From the heart of my neighborhood!

From the heart of my neighborhood!

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ABOUT THE PROJECT

The project „From the heart of my neighbourhood” was a transnational and interdisciplinary project that involved the following participants: one NGO of applied social sciences from Romania (Komunitas), one NGO of participative planning and architecture from France (L’armoire Urbaine), one NGO of community development (Association For Community Development in Ferentari),  25 children from a school situated in a disadvantaged neighbourhood from Bucharest (Scoala 136), 10 students from Landscape Architecture Faculty, one coach and experts in community facilitation, landscape architecture and arts.

Ferentari, the neighbourhood from Bucharest where the project took place, is a poor area, inhabited mainly by Rroma population.The project aimed to create social solidarity between young people coming from various social, cultural and economical backgrounds: pupils with reduced possibilities and students from a prestigious faculty in Bucharest; young people from an NGO whose members are mainly Rroma working together with young people from other 2 NGOs: a Romanian and a French one.

The project activities included civic education and participative planning workshops, dialogues and working groups with people from Ferentari (Aleea Livezilor) and one urban intervention in Ferentari, designed by students, pupils, people from the neighbourhood, experts and projects team and initiative groups.

We intended to promote an active and participative attitude among people and to contribute to revitalization of social relations in a disadvantaged neighbourhood, through arranging a new playground and a space for socialization.

The urban intervention consisted in the redevelopment and valorisation of an abandoned public space from the neighborhood: a former football field. Together with the inhabitants from the area and with the help of local administration, the project team re-arranged the football field, along with creating new a new public space for socialization and relaxation. After the new spaces were ready, we inaugurated them through a community party where we screened movies, listened to music and played sports together.

The project took place between February 2011 – July 2011 and it was financed by European Comission, through Youth in Action Programme, Action 1.2, Transnational Initiatives

The fanzine of the project:

http://issuu.com/marius_huza/docs/english_diary

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