comanagement – SI4SD Social Innovation for Sustainable Development

30 Aug, 202030 Aug, 2020 si4sdmadrid initiatives, inspirations, other, projects

Research in Times of Corona (part 2): intensive online action research

A retrospective of the activity in Supercoop and reflections about the process and what it has meant both for the initiative and the research project.

31 Mar, 20201 Apr, 2020 si4sdmadrid initiatives, organizations, projects

Supercoop Madrid

A cooperative and eco-social supermarket growing in the centre of Madrid challenging traditional consumption patterns and community relations.

24 Feb, 202030 Mar, 2020 si4sdmadrid initiatives, legislation, programmes

Gent en Garde

An innovative process to codesign and implement a food policy and programme towards a more sustianable, resilient and just food system in Gent.

12 May, 201912 May, 2019 si4sdmadrid initiatives, organizations, Other

La Mesa Ciudadana

A sharing and experimenting space for professionals, civil servants and citizen initiatives looking for new ways and tools to integrate citizens in the management of public resources and spaces.

6 Apr, 2019 si4sdmadrid organizations, projects, Sin categoría

Leuven 2030

An initiative aimed at achieving a sustainable and carbon-neutral city through the cooperation of all social agents in the city of Leuven.

17 Jan, 201917 Jan, 2019 si4sdmadrid initiatives, organizations, projects

CSA Tabacalera Madrid

A cession from the government to civil movements to collectively manage cultural and social activities in an abandoned former tobacco factory.

What is SI4SD?

SI4SD | The Role and performance of socially innovative multi-actor collaborations is the research project started by Clara Medina G in September 2018, aimed at understanding and promoting Social Innovation to achieve Sustainable Development, focusing on the role that different urban actors, including local administrations, can play in this process and how they collaborate to achieve it.

In November 2019 the project officially evolved into a joint PhD hosted at KU Leuven and UCM Universities, funded as an FWO Fellowship awarded to Clara.

About the author

Clara Medina G is a Madrilian researcher and urban facilitator with a transdisciplinary background in architecture, urbanism, planning and innovation passionate about sustainable development, participatory design and the social dimension of the built environment. She is convinced that only by innovating in relations and synergies among urban actors will societies be able to tackle present and future challenges.

Learn more about her professional profile and projects here.