The severe economic framework of the last years gradually eroded the buying power of the families and in particular made more difficult to buy or rent an apartment, also due to myopic housing policies which favour the builders and their profits instead of answer to needs and necessities of population. Besides this there is also a lack of design sensibility from the ones who design and build houses: they base their operational strategy on statistic and beliefs which date back to the 80s and fix the traditional family unit of father, mother and two/three children as the standard one. On the last years there’s a new trend: peoples from various class origins and occupations are setting up teams with the aim of doing community actions for fighting the economic crisis, for example purchasing groups, ecovillages, cohousing and coworking, useful to hold down the costs but also to arrange social innovation models. The aim of this paper is to introduce two operative experiences which, starting from a social innovation process, set up shared working and living places and allow the fruition and maintenance of spaces located on the “Sassi” complex in Matera, which represent a sort of forerunner model of cohousing. The first experience is ‘UnMonastery’ where “unmonks”, drawing inspiration from the monastic life, work and live together in the stately mansion of Palazzo del Casale and each one, with different background, has the mission to answer the social needs of the Matera community and to encourage radical forms of social innovation and collaboration. The second experience is ‘Casa Netural’ placed in a house close to the characteristic setting of the Duomo of Matera. It represents an experimental initiative which supplies various services to the community, for example the co-living: a week of cohousing with other social innovators during which is possible to meet the neighbours, set up pilot projects or experimentations, visit Matera and its surroundings.

1. The co-living experience as engine for social innovations in the “Sassi” complex in Matera
Cohousing. Programs and projects to recover heritage buildings
Symposium – 24.oct.2014 – Roma
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2. Italian families consumption till 2013 (ISTAT,
CER-IRES)
Italian families income till 2013 (CER-IRES)
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3. Investments on dwellings in Italy (ANCE)
Dwellings market comparison (SAVILLS)
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4. Source: CdP Investimenti
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5. Family typology amount x1,000 %
no units 8,319 33.2
one member 7,667 30.6
more members 652 2.6
one unit 14,879 63.8
couples without children 4,629 59.6
couples with children 8,062 18.5
a parent with children 2,188 8.8
one unit with other
persons 1,062 4.2
couples without children 339 1.3
couples with children 471 1.9
a parent with children 251 1.0
two or more units 350 1,4
TOTAL 24,611
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Source:
2013 Census - ISTAT
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Family typology %
no units 33.2
one member 30.6
more members 2.6
one unit 63.8
couples without children 59.6
couples with children 18.5
a parent with children 8.8
one unit with other
persons 4.2
couples without children 1.3
couples with children 1.9
a parent with children 1.0
two or more units 1,4
TOTAL
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63,8 %
33,2 %
4,2 %

7. Source: Ansa Centimetri
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9. INNOVATION FACTORS – THE SHARING CROWD
crowdsourcing
“Crowdsourcing giclèe” – James Jean Giovanni Perrucci – PhD student @ Roma Tre University – gperrucci@uniroma3.it

10. INNOVATION FACTORS – THE SHARING CROWD
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crowdfunding
crowdfunding

11. INNOVATION FACTORS – THE SHARING CROWD
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crowdmapping
crowdmapping

12. INNOVATION FACTORS – THE “CO” FACTOR
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coworking
coworking

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- FIRST TIME IN SAN FRANCISCO, 2005
- IN ITALY THERE ARE 285 RUNNING EXPERIENCES OF
COWORKING, 190 IN THE NORTH, 55 IN THE CENTER,
40 IN THE SOUTH
- WHO ARE THE COWORKERS?
53%
FREELANCES
39%
ENTREPRENEURS
EMPLOYEES
STARTUPPERS
8%
OTHERS
WORKING TIME
FLEXIBILITY
INTERACTIONS
KNOWLEDGE
SHARING
NEW WORK
OPPORTUNITIES
LOWER RENT
- WHY COWORK?

14. INNOVATION FACTORS – THE “CO” FACTOR
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cohousing
cohousing

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BOFAELLESKABER
PARTICIPATED DESIGN THROUGH THE THREE TIERS PROCESS (MORTOLA,
MECARELLI, 2012):
1) WHOLENESS
2) VISIONING
3) UNFOLDING

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matera

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neighbouroods

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22. 5 KEY CHALLENGES
SIGNIFICANT LACK OF OFFLINE ENGAGEMENT OR
VISIBILITY OF HAPPENINGS THROUGHOUT THE CITY
LACK OF INTER-GENERATIONAL SPACES
LACK OF SPACES FOR CHILDREN FOCUSED ON
DEVELOPING SKILLS, SPECIFICALLY TECHNOLOGY
LACK OF GLOBAL VIEW ON THE CITY
MANY HOUSES AND BUILDINGS ARE NOT IN USE
AND THERE IS NO ARCHITECTURAL RENOVATION
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23. Giovanni Perrucci – PhD student @ Roma Tre University – gperrucci@uniroma3.it
OPEN TECH SCHOOL

24. ASSET MAPPING TOOLKIT: MAPPING THE COMMONS + OPEN STREET MAP
WALKING ETNOGRAPHIES – UNTRANSIT – UNGUIDE
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25. ASSET MAPPING TOOLKIT: MAPPING THE COMMONS + OPEN STREET MAP
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26. ARDUINO: OPEN SOURCE SOLAR TRACKER + KIDERWIND
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27. ARDUINO: OPEN SOURCE SOLAR TRACKER + KIDERWIND
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28. LONG TERM INITIATIVE
OPENSOURCE TOOLKIT FOR NEW UNMONASTERIES
TRANSMIT KNOW-HOWS AND DOCUMENTATIONS
SHARE EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
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RI-NETURAL
NETURAL LAB

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AGRI-NETURAL
1) MAPPING ABANDONED SPACES
2) CULTIVATION SPECIES SELECTION
3) SETUP OF A COMMUNITY TO MEET THE DEMAND
4) DESIGN THE URBAN VEGETABLES GARDEN

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FANTALUCANIA
NETURALMUM

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The awareness of the community

37. The community is the strong point of a saving process
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38. Innovation doesn’t happen in isolation
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39. PICTURES CREDITS
slide 1 – Anthony Mattox
slide 7 – startupgirl.it
slide 8 – Vincenzo Di Maria/comboproject.com
slide 9 – James Jean
slide 10 – nalato.com
slide 11, 25 – Simone Cortesi
slide 12 – escapeplanfilms.com
slide 13 – mycowo.com
slide 14 – quaderns.coac.net
slide 16 – benetural.com
slide 18 – luceradente.com (1)
lacittadelluomo.it (2,3)
wikimatera.it (4)
slide 19 – edgeryders.eu (1,3)
ecodellamontagna.altervista.com (2)
slide 20 – sassiland.com (1)
rsablogs.org.uk (2,3)
slide 21, 23, 24, 26-28 – edgeryders.eu
slide 29, 32-35 – benetural.com
slide 36 – comboproject.com
slide 37 – Vincenzo Di Maria
slide 38 – newbuckland.com
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