Collaborative Atlas final Lab
In January our Collaborative Atlases lab came to an end. The program, which was part of the Erasmus+ OpenCCCP project, worked with a group of early career professionals from the fields of urban planning, social development and contemporary art to develop practices and tools for urban community engagement and mapping. Key themes of the lab included gender […]
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ROOF Winter school
Want to warm your brain on ending homelessness solutions? Want to knit yourself more knowledge and skills? Be inspired for your next steps to end homelessness! Check the opportunity to learn and act against homelessness from international experts during the ROOF winter school that will happen on 3, 4 and 5 March 2021 with the participation […]
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UPPER Co-design labs in Latina
UPPER’s productive parks co-design project is currently underway online. During the last workshop, results from the project’s co-design questionnaire were presented, which focused on Campo Boario (Productive Park 1) and Borgo Sabotino Foceverde (Productive Park 3). The answers from the questionnaire’s 120 respondents formed the start point for a group discussion, with issues raised by the questions being discussed in depth. Topics […]
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Call for Expert: Sustainable Tourism
Interesting job opportunity URBACT for an expert in sustainable tourism, with a focus on sharing economy, to help deliver an action of the Urban Agenda Partnership on Culture and Cultural Heritage. The action seeks to understand the specific problem posed by short-term rental platforms and their impact on over-tourism experienced by cities, through gathering knowledge […]
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From the Sea to the City: Regroup, Rethink, React
On December 9 Laura Colini will facilitate the online panel “Regroup, Rethink, React: Practical solutions to promote and implement human rights based migration policies”organised by From the Sea to the City. The COVID-19 crisis put into sharp relief the importance of guaranteeing access to information, adequate shelter and housing, and healthcare services in order to secure the lives of […]
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COMENSI Digital atlases for community engagement
Final multiplier event 10 December 2020, 3pm In December 2020 the COMENSI project comes to a closure. Community Engagement for Social Inclusion is an EU funded Erasmus+ project aimed at developing more effective methodologies of inclusion and activation of citizens at risk of exclusion. COMENSI developed and tested accessible tools and methods for communication, networking […]
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Zeig mir dein Hohenschönhausen! 2nd Workshop
2nd Workshop of our project “Erinnerung im Wandel – Zeig mir dein Hohenschönhausen! On Friday 13th November, due to the current situation and the restrictions imposed in Germany, we were forced to hold our second workshop online. We therefore had to adapt the structure of the workshop and familiarise ourselves with the IT tools. Previously […]
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COMENSI final events
Deutsch weiter unten In December 2020 the COMENSI project comes to a closure. Community Engagement for Social Inclusion is an EU funded Erasmus+ project aimed at developing more effective methodologies of inclusion and activation of citizens at risk of exclusion. COMENSI developed and tested accessible tools and methods for communication, networking and organising to improve […]
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Housing Fair Finance
Ready to start! @lauracolini introducing the context and aims… pic.twitter.com/zS5byp6uf9 — Tesserae (@tesseraeUSR) November 19, 2020 November 19 took place the third and last conference of Cities engaging in the right to housing , a joint capitalization project of UIA and URBACT. Laura Colini moderated the discussion questioning the role of financial actors in threatening access to housing. […]
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INTORNI CONFERENCE REPORT
Saturday October 31st took place the policy conference “Intorni”, coordinated by Tesserae in the frame of the UPPER Latina Urban Innovative Action project. In the following a report of the discussiont in English. Find here on UPPER website an version in Italian. The conference was part of a programme of online activities and events related […]
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Zeig mir dein Hohenschönhausen! 1st Workshop
1st Workshop of our project “Erinnerung im Wandel – Zeig mir dein Hohenschönhausen! On Friday 23rd October, the first workshop of our project “Erinnerung im Wandel – Zeig mir dein Hohenschönhausen” took place at the Kunsthaus 360° in Hohenschönhausen. A dozen participants were present for this first meeting. After exchanges in order to get to […]
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Intorni. Spazi e pratiche della partecipazione
English below Conferenza online Sabato 31 Ottobre 2020, h.17 La prima policy conference della serie promessa dal progetto UIA UPPER si interessa allo spazio della partecipazione. Gerarchie di ruoli e posizioni di potere consolidate sono scolpiti più rigidamente di quanto pensiamo nella dimensione spaziale. La rinnovata attenzione alla coproduzione di visioni e soluzioni per la […]
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IN-HABIT virtual Kick-Off Meeting
On October 13-15, 2020 the new Horizon 2020 project IN-HABIT – Inclusive health and well-being in small and medium cities has its official kick-off meeting. The program will start Tuesday October 13 in the morning with an online public session. OPEN SESSION PROGRAM: 9.00 – 9.30 Presentation and General Overview Mar Delgado & Mihaela Vancea (UCO) 9.30– […]
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Erinnerung im Wandel – Zeig mir dein Hohenschönhausen!
