Facing inequalities and democratic challenges through co-production in cities

如果说不平等与欧洲民主政治机构信任度下降之间的联系已经得到证明，那么公民和机构试图面对这些不平等和(重新)建立一个可持续的共同未来的各种方式，在某种程度上是没有得到充分记录的。事实上，当人们考虑到那些试图超越传统形式的国家主导参与的尝试时，这种漏洞就变得更加明显。为了应对这一差距，费尔维尔的目标是记录和提出城市干预的模式，这些模式通过深化居民和用户对新的和现有的民主进程的参与，让当地学者、当局、社区组织、居民和用户共同改善贫困的城市社区。城市政策不应该“为”人口制定，而应该“与”他们一起制定，这一想法是社会转型和赋权的潜在深层次引擎。然而，这种联合制作过程的实现往往带有认识论的不平等和不平等的权力关系。认识到这一问题，费尔维尔试点案例都把重点放在探索学术研究人员、地方社区和地方当局代表如何共同努力，以减少他们之间存在的权力和信息不对称。试点围绕环境不平等、与住房和城市规划有关的不平等以及与气候风险有关的不平等三大主题，从共同诊断到共同规划和干预，将作为行动研究进行，包括实施观察、资本化和共同评估机制。这些试点案例的结果将广泛传播给有关机构和公民，我们将共同努力，鼓励政策转移和外展。

If the link between inequalities and declining levels of trust in the political institutions of democracy in Europe has already been shown,the various ways in which both citizens and institutions are trying to face these inequalities and (re)build a sustainable common futureremain somewhat under-documented. Indeed, this lacuna becomes even more pronounced when one considers those attempts that gobeyond conventional forms of state-led participation. Responding to this gap, the aim of Fairville is to both document and proposepilot models of urban intervention that engage local academics, -authorities, -community-based organisations, -residents and -users inthe collective improvement of deprived urban neighbourhoods via a deepening of resident and user participation in new and existingdemocratic processes. The idea that urban policies should not be made "for" populations but rather “with" them is a potentially profoundengine ofsocial transformation and empowerment. However, the realisation ofsuch co-production processesis often marked by epistemicinequalities and unequal power relations. Cognisant of this issue, the Fairville pilot cases all place an emphasis on exploring the ways inwhich academic researchers, local communities and local authority representatives can work together to reduce the power and informationasymmetries that exist between them. Clustered around three major themes - environmental inequalities, inequalities related to housingand urban planning and inequalities related to climate risks – and ranging from co-diagnosis to co-planning and intervention, the pilotswill be carried out as action research and include the implementation of observation, capitalisation and co-evaluation mechanisms.The results of these pilot cases will be widely disseminated to the institutions and citizens concerned and we will work collectively toencourage policy transfer and outreach.