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 - 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
Lietsargiai Sapiegos parke
2012-10-20
Tell a story
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
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
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
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
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
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