Liat
Rogel
Validated Lead Expert
Generic Skills
B.1. Understanding of integrated and sustainable urban development:
I have a 15 years’ experience in working in the field of Design for social innovation. I combine my creative abilities with my passion to social impact. My service design education was immediately focused on urban challenges and civic participation. I graduated my master degree under the supervision of Ezio Manzini with a dissertation on tools for urban visual explorations and vision making. I hold a PhD in Design on the topic of collaborative housing, which is also one of my main professional interests.
in 2014 i founded HousingLab, a laboratory for innovation in urban areas. In HousingLab I am managing and coordinating project for housing urban renewal.
I have been working on several EU projects related to sustainable urban development: Experiment City Europe. Collaborative housing, diversity and sustainable cities (EACEA). Human Cities 2 – Reclaiming the Public Space (EACEA). BoostINNO - boosting social innovation (URBACT) and Innovato-R (URBACT).
B.2. Understanding of exchange and learning processes at transnational level:
I have a 10-year experience in working on European projects and local projects. I participated in writing successful proposals, coordinating a local group, organising local and transnational events. In the last 2 years, I was involved in URBACT projects having the chance to know the specific program and deeply understand its aims and methods.
I have a 15 years’ experience in facilitating collaborative and participative design processes. Coming from the design field, I find ways to assist people to collaborate towards a clear and shared vision. I like using visuals in my work, also to allow non-experts to take part of the process. I develop my own tools for participatory planning, vision creation, co-design and storytelling.
My teaching skills and my passion to integrating technology in teaching are also very useful in a network type of work. I teach international and cross disciplinary classes on university level in Politecnico di Milano and IES abroad. I won the "Faculty Innovation Award from IES international on February 2016 for flipping my classroom.
Learning and exchange processes are part of my everyday work.
B.3. Proficiency in English:
I have been teaching in english language since 12 years. I work on European projects writing proposals, plans, strategies and reports. I participate in international conferences and seminars.
Expertise for the design and delivery of transnational exchange and learning activities:
Summary Expertise for the design and delivery of transnational exchange and learning activities:
My professional experience in the public and the private sector, as well as my long experience in teaching allow me manage transnational exchange and learning activities. I use innovative tools coming from service design, lean start-up and flipped learning. My work in HousingLab and as a teacher in Politecnico di Milano is all about co-design. I have great abilities in moderating and bridging between different participants, I worked in three big European projects (experimentcity EU, Human cities II and BoostINNO) managing local focus groups and transnational meetings. I won the "faculty innovation" prize in IES abroad in 2015. I use enabling tools to meet partners needs and empower them towards productive and creative work. I am very good in producing final outputs to take home and to assist partners in communicating in their local context.
Thematic expertise:
Theme / Policy:
Sustainable Housing
Summary Thematic expertise:
I have a 10-year experience dealing with sustainable housing, and focusing mostly on collaborative and social innovation in this field. My experience starts with my master thesis on resident's participation, goes on with a PhD dissertation on collaborative housing and develops through my organisation HousingLab since 2014. HousingLab organises many events in Italy, the biggest is "experimentdays - fair of collaborative housing". The organisation is also responsible for coaching groups, experimenting new services and offering knowledge. I have been active in facilitating EU and Local groups on the topic, managing working sessions with policy makers and keeping our communication channels updated. In 2018 I published a book on the topic of Cohousing, which includes a wide research on facts and figures of cohousing In Italy.
Theme / Policy:
Local Governance
Summary Thematic expertise:
I am an expert in Social Innovation, Community-Led Local Development and participation. I graduated from Politecnico di Milano with a Master degree in Service Design with a dissertation on social innovation, with tools for participatory processes in multicultural neighbourhoods. My PhD dissertation concentrated on digital and physical tools for participatory processes in the housing Field.
I have been teaching social innovation in IES Abroad since 2011. I am constantly involved in research projects on the topic, mainly in the housing field, but also in green mobility (Green Move) and social inclusion (Rotellando). Lately I participated actively in the URBACT project BoostINNO, offering my expertise to the municipality of Milan. I have published articles and a book on the topic. My work in HousingLab is concentrated on social innovation and I moderate and conduct participatory design sessions in many projects and during my teaching.
Expertise support to local authorities and other stakeholders in designing & delivering integrated and participatory policies
E.1. Knowledge on participatory methods and tools for co-production and implementation of local polices :
In HousingLab I conducted a series of focus groups with the municipality of Milan and local stakeholders to create a network of exchange on housing policies. The meeting was structure in a way to answer specific questions and generate others. The results from the focus groups were first shared between participants, then in a local event and then were put in a wider project to develop specific policies.
(final report: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2pM9Q04cOvkUlI0WlVBamdiRlU)
During BoostINNO, meetings, focus groups, brainstorming sessions and events were organised and I offered specific tools for participation that allowed the municipality to involve expert stakeholders and the larger public. During focus groups, I used SWOT analysis and scenario building to enhance conversation.
(https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ka84j3yT6Vbr5efucUXyx0oEhD3XofKn)
E.2. Knowledge on integrated approach for the design, delivering, monitoring and evaluation of urban strategies/policies:
Integrated approach is the main challenge to my opinion in the context of public administration in Italy, In the housing field, around the idea of housing as welfare I have been working with welfare office, housing and urbanism. This was difficult, but creating a common interest between the offices and working on the specific aims helped. I would like to work more in an integrated approach because I believe it is the only way towards innovative policies.
E.3. Awareness of the main policy and funding schemes for sustainable urban development at EU and national level:
With HousingLab, and as a consultant I constantly monitor local, regional and EU funding opportunities. I know well the URBACT scheme thanks to BoostINNO and Innovato-R. I am very much familiar with CREATIVE EUROPE PROGRAMME thanks to HUMAN CITIES as well as Europe for Citizens thanks to Experimentcity Europe. I consult to the municipality of Milan, Innovation office on funding opportunities. I keep track through newsletters websites.
E.4. Ability to understand specific local situations and adapt tools and content to different local realities:
During Experimencity EU, Human cities II and BoostINNO, the aim was to share best practices and exchange towards different outputs. In Experiment days EU, all local examples of housing were very different concerning a very local and specific context, but we managed to create a word cloud and then a list of guideline that were shared between the participants and then in the local context. for many of the participants this was a first step towards implementing policies. Also, Human Cities II ended with the creation of TOOLKIT helpful to take from local experience and offer enabling opportunities for everyone.
Informations
Residence location:
Italy
Languages:
_Other_ - Mother tongue
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Email:
liat.rogel@gmail.com