*english version below WAS? Am 23. Oktober findet der erste Workshop unseres Projektes “Erinnerungen im Wandel – Zeig mir dein Hohenschönhausen!” statt. Ziel des Projektes ist es, Orte, Denkmäler, Gebäude und andere Objekte, die für die Bewohner*innen wichtig sind, hervorzuheben und zu schauen, wie diese mit Erinnerungen von Hohenschönhausen verbunden sind. Wir wollen gemeinsam schauen, […]
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Collaborative Atlas 1st meeting – URLab
As part of the OpenCCCP Erasmus+ program, that deals with open practices of knowledge transfer, the first local training lab with the title “Collaborative Atlases for Heritage and the Commons“ took place in our office and the area around in Berlin-Schöneberg. On 19th and 25th of September Fourteen people attended two workshops constituting the first module dedicated to Urban Reconnaissance. The […]
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Climate Change and Social Housing
On September 7th our Senior Researcher Laura Colini, together with Yuri Kazepov, AbdouMaliq Simone and Celine d’Cruz participated to the online panel Climate Change and Social Housing organised by Iba Research Lab. The panel concentrated on bottom-up planning processes and self-organisation in climate adaptation and mitigation strategies, discussing the way inhabitants are involved, resources are shared and […]
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Collaborative Atlases for Heritage and the Commons
A training program on participative methods The training is aimed at social practitioners, civil servants and active citizens interested in improving their professional capacity with innovative instruments of analysis and representation. It will present and test a set of tools and methods aimed to facilitate participatory processes, with a focus on cultural heritage as factor […]
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No one left behind
Friday June 26 the second event of the series “Cities engaging in the right to housing” took place. The web conference No one left behind organised by by Urban Innovative Actions (UIA) and URBACT was facilitated by Laura Colini. The conference offered a preview of the 2020 Report on Housing Exclusion in Europe, co-written by FEANTSA and Fondation Abbé Pierre, […]
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How can cities build alternative community-led housing models?
