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Espandere i linguaggi della pianificazione: esplorazioni filmiche come dispositivi di lettura e di attivazione
No full textCollingwood Neighbourhood House. La costruzione di una comunità urbana inclusiva
No full textVancouver, una città prevalentemente anglo-europea fino agli anni ’80, è stata progressivamente trasformata dall’arrivo di immigrati provenienti principalmente dall’est e dal sudest asiatico. Oggi, nella città di Vancouver, il 51% degli abitanti è di origine non anglosassone. Si tratta di una percentuale non paragonabile a quella di
altre città nel mondo ad eccezione di Toronto e Miami. Questo fenomeno ha prodotto profondi cambiamenti nelle strade e nei quartieri, nelle scuole e nei negozi, nelle attività ricreative e nelle pratiche religiose. Cosa succede in una città sempre più multiculturale caratterizzata da una molteplicità di storie, culture, religioni e pratiche sociali? In che modo i nuovi arrivati, così come i membri della società ospitante, sviluppano una capacità quotidiana di vivere accanto a quelli che in modi differenti vengono percepiti come diversi? In che modo gli stranieri diventano i nostri vicini di casa
Where strangers become neighbours. Integrating immigrants in Vancouver, Canada
No full textIn the present age of migration, the influx of immigrants from distant lands leads inevitably to the spatial and social restructuring of cities and regions. It is often accompanied by fears of and hostility towards the newcomers. Nevertheless, in Europe, North America and Japan this influx of immigrants is essential to economic growth.
How can immigrants become accepted members of the society of their adopted country? How can strangers become neighbours? What alchemies of political and social imagination are required to achieve peaceful coexistence in the mongrel cities of the 21st century? What philosophies and policies have made integration successful in Canada and how can it be translated into European context?
The book tackles an important contemporary issue – the social integration of immigrants in a large metropolis – by way of the detailed case study of one Canadian city. The book provides a large political and legal context which makes this case study comprehensible and inspiring to readers outside Canada. The accompanying award-winning film illustrates how one neighbourhood has been engaged in creating a welcoming place for everyone.
The use of film-making as an action research tool and the digital ethnographic methodology provide alternative ways of understanding a complex social process
Finding our Way
No full textDocumentary distributed by MOVING IMAGES (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
http://www.mongrel-stories.com/films/finding-our-way/
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This is a story of a people dispossessed, deep historic wounds, and still unresolved conflict between Indigenous people, governments in Canada and industry. It’s a story of the struggles of two First Nations in the Carrier territory of north central British Columbia (Canada) for land and sovereignty, for healing and revitalization.
The Ts’il Kaz Koh First Nation (Burns Lake Band) have been in conflict with the Village of Burns Lake over appropriated lands for almost a hundred years, a conflict that culminated in the municipality shutting off water and sewerage services to their Reservation in the year 2000, and the Band taking the Village to the Supreme Court of BC. The Cheslatta Carrier Nation were evicted from their homeland in 1952 by Alcan’s hydroelectric project, and are still struggling to keep their heads above water.
This is 21st century Canada, and this is a story with a question mark. After almost a century of apartheid in this region, the film asks: Is there a way forward
O medo do Outro. Planeamento através de diálogos terapêuticos em comunidades altamente conflituais
Get PDFThe concept of difference is becoming more and more central to the way in which urban societies are understood, and a whole raft of theorizing (feminist, postcolonial, poststructuralist, queer, and psychoanalytic theories, for example) has contributed to this new awareness. But so too has a new politics of difference which has been re-shaping not only how we think about cities and urban processes but, more importantly, re-shaping cities themselves. Managing these differences has become an increasing challenge to the running of cities and has particular implications for the city-building professions. The choice is clear: ghettoization or hybridization; separate lives, or change-by-conjoining. The challenge is clear. How to build new hybrid communities rather than increasingly segmented and fragmented cities? Planning’s responses to this crucial question has not often been really satisfactory. Many scholars have acknowledged the overall failure of the planning system to respond to the increasing cultural diversity of the city, to the ways in which the values and norms of the dominant culture are reflected in plans, planning codes and bylaws, legislation, heritage and urban design practices, to planners’ inability to analyze issues from a multicultural perspective or to design participatory processes that bring racial and ethnic groups into the planning process (Ameyaw, 2000, p. 105). Finding out ways to manage our coexistence in increasingly diverse urban landscapes is not an easy task. A different path can be built: a path based on a communicative and collaborative planning approach whose goal is to encourage a dialogue among conflicting subjectivities. We call it a therapeutic approach (Sandercock 2003; Sandercock and Attili 2014): a way to engage with emotions in planning practice, recognising the importance of working with and through people’s hopes, fears, memories, wounds. In this respect many scholars, in the recent years, have been drawing attention to the need of creating a dialogic space for the unspeakable, for emotions to be heard and named, for talk of fear and loathing as well as of hope and transformation (Marris 1974; Baum 1997, Forester 1999, 2009; Sandercock 2003; Erfan 2013). This urgency involves the design of a safe space in which conflicting parties can meet and speak without fear of being dismissed, attacked, or humiliated—a new space of recognition in which differences and historic injustices are acknowledged, as a necessary prelude to addressing contemporary conflict
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