Civic design collectives
23 places in the atlas
Studios, collectives, networks and platforms that practise or map civic design: those who design with communities and those who chart what emerges.
Japan2
Spain6
Arquitecturas Colectivas
Red estatal · Nacional
A network of groups and people building the city in a participatory way: itinerant gatherings, legal tools for the citizen management of spaces and m…
CIVICS (mapa de innovación ciudadana)
Iberoamérica (desde Madrid) · Nacional
A collaborative cartography of thousands of citizen initiatives in cities across Spain and Ibero-America.
Frena la Curva
Zaragoza (red global) · Aragón
A civic platform born in 48 hours at the start of the pandemic: a mutual aid map, an open innovation festival and replicas in some twenty countries.
Los Madriles
Madrid · Madrid
An atlas of neighbourhood initiatives in Madrid: a collaborative cartography making visible hundreds of gardens, vacant lots, social centres and comm…
Recetas Urbanas
Sevilla (obras en todo el Estado) · Andalucía
Civic architecture through creative alegality: classrooms, schools and facilities self-built with communities, recycling materials and skirting the r…
Wikitoki
Bilbao · País Vasco
A laboratory of collaborative practices in Bilbao's old town: cooperative coworking, social prototyping and experimental internal governance.
France7
Association Nationale des Tiers-LieuxANTL
París · Nacional
The association that brings together France's third places and their regional and thematic networks, born in 2019 as a prefiguration structure and fo…
Avvià, la fabrique à projetsAvvià
Bastia · Corse
A public project factory run by the Communauté d'Agglomération de Bastia, opened in June 2021 in the historic centre of the city, near the citadel.
Bruit du Frigo
Bordeaux · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
An urban creation collective founded in 1997 by architects, with roots in street workshops from the mid-1990s.
France Tiers-LieuxGIP France Tiers-Lieux
París (20 avenue de Ségur) · Nacional
The public interest grouping that coordinated state policy on third places, created in 2022 by the State, the ANCT and the national association.
La Coursive
Dijon · Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
A cooperation space for cultural and creative businesses born in 2010 in the Grésilles district of Dijon, first in empty flats of a social housing bl…
La stAtion
Le Monastère · Occitanie
A third place in Rodez combining coworking, food service and cultural programming, opened in 2023 near the former municipal slaughterhouse.
Italy8
AvanziAvanzi - Sostenibilita per Azioni
Milán (MI) · Lombardia
Avanzi is one of the pioneering organisations in social innovation and sustainability in Italy, active in Milan since 1997.
cheFare
Milán (MI) · Lombardia
cheFare defines itself as an agency for cultural transformation: it has worked since 2012, and formally since 2014, with museums, libraries, cooperat…
Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto
Biella · Piemonte
The artist Michelangelo Pistoletto founded Cittadellarte in 1998 in the former Lanificio Trombetta in Biella, a refurbished textile factory, to posit…
KilowattKilowatt Societa Cooperativa
Bolonia (BO) · Emilia-Romagna
Kilowatt is the Bologna-based cooperative that in 2014 professionalised the work of the Associazione Kilowatt, winner of calls such as Incredibol and…
LabsusLabsus, Laboratorio per la sussidiarietà
Roma · Nacional
The laboratory that drafted the regulation for the shared administration of beni comuni that Bologna approved in 2014 and that hundreds of Italian mu…
LamaLAMA Impresa Sociale
Florencia (FI) · Toscana
LAMA is a Florentine cooperative founded in 2007 that specialises in public policy design, participatory processes, placemaking and the management of…
What they share: They are the field's professional and network infrastructure: they connect cases, methods and people across territories.