As part of a one-year learning activity, URBACT and UIA organised a web conference on 24 April exploring practical ways cities can implement the right to housing. Tesserae’s senior researcher Laura Colini moderated the discussion that contributes to the European Urban Agenda Parntership on housing and helps develop further policy recommendations to push the agenda on the right […]
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COMENSI Newsletter
The COMENSI Newsletter is out! Here you find about the objective, activities and intellectual outputs of the Community Engagement for Social Inclusion project and its five local labs. Read / download here the COMENSI newsletter
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UPPER Latina – Second Co-Design lab
The second co-design laboratory within the UIA project UPPER focused on the green area of via Roccagorga, adjacent to the market area. The appointment took place on February 21 at the Ettore Majorana high-school, preceded by an inspection with the citizens of the area affected by the project. The co-design process that accompanies the regeneration of the […]
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Engagement Stories: the Neighbourhood Atlas of Südliche Friedrichstadt
With the fourth public meeting that took place on Thursday 18 February at Feldfünf im Metropolenhaus we closed the first phase of the Mehringplatz Anknipsen lab. After the previous meetings done at the Kiezstübe (Delimitations, places) and at the Amerika Gedenkbibliothek (memories), the topic proposed this time to the group of participants was “transformations”: how has the neighbourhood changed through […]
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Transformationen – Nachbarschaftsatlas im Feldfünf
(English below) Das nächste öffentliche Treffen der Mehringplatz Anknipsen II-Laboratorien findet am Dienstag, 18. Februar um 17.30 Uhr im feldfünf statt. Wir werden uns dort dem Thema Transformationen in der Südlichen Friedrichstadt widmen: Wie hat sich das Gebiet baulich / räumlich verändert? Und wie wirkt sich dies auf das soziokulturelle Leben vor Ort aus? Diese […]
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UIA and URBACT joint initiative for the right to housing
On 30-31 January we were in Porto for the EU Cities Forum 2020, where Laura Colini coordinated the launch a new URBACT and UIA joint initiative on implementing the right to housing across urban areas in Europe. Throughout 2020, URBACT and UIA’s initiative will provide a platform for city administrations, civil society, research and practitioners to debate and exchange […]
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Neighbourhood Atlas at Gedenkbibliothek
(English below) Das nächste öffentliche Treffen der Mehringplatz-Anknipsen II-Laboratorien wird am Sonntag, 19. Januar in der Amerika-Gedenk-Bibliothek stattfinden. Nach unserem letzten Treffen in der Kiezstube ist nun die Amerika-Gedenk-Bibliothek der nächste Stopp der Laboratorien, die wechselnd an verschiedenen Gemeinschaftsorten der Südlichen Friedrichstadt stattfinden. Am 19. Januar werden wir unseren digitalen Nachbarschaftsatlas präsentieren und gemeinsam diskutieren, […]
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UPPER Kick-off in Latina
Friday December 13th the UIA project UPPER was presented to the citizenship at the Palazzo Comunale of Latina. The day included a panel with the participation of other Italian cities that have won an UA grant in the fourth call, and the first laboratory facilitated by Tesserae to engage local stakeholders in the co-design process of […]
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Mehringplatz Anknipsen 2 – Nachbarschaftsatlas
(English below) Digitaler Nachbarschaftsatlas der Südlichen Friedrichstadt – Workshopreihe Mehringplatz Anknipsen II – Du bist Bewohner*in der Südlichen Friedrichstadt / der Gegend um den Mehringplatz? Und du möchtest dich mehr mit lokalen Themen zur Nachbarschaft auseinandersetzen? Vielleicht bist du schon aktiv oder willst es werden… – dann werde Teil der Workshopreihe “Mehringplatz Anknipsen II”. Was ist […]
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Mapping Creativity and Resistance in Kreuzberg
(In progress report) Between November 11th and 25th we have run the “Who Owns Kreuzberg” workshop at the FXHB Museum. This Urban Reconnaissance laboratory involved a group of activists and researchers in “mapping creativity and resistance” in Kreuzberg, with the aim to provide an insight into the complexities of urban transformations in the city and to […]
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Emidio di Treviri School of territorial activism
From October 18 -20 we attended the school of territorial activism. Located in Fornara, between the wonderful Laga and Sibillini mountains and organised by the Emidio di Treviri association, the school invited activists, researchers and inhabitants to discuss strategies for development and resistance in the areas affected by the recent earthquake and beyond. Emido d Treviri is […]
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The URBEX Toolkit is ready!
