New paradigms for city management and planning. From Open Data Knowledge Sharing Platforms to e-participation

For several years now, society has been transforming itself into a virtual society, at different intensities and speeds. The health emergency we are experiencing has accelerated this change also in the Public Administration, one of the contexts that has always presented major difficulties in the field of digitization, but which can benefit more from it in terms of simplification and transparency of processes. The intrinsic capacity of the virtual society, to be unlinked from spatial constraints in the construction of knowledge and in the capacity for renewal, assumes a central role in solving problems due to the coexistence of interests and positions of a very different nature (different stakeholders). One of the areas that could benefit from a digital transition is Planning, specifically in relation to participatory processes. Recalling one of the principles of the Charter of Public Space, according to which the design of public space should involve, through participatory processes, every individual citizen, it is useful to consider that the wider the perimeter of participation, the wider the possibility of obtaining indications that are genuinely shared within civil society. The adoption of ICT (Infomation and Communication Technologies) can therefore allow the achievement of a greater number of city-users, building an in-depth knowledge of the territory both from an objective technical point of view, through the mapping of spaces and their technical characteristics (through BIM and GIS technologies) and through participatory processes, which can define a scheme of the needs of all the subjects who insist on the territory, optimizing the definition of hypothetical scenarios. The research is proposed as a moment of advancement in disciplinary practices aimed at experimenting with new frontiers of participatory planning. The use of ICT tools, whose operational impact integrates and improves current and future scenarios, allows to verify an operational model that, through the interaction and interoperability between the different actors, is able to manage the uses and transformations of the territory in the process of urban regeneration and regeneration.