In the Boyang community of Dinghai Road Street, the old building "Longchang Building" in its 30s stands in the wind, with mottled walls and old public facilities stained with traces of time. The reporter visited and learned that there is an area of about 20 square meters on each floor of the building that has not been used, and at the same time, "public space is crowded, lighting is insufficient, and pipelines are exposed" in the aisle from time to time, which not only obstructs traffic, but also has potential safety hazards, which makes more than 370 residents living in the building distressed.
Focusing on the actual needs of people, this year, Dinghai Road Street and Shanghai Kongjiang Middle School carried out a micro-renovation project of the public space on the 10th floor of the Longchang Building.
"Old buildings and new halls" to create a people-oriented "embedded" community governance model
The micro-renewal of old buildings is not like a drastic demolition and reconstruction, which not only solves the "visible" spatial problem, but also solves the "invisible" community governance problem. In order to fully understand the needs of the masses, at the beginning of the project, the cadres of the Boyang Neighborhood Committee conducted in-depth and detailed research on the situation of the building and the personnel structure, and extensively solicited the opinions of residents. Through questionnaires, discussions, individual interviews, etc., we focused on understanding the thoughts, hopes and thoughts of residents.
Aunt Jiang of the fashion team suggested building a brightly lit "catwalk gallery" to facilitate the rehearsal of the fashion team; Uncle Li, who loves to learn Xi, hopes to make a reading corner, where you can carry out reading exchanges and book drifting in the corridor; Grandma Wu, who is helpful, wants to set up a "wish box" so that neighbors can help each other in big and small matters, and Grandma Zhou, who loves planting, wants to create a "green" corridor to beautify the space and solve the problem of messy pipeline laying......
In the process of collecting and sorting out the opinions of residents, the cadres of the Boyang Neighborhood Committee found that most of the residents' "wishes" are closely related to spiritual and cultural needs. In most previous community micro-renewal projects, these soft needs were often placed after the renovation of hardware facilities, which was passed away, making many renovations simple forms and losing more humanistic care. After clarifying this idea, the neighborhood committee took "old buildings and new halls" as the theme of this community micro-update, and added "cultural embeddedness" while "functional embedding and structural embedding" to create a new model of people-oriented "embedded" community governance.
Pluralistic co-governance, the "post-05" skillfully solves the needs of the "post-50s".
How to explore the connotation of community culture in a limited space and create a good-neighborly living room that residents like to see? To this end, the street relies on the "five social associations" to raise renovation funds and carry out community co-governance. In the process of carrying out the project, the neighborhood committee mobilized residents to actively carry out self-government, donated decorative ornaments, organized the cleaning of the corridors, and provided basic materials and environmental conditions for the renovation project.
In order to meet the "soft needs" of residents, the street has also joined hands with Shanghai Kongjiang Middle School Cultural and Creative Center, the first laboratory focusing on "cultural creativity" in Shanghai, to discover the secret of the rejuvenation and development of old buildings through the whimsical ideas of the children after the school's "05".
Before starting the transformation, Wang Duyi, the person in charge of the Cultural and Creative Center of Kongjiang Middle School, took the students to have a first experience of community walking, and carried out a large survey on the needs of "post-05 high school students and post-50s aunts and uncles", and the students used the method of "comics + text descriptions" to vividly record the opinions and suggestions of aunts and uncles, make portraits of residents, and accumulate preliminary ideas for design.
In the public space on each floor of the Longchang Building, children can always find the figure of "chairs". Backrest chairs, chaise longues, rattan chairs, armchairs...... These chairs are objects that residents touch 30% of their daily lives. The concave curvature of the rattan chair, the wear of the chair legs, and the light and shade of the color of the chair side are not only the imprint of residents' lives, but also permeate the texture of humanity. To this end, the teachers and children took the "chair" as the starting point to create a good-neighborly living room with the theme of "green waters and green mountains" for the residents.
During the renovation process, according to the shape of different seats, the children also combined with the actual needs of residents, and skillfully integrated the tulips of Yangpu Riverside and the stray cats of the community into the pattern design, so that the old objects could rekindle the vitality of community development. "We used the combination of mountain shape and Taihu stone as the background board of the new hall, and in terms of materials, we specially used discarded packaging cardboard to cut into different postures of mountain and stone board surfaces to create a community living room full of life. Student Le Ying said.
"I really didn't expect the children to be so creative, and basically all our requests can be presented in this new hall. Yun Jinmei, who was nesting in a rattan chair and "playing a sweater", told reporters while chatting with her little sister. She said that she has been looking forward to such a scene for more than ten years, and she used to have to go outside to find a place to get together with her little sisters, but now she can have a comfortable space at the door of her house, which is really "undreamable" for her.
Leverage new momentum for urban development with community micro-renewal
On December 26, the "old building and new hall" project of Longchang Building was held in Dinghai Window, Dinghai Road Street. This half-year community micro-renewal project embodies the co-governance of communities, schools, enterprises, residents and other parties. When the children took the stage to share their design ideas, a story of people and the city slowly unfolded.
In today's Longchang Building, the cramped space used to stack sundries has been transformed into an artistic living room. The colorful graffiti on the walls, the "Taihu Lake Stone" made of cardboard are childlike, the "rockery" window grilles are dotted with old iron window panes, and the newly painted seats are placed in the corners for residents to rest and chat. Puff cushions, carpets, electronic bird cages and other facilities, as well as flowers and plants scattered among them, make the old building regain its "youthful" vitality.
In the micro-renewal project of Longchang Building, human participation has always been consistent. Residents have changed from "outsiders" who do not care about the construction of the corridor to "masters" of the corridor construction; the creative thinking of school teachers and children has superimposed the "dematerialized" space and physical space of the old building, making the humanistic texture under the corridor management richer; the extensive participation of communities, social organizations, community workers, community volunteers, and community public welfare and charity resources has further boosted the implementation of the project and achieved an exponential increase in the effectiveness of grassroots governance.
"People are at the heart of community governance in megacities. In the new stage of development, how to achieve higher-quality development of community governance, first of all, let the people live a better life in the city. To this end, we start from the needs of the masses and change the direction of community governance from emphasizing material security to emphasizing functional upgrading and cultural inheritance. It has created a new pattern of co-construction and co-governance of multiple subjects in the community, highlighting the addition, subtraction, multiplication and division effects of 'adding vitality', 'reducing dirt and chaos', 'multiplying carriers' and 'removing barriers'. The relevant person in charge of the Dinghai Road Street Community Autonomy Office told reporters that the follow-up project will be carried out on other floors to create a governance model for the micro-renewal of the corridor.
Not only that, this two-way rush between people and the city also built a real scene for the children to organically combine learning Xi and life. "The community is a diverse and comprehensive scene, and the construction of the whole project integrates multidisciplinary interdispositions, so that the knowledge learned by the children can be comprehensively applied to the real scene, which is also our innovative exploration to build a Xi-oriented community. Wang Duyi, head of the Cultural and Creative Center of Shanghai Kongjiang Middle School, said.
Today, with the development of the times, the community governance of megacities has changed from simple "whether it is available" and "whether it is good or not" to "whether it is fine or not". In this process, the improvement of physical space alone is not enough to solve the problem of urban governance, and the community micro-renewal project covering culture, society and people's livelihood has become a new driving force for urban development with a small carrier and a large stock. The micro-renewal project of Longchang Building in Dinghai Road Street, empowering with culture and creativity, once again polishes the humanistic imprint in the process of urban renewal, further activates the enthusiasm of people in the community for governance, and forms an innovative case full of exploration meaning, so that the development of the city exudes more "human touch".