Among the final deliveries of the URBEX project, the URBEX Toolkit – “Discover your city with fun” presents a set of methods and exercises to employ urban exploration as a way to engage youths in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. The outcome of two training weeks and five local laboratories testing the methodologies on the field is available […]
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Who Owns Kreuzberg – Registration open
After due to technical reasons at the hosting venue we had to postpone the event planned in September, the new dates for Who Owns Kreuzberg: mapping spaces of creativity and resistance are established. The workshop will take place at the FXHB Museum on November 11, 18 and 25 at 2pm. Interested in taking part? Please fill the registration form online. Nachdem wir aus technischen […]
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Differenze in comune
Thursday October 3rd Tesserae’s founders Laura Colini and Lorenzo Tripodi will take part in the conference Differenze in Comune in Firenze. The event organised by the CAT cooperative is dedicated to imagining and designing the inclusive city. Laura will contribute with a presentation on the housing question in Europe: issues, public policies and social struggles. She will also […]
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Internet in a Box_ Oaxaca and Chiapas Mexico
During August 2019 Laura helped out Adam Holt, volunteer of Internet-in-a-Box to document his work as system-manager in remote schools in Oaxaca and Chiapas. Internet in a box goal ist to the “World’s Free Knowledge (Wikipedia, Khan Academy, OpenStreetMap, E-Books and many others) to those who are offline — e.g. anybody nearby with an old smartphone, […]
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H2020 Secondment in Mexico
From August to September 2019, in the frame of the Co-creation EU H2020 project, Laura Colini did her secondment at UNAM University of Mexico City. During five weeks she lectured at the department of Social Studies, did field work for the case study about housing rights in CDMX, volunteered for documenting Internet in a Box project with […]
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URBEX final meeting
On July 30-31 we met in London at the University College with the partners of the URBEX ErasmusPlus project. We discussed the outcomes of the laboratories of urban exploration that took place in five neighbourhoods in Palermo, Ljubljana, Albacete, London and Berlin. In Mehringplatz Tesserae collaborated with the youths of KMA Antenne in drafting the H-Town tour, an itinerary […]
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WHO OWNS KREUZBERG?
Mapping spaces of creativity and resistance An Urban Reconnaissance workshop with ogino:knauss Coordinated by Tesserae, Berlin In November 2019, media artists ogino:knauss and urban research practitioners Tesserae will lead ‘Who Owns Kreuzberg’, a workshop aimed at activists, artists and engaged citizens in Berlin exploring the complexities of urban transformations in the city and tools for […]
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Summer Institute on Methodologies for Housing Justice at UCLA
On August 5-9 Laura took part to the Summer Institute on Methodologies for Housing Justice at UCLA in Los Angeles, US. The event was aimed at bringing together movement-based and university-based scholars to address key needs and gaps in housing and planning research. A part of the Housing Justice in #UnequalCities Network, which is housed […]
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URBinclusion final outcomes
In August 2019 the URBACT Implementation Network URBinclusion closed its activities.Tesserae contributed with the Lead Expert Lorenzo Tripodi in delivering the final outcomes of this network of cities dedicated to combating poverty in deprived urban areas. URBinclusion was aimed at the co-creation of new solutions to reduce poverty in deprived urban areas, focusing on some key challenges to be tackled […]
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COMENSI TRAINING WEEK IN PALERMO
The first training week of the program took place on June 24-29 in Palermo involving 25 social workers and project managers from the five partner cities of this ErasmusPlus project. We presented the COMENSI toolkit for Community Engagement and discussed its application in five neighbourhoods in London, Ljubljana, Lisbon, Palermo and Berlin. Watch on Youtube the […]
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Integration of Migrants and Refugees in Small Territories – Brussels 25.06.2019
On 25 June 2019 Laura Colini facilitated the panel Integration of Migrants and Refugees in Small Territories: A factor for local development at the European Committee of the Regions (CoR), organised in partnership with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB), the International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC), the […]
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U-RISE Master in Barcelona – UIA BMINCOME
From 8-11 may in Barcelona, Tesserae organised a teaching module for the Master U-RISE at the IUAV in Venice within the frame of the EU UIA BMINCOME pilot project. The pilot is a unique experiment combining passive and active policies to fight poverties in the peripheries of Barcelona. A municipal Guaranteed Minimum Income (GMI) is […]
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ps wedding braucht Eure Unterstützung!
