From March 31 to April 2, 2025, the Fairville project organized a workshop at the Maison de Quartier Malibran in Brussels. The initiative aimed to promote knowledge exchange among the project’s partners and to open up dialogue with other organizations and networks engaged in co-production for social and environmental justice.
Among the various activities, the workshop featured the presentation of an action-research study on the floods that occurred in Rue Gray (Brussels), carried out within the framework of the Fairville project. A public event was also held to showcase co-production initiatives in urban contexts, with the participation of representatives from civic organizations based in Belgium, France, the United Kingdom, Spain, and Senegal.
During the workshop, Alfonso Alfonsi, Maresa Berliri, and Daniele Mezzana of Knowledge and Innovation (K&I) presented the findings of the research contained in Deliverable D1.2, entitled Mapping of the Impact of Inequalities on Political Participation and Democratic Quality, which summarizes the main outcomes of Work Package 4. The document offers a shared definition of the concepts of inequality, citizen participation/engagement, and democratic quality; it presents a conceptual map of the relationships among these notions, developed through a review of academic literature; and it analyzes the impacts of inequalities on citizen engagement in the local contexts where the Fairville project’s labs operate.