The shift from stakeholder to communityholder for Territorial Social Responsibility: the contribution of UNICITY Laboratory and MADIT methodology

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10.2991/978-94-6463-469-3_25How to use a DOI?

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Social cohesion; Social responsibility; Local development

Abstract

University of Padua's UNICITYLab arises as a hub for the study and co-design of policy interventions for the strategic development of Padua as a University City, responding to the need to understand the university-city interaction within the socio-economical system, along with the need to “know to govern” the complex processes in its urban organization. Besides to developing scientific knowledge, UNICITYLab aims to promote dialogue between the city and the university. Within this perspective, a line of research is dedicated to measure the degree of shared responsibility and social cohesion of the community in order to promote a shift in citizens from a profile of stakeholder to one of communityholder: citizens who participate as active resources within the community, acting as “dialogic node” accelerator of social cohesion. Within an often-conflictual interactive framework, but which can also find virtuous forms of encounter, collaboration and sharing of goals and common goods, a significant role is played by local businesses. These actors, as interlocutors targeting both the native population and students, can contribute to promoting the social cohesion of the community: in terms of Territorial Social Responsibility, they are not limited to pursue an exclusively economic purpose, but also of care and regeneration of the territory. Research’s results show that it’s useful to strengthen their role as community nodes, because, while they narrate themselves as social hubs, they lack operational pragmatism in exercising a role as active contributors to the social cohesion of the community.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Gian Piero Turchi
AU  - Luisa Orrù
AU  - Marco Locatelli
AU  - Monia Paita
AU  - Christian Moro
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/08/26
TI  - The shift from stakeholder to communityholder for Territorial Social Responsibility: the contribution of UNICITY Laboratory and MADIT methodology
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Nature for Innovative and Inclusive Urban Regeneration (NATiURB 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 321
EP  - 329
SN  - 2667-128X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-469-3_25
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-469-3_25
ID  - Turchi2024
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