the territory at the ‘hyperlocal’ scale. Three roles – intermediary, knowledge keeper, and activator of forms of care – contextually illuminate potentials and limits of public action and the learning process.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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