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Why we need more social innovations?! How to bring change Mindaugas Danys Hub Vilnius, Vilnius Urban Farm, Sunrise Valley SIC, Riga, May 2015

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Why we need more social innovations?!

How to bring change

Mindaugas Danys

Hub Vilnius, Vilnius Urban Farm, Sunrise Valley

SIC, Riga, May 2015

1st coworking space in Lithuania in 2010

1st Urban Garden in Vilnius in 2013

Monthly Hub Camps since 2011

Curating social entr. & social innovation

Antaliepte outside Vilnius

2012-10-20

Car sharing/pooling & bike sharing

It’s getting big & noticed

Tactical urbanism - reclaim, reuse, revitalize

• Tactical urbanism enables and entices people to reclaim public space and create a new friendlier environment putting pedestrians and community first

• Small scale actions serving larger purpose

• “the lack of resources is no longer an excuse not to act.” Jaime Lerner, Architect, urbanist, former mayor of Curitiba, Brazil

Culture Night in Vilnius

Street Music Day

Street Music Day - Gatvės muzikos diena

Good local actions can spread -Burbuliatorius

Pop Up in Vilnius

Ministry of Fluxus - Kaunas

2012-10-20

Fluxus ministry in Kaunas

Ministry of Fluxus in Kaunas before renovation (old shoe factory)

2012-10-20

2012-10-20

Lietsargiai Sapiegos parke

2012-10-20

Tell a story

2012-10-20

2012-10-20

Street Drawer - Gatvės komoda

Laimikis.lt

City Blog - Miesto blog’as

2012-10-20

Mapping Alternative hotspots - Naujamiesčio neatrastų vietų žemėlapis

Alternative community spaces

2012-10-20

The first private non profit community center in Lithuania –Beepart Pilaite

2012-10-20

Infoshop

2012-10-20

Experiment before action – new uses for Council Square in Vilnius

2012-10-20

2012-10-20

Build a Critical Mass

2012-10-20

Lower entry barriers to others

Share ideas & use Lean startup

Scale

In 2014 Mom’s Fair in Vilnius and Kaunas received 137.500 of stuff from 1 500 families, over 60 % was sold, the rest was donated.

www.mamumuges.lt

2012-10-20

2012-10-20

2012-10-20

Handmade ferryboat

City exploration - LUNI

Street festival in Kaunas – NYKOKA (drūms)

Who did this to my bike

Open house Vilnius

Open Kitchen – Summer street food place

Mobile Street furniture by padirbtuves/laimikis

Street Furniture Workshop

Toilet wall in Kaunas

Ernest Zacharevič

2012-10-20

PriArtink

2012-10-20

What’s missing?

• Coworking/Fab Lab spaces (seats2meet phenomenon)

• Pop up spaces – creative quarters

• PSPP – Public Social Private Partnership

• Professional social innovators

• Social entrepreneurs

• More urban gardens – sustainable food chains

• Well integrated projects across different sectors and platforms

• Food coops

Tool bank & sharing economy

Peer to peer

Change is possible

2012-10-20

Beehives in Copenhagen5 tons of honey

Who is the champion of the sharing economy in Lithuania?• Surprise, suprise

Sharing economy is in the strangest places

Antakalnis

2012-10-20

2012-10-20

Challenges ahead

• Get municipality more involved

• Liaison and work together with other activist

• Promote and engage everybody

• Promote

• Open up for opportunities/ open up oportunities

Thanks !Mindaugas Danys

[email protected]

skype: mdanys4282

Twitter: @mdanys

FB.com/mindaugas.danys