The B.RIGHT SPACES Cartography of Civic Spaces

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.

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Comunalitat de Manresa (ES)

Comunalitat de Manresa is a community-based participatory initiative through which residents and local actors collaboratively address shared needs via mutual support, shared resources, and collective projects. Participation is open to individuals, groups, and organisations engaged in collective problem-solving and socio-economic collaboration, including co-designing community initiatives, taking part in mutual support activities, and contributing to intercooperation networks and the communal management of resources.

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Comunalitat del Güell de Girona (ES)

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.

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Community Land Trust Giulio 34 (IT)

Turin Community Land Trust (Turin CLT) represents a socially driven, anti-speculative housing model that has been experimented in Aurora Neighbourhood, on a building located in Corso Giulio 34, an urban area interested by gentrification processes. This model promotes inclusion, social justice, and the right to housing for all while regenerating urban spaces and strengthening community bonds.

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Via Baltea Community Hub (IT)

Via Baltea is a community hub located in Barriera di Milano, a historically working-class neighbourhood in northern Turin. Barriera di Milano is today a dense and multicultural urban area where community-based initiatives play a key role in strengthening local cohesion. Since 2014, Via Baltea has transformed a former printing house into a lively community hub blending commercial, cultural, and social functions.

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Orti Generali (IT)

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.

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Espai Comunitari i Veïnal Autogestionat Can Batlló (ES)

The Self-Managed Community and Neighborhood Space of Can Batlló (Espai Comunitari i Veïnal Autogestionat Can Batlló) is a social and cultural facility located in different buildings, in the old textile factory of Can Batlló, in the Bordeta neighborhood. While the buildings are provided by the City Council, the management of all activities and processes.

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Fabra i Coats (ES)

Fabra i Coats in Barcelona stands out for its innovative governance model, where a municipal technical team collaborates with the “Fabra Council,” a participatory platform bringing together workers, residents, and external entities.

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Bus de l’Initiative (F)

The Bus de l’Initiative was launched by the association CREATIVE in 2011 in Garges-lès-Gonesse, to facilitate access to entrepreneurship, employment and training for residents of priority neighbourhoods in the Roissy Pays de France urban area.

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