It's my presentation on social innovation for Youth2Youth Summit in Vilnius, April 2015. http://y2ysummit.org/ I share my views on social innovation, social entrepreneurship and tactical urbanism.

1. Why we need more
social innovations?!
How to bring
change
Mindaugas Danys
Hub Vilnius, Vilnius Urban Farm,
Sunrise Valley
SIC, Riga, May 2015

2. 1st coworking space in Lithuania in 2010

3. 1st Urban Garden in Vilnius in 2013

4. Monthly Hub Camps since 2011

5. Curating social entr. & social innovation

6. Antaliepte outside Vilnius
2012-10-20

10. Car sharing/pooling & bike sharing

11. It’s getting big & noticed

12. 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

13. Culture Night in Vilnius

14. Street Music Day

15. Street Music Day - Gatvės muzikos diena

16. Good local actions can spread -
Burbuliatorius

17. Pop Up in Vilnius

18. Ministry of Fluxus - Kaunas
2012-10-20

19. Fluxus ministry in Kaunas

20. Ministry of Fluxus in Kaunas before renovation (old shoe
factory)
2012-10-20

21. 2012-10-20

22. Lietsargiai Sapiegos parke
2012-10-20

23. Tell a story
2012-10-20

24. 2012-10-20

25. Street Drawer - Gatvės komoda
Laimikis.lt

26. City Blog - Miesto blog’as
2012-10-20

27. Mapping Alternative hotspots - Naujamiesčio neatrastų
vietų žemėlapis

28. Alternative community
spaces
2012-10-20

29. The first private non profit community center in Lithuania –
Beepart Pilaite
2012-10-20

30. Infoshop
2012-10-20

31. Experiment before action – new uses for Council Square
in Vilnius
2012-10-20

32. 2012-10-20

33. Build a Critical Mass
2012-10-20

34. Lower entry barriers to others

35. Share ideas & use Lean startup

36. 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

37. 2012-10-20

38. 2012-10-20

39. 2012-10-20

40. Handmade ferryboat

41. City exploration - LUNI

42. Street festival in Kaunas – NYKOKA (drūms)

43. Who did this to my bike

44. Open house Vilnius

45. Open Kitchen – Summer street food place

46. Mobile Street furniture by padirbtuves/laimikis

47. Street Furniture Workshop

48. Toilet wall in Kaunas

49. Ernest Zacharevič
2012-10-20

50. PriArtink
2012-10-20

55. 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

56. Tool bank & sharing economy

57. Peer to peer

59. Change is possible
2012-10-20

61. Beehives in Copenhagen
5 tons of honey

63. Who is the champion of the sharing economy
in Lithuania?
• Surprise, suprise

64. Sharing economy is in the strangest places

67. Antakalnis
2012-10-20

68. 2012-10-20

69. 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

70. Thanks !
Mindaugas Danys
mindaugas.danys@
gmail.com
skype: mdanys4282
Twitter: @mdanys
FB.com/mindaugas
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