We receive and publish this call for support for the ps wedding – project in Berlin 2. Mai 2019, 17-19 Uhr: Veranstaltung des Bezirksamts Mitte zum Diesterweg:ps wedding braucht Eure… Pubblicato da pswedding.de su Giovedì 25 aprile 2019 ps wedding braucht Eure Unterstützung! Abriss des ehemaligen Diesterweg-Gymnasiums verhindern! Zur Erinnerung: Im letzten Sommer befanden wir uns […]
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(Im)possible Complicities: registration open
The registration to (Im)possible complicities. Cocreation, Coproduction, Cooptation is open. The draft program is online here. 60 places are available online at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/impossible-complicities-tickets-60376403448. We set a symbolic fee of 10 Euro to discourage casual registrations. Please email us at info (at) tesserae.eu for any clarification or request. (Answer during next Easter holidays may be slow)
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URBEX youth mobility in Palermo
From April 1 to 6 we were in Palermo for one intense week of Urban Exploration with 50 youth from five EU countries. The Capo neighburhood in the historical centre of Palermo has been the testing ground for an innovative combination of exercises of exploration, mapping, visioning aimed at improve the capacity of youth to […]
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U-Rise Master Thesis
For the second year the collaboration with the U-Rise Master in Urban Regeneration and Social Innovation of the University of Venice resulted in a group of students spending three months in Berlin doing an internship at Tesserae. We are pleased to have supported Chiara De Grandi, Cinzia D’Emidio and Ermes Invernizzi in the elaboration of […]
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The Museo Comunitario del Valle de Xico is under attack
We recently published a piece about the Museo Comunitario del Valle de Xico on our Recentering Periphery blog. You can find the interview we carried out with the community museum’s director, Genaro Amaro, here. We are saddened to hear that this amazing grassroots cultural initiative has been closed and is under threat of eviction from the Municipality […]
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URBEX – Training in Palermo
From January 28 to February 2 took place in Palermo the first week of training of the Erasmus plus project URBEX. The intense week was attended by 25 professionals from five cities and was dedicated to develop a common methodology to employ urban exploration as an educational tool for youth at risk of exclusion. Good practices and […]
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Napoli – URBinclusion Transnational meeting
On December 13th and 14th a transnational meeting of the URBACT implementation network URBinclusion took place in Napoli. The focus of the knowledge exchange between nine European cities was on innovative actions for the integration of populations with migrant backgrounds in the Porta Capuana neighbourhood and the coordination of local actors. We were presented the activities of the URBACT […]
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Fighting Homelessness Policy Lab
10-11 of December 2018 will take place in Paris the Policy Lab “Fighting Homelessness: the role of cities”, co-organised by URBACT with FEANTSA (European Federation of National Organisations Working with the Homeless). Laura Colini will coordinate the session in her role as URBACT program, expert. Over 4 million people are affected by homelessness each year in Europe, […]
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D4l – Data Challenge on Integration of Migrants in Cities – Brussels 27.11.2018
On November 27 2018, in Brussels at MCE Conference and Business Centre, Laura Colini attended the Final Workshop of Data Challenge on Integration of Migrants in Cities facilitating the thematic roundtable ” Evidence on segregation and diversity for policies” in her role as program expert for URBACT. The Knowledge Centre on Migration and Demography (KCMD) has been piloting the use of […]
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Migration flows and integration policies, Athens November 22-23
22-23 November 2018 Laura Colini participates to the conference “Migration flows and integration policies: data evidence and best practices in the EU” organised by Interact and ESPON, presenting URBACT and the Arrival City network experience. The Conference explores the main challenges and identify good policy responses and the best practices for successful integration of refugees into […]
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COMENSI Kick-off meeting in Palermo
16-17 November 2018 we kicked-off the new Erasmus Plus project COmmunity ENgagement for Social Inclusion (COMENSI) meeting in Palermo, in the Capo neighbourhood, at the seat of the Lead partner of the project Bond of Union. The project aims at developing tools and strategies to increase engagement and facilitate pro-active participation to help marginalised adults […]
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Urban Reconnaissance Workshop at UNAM, Mexico City
November 7-8 2018 we coordinated an URLab at the Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, UNAM, in Mexico City. It was organised in the framework of the Cocreation exchange program, and involved a large number of participants, mostly postgraduate students and professors from different faculties and disciplines. The workshop developed in two days, divided in two […]
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(IM)POSSIBLE COMPLICITIES – CALL FOR PAPER
You are welcome to send your research abstract to the conference (Im)possible Complicities: co-production, co-creation, cooptation organised by Tesserae next 23-24 May 2019 in Berlin. We welcome papers and artworks which address questions regarding: • The meaning of co-creation, co-production, co-optation • Co-creation and community engagement for what and for whom • The role of […]
