Collaborative port cities regeneration. The Naples Advanced Node

The contribution was presented at the 35th RETE General Meeting, "Re(tooling) Port-City Territory. People, Planning and Participation". The event was jointly organized by RETE, an international association engaged in promoting cooperation between ports and cities, and TU Delft University, in collaboration with PortCityFutures, a research center of three Dutch universities focused on the space, society, and culture of the territories of port cities, and UFM, an intergovernmental institution that brings together 42 countries to promote dialogue and cooperation in the Euro-Mediterranean region. Scholars, as well as professionals from different areas of expertise, have recognized the role that port city territories can play in light of addressing the current global challenges. This requires spaces and resources that both port and city compete for. Therefore, it is necessary to conceive new spatial, socio-cultural, and political tools that enable shared learning, co-creation, and pertinent communication to stimulate strategic thinking and forge realistic dialogue between multi-scalar stakeholders for the port city territory. These tools need to be developed together with methodologies that assess cross-sectoral interests, resource availability and the governance structures. The initiative brought together experts in Port-City relationship and integration, thus allowing to share the experiences of academics and professionals who work on the role that port cities can play in global challenges, especially in relation to the integration of common spaces and resources. The contribution was presented within a roundtable focusing on successful cases of port-city relationship and integration in Europe and showed the activities carried out by the Advanced Node of Naples in terms of waterfront regeneration and activation of collaborative processes engaging local community for its recovery and enhancement. To this end, co-creation and and heritage walks were organized to make the Pier San Vincenzo known, collect stakeholders'interests and start up participatory processes. Some intermediate results have been achieved. The Pier from being an enclosed place unknown to the urban community has been visited over the years by more than 2000 people. The attention of the competent authorities has also been seized, thanks to the the Association Friends of Molo San Vincenzo and the scientific guidance of the Cnr Iriss which started in 2015 a research-action path on collaborative decision-making processes for the port-city system carried out by the research group coordinated by Massimo Clemente with Eleonora Giovene di Girasole and Gaia Daldanise.