CORPUS - DUT

CORPUS is a Driving Urban Transition project co-funded by the European Union. It aims to conduct research on alternative processes of retrofitting public space at neighborhood level, grounded on Circular Urban Economies (CUE) through involvement of local stakeholders and citizens. Having as its main challenge the revival of degraded public space in the periphery of the city, the project will investigate alternative ways of cooperation through the concept of Urban Living Lab (ULL) as a diffusing entity of CUE. Two case studies of ULLs (park of Public Housing Complex in Egaleo/Greece and micro-circular economies in Turin/Italy) will be set up, in order to design semi-permanent urban equipment through participatory processes, upcycling techniques and the development of digitally enabled systems (civic blockchain) to promote circularity of materials, services and goods. The interaction between two ULLs will generate tangible insights on how to form a phygital model of cross sectoral cooperation to tackle degradation of urban space and promote socio-economic development. The entire process will document methodologies and prototypes (platforms, urban equipment, policies) to engage citizens, SMEs and Municipalities, leading to the formation of a model to transform ULL into permanent community labs, oriented to CUE and public space reclamation. The project is coordinated by the University of Turin with the participation of Open Lab Athens, the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment of TU Delft, the Municipality of Egaleo, FBW Urbanists + Architects and Circoscrizione IV della Città di Torino.