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Technology and its impact on urban and domestic space – BASE Milan
We take part to the seminar organised by Milano Bicocca University and Che Fare next November 11. As we are all very well aware, technology is changing the way we live our lives, from smart phones to social media, they are having positive and negative impacts on cities, space and people. On the one hand, […]
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Solipolis – New Hamburg
Tesserae is taking part to the Solipolis festival in Veddel, Hamburg, dedicated to multicultural dialogue and neighbourhood mobilization. Saturday 15 September Laura talked at the opening session about solidarity cities and migration in Europe. Saturday the 22nd Lorenzo and Daniele will coordinate an urban reconnaissance workshop. A walk in the neighbourhood becomes an opportunity to reflect […]
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Cocreation workshop in Santa Marta
From July 30 to August 5 the “Santa Marta Sem Fronteiras” cocreation workshop took place in Rio de Janeiro. Five days of activities and site visits in the Santa Marta favela involved more than 20 researchers from the partners organisations. Manuela Conti and Sergio Segoloni took part as representatives of Tesserae. The program coordinated by local community organisers and the […]
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Warsaw: Sick Homes, Sick Housing Policies.
Open Letter from the Scientific Community We receive from our friends in Warsaw and publish this important call for supporting tenants struggles in the Praga Neighbourhood of Warsaw. You can write to wsl.brzeskiej@gmail.com to express your support and sign the letter. Here a 5-minute long film (with English and German subtitles) explaining the predicament as well as […]
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Milano Isola – URLab at Attractive Cities summer school
During the 2nd week of the Attractive Cities summer school held at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Jim Macneil organised an Urban Reconnaissance workshop with Chiara Vitrano (PhD, GSSI) and the students. They chose the neighbourhoods Isola and Porta Garibaldi as areas of exploration, given the massive urban projects and transformations that have been taking place over the […]
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The Praxis of Planning in Unequal Cities at AESOP2018
On July 12 the case of BMINCOME UIA Barcelona was presented by Laura Colini at at the “Making Space for Hope” AESOP conference 2018 in Gothenburg. The case was discussed with Ananya Roy, Oren Yiftachel and Ali Madanipour during the roundtable “The Praxis of Planning in Unequal Cities” organized by Daniela de Leo. photo by Simone Tulumello […]
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The Maré Museum Project _ Rio de Janeiro
Museu da Maré is a community project born out of the desire to preserve memory and identity in a context of poverty and social exclusion. We visited the museum and realised a set of interviews with their staff during the secondments for the CoCreation project in July 2018. The aim is to set a possible future […]
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Urban Reconnaissance in Rio de Janeiro
Since June 28 a team of researchers including Manuela and Sergio is in Rio de Janeiro for a 6 week secondment of the Cocreation project in collaboration with PUC University. They are preparing a methodological contribution to the international workshop that will take place in Santa Marta from July 30th to August 5th, and carrying field research for a possible […]
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Urban reconnaissance at Oxford Brookes
Concluding a one month secondment in Oxford in the frame of the Marie Curie RISE Cocreation project, on June 21-22 Lorenzo coordinated in collaboration with Sue Brownill and Ben Spencer a workshop at Brookes University introducing Tesserae’s toolset of participative methodologies to the researchers of the hosting Unversity. Following the exchange initiated in the workshop in Bath we examined the possible application […]
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IN SUPPORT OF THE METROPOLITAN SOCIAL HEALTH CENTRE OF ELLINIKO (MKIE)
UPDATE June 26, 2018 – Good news! After the mobilizations that took place inside and outside Greece, the Metropolitan Social Health Center of Hellinikon (MKIE) is able to continue without obstacles its function in its premises where it is located since the end of 2011. The government has promised in writing that it will take […]
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Bath Co-Creation workshop: Creativity-Based Methods to Engage with Communities
24th May 2018, University of Bath, 6E 2.1 Event aimed at professionals who work with different audiences and seek to use art as a means to co-produce shared understanding and knowledge about communities with those living in them. It seeks to familiarise practitioners with ‘co-creation’ methodologies and is particularly suitable for community researchers, museum professionals, […]
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Henri Lefevbre – Le Droit à la Ville
Next April 4 and 5 will take place in Paris the conference 1968 Le Droit à la Ville de Henri Lefebvre organised by La Ville en Commun. Laura Colini representing URBACT will chair the session: Face aux migrations internationales, quel droit à la ville ? Tesserae will be present to collect interviews to the speakers and suggestions for a project […]
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Exercises in Urban Reconnaissance – updated version!
The long-awaited new version of the Urban Reconnaissance platform is live on internet. As the consequence of an intense workshop and exploration activity done during last couple of years, the hypertext has been almost totally rewritten with a new index and several new definitions. Improvements were made in the user interface, and more are in the go. […]
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Dom Novogo Byta online
Dom Novogo Byta is online. The second RCP film shot in Moscow between 2009 and 2011 and issued in 2013 is now fully accessible from the Re>centering Periphery website and from oginoknauss’ Vimeo channel.
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Switch On Mehringplatz 30.11.2017 @Bauhutte
Switch On Mehringplatz – Closing discussion and book presentation Thursday November 30, 18h Bauhutte Südliche Friedrichstadt, Besselstraße 1, 10969 Berlin, Deutschland From October 2016 to July 2017 the Erasmus + program EULER has developed a series of laboratories in Mehringplatz and the Südliche Friedrichstadt investigating the potentiality of the neighbourhood, its history and current transformations. […]
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Economy and Skills: EULER publication in London
On Thursday 9 November , 7 pm th final publication of the EULER project is presented in London by the coordinator City Mine(d) together with the partner organisations NDVR, Transít and Tesserae. The publication explains the reasoning behind experiments conducted over the past 18 months in Barcelona, Berlin, Antwerp and London and captures valuable lessons […]
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Learning from Context – conference program
Building social competence from local knowledge 22-23 September 2017 Berlin, Aquarium Skalitzer Str. 6, 10999 Berlin Berlin DE EULER_Program in PDF format. EULER_Conference_Practical information in PDF format Conference program DAY 1, Friday September 22 8:30-9:15 Registration at Aquarium Session 1 09:15 – 09:45 Welcome & Program What Are we doing here – Lorenzo Tripodi The EULER project […]
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B-MINCOME Urban Innovative Actions
Combining guaranteed minimum income and active social policies in deprived urban areas. Laura Colini is the EU UIA expert supporting Barcelona for B-MINCOME Urban Innovative Action. The project is based on the City’s decision to implement a guaranteed minimum income (GMI) to supplement income in the most deprived and poor areas or the City. It is expected that […]
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Learning from Context
Building social competence from local knowledge 22-23 September 2017 Berlin, Aquarium Skalitzer Str. 6, 10999 Berlin Berlin DE Traditional forms of education and training for employment are increasingly focused on chasing job market demand through specialisation. Meanwhile, a multiplicity of voluntary, self-organised, citizen-based initiatives is breaking new ground in experimenting with skills and competences. Local […]
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URLab #4 – Representing the Neighbourhood
Starting from the exercise Represented City, this urban reconnaissance laboratory will draw on the explorative practice made during the previous months to reconnect different places and stories of Südliche Friedrichstadt in a narrative path. The workshop will be completed by a walking tour open to the public. URLab #4 Saturday 15 July 2017, 10am – […]
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Mehringplatz StoryLab #4 – Urban Sketches
A digital storytelling workshop dedicated to the production of personal narratives based on impressions and memories of Mehringplatz – Südliche Friedrichstadt. Participants will be invited to follow their inclination or favourite languages employing writing, photography, video, music and sound, drawing, graphic design, performance etc. Professional technical notions or artistic competences are not necessary. The laboratory […]
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Mehringplatz StoryLab #3 – Collecting Stories
How do we capture different voices of a community in a shared narrative framework? Next Mehringplatz StoryLab “Collecting Stories“ will take place Saturday April 22 at SUPERMARKT. We will introduce a new tool, the Mehringplatz Card Set, to trigger the collection and recomposition of narratives about the neighbourhood. —— Saturday 22 April, 2pm SUPERMARKT, Mehringplatz 9 10969 […]
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Satellites and Aliens. Exploding Cities exhibition in Hamburg
Oginoknauss’ works from the Recentering Periphery project, including pictures and video, are part of the exhibition Satellites and Aliens that will open in Hamburg on March 31 at Kulturbotshaft. The exhibition has been formerly showed in Quito during the UN Habitat III event, and in Berlin and Frankfurt. The event is curated by Anke Rico Johnsallee […]
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3 years full-time funded PhD Studentship in Oxford
Faculty of Technology, Design and Environment School of the Built Environment Spatial Planning Research Group Three year full-time funded PhD Studentship Eligibility: Home/EU and International Students Bursary: £14,000 in Year 1, £11,000 per year in Years 2 and 3 (with no inflationary increase) In addition, in Years 2 and 3, €2,000 per month for travel and […]
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Mehringplatz MapLab #3 – Connecting Layers
For the MapLab#3 we invited the social designers Jan Lindenberg and Stefan Göllner of place/making to coordinate a neighbourhood mapping workshop.
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Strategies for Change
Public conversation with Kathrin Wildner, Christian Hanussek and Erwin Riedmann of metroZones. The next public conversation of the Switch On Mehringplatz program presents the manifold experience of the metroZones collective in urban research, art and education. metroZones will present some of their recent projects on urban peripheries as „Hellersdorfer Tapete“ and „metroZapp“ on Moritzplatz, […]
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Exploring Creativity in Disadvantaged Urban Areas
Interdisciplinary Conference 14-15 September 2017 University of Bath Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Creative projects shape cities. They have the power to challenge negative connotations attached to disadvantaged neighbourhoods, transform the cityscape and residents’ lives for the better, and create opportunities for dialogue between various urban actors including artists, residents and decision makers. Artist-led […]
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ReGeneration KickOff meeting in San Lazzaro di Savena
On February 27/28 the Kick Off meeting of the ReGeneration URBACT III Implementation Network has taken place in San Lazzaro di Savena. The lead partner city has presented the project to regenerate a central area of the city into a multifunctional open campus comprising schools, sport facilities heater and public space. The stakeholders involved in the […]
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Prinzessinnen garten
A visit to Prinzessinnengarten, Berlin meeting Marco Clausen. Recorded during the Urban Reconnaissance Lab #3 Spontaneous City. Part of Switch On Mehringplatz – EULER, EU Erasmus plus project. Here an article about Prinzessinnengarten by Laura Colini published on the URBACT website.
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CoCreation Kick off in Oxford
January 16-18 at Brookes University in Oxford took part the first operative meeting of the new CoCreation project led by dr. Juliet Carpenter at Brookes and dr. Christine Horvath of Bath University. The CoCreation project will develop a collaboration between four Universities and three non-academic organisations, including Tesserae. As Dr Juliet Carpenter said: “The project […]
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European Commons Assembly
On November 15 2016 we were invited to attend the first European Commons Assembly in Brussels. This has been a great opportunity to meet people that from different perspectives, practices and political approaches understand the commons as an essential battlefield for a more sustainable and just society. You can read here Laura Colini’s notes for the URBACT website.
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