Last updated: April 2022
Due to the frequent episodes of flooding, the city of Bari has started thinking about becoming a laboratory where experimenting a new landscape approach, with the additional benefit of enhancing daily liveability. New green spaces have been built within housing areas (apartments that the municipality provides for those who have low income). (Ref.1&2) The aim of Garden Faber was to create a community garden, designed and made by residents for residents (Ref.1.) As of July 2020, no sources were available to understand if the community continued with the garden.
Overview
Nature-based solution
- Community gardens and allotments
- Community gardens
- Grey infrastructure featuring greens
- House gardens
- Parks and urban forests
- Pocket parks/neighbourhood green spaces
Key challenges
- Green space, habitats and biodiversity (SDG 15)
- Green space creation and/or management
- Regeneration, land-use and urban development
- Promote natural styles of landscape design for urban development
- Water management (SDG 6)
- Flood protection
- Health and well-being (SDG 3)
- Enabling opportunities for physical activity
- Creation of opportunities for recreation
- Social justice, cohesion and equity (SDG 10)
- Social cohesion
- Social interaction
- Sustainable consumption and production (SDG 12)
- Sustainable consumption
- Sustainable production
Focus
Creation of new green areas, Ecological restoration of ecosystems
Project objectives
The goal of the project was to implement a new green area in a communal garden with a participatory approach from the residents of the area. The residents of the area shared with the members of Garden Faber the planning and implementation phase of the project. (Ref.1.) The plan was part of an overall attempt of the city to provide more recreational activities and green spaces and to provide the services of mitigating the impact of urban pollution and water management issues as the consequences of precipitation (Ref.1&2)
Implementation activities
First, the company Garden Faber applied to receive funds to implement the project from the municipal initiative "Principi attivi". After that, Garden Faber organised a series of workshops where the residents of the neighborhood were invited to participate, and together they designed solutions for the regeneration of the green area. (Ref.2.) The intervention was applied to a single park, where all the activties have been organized.
Regarding the status of the project: Research carried out in 2020, reports that this was a community garden designed next to a building designated for public housing. It is not known if the garden still exists, the NBS, however, was implemented but its outcomes are unknown. No sources were available to understand if the community continued with the garden though there is information that a similar project has been implemented in close by areas.
Main beneficiaries
- Citizens or community groups
- Marginalized groups: Socio-economically disadvantaged populations (e.g. low-income households, unemployed)
Governance
Management set-up
- Co-governance with government and non-government actors
Type of initiating organisation
- Local government/municipality
- Citizens or community group
Participatory approaches/ community involvement
- Co-planning (e.g. stakeholder workshops, focus groups, participatory mapping)
- Consultation (e.g. workshop, surveys, community meetings, town halls)
- Joint implementation (e.g. tree planting)
- Co-management/Joint management
Details on the roles of the organisations involved in the project
The region of Puglia created a program to involve young people in policy decision-making, and Garden Faber is one of those projects. They provide the competence, funds (from the region) and the material to implement the initiative. The citizens have neverhteless an active role in participating to the initiative (Ref.2.)
Project implemented in response to ...
... an EU policy or strategy?
Unknown
... a national policy or strategy?
Unknown
... a local policy or strategy?
Yes
(The intervention was implemented in response to the "Il bando Principi Attivi 2010" (Announcement on active principles), which sets guidelines and provides funds for urban interventions (Ref.3.))
Financing
Total cost
€500,000 - €2,000,000
Source(s) of funding
- Public regional budget
Type of funding
- Earmarked public budget
Non-financial contribution
Type of non-financial contribution
- Provision of land
- Provision of labour
Who provided the non-financial contribution?
- Public authorities (e.g. land, utility services)
- Citizens (e.g. volunteering)
Impacts and Monitoring
Environmental impacts
- Green space and habitat
- Increased green space area
- Increase in protected green space areas
- Increased conversion of degraded land or soil
Economic impacts
- Unknown
Socio-cultural impacts
- Social justice and cohesion
- Improved social cohesion
- Improved access to urban green space
- Increased visibility and opportunity for marginalised groups or indigenous peoples
- Health and wellbeing
- Gain in activities for recreation and exercise
Type of reported impacts
Achieved impacts
Presence of formal monitoring system
Unknown
Presence of indicators used in reporting
No evidence in public records
Presence of monitoring/ evaluation reports
No evidence in public records
Availability of a web-based monitoring tool
No evidence in public records
References
Ref.1. BollentiSpiriti2.0 (2012). Il progetto Garden Faber realizza promuove la realizzazione di un giardino di comunità. Available at Source link on 18-6-2020)
Ref.2. BariToday (2012). "Polmoni verdi contro allagamenti". Così Garden Faber ridisegna la città „"Polmoni verdi contro gli allagamenti". Così Garden Faber ridisegna la città“. Available at Source link on 18-6-2020)
Ref.3. La gazzetta del mezzogiorno (2013). Bari, a Japigia il parco che non arriva lo si attende da sette anni. Available at Source link on18-6-2020)
Ref.4 Centro di Servizio San Nicola (2008), Principi attivi. Giovani idee per una Puglia migliore, Available at Source link (Accessed 3-7-2020)
Ref.2. BariToday (2012). "Polmoni verdi contro allagamenti". Così Garden Faber ridisegna la città „"Polmoni verdi contro gli allagamenti". Così Garden Faber ridisegna la città“. Available at Source link on 18-6-2020)
Ref.3. La gazzetta del mezzogiorno (2013). Bari, a Japigia il parco che non arriva lo si attende da sette anni. Available at Source link on18-6-2020)
Ref.4 Centro di Servizio San Nicola (2008), Principi attivi. Giovani idee per una Puglia migliore, Available at Source link (Accessed 3-7-2020)