Full report (EN): Final Report: Mission to Seoul on the Sharing Economy and Urban Commons
Last year, CITIES organized a study mission to Seoul on the themes of sharing economy and urban commons. 15 participants hailing from different sectors in Montreal and Barcelona went to Seoul for a week and visited local initiatives and met with practitioners, civil servants and activists there. It was a follow-up mission to a previous study mission on urban commons which brought a multi-stakeholder delegation from Montreal to Barcelona in November 2018.
Under the larger vision of mobilizing a strong and concerted international action towards an inclusive and equitable landscape for the urban commons and community-oriented sharing economy, the goals of the study mission were to:
This final report is the product of co-construction based on the rich discussions and reflections of the participants in the mission. The delegation hails from Montreal and Barcelona and includes a dedicated team from CITIES. They contributed in different stages of the report, including brainstorming, drafting, and reviewing.
Chapter 1 provides an introduction and context of the study mission. Chapter 2 describes the vision and understanding of the sharing economy, the urban commons and the social and solidarity economy in each city (Montreal, Barcelona and Seoul). Chapter 3 details the learnings of the field visits day by day. Chapter 4 closes the report with some preliminary reflections based on the observations made by the participants during the mission, including areas for potential collaboration between the three cities.
This study mission was made possible with the generous financial support of different stakeholders, including municipal governments and agencies and a research centre in Montreal, Barcelona, and Seoul.