local – SI4SD Social Innovation for Sustainable Development

18 Jan, 202126 Feb, 2021 si4sdmadrid initiatives, inspirations, legislation, news, organizations, programmes, projects, publications

New Publication: Exploring the Emergence of Innovative Multi-Actor Collaborations toward a Progressive Urban Regime in Madrid (2015–2019)

Introducing the new article written by Clara Medina García with her promotors Rosa de la Fuente and Pieter Van den Broeck published in Sustainability.

21 Jul, 202021 Jul, 2020 si4sdmadrid initiatives, inspirations, legislation, organizations, projects, publications

New Publication: Limits of municipalism. What can we learn from Operación Chamartín?

Introducing the new article written by Pieter Rondelez and Clara Medina García published in MINIM Municipalism.

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.

27 Jan, 201927 Jan, 2019 si4sdmadrid initiatives, projects

Antwerp Circular South

A hands-on experimental UIA project to engage local community in circular economy habits through online and offline activities.

30 Dec, 201830 Dec, 2018 si4sdmadrid initiatives, legislation, organizations

Los Foros Locales de Madrid

A governance mechanism to institutionalise "district assemblies" in permanent spaces for civil dialogue & proposition of initiatives for urban regeneration.

29 Dec, 201829 Dec, 2018 si4sdmadrid initiatives, projects

Ringland in Antwerp

An innovative collective process to negotiate and redesign the highway system in Antwerp seeking urban resilience.

28 Dec, 201810 Jan, 2019 si4sdmadrid initiatives, projects

Mares Madrid

A socio-public co-managed initiative for Urban Regeneration through SSE in Madrid funded by the EU as an Urban Innovative Action.

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.