About the Citizen Observatory of the Commons :
« The Permanent Citizen Observatory of the Commons of the City of Naples is a participatory consultative body, appointed by the Mayor through a public notice aimed at involving people who are competent but also personally active in participatory processes and the commons in Naples and beyond. It is, therefore, a body that tends to integrate and bring into dialogue with the administration the knowledge coming from direct experience and practices, in the belief that it can serve to make administrative action closer to the needs of those who live in the city and claim a voice in decision-making processes.
The body is composed of 11 members and has the task of :
- promote the mapping of unused or underused spaces that could be put to social use and at disposition of participatory processes;
- contributing to the elaboration of declarations of civic use, supporting the self-governance process of enacting own rules of the communities of reference;
- to promote public debate between the social actors involved in urban regeneration in order to jointly develop proposals for the social and collective use of public goods;
- to collect, together with the competent departments, requests for the temporary use and civic use of the spaces to be valorised by social processes;
- expressing opinions on the Municipal Council’s proposals concerning the commons, participatory democracy, neo-municipalism and fundamental rights such as the right to a house and dwelling;
to become a place of permanent confrontation both in the city institution and in the city as a whole, in order to facilitate shared visions on methodologies and practices for the reactivation of citizenship with regards to democracy and horizontal participation. »
