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Publikation Participatory budgeting as an inclusive placemaking driver. Different European and American practices(Brill, 23.12.2024) Polko, Paulina; Mehan, Asma; Kimic, Kinga; Tappert, Simone; Suter, Aline; Petrovski, Aleksandar; Rotondo, Francesco; Djukic, Aleksandra; Hansen, Preben; Manahasa, Edmond; Fathi, Mastoureh; García-Esparza, Juan A.Participatory budgeting (PB) is a paradigm that empowers residents to directly decide how a portion of the public budget is spent. Specifically, residents deliberate over spending priorities and vote over how the budget should be allocated to different public projects. As such it is a mechanism of top-down transfer of decisions on the part of budgetary expenditure to citizens. In recent years, PB has become a central topic of discussion and an important field of innovation for those involved in local development, considered one of the most successful democratic innovations of the last 25 years. Participatory budgeting contributes significantly to participatory democracy, inclusiveness processes and placemaking, but some factors limit the scale of these aspects. However, a relatively simple idea – that “ordinary citizens” should have a direct say in public budgets that impact them – has travelled the world by the most unexpected routes and landed in unlikely sites. There is no precise model for PB programmes. While there are similar tenets and institutional mechanisms, PB programmes are structured in response to each city or state’s particular political, social and economic environment. Therefore, it is necessary to consider to what extent PB strengthens the discussed processes, whether it allows reaching new, inactive groups of citizens and includes them in the decision-making process regarding shaping public spaces. The popularity of this tool carries the risk that it will be used to build the image of local government instead of significantly increasing the participation of citizens in deciding on local public spaces. The chapter aims to present and analyse participatory budgeting practices in four European and North American countries (Switzerland, Poland, North Macedonia and the United States of America) to show the role of PB in placemaking processes by the levels and forms of participation, the analysis of representativeness of PB participants (inclusiveness), placemaking impact and its level of digitisation. The proposed comparative analysis allows for assessing the importance of the tool for increasing social participation, which is participatory budgeting, for understanding its limitations and suggesting directions for its improvement to shape more inclusive, friendly and open public spaces.04A - Beitrag SammelbandPublikation Digitalisierung und Gemeinwesenarbeit. Das Partizipative Budget als Instrument digitaler Beteiligungsprozesse in Schweizer Städten(Beltz Juventa, 30.07.2024) Tappert, Simone; Suter, Aline; Neumaier, Stefanie; Dörr, Madeleine; Botzum, Edeltraud04A - Beitrag SammelbandPublikation Digital rights to the city: local practices and negotiations of urban space on Decidim(Cogitatio Press, 2024) Suter, Aline; Kaiser, Lars; Dušek, Martin; Hasler, Florin; Tappert, SimoneThe organization, management, and production of urban space through digital information and communication technologies have become a central means for governing urban life. To overcome a lack of citizen-centered practices in today’s smart cities, governments and municipalities institutionalize citizen-centered digital infrastructures such as Decidim, a digital infrastructure proposing non-corporate, decentralized, and collaborative forms of digital production to evoke participatory governance practices and ultimately social transformation (Barandiaran et al., 2018). Swiss city administrations have adapted the Decidim platform for participatory budgeting processes and city-wide participation platforms since 2019. This article explores the process of institutional adoption, focusing on how the use of Decidim impacts local practices and negotiations for governing urban space. The examination of the Decidim platform in the Swiss cities of Zurich and Lucerne will be framed by re-conceptualizing Lefebvre’s right to the city in the age of digital transformation. The findings show that for a successful introduction of the Decidim platform based on principles of the right to the city (a) local needs for a new digital democratic instrument need to be pre-existent, (b) government employees must implement a scope of action which allows organized civil society and grassroots initiatives to appropriate the infrastructure for their own purposes, and (c) local practices of hybrid communication and organizing must be aligned with the structure of the platform. Nevertheless, digital participation tools such as Decidim cannot solve entrenched inequalities such as the financialization of land, the issue of disadvantaged neighborhoods, or the absence of voting rights for certain communities. Therefore, city administrations need to integrate hybrid participation strategies which prioritise collective power over distributive power as well as tackle urban inequalities through political means.01A - Beitrag in wissenschaftlicher ZeitschriftPublikation Idealizations of placemaking. The configuration of digital participation through ICT(Association for Computing Machinery, 2023) Tappert, Simone; Suter, Aline04B - Beitrag KonferenzschriftPublikation Toxic Connections(Parkbooks, 2022) Suter, Aline; Cupers, Kenny; Nkula-Wenz, Laura; Oldfield, Sophie; Distretti, Emilio; Herz, Manuel; Perret, MyriamShort chapter on Agbobloshie, an electronically waste site in Accra, Ghana, as a microcosm of urban mining and a global node of material circulation.04A - Beitrag Sammelband
