Responsible togetherness and urban regeneration: Italian case study "Friends of Molo San Vincenzo"

The contribution addresses the issue of what kind of processes and innovative methodologies can be used for changing the accessibility and use of urban spaces. Collaborative and participative strategies represent an innovation aimed at bringing out those potentialities concealed in urban spaces. This can be attained using new functions, which meet the needs of the civil society. The public areas can be rethink as common social space that support and enhance the redefining of urban togetherness (Procentese, 2011). This contribution offers a reflection on these issues within a regeneration project under way at San Vincenzo Dock, which is the main external defense of Naples' harbor. Despite its historical, cultural, scenic, and architectonical value, this place lies in a state of neglect and inaccessibility. Our goal is to regenerate a seaside public space in collaboration with Institutions, the local urban community, and pro-sumers. Community Psychology Lab of the University of Naples Federico II together CNR IRISS interdisciplinary research group, is a main actor in this process. Therefore San Vincenzo Dock represents a chance to develop and test the planning of collaborative methodologies for the urban regeneration.