A quality label for temporary reuse : co-design practices

The spreading of re-cycle and temporary reuse practices on abandoned spaces in our cities reveals a shift of paradigm of design discipline toward new ways of acting. It is also expression of social innovation and DIY attitude, that focuses on people more than on goods, throughout bottom-up actions connected to every day’s life needs more than to consumption. Designing a quality label is an opportunity: Reagente is a strategy to simplify policies, to recognize value to actions on territory and to enhance social innovation. Genoa and its community are an experimental eld for a co-design process.