Throughout Europe, civic spaces serve as vital arenas for democratic life… These are the places, the platforms, the events, where individuals and communities converge to engage, organise, innovate, express dissent, and collectively envision the future. These spaces are not fixed; they transform over time, thriving in some contexts while facing constraints from political, social, or economic pressures in others.
Capturing their dynamics demands more than isolated case studies or static snapshots; it calls for a framework that reflects their complexity, interconnectedness, and continual evolution.
The B.RIGHT SPACES CARTOGRAPHY responds to this need, offering a living, interactive, and accessible map that charts these spaces as a shared landscape of civic activity, fostering understanding, visibility, and dialogue across Europe’s diverse communities.
The Comunalitat del Güell promotes a people-centred economy rooted in community ties, social rights, and environmental care across the neighbourhoods it serves. It works to strengthen popular organisations, local economic initiatives, and mutual aid networks by supporting projects that ensure long-term stability and resilience. Central to this approach is the role of urban commons which act as key drivers of a community-based economy focused on people.
Orti Generali is a community urban gardening project located in the Mirafiori Sud neighborhood, a historic working-class district of Turin, within Parco Piemonte. As a peri-urban district where dense housing meets former agricultural riverbank land, the location is functional to experiment a project that reconnects residents with a long-overlooked landscape and strengthens their bond with the territory.
Warsaw Social Innovation Laboratory “Synergy” (Warszawskie Laboratorium Innowacji Społecznych „Synergia”, or WLIS „Synergia”) is an innovative space within Warsaw, aimed at initiating and implementing projects that improve the quality of life. It is located in a pre-war tenement house at 16 Markowska Street in the Praga-Północ district and operates within the structures of the Office of Social Aid and Projects of the City of Warsaw.