La partecipazione: “pubblici plurali” in scena

Some issues about uncertainties in the city project seem as they cannot be solved by architectural design, some other seem they cannot be solved by land-use plans. Some have emerged during some planning experiences in the last years: how to cope with different local, social,
economic, and institutional actors having different interests? How to involve all
the “local publics” in the process? What kind of demand these different “publics”
express? How to construct a shared –among these different actors– vision for future? How to implement it? Which is the relationship among the emerging vision, scenarios, actions, projects, and programmes? And between these and the public space? How to make the “project community” be more stable? Can a space for the different publics be helpful?
Rather than on participatory techniques, the essay focuses on organisational and
communicative structures, that could support some “traditional” planning
approaches, facilitating not only the consensus building, but also the implementation.