ECOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE IN SOCIAL HOUSING

Knowledge and awareness about the mutual effects between human behaviour and environment

CHOISE OF THE PLACES During the pandemic emergency phase, two social housing complexes of ATER Trieste recorded an increase of social and security problems, such as interpersonal and intergenerational relationships issues, neglect of common spaces, vandalism episodes from youth gangs About 220 families were involved

A (QUITE NOT) SECRET DESIRE: A BEAUTIFUL AND FULL OF LIFE PLACE In 2022 ATER Trieste launched the first session of an experimental project based on the “Ecological intelligence” school of thoughts, which aims to the pursuit of happiness, in the respect of the other individuals and of the environment During the meetings, managed by a Gestalt counsellor, the real need of inhabitants emerged: the desire of a beautiful and full of life living place During a participatory planning process, what they asked for were well-kept gardens, furnished with swings and benches, a marketplace, a local feast, and so on

THE AWARENESS: WORKING TOGETHER TOWARDS THE IDEAL LIVING PLACE. Planning together and caring for the place means a higher quality of life; an abandoned one means a state of decay Everyone has to provide her/his own contribution to preserve it by taking care of green and common spaces, talking through the neighbourhood issues, properly disposing the domestic waste and reducing pollution

The group identifies his basic needs, his sense of security and wellbeing level, and the main goal is to improve them.

Pollution and interpersonal conflicts decrease; personal and community quality level of life increases

I meet my neighbours; I talk to them, I learn from them, then I share my own knowledges with them

THE TRAINING PATH

I chose green energy and approach the use of renewable energy sources

I acknowledge my “poisons”: air, indoor, interior/inner pollution

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