Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Netherlands
fellow
Christian Iaione
2023-2024
Home institution
Luiss Guido Carli University
Country of origin (home institution)
Italy
Discipline(s)
Law
Sociology
Urban and architectural studies
Theme(s)
Cities & States
Democracy, Citizenship, Governance
Digital Society
Inequalities, inclusion & Social Innovation
Fellowship dates
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Biography
Christian is an Urban Citizen Fellow at NIAS during 2023-2024.
Christian is Professor of Public and Administrative Law at LUISS University, where he teaches courses on public law, policy and governance of innovation and climate change, as well as courses on climate neutral smart cities and sustainable investments. He acts as Luiss principal investigator for several EU-funded R&I projects and national grants on the creation of energy communities and emerging technologies hubs, Planetary Health-based urban regeneration processes. Christian has served as lead expert in several URBACT and UIA projects and is a member of the Urban Partnership on Innovative and Responsible Procurement under the Urban Agenda for the EU program. He served on the steering committee of the Italian Agency for Digitalization-AGID, coordinates the City Science Office of the City of Reggio Emilia and represents it within the EU City Science Initiative.
Research Project
Co-Amsterdam: create urban citizenship partnerships for Amsterdam vulnerable neighborhoods
Global cities like Amsterdam face challenges in terms of economic and social justice, as well as intergenerational justice. Nation-states are limited in addressing these challenges and the need for inclusive approaches to reduce asymmetries in political, economic, and technological power. How can we empower multicultural and intergenerational vulnerable communities and enhance their sense of local economic, political, and digital citizenship?
As part of the Co-Amsterdam institutional platform and research methodology, Christian Iaione aims to investigate whether self-organization and collective action can serve as design principles for a local digital and institutional architecture that facilitates smooth interaction among multicultural communities in vulnerable neighborhoods of Amsterdam. By employing citizen science and a physical-digital platform, he seeks to enable the creation and self-organization of diverse urban pools through public-private-science-social-communities partnerships. These partnerships are designed to share the use, management, and ownership of essential urban infrastructure, such as digital, transport, energy networks, and housing.
Research Interests:
Urban commons and self-organization; digital citizenship; vulnerable neighborhood governance; public-private-